Hello everyone! Polly Melanie here.Do you use Pinterest? I am a Pinterest junkie! I think it's an amazing source of inspiration for scrapbookers!For those of you who are not familiar with Pinterest, it's a popular social media site that lets users collect & pin photos to virtual pin boards! Each pin can be "re-pinned" by other users to their own boards. Also, each pin usually includes a link to wherever someone found the image on the internet.The Lilypad has a very active Pinterest site with boards dedicated to all forms of scrapbooking, ways to improve your photography & all kinds of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!We have a huge vault of blog posts, forum posts & gallery uploads here at the Lilypad! When I was looking through the analytics for the Lilypad Pinterest account, I noticed there were a lot of things from the vault that were popular … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
June Challenge Spotlight
Hello everyone! Polly Karen here, bringing you the June edition of the Challenge Spotlight. Once a month I have the privilege of looking through the challenge galleries to find just a few of my favorite layouts and shine my spotlight on them here.If you aren’t familiar with the challenges, here’s a little information about them to get you started. 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! Now let’s look at some of the standout pages created for this month’s challenges:1. Take Two Challenge - Take a page … [Read more...]
Choosing Pictures for PL in Lightroom
Over the last two years, I have come up with many ways that I make my life easier when I am trying to put together my Project Life layouts. Last year, I posted about how I use Dropbox and Lightroom together to organize my photos by week. That work has made a world of difference in my life. Today, I want to share with you how I go about choosing the pictures I want to use for each Project Life layout, using Lightroom to make the process easier.Step 1: I navigate to the folder for the week I am working on. Under "Collections" in Lightroom, I go the the PL 2015 stack and select the week folder. Because of the set up work I've done, all of the photos that I have from that week show up on my screen.Step 2: Instead of looking at the thumbnails of all of the photos for the week, I double click on the first photo and that brings it up as a single photo that I am looking at. You … [Read more...]
Homemade Honey Butter
Hola Happy Scrappers!Polly Liana here, with a quick and easy recipe that will give you a great bicep workout and something yummy for breakfast. Sound too good to be true? Check this out...First, you will need four things: 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 cup honey 1 tsp cinnamon a mason jar or container with tight lid First, combine the ingredients in the jar. Then, shake the daylights out of it.It will seem at first like it's not making any progress because it expands for a while but after some time it will start to harden. You want to shake it until it looks like, well, like butter! There should be very little liquid left in the container.That's it! Spread it on something warm and admire your new biceps. :)Have a great start to your weekend, … [Read more...]
Using SVGs to Print and Cut
Recently I have been using the MPM(Memory Pockets Monthly) to work on my backlog of pocket pages that need finished. I was excited to see that the MPM’s came with SVG cut files. The cut files have been designed to work as a print and cut! I knew that my Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software was meant to handle this. However when I tried to use the SVGs I couldn’t figure out how to use them. I took my problem to the designers of the MPM. They quickly taught me how to use them and it was so easy! Today I want to share how to use SVGs to print and cuts in Silhouette Studio software.1. Open up the SVG file in Silhouette Studio. Typically you will know you have the right file because all the shapes are black. (Please note: This will only work if you have the DESIGNER EDITION!)2. Open the Cut Settings window and change the setting to Cut. Now you will see the red cut lines … [Read more...]
Meal Planning for Two Weeks
Hi, everyone! Sarah here, and I thought it would be fun to share with you how I menu plan. This spring the amount of money I could budget to spend on groceries was greatly decreased so I had to figure out how to meal plan and grocery shop in a way that worked best for our family. Since we live about 30 miles from the grocery store and it's not always easy for me to get there, I began shopping for two weeks at a time.My first step to meal planning is to look at the sale ads and mark down anything that is an amazing deal. I also make sure I know what staples we are running low on so I can add these to my list. At this point I don't really do any further planning. I take my list and hit the store. I'm mostly shopping for meat, produce and dairy as I keep a good stock of grains and other staples in my pantry. One of the reasons I don't menu plan before I head to the store is that I'm … [Read more...]