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February Challenges

| cristina

I want to share two pages I made for the February challenges at The Lilypad. Both use the gorgeous Hoppy Birthday collab that is free when you “like” The Lilypad on Facebook. The first page is for the Product Challenge (use at least 5 hearts on your page) – I scrapped DH’s birthday.

Happy 40th Birthday

Credits:
Hoppy Birthday collab by The Lilypad designers (including this template by Sara Gleason) – free download when you like TLP on Facebook!
Valentine Doodles by Jenna Desai
Music paper heart from Hope: a Lilypad collab
Font: CK Marissa

Then I made a page for the One Word challenge (love is the word), and I just love how this turned out!!

This Is Us

Credits:
Hoppy Birthday collab by The Lilypad designers – free download when you like TLP on Facebook!
Valentine Doodles by Jenna Desai
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

ETA 2/6: I got a gallery standout at MeSoScrappy today for this page! 🙂

Love You to the Moon

| cristina

I played with more of the February BYOC today.. and I am confirming that this is my favorite BYOC yet!! Everything is so gorgeous! I made a card today:

Love You to the Moon card

Love You to the Moon card

Credits:
Template from Ambrosia Album and heart and flower Ambrosia story elements by Sara Gleason
Background and map paper from Mi Amore papers by Valorie Wibbens
I love you banner from You and I elements by Rachel Young
All the rest from Love You To The Moon elements and Love You To The Moon papers by The Tattered Pear

I’m also working on my Project Life week 5 (week 4 is finished, but not photographed yet – I’ll do that tomorrow). No digi this week, just paper supplies.

February BYOC!

| cristina

I am so excited to share the February BYOC with you!! The designers at The Lilypad are always phenomenal, but something about this month’s BYOC makes me swoon. I love this color combination and these products so much!! I have squeezed in all the scrap time I had this week, but there’s lots more I want to do with this BYOC – I seriously want it all!

But let me show you a few things I have done so far. First off, I used the gorgeous new products by Sahlin Studio to make a card:

Hello Love card

Credits

She also has some gorgeous coordinating washi tape, that I used in the following page, along with so many BYOC goodies that I cannot possibly show them all!

Love This Place

Credits:
Mi Amore elements by Valorie Wibbens
Only Love Journals by Sabrina Dupre
Lovey Dovey journal cards by Emily Merritt
You and I alpha by Rachel Young
The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess

And here’s another page I made, possibly my favorite so far with the BYOC goodies:

Love Together

Credits:
Lovey Dovey templates by Emily Merritt
Mi Amore papers and Mi Amore elements by Valorie Wibbens
Peely Paints and Ticket 2 Ride v2 by Lauren Reid
Betwined Love by Amy Martin
The Dry Ribbon font by Heather Hess

So… have I convinced you that this BYOC is a must have? 😉
Before I leave, I do have to share one more thing! Heather Hess has made three amazing typewriter fonts for this BYOC – and they are so cool! Here you can see them in action and swoon at Heather’s cool vintage typewriter!

I have yet to post a couple of pages I did for the February challenges, but I’ve already put enough images for today. 🙂 So watch for those during the weekend. I also need to print out a couple more photos to finish up Week 4 of my Project Life album (that’s last week!) – but this awesome BYOC took most of my spare time this week, so I’m a bit behind. It was worth it, though, don’t you think? 😉

Love+Grace

| cristina

I am excited to share with you a very special initiative today. It’s a collab kit in honor of a fellow digi-scrapper, Erica, and of her sweet 7-year old daughter Grace who sadly passed away this past December.

The kit is absolutely gorgeous, and I could not refrain from making more than one page with it, even though I was very pressed for time this week. It is that good!! Check out that incredible lineup of designers! Here’s what I scrapped:

You Make Me Happy

Credits:
Love+Grace collab
Markerific alpha by CD Muckosky

Sweet Love

Credits:
Love+Grace collab

And I turned both of these pages into quick pages that are included in a beautiful set that is free when you buy the kit.

Happy Birthday TLP!

| cristina

The Lilypad is turning 5, and there’s a whole weekend of fun planned to celebrate this birthday!

There are many games and challenges going on in the forum, with lots of chances to win prizes! I am hosting two challenges. The first one is the Kiss the Frog challenge, which is lots of fun and my personal favorite (I won a Kiss the Frog contest a few months back, became a Guest Polly… and the rest is history! ;)):

And then I’m also hosting the Polly Match Game, which is really fun too:

There are 12 baby pictures and you have to match them to the correct Pollys. I had DH try it last night and he only got 3 out of 12… (one was me)!!! 😀 But I’m sure you’ll do much better than that! 🙂

I also made a page for another challenge in which we have to scrap about what happened on our birth date (day or year). I scrapped about the date:

August 28

Credits:
Newspaper Print Papers by Jenna Desai
Newsies papers by Jacque Larsen
News to Me Alphabet by Rachel Young
Everything else from Wicked Smart collab by The Lilypad designers
Fonts: The Serif’s Sister by Heather Hess and The First Day of School by Heather Hess

ETA: Woot!! I got a GSO today for this page!!

Do check out the birthday forum for more fun games, including Make a Wish giveaways! And there are chats and speed scraps too! But that’s not all! There’s a FREE kit for you too!

Just like TLP on Facebook and you’ll be able to download this gorgeous collab! I hope to see you around this weekend at TLP!

Getting Ready to Party!

| cristina

Yikes, I am so late posting this! I am running a bit behind this week, getting ready for the birthday celebrations at The Lilypad! 😉

I haven’t even had a chance to work on my Project Life yet, yikes! But for today I want to show two products that are 50% off – such a great deal!

Here’s my page (only 2 pages left for my mom’s spring visit album!!!):

Mom's Visit Day 16

Credits:
Best Friends by Jenna Desai

Happy Friday!

| cristina

Happy Friday! I do have a lot of pretty stuff to share today from the new releases at The Lilypad! 🙂 I worked from home this whole week, and allowed myself plenty of crafty time in the evenings, which was super nice! 🙂
First off, a gorgeous new kit by Sahlin Studio:

These colors are beautiful! As soon as I saw these papers, I knew they’d be perfect for my Project Life! (check back later for a sneak peek at how I used them in my Week 2! 😉 ) I also used them for a card:

Love Love Love card

Credits:
Vintage Poinsettia papers by Sahlin Studio and Vintage Poinsettia elements by Sahlin Studio and Precocious Papers
Sweet and Skinny Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

They are all digital shadows except for the flower, which is cut out and glued on. I also used the kit to scrap two more pages about my mom’s visit last spring (only 3 pages to go to finish the album!!):

Mom's Visit Day 15 - Dinner

Credits:
Vintage Poinsettia papers by Sahlin Studio and Vintage Poinsettia elements by Sahlin Studio and Precocious Papers
Alpha from Xoxo by Emily Merritt and Laura Banasiak
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

I used a multi-photo template by Amy Martin, also new today, to scrap this page. I had way too many photos to fit and the template really helped me maintain my sanity! 🙂

Mom's Visit Day 15 - Lucky

Credits:
Vintage Poinsettia papers by Sahlin Studio and Vintage Poinsettia elements by Sahlin Studio and Precocious Papers
4×6 Photo Collages by Designs by Lili
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

I also could not resist this fun, bright, adorable kit:

In the past few days, as Valentine stuff started popping up on Pinterest, I was thinking how I am not in the mood for anything Valentine yet. But then I saw this kit… and I knew I had to use it right then and there! 🙂

You're the Keys to My Piano

Credits:
Xoxo by Emily Merritt and Laura Banasiak
The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

For one week, the kit comes with a free with purchase add on of valentines (the piano one I used is an example) and they are just adorable! This one I chose was just perfect for DH, since his great love is music. I do plan to print it out and give it to him too!

PS: I made a new blog header last night. What do you think?

PL Style

| cristina

I have been working hard on finishing up my mom’s spring visit album. Since I had a lot of pictures to scrap, I decided to use the Project Life-type page protectors. They make it so easy to scrap many photos! Here are the two latest pages I made, using all BYOC products plus a journal card pack that is 50% off today:

Mom's Visit Day 15: Exploring

Credits:
Good Life by Lauren Reid
Word strips from Customizable Journal Cards No.2 by Designs by Lili
Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Sugar Shock font bundle by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Mom's Visit Day 15: Exploring (2)

Credits:
Word strips from Customizable Journal Cards No.2 by Designs by Lili

Only 4 pages left to go to finish this 60-page album!

The January BYOC Is Here

| cristina

Finally! The January BYOC is in the shop! I know many of us have been anxiously awaiting this new collection, and I know you won’t be disappointed! The products are all revolving around Project 365/Life/52 and they will really help you to stick to the project you choose throughout the year. This year, as I already mentioned, I will be doing a physical Project Life album. In 2011, I started and haven’t completed a digital P365 (but in fact it was more of a Project Life than P365 since my intention was to scrap the photos, not just take them). I have been doing 2-page spreads for each week, but have fallen behind. When I saw these templates by Emily Merritt, though, I have felt the urge to go back and try to finish my pages:

I started scrapping the latest page, Week 52 – the last week of 2011.

P365/2011 Week 52

Credits:
Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Traveling Typewriter

As you may notice, I am having way too much fun with my RadLab – and this from someone who openly disliked editing photos! I love the format of Emily’s template – having square blocks for pictures make it easy to fit most pictures, be they horizontal or vertical. I am now debating whether I should go back and finish my missing pages using this week in a page format or stick to the week in 2 pages that I had been doing. I do like to keep my photos kind of big, plus in 2011 I had modified the P365 concept to include multiple photos per day if necessary, because keeping just one was too limiting, so it would weird to have multiple photos for the first part of the year and just one for the rest. I am still undecided… But let’s move on to more BYOC goodies! If you’re doing a digital version of Project Life, these page protectors are a must have!!

and these little bits are really useful too:

Then there are these cards, that are essential for both digi and hybrid:

I have already printed out a bunch to keep handy for my Project Life album. 🙂 In the meantime, though, I’ve also scrapped with them! 🙂

Mom's Visit Day 15 - The Good Life

Credits:
Good Life by Lauren Reid
This and Thats by The Tattered Pear
Kraft paper from Highlight of the Week Templates by Emily Merritt
Fonts: Pea Pumpkin Peters, Traveling Typewriter

All the BYOC products work perfectly fine even if you aren’t doing P365/Life/52, and I especially loved these templates by Sara Gleason:

And this paper set by Amber Clegg:

Perfect to scrap a bunch of photos easily!

Mom's Visit Day 15: Lunch

Credits:
Pansy templates by Sara Gleason
This and Thats by The Tattered Pear
Wet Paint Alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Well, as you can see, I am still working on finishing up the album about my mom’s visit last spring – only 7 more pages to go! They will be a breeze to scrap with these new products! 🙂

ETA: I got a GSO for my P365 page today!! 😉

Happy 2012!

| cristina

This month’s featured kit by Sahlin Studio is New Year’s Eve, a collab with Valorie Wibbens. Check out Krista’s blog for a discount and a chance to win a gift card! Here’s a Happy New Year card I made with it and the coordinating add on:

Happy New Year 2012 card

I added Stickles on the glitter alpha, it’s so sparkly! 🙂