It's time to spotlight another one of our Pollywogs! This week, let's learn more about our creative team leader Julie (aka mrs2a250), who is affectionately known as 'Little Whip' in the forums and is one of the original CT members here at the Pad. Julie has almost 300 pages in her gallery, which is simply amazing! Her pages usually feature one or both of her dogs, Roxy and Aspen. She stays very true to her scrap style, which she describes as 'embellished white space'. I admire her pages for their photo centric designs, clean lines, and use of white space with just the right amount of clustering. Let's learn more about her in her own words:Tell us about yourself. I am 40 (ACK!) years old, no kids of the human variety, and live in Washington State. About 18 months ago we got a wild hair to sell our house, quit our jobs and move across the state, and it was the best decision we ever … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Pollywog Spotlight!!!
If you have been following the blog, you might have noticed that we had been spotlighting our designers here at the pad on Fridays. Well, we've run thru the list of them once, so we are taking a little break to spotlight some CT Pollys!!! I think it will be fun to get to know some of the people behind all of the great LO's in the gallery! If you've been hanging around our forums you've likely already gotten to know many of the Pollys thru the random "getting to know you" postings! First off we are spotlighting "Renee82"! Renee has 114 photos in her gallery (at the time I checked her status)! She is almost at the 3000 comments mark!!! Woot Woot Renee!!! She is super sweet and very active here at the pad! Renee has been on the Lilypad creative team for about 2 years now! She is one of our Canadian (French Canadian at that!) CT memebers, and she has two cute little boys and a … [Read more...]
Gallery Standouts and Tapdole…yes!! it’s Tuesday!! =)
Hi everyone!!! Mabel's here with some fabulous pages at our gallery... gosh!! is too difficult pick one... ladies each week you're always amazes me, so talented, creative, colorful... that's my favorite gallery EVER!!! ;)Anyway... after a long time seeing your creations here's my selection for this week =)This one by lisamars is a perfect example for a multiple photo page, the photo serie caught my eye at the first look, fantastic title work, really cool page!!this hybrid first was a digital page, then JeanH printed out and has a fabulous card, I want to recieve one like this on my mail =)and last but not least a super cute page by Coco, how fun as can be?? love all details there, great job with doodles!!now I must go and I hope these pages could inspire you to create other great pages, I'm sure about that!!. Don't forget that today you have new products for 1$ at … [Read more...]
Designer Spotlight: Amy Sumrall
Hiya!!! Shanna here once again to shine the pad spotlight on one of our amazing designers!!!! Whimsical, colorful, versatile, are just a few of the words I would use to describe Amy Sumrall's designs! But you know one of the things I love most about Amy? The fact that she loves this little key (!!!!!!!!) just as much as I do!!! :)She has something new (AND OH So CUTE!!) to The Lilypad this week....Peaches for Me! <--- see!And of course some inspiration from the Pollys!!From mrs2a50 (Julie)From MandaKay:From Eryn:Now I MUST show you some of my other FAVORITE goodies from Amy!!!!Embossed Papers (seriously if don't own these.... WHAT are you waiting for? They are so YUMMY!)Take Stock: Whites and Lights <--- If you know me, I LOVE white backgrounds!Oh so Happy! These colors make me OH SO HAPPY!!And one of her recent collabs with some of my … [Read more...]
Build Your Own Collab March 2010
New BYOC means a new guest designer! We couldn't be happier! Please welcome Krista Sahlin!As for every BYOC I have lots of scrumpdiliciousness to show you! On with the show!Amy MartinJenna DesaiKarah FredricksValorie WibbensPolly InspirationEmily MerrittKaye WinieckiGina MillerPolly InspirationAmy WolffJacque LarsenLiliAmy SumrallPolly InspirationWe hope you enjoy this month's BYOC and guest designer as much as we do. Don't forget to visit The Lilypad Store for your products (and psst! more BYOC specials!) and The Lilypad Gallery for inspiration. … [Read more...]
Gallery Standouts and Tadpole Tuesday
Happy Tuesday Everyone! Tiki here. I'm always amazed by the talent here in the Lilypad Gallery and this week was no exception. I love this blog post. It's so much fun looking at all the gorgeous layouts. I've picked three layouts this week and here they are:Feliz Natal by Paula FrancovigPaula's element usage here is so detailed and fun. I love how she's hung elements on the alpha in the title and the pictures are so cute and perfectly placed.Bookworm by AkizoWhat can I say? The arrangement of books and the worm along with the cute pictures just grabbed my attention. Great shadows too.First Grade Genius by JenJI stared at this layout for a long time in the gallery taking in all the details and reading all the journaling. I just love every last pixel. The layout is in itself Genius.Well now that you have been totally inspired, you should check out the Tadpole … [Read more...]