I have a great little tutorial to share with you today. I absolutely LOVE the TLP line of Mobile Ready Fonts, but sometimes I want to add a little more to my photos without starting up Photoshop. Some of my favorite parts of digital kits are all the fun little wordy bits and I knew there just had to be a way to add them to my photos directly from my phone. So I started experimenting and you know what?!?!? It worked! And now I can share what I learned with all of you :)What You Need*:Mobile PhoneDropboxPhontoA few of your favorite TLP Elements in PNG formatTo start you will need to upload a few elements into Dropbox from your computer. I am using bits from Stated Elements by Sara Gleason.Open Dropbox on your mobile device and save each element to your camera roll. I like to double check that all of my photos saved correctly before I open Phonto. You may notice that the background of some … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
Pop Pop Popcorn!
Hi Hungry Scrappers!Polly Liana here, with a quick recipe today for scrumptious popcorn. This is the perfect time to make popcorn here in the northeast-- it's not warm enough yet for ice cream but not cold enough anymore for hot chocolate. Popcorn is the perfect cozy, tasty treat for an evening snack and especially lovely when you're needing to munch on something while you're scrapping or hanging out in the forums here at The Lilypad. I've got a recipe here that will blow away anything you could possibly pull out of a microwave, both health and taste-wise. Plus, it makes your kitchen smell divine. If you follow the directions closely, it should leave very few of those vile unpopped kernels that can cause all kinds of dental misery. So, without any further ado, let's get started.1. First, you need popcorn kernels and canola oil. I prefer to top mine with coconut oil and Old … [Read more...]
March Challenge Spotlight
Happy Spring everyone! (even though we still haves snow in Michigan) It's Polly Karen here bringing you another installment of the challenge spotlight. In this post I get to shine the light on just a few of the amazing layouts created for our monthly challenges. Remember if you play along with our 7 monthly challenges you can earn yourself a coupon to use on your next Lilypad shopping spree. You will earn as follows: 2 challenges = 10% off, 4 challenges = 20% off and 6 challenges = 30% off. Also if you finish all 7 challenges, in addition to your coupon, you will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win 1 of 2 guest spots on the Creative Team (be a Polly) for a month! With that in mind, let's look at a sampling of the talent posted in our gallery every day. 1. Template Challenge:by goodtexan: by WendyW: by … [Read more...]
Organize Your Pad: Fonts
Welcome to the March Edition of Organize Your Pad. This month, we've been discussing Fonts a bit in the forum and I've discovered a couple of interesting things. First of all, there are many of you that are just as addicted to Fonts and Font Collecting as I am. Second, there are many of you who are just as unorganized in your storage/use of them as I am, hehe...And that's OK! Today, I'm gonna share a bit about the organization options out there for your fonts, but also do a little enabling with some favorite fonts, both free and for sale.I have about a Gazillion and one fonts and, honestly, I probably only use about 25% of them regularly. So, why do I keep them all on my hard drive just to slow down my PS/PSE? Good question. Really, what I should be doing it storing them in a good Font Manager and only pulling in the ones I need for my pages. Right? Right. So, what font … [Read more...]
Polly Picks – Anne of Alamo
If you're a regular at The Lilypad, you know Anne. She's welcomed you, encouraged you to chat and left love on your pages. The warmth and joy that shines from Anne is also evident in her scrapping style and gallery. She has a fantastically bold style, full of creative play with scale and colors. You also see the recurring theme of her deep love for her family. I encourage you to get inspired by Anne of Alamo this week! Her Polly Picks are 20% off in the store and she's hosting our Polly Picks challenge as well.Here's what Anne says about her style, "Scrapbooking is more than memories to me, it is a love of art, creating and the process of getting there! The journey of creating a page is a a joy filled event. I love the deadline of an upcoming release, be it SOSN, or the awesome BYOC. I push myself to take the most awesomely made designs from the Lily Pad artists and bring in the photos … [Read more...]
It’s here! It’s finally here!!
Hi Happy Scrappers!Polly Liana here, with some photo inspiration for my very faaaaavorite season. If you're living anywhere that is snow-prone, you joined me yesterday in a big sigh of relief as we finally welcomed Spring back after a long, snowy and very cold winter. Even though it's not exactly balmy where I live, I'm looking forward to rising temperatures soon enough. With those warmer temps, come small bits of green peeking out of the ground. I was born and raised in Hawaii so I had never experienced the way the world slowly wakes up after winter. Now I look forward with great eagerness to seeing buds and bulbs popping out everywhere I look. It's such a hopeful, happy sign that we're finally coming out of the dreary, cold world we've been in for the past few months. I get so excited about spring that I often take my camera and macro lens out for walks to document all the … [Read more...]