Are you primarily a one kit only scrapper, on a budget or looking for ways to extend your stash?Mashing 2 (or 3!) kits together (and making your own customised collab!) gives you so many opportunities but means you won’t have to spend all your time tagging or searching your stash. If mixing and matching is not your normal style and feels daunting, this series will look at several ways to make mixing different design styles easier than you think! ______________________________________________________________________________________________Hi there and welcome to a fun new way to start Mondays in the middle of the month – The Monday Mash-up! definition: Mash-up noun- informal.* a combination or mixing of dissimilar elements, especially content from different sources. Some background:I'm back with … [Read more...]
We Are Storytellers.
Why do we scrap? Well, for many reasons of course. For me, it is a creative outlet. And my digital scrapping allows for this creativity without taking up too much space (which I don't have). I love the colors and the fun elements and the papers and the techniques and the process.It is also a way to show off photos. I am always trying to improve my photography as well as my post processing, and scrapping gives me a canvas on which to display my work. This will allow future generations to see our little sliver of humanity though my eyes, giving them a glimpse of who we are.It can be therapeutic as well, allowing emotions to roll out through journaling or art journaling. Kind of like a "Dear Diary" in visual form. This has helped many through difficult times and cannot be discounted.But honestly, above everything else, scrapping is a way to tell our stories. I would … [Read more...]
Happy Mother’s Day. Almost.
Happy Mother's Day, Lilypad Peeps. Well, almost :). Tomorrow is Mother's Day so I wanted to take a moment to share a couple of ideas with you from the store that you may find useful in your Mother's Day scrapping. Whether you are a Mother or not, this day is a beautiful time to reflect on the important women in your life.I, personally, have found that Mother's Day around here goes better if I have low expectations. I have already received my gifts from my littles one, because they were made at school and the kids were too excited to wait to give them to me. (Love their handmade goodness, by the way). And my teenage boys and husband don't usually think to do anything for me. I know they love me and that's enough.It's a day that is still busy around here. We have church, the laundry still needs to be done, and kids still need to be fed, and life sort of just goes on. And … [Read more...]