I’ve been on a quest to find the best recipes since I first learned to cook. When I was younger I was sure all those recipes were my mom’s or grandmas. I remember heading off to college with a small recipe binder holding those cherished recipes. In fact I still have that little recipe binder…At collage I was exposed to others cooking and found new recipes I loved. In they went to my little binder. Then food blogs and pinterest become popular and I found so many more yummy recipes! My little binder exploded and became this mess of recipes.The organization is lacking. It takes a long time to find the recipe I want. If I find the correct recipe, I have to battle the food stains that cover them. Anyone else have the same problem? I decided to end this problem and revamp my recipe organization. I created a plan for this HUGE project and decide to share this with you in a two part blog … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
Polly Picks – Cristina
Hello! Polly Karen here bring you another installment of the popular Polly Picks! Every two weeks we ask one of our staff members to choose their favorite products in the shop. Then we put those products on sale! Our latest Polly Picks sale includes products chosen by the fabulous Cristina: Cristina is an super talented and sweet Polly. I love that Cristina can create so many amazing layouts without templates! She also has done some super amazing and cute hybrid projects over the years that just amaze me. I don't know how she has time while also working and going to school for her PHD, which if I remember correctly she received about a year ago!! I asked Cristina to describe her style, and this is what she had to say:“I am a fast scrapper that loves color. My pages are more on the minimalist side, and I love hybrid scrapping as well as digital. Patterned … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Monthly | Dream, Daring, Ideas
Chances are... you daydream from time to time. Or you come up with great (and maybe some not-so-great) ideas. And I'm sure most of you have probably also dared to do something that you would not normally do. Whether it is chasing a lifelong dream, or doing something spontaneous, I think everyone has a spark of passion inside of them. Do they always let it out? No. Should they? Probably.August's M3 (Mixed Media Monthly) kit is all about dreams, doing daring things, and nurturing ideas. This is a fabulous kit for getting out your thoughts and the things that stir inside your heart begging to be let out.It is also a wonderful kit to celebrate the first year of M3! Can you believe it has already been a year? Wow.Take a look at the imaginative kit that may help you unlock some of those dreams and ideas, and get them out onto a page. And of course, each … [Read more...]
Hybrid Spotlight
Hi all, Sarah here. One thing I love to do is peruse the Hybrid Projects gallery and today I have for you a few of the awesome hybrid projects that have been uploaded to the gallery this month.First is this gorgeous photo box by scrappycath. I love all the floral goodness she chose for this project. It has to be a joy to open up this box whenever she wants to go through her photos.If you've been in the gallery lately there's a good chance you've noticed all of the pocket letters that have been showing up lately. I'm really loving the vintage sewing theme that redplaid3 chose for her pocket letter to Nemla.I love pocket scrapping and I am really enjoying this celebration of babyhood on this page by profiler_mar. I love the filler cards that she chose to help tell her story and how she documented all the amazing things that capture the first couple of weeks of a new … [Read more...]
August Challenge Spotlight
Hello everyone! Polly Karen here, bringing you the August 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 a guest spot 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. All About You Challenge - Scrap a first … [Read more...]
4 Tricks for Including More Journaling on Your Layouts
Over the years, the one thing I have struggled with a lot is including meaningful journaling on my pages. It's not that I don't want to share my memories, or that I don't want them preserved or shared. Often I feel a little silly writing journaling. Who am I supposed to be talking to? Do I use the third person? How much do I share? I know that the answers to these questions don't really matter, so I've started using a few tricks to basically MAKE me include more journaling on my layouts. Today, I want to share with you these tricks and some layouts from the awesome gallery here at TLP as examples.Participate in the Journaling Challenge here at TLP - The Journaling Challenge is one of the awesome challenges offered here at TLP and I have found it to be really inspirational in putting more journaling on my pages. Sometimes having a prompt really helps to get my juices flowing and … [Read more...]