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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.

August BYOC

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It’s the first Friday of the month, so it’s BYOC time at The Lilypad!!

The color scheme this month is very pretty! Alas, I have not had much time to scrap lately, but here’s a page I made with a variety of goodies:

Mom's Visit - Day 10: Another Perfect Day

Journaling:
Today was a good day. I went to the university because I had to attend a workshop, but when I came back, fairly early, we went out on the deck for an aperitif. The weather was glorious. My favorite weather, 60s-low 70s, with the sun shining strong. We’re off to a good start of the week!

Credits:
Pumpernickel papers by Valorie Wibbens
Ten Things Elements by Studio Baers Garten

I thought I wouldn’t have time to scrap anything else, but then I saw the new stamp frames by Sara Gleason and I had this idea, so of course I couldn’t rest until I got it done! 🙂

P52 Cards 1-30

Journaling:
This year I started a new project.I called it project 52 cards. Every week I give you a card done by me. We are past Week 30 already, and we are both loving it!

Credits:
Ten Things papers and word art from Ten Things Elements by Studio Baers Garten
Gladiolus {story seeds} by Sara Gleason
Sticker Flair Pack 1 by Gina Miller
A Summer Day alpha by Designs by Lili
Tempy Alphas by Amy Martin
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Do you believe it took me less than an hour to do this page? It was really quick to put together, thanks to these pretty frames and to the fact that all the pictures were already edited for my regular P52 Cards blog post. 🙂 It’s so cool to see all the pictures together! Not that I needed any more motivation to keep this project going, but it’s really nice to see this summary. 🙂

August Already?!

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August is here and the new monthly challenges at The Lilypad are posted! I made a page for the formula challenge, for which we have to make a page using only 1 paper, 1 element, 1 picture, 1 alpha, 1 font and 1 color.

A heart C

Credits:
Candyland alpha by CD Muckosky
Christmas Countdown by Valorie Wibbens
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

I cannot believe August is here already! It’s going to be a busy month for me so I’m afraid there won’t be much scrapping/crafting from me this month. But apart from work, work, work, DH and I are planning an impromptu trip too, so it’ll be fun! 🙂

ETA: I got a GSO (gallery standout) for this page! 🙂

ETA2: I also got a GSO at Me So Scrappy. 🙂

ETA3: I got LOTW (layout of the week) at Me So Scrappy! 🙂

Friday Releases!

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It’s Friday, and there are some fabulous new releases at The Lilypad! First off, a fantastic collab by Sahlin Studio and Kate Hadfield:

and there are some great additional packs too:

As you must have learned by now if you’re a follower of this blog, I don’t have any camping pictures, but that’s not a problem! This kit is very versatile and works great for any outdoor pictures or hybrid projects! Here’s a card I made with it:

Happy Trails card

Credits
Summer Camp by Kate Hadfield and Sahlin Studio
Summer Camp Snipettes and brad from Recreational Icons by Sahlin Studio

Next, a funky new kit by Emily Merritt:

and my page:

Rock It

Credits:
Rock It by Emily Merritt
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

Christmas in July!

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There’s a great sale going on at The Lilypad on Christmas products, which includes today’s new releases! And there are fun games and challenges in the forum, make sure you check them out! Here’s a lovely new Christmas kit by Karah Fredricks that I used:

and I paired it with this new alpha by Sahlin Studio:

I used both to scrap a page about Christmas gifts:

Christmas in March?!

Journaling:
In the past few years I have to say I’ve always been pretty good at getting Christmas presents well in time, but this year I beat all records for sure: it was March when we bought these two gorgeous necklaces for our moms!

Credits:
Naughty or Nice by Karah Fredricks
Permanent Marker Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Gimme Space font by Lauren Reid and Darcy Baldwin

And then  I used this Christmas kit to scrap a non-Christmas page: it’s the theme of one of the fun challenges running at The Lilypad for Christmas in July!

Mom's Visit Day 9: Cards

Credits:
Garland Templates 2 by Amy Martin
Naughty or Nice by Karah Fredricks
Permanent Marker Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

BTW, make sure to check out those fabulous templates too, because they’re on sale as well! That’s all from me for today, have a great weekend!

New Releases!

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I have so many gorgeous new products to show today!! Let’s start with this fabulous collab by Erica Zane and Jenn Barrette, at ScrapMatters:

This kit is fantastic! The colors make me so happy, and the doodled elements and papers are so gorgeous! I fell in love with this paper, so I made this page with it:

Happy Hour (1)

Credits:
Oh, Happy Day by Erica Zane and Jenn Barrette
Font: CK Chloe

Next, there is a seriously awesome new kit by Valorie Wibbens at The Lilypad.

I scrapped this page this morning during breakfast, because I could not wait to use the kit! And I’m dying to get back scrapping and use the other fabulous papers!

First Fawn Sighting

Journaling:
Today, a Friday, I was working at the kitchen table and I got up to get a glass of milk. I glanced out the window and I saw a fawn just outside out backyard. DH was out, unfortunately, but I had time to take a few pictures. Then, after the fawn walked away, I went outside and saw that in fact there are two fawns, not just one.

Credits:
The Everyday and The Everyday papers by Valorie Wibbens
Candy Flowers by Sahlin Studio
Free Spirit Alpha by CD Muckosky
Font: Typewriterhand

What a fun Friday! And I have more to share in a bit!

Messy Inked Templates

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I love these templates by Amy Martin that are 50% off today for Wibbit Wednesday:

I’m not much of a template scrapper, because I generally find it faster to come up with a design myself, based on the orientation and size of my pictures, but recently I have been using templates a lot more, because some are just too pretty to resist! These are so much fun, with the ink splatters! Here’s my page:

Mom's Visit Day 7: Game Night

Credits:
Messy Inked templates by Amy Martin
Let’s Play by Kaye Winiecki and Kate Hadfield
Font: Pea Pumpkin Peters

Have a great day! Come back Friday: I’ll have something fun to share!