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Mid-Week Sale!

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I love that with all the incredible sales going on at The Lilypad for Tadpole Tuesday and Wibbit Wednesday now my I have something to look forward in the middle of a busy week: on Wednesday I can share my pages with these pretty goodies! This week I used these gorgeous frames by Karah Fredricks

and this super versatile stamped alpha by Amy Martin

to make another page for my 2012 calendar. I just love this photo!!

February 2012 Calendar Topper

Credits:
Fancy Schmancy Frames 6 by Karah Fredricks
Stamped Alphas by Amy Martin
Woodly Lane and Woodly Lane Felties by Valorie Wibbens

Then I also used this gorgeous alpha

these pretty papers

and these fun photo corners

to make this birthday page:

Birthday Gifts 2011 (1)

Credits:
My ABC Stickers (coming soon!) and Waiting for Summer papers by Valorie Wibbens
Cornered in Metal by Amy Martin
Fruitloop Alpha by Lauren Reid
My ABCs – Flash Cards & Tracing Cards by Amy Martin and Valorie Wibbens
Also a Very Small Alpha by Allison Pennington

That’s all for today, I’ll be back with  more goodies on Friday!

Friday Again!

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It’s Friday already, and there are many, many gorgeous new products for sale at The Lilypad! First off, let me share these gorgeous leaves by Sahlin Studio:

They are so pretty! I was totally inspired by these leaf bookmarks by Ana Paula, so I crumpled up my leaves and used them to make a card. 😉
I Pick You card 

Credits:

ETA: My card was picked on a new website, One Story Down!
 

Next, a basic white paper pack by Karah Fredricks.

But this isn’t just a plain white paper pack. The textures on these papers are fantastic!! And a gorgeous pencil sketched alpha by the queen of alphas, CD Muckosky:

I used them to make another page for my 2012 calendar:

October 2012 calendar topper

Credits:
Plain Jane papers and Crunchy brush pack by Karah Fredricks
(Fall)ing Leaves by Sahlin Studio
Pencil Sketchers by CD Muckosky

Up next, a really cool kit by The Tattered Pear:

some unique acrylic elements by Amy Martin:

and an extraordinary alpha by one of this month’s guest designers at The Lilypad:

I made this page about the book club at The Lilypad:

Online Book Club

Journaling:
I’ve never been part of a book club IRL, but I’ve always wanted to. I just don’t have a group of friends to make it happen. So when they proposed to start an online book club at my favorite digital hangout, I was over the moon! We started in July, reading two books: The Giver by Lois Lowry and Matched by Ally Condie; in August we read The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons; in September it’s Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, and we’re about to pick the books for the rest of the year.

Credits:
Bookmarked by The Tattered Pear
Acrylic Skies by Amy Martin
Happiness Makers Alpha by Wish Bliss Studio
Pencil Sketchers by CD Muckosky
Font: The Typewriter font and The Sidekick Kid by Heather Hess

and this one about my new e-reader!

My Kobo

Journaling:
Taking advantage of the closeout sales at Borders, DH got me a Kobo e-reader. I’ve never been interested in getting an e-reader, but when our friend Filippo came to visit and showed us his Kindle, I must say I liked it. I got my Kobo as an early birthday present and tried it out right away on a business trip. It was great not to have to pack two or three big books for the trip to the West Coast! I have resisted switching to e-books for a long time, but I must admit that there are just too many advantages: it makes traveling so much easier, it saves trees, it makes it possible for me to borrow books from the library (I just hate the used library books with the filthy covers!)… And as of this weekend, my Kobo also has a bright, fun pink cover+sleeve! We got the Kobo over the Kindle or Nook because it was the cheapest option, but I am really glad we did, because it’s the smallest one and it fits in one hand!

Credits:
Circling Fall templates and Needed More Stitching Bundle by Amy Martin
Bookmarked by The Tattered Pear
Acrylic Skies by Amy Martin
Happiness Makers Alpha by Wish Bliss Studio
Pencil Sketchers by CD Muckosky
Font: The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

Whoa, that was a lot of stuff to share! 🙂 Have a great weekend!

Summer’s Over

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It really true that summer is over once Labor Day has passed. We’ve been having rainy, gloomy weather here this week! All the better to get into mood for Christmas. Yes, it’s time to get working on my 2012 calendars! This year I have not been doing well – I’ve only done one page throughout the year! It’s time to catch up, and I took advantage of this week’s Tadpole Tuesday and Wibbit Wednesday sale items at The Lilypad to do just that. 🙂

I know I will be using these borders a lot!

I made the September calendar topper with these gorgeous projects, in addition to some of this month’s BYOC goodies:

September 2012
Credits:
Macho alphas by Jenna Desai
Papers from Waiting for Fall by Valorie Wibbens

For my next page, I used some other great templates by Amy Martin and adorable elements by CD Muckosky:

I Love You Because...

Credits:
Circling Fall templates by Amy Martin
I Love You Because… by CD Muckosky
Homey and Sprinkles v4 by Valorie Wibbens
Fun and Funky alphas by Designs by Lili
Fonts: The Serif’s Sister and The Typewriter font by Heather Hess

I modified this page to be my October calendar page. 3 down, 9 to go, plus the cover! 🙂 Finally, I also used these other goodies on sale:

Check out this alpha, I.am.in.love!!!!!! It comes with a brush file too, and it is a must have, especially at this sale price!

I scrapped another birthday picture (I thought I was done scrapping my birthday, but I am not even close! 🙂 ).

Birthday Flowers 
Credits:
Yesteryear by The Tattered Pear
Also a Very Small Alpha by Allison Pennington
Photo Frames No. 2 by Jenna Desai

Birthday Pages

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I’ve been having a good weekend so far, lots of relax and scrapping time. 🙂 I finished scrapping my birthday pages using many of the new BYOC products:

Birthday Dinner 2011 (2)

Credits:
Sugar Maple templates by Sara Gleason
Waiting for Fall and Sprinkles v4 by Valorie Wibbens
Font: Typewriterhand

Birthday Dinner 2011 (3)

Credits:
So You Think You Can Chevron Kraft and heart and journaling block from At Summer’s End by Rachel Young
Paper Cuts 3 alpha by Designs by Lili
Yellow paper from Waiting for Fall by Valorie Wibbens
Frame, flourish, stitched paper and stars from Today by Designs by Lili
Chalkboard Alphas by Jenna Desai
Spray paint from Rock It by Emily Merritt
Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks (on yellow paper)
Font: Typewriterhand

I can’t say I am happy about having turned 30, but I’m trying to take it in stride. 🙂

The Big Three-oh

Journaling:
I guess it would be pretty easy to let myself wallow in thoughts about how fast time is going, how many things I was hoping to get done before turning thirty, how different I was hoping my life to be. But why bother? I am happy with where my life has led me so far. And this year, for the first time in my whole life, DH has managed to take some decent pictures of me on my birthday (he says it’s because of my beloved 28mm lens 🙂 )! There are good things to come.

Credits:
The Everyday papers by Valorie Wibbens
Bubble Wrap Stamps by Emily Merritt
Paper Cuts alpha by Designs by Lili
Fonts: Typewriterhand and CK Regal

The weather is still warm, but it does feel like summer is over already. I want to enjoy the long weekend as much as I can!

September BYOC!

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It’s BYOC time at The Lilypad, and this month’s BYOC has such a pretty palette!

And here’s what I have done with it so far!

Birthday Week 2011

Credits:
Maple Pancake Elements by Gina Miller
Splatterific 10 by Karah Fredricks
Paper Cuts 3 alpha by Designs by Lili
Font: FG Bonnie’s Font

I Heart You card

Credits:

Birthday Dinner 2011 (1)

Credits:
Sugar Maple templates by Sara Gleason
Background paper from End of Summer papers by Jenna Desai
Maple Pancake Elements by Gina Miller
Crunchy brush pack by Karah Fredricks
Sprinkles v4 by Valorie Wibbens
Fonts: The Dot Connector and The Typewriter by Heather Hess

I hope to have more time this weekend to scrap a bit more with this BYOC, because it is too gorgeous to pass!

Sunflowers

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Last night I scrapped two more pages with the products on sale this week at The Lilypad for Tadpole Tuesday and Wibbit Wednesday. Fun!!

Sunflowers

Credits:
Good Morning by Valorie Wibbens
Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks
Chalkboard Alphas by Jenna Desai
Stitch It by Jenna Desai
Label It Up by Amy Martin
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin
Sunflowers (2)

Credits:
Good Morning by Valorie Wibbens
Finishing Touches 6 by Karah Fredricks
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Come back tomorrow, it looks like I have some new pages to share every day this week! 🙂

Summer Favorites

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I have been slowly getting back into my routine: work, office, and some scrapping of course! 😉 Today is Tadpole Tuesday at The Lilypad, so there are some great new releases at a super discounted price. I combined a few in this page:

Things I Loved This Summer

Credits:
Teacher’s Pet by Gina Miller
I Love Summer by Jacque Larsen
Font: The Envelope by Heather Hess

I have to say, I am sad that summer is over already. It was mostly a good summer, but I feel I worked too much and didn’t get enough recognition for it (welcome to grad school…). Oh well. I hope the end of the year goes smoothly!

End of August

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I cannot believe that August is almost over already. This summer has flown by, and I’m not too happy about it! It has been a way more busier summer than I was expecting. I just came back Thursday night from a conference in California, and I scrapped my first page using many of today’s new releases at The Lilypad.

These templates make it so easy to put a page together!

Feels like Home

Credits:
Grow With Love: Letters Edition {September} by Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay
Woodly Lane and Woodly Lane Felties by Valorie Wibbens
Hashed Arrows by Amy Martin
Fonts: The Toolbox collection v.3 by Heather Hess

Have a great weekend!

All Hybrid This Week!

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New releases are out today at The Lilypad and I have lots of hybrid goodies to share! 🙂 First off, a collab by Sahlin Studio and Sugarplum Paperie:

I love the blue and yellow combination!

Treasured Moments card

Credits:
Treasured Moments by Sahlin Studio and Sugarplum Paperie
Font: DJB Messie Amanda

I haven’t had time at all to create this week, but when I saw this new element pack by Valorie Wibbens I knew I had to grab it right away!

Isn’t it utterly adorable?? And here’s the cards I made:

Woodly cards

Credits:
Woodly Lane and The Everyday by Valorie Wibbens
Stand Tall alpha by CD Muckosky

The backs are quite pretty as well:

Woodly cards back

I’m having a hard time picking a favorite.

Miss Ya card

The fox, maybe, although I am always partial to fawns. 🙂

I Love You card

And the owl is so cute too!

You're a Hoot card

These adorable critters would make great thank you cards as well! Oh, and make sure you check out the coordinating kit!

Off to Alaska!

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This is probably the most last minute trip DH and I have ever done… but we’re off to Alaska!! We bought the tickets just 1 week ahead of the departure, which left me in serious panic mode to get ready. I decided I had to make a journal album to bring on the trip with us, so I had to put it together very quickly. I loooove how it turned out!

Alaska Travel Journal

Credits:
Summer Camp by Kate Hadfield and Sahlin Studio

How to bind the book is what I pondered most. I love stitched books, but, alas, I do not own a stitching machine. Nor do I have a Bind-it-all or a similar fantastic machine. Since I already bound my previous travel book with rings, I wanted to go with something different. After much consideration, I found the simplest solution: use masking tape! It’s easy, quick, cheap, and fun!! The fact that it comes in a pretty blue too was an unexpected bonus! 🙂 In the process, I also finally fired up my Silhouette after a couple months of laziness and cut a bunch of cute elements for my album.

Here are a few details:

Alaska Travel Journal Cover

I used Mod Podge to glue down the tree and the title, but since I have now fallen in love with said masking tape and wanted the book to have a cohesive look, I added a few bits on the cover as well. 🙂

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 1

In the inside cover, I printed a pretty map of Alaska.

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 2

The inside pages are done with the new ledger papers by Sahlin Studio from this month’s BYOC, printed on plain copy paper.

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 3

I bound the internal pages with regular masking tape. I love the look!

Alaska Travel Journal Inside 4

And here’s my favorite part! Lots of colorful word strips to glue inside the journal!! I am bringing a glue stick with me (sigh, Mod Podge is liquid and I cannot bring it with me) to glue them as I go. That envelope (from the post office) is what determined the size of the journal. 🙂

Alaska Travel Journal Back

Isn’t it cute that the tree continues on the back?

I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to follow up and print some pictures to put in the album after we’re back, but at least I will capture all the journaling while we’re there.