Tomorrow is the big day. Bright and early, as the sun is beginning to rise on the east coast of North America, the first challenge of the Month of Challenges-2016 (the fourth) will be posted. Scrappers from all over the world will be hitting refresh, pretending to see if they have mail, but actually opening the Lily Pad on their phone. Scrappers that usually sleep in, will be up, coffee in hand anticipating the first challenge, and wondering if they are prepared. Those in Europe, the Far East and Australia will be up, fighting sleep or requirements for the day to get the head start.Are you prepared? Ask yourself this question. Are you ready to take on the next 31 days, to scrap your fingers to the bone. Have you sat down with your family and explained the situation. That for the last 11 months, you have cooked, cleaned and seen to their every need, but this month is for YOU. … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
December Challenge Spotlight
Hello everyone! Polly Karen here, bringing you the very last Challenge Spotlight of 2015! 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. Journaling Challenge - Favorite December … [Read more...]
Dear Polly: December 2015
Hi y'all! I hope everyone has had a simply fantastic holiday season. I can't hardly believe that 2016 is right around the corner! If I start thinking about all the things I didn't get done this year, well that makes me madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory! For this last installment of Dear Polly in 2015, the questions are looking to the future.Do you set goals for your scrapping Polly, or do you just let it flow?That's a great question! I am a pretty big believer in setting goals to keep me motivated. The one thing that I have learned is that I have to make sure that my goals are challenging, but manageable. I would love to say that in 2016 I will scrap 250 layouts, but we all know that that's prolly not going to happen. I like to chunk my goals into quarters, so for each quarter of the year. The first quarter runs from January to March, so a realistic goal I … [Read more...]
Check Out Our New Site! (And this month’s M3!)
Merry Christmas Pad Scrappers!Polly Liana here, honored to be the first one to welcome you all back to our NEW Lilypad! Last Sunday we went through a wonderful transformation to an elegant, brighter, even more user-friendly version of our site. If you haven't seen it yet, please jump in and have a look around. All your favorite things are still there but there are some improvements that are outstanding and make the site even more lovely, if that was at all possible. One of my favorite updates is that our gallery now features larger thumbnails, making all the layouts shine even more brightly. Also, the forums are even easier to use and have some new fun functions, like a "like" button and the ability to reply more easily. This is all in preparation for our Month of Challenges which starts January 1! Are you ready?The other reason for this post today is to introduce you to December's … [Read more...]
Welcome Wagon for the Lily Pad
There are so many new people and so many regulars that may be wondering how to jump in? This blog post is a small tutorial to help you settle in and be in the know.First off, I highly recommend subscribing to the newsletter HERE. You can also subscribe to each and every designer, because they many times have extra saving coupons and FREEbies in their newsletters. HERE is a list of current designers (but more are coming). The newsletters come out about 12 hours before the sale, and are filled with happenings for the Lily Pad, from challenges, speed and slow scraps, chats, sales and inspiration for scrapping.There is also a calendar that is posted the beginning of each month that has some great information on it too. Any and all updates will be in the announcement forum.Every month (but January cancelled due to MOC) there are 7 challenges. They do rotate and have … [Read more...]
Planner Love: Fresh Start
Hey, all. Sarah here. Have y'all seen the new planner collection in the TLP store right now? I'm excited that it gives me a chance to get a head start on my January planner pages. Today I'm going to show you how I used the collection to decorate my spread for the first full week of January 2016.Planner Collection Monthly: Fresh Start has such an amazing variety of wonderful planning stickers, however due to the large variety of different planner sizes/stickers the designers had to chose one size to start with and build off of that. For this first collection they chose to create the sticker sizes to fit in the Erin Condren Vertical Life Planner, since this is such a popular size in the planning world. I don't use an Erin Condren, however. My current planner is a MAMBI Happy Planner and I wanted to share with you the way I made the wonderful boxes included in the collection work for my … [Read more...]