Hello everyone! It’s Polly Melanie here with the monthly roundup of everything happening in the word of Memory Pockets Monthly (MPM)!The collection this month is called BOLD and it is definitely that! It's bold collection of colour and a bold statement of being yourself and living life fearlessly! I love the sentiment behind this month's collection and all the fantastic positive word art. And that pineapple! What is Memory Pockets Monthly? MPM is the monthly pocket scrapbooking subscription here at the Lilypad. Each month, our six very talented MPM designers create a single collection for all your pocket scrapbooking needs. They also create a wide variety of add-ons to complement the main collection.Click on the image to see the full contents of this month's fabulous main collection: Every month, the designers also create a selection of add-ons to complement the … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2016
Summer School: Lightroom Session 1
Six weeks of summer school is in full swing at the LilyPad. Be sure and pop over to the Summer School forum to see all the amazing techniques, tutorials, challenges, sales and freebies! Also, as part of summer school Cheryl of Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs is teaching a course on Lightroom. Beginner and advanced techniques will be taught. Also, how to incorporate Lightroom into your scrapping work flow will be addressed. You don't want to miss these LIVE events in the LilyPad's Adobe Connect room. However, if you are not able to make it to these classes you are in luck! All classes will be posted here on the blog and also in the LilyPad forum.Week one is ready! Enjoy learning some beginning Lightroom with Cheryl!https://vimeo.com/173955602Save … [Read more...]
July BYOC: Digi & Hybrid Style
Hi everyone, Sarah here. Back in April I partnered up with EllenT in doing a BYOC project where we each selected one item from each participating designer in the April BYOC and we did a month long project using these products. We had such a fun time we decided to do it again for the month of July using the July BYOC.Digi StyleEllen is creating digital scrapbook layouts using the products that she chose. To see her thread and the products she’s chosen click here. She will continue to add layouts to the thread over the course of the month so make sure to check back often.Here are Ellen’s first two layouts with gallery links. I’ll be creating hybrid projects for the month. To see my forum thread, including my product selections, click here. I will also be updating my thread throughout July so make sure to check out my thread for new projects as … [Read more...]
My Disney Information Round Up
Hi everyone! If you've been around The Pad long enough, you know that my family and I are pretty big Disney geeks. For the last six years, we have gone once a year to Walt Disney World. I'd be lying if I told you we didn't look forward to it all year. As you can imagine, that has left a lot of memories to be scrapped!When I first started as a "Guest Polly," I wrote a four part series about scrapping my Disney memories. Now, as my trip nears, I thought that revisiting that series would be a great idea. Check out the posts below: Preparing to Capture Your Disney Vacation: Choose Your Tools Preparing to Capture Your Disney Vacation: Plan Your Approach Preparing to Capture Your Disney Vacation: Gather Your Supplies Preparing to Capture Your Disney Vacation: Prep What You CanAs I read through them now, they still have great tips for staying on top of what you can do … [Read more...]
July Challenges
Hello everyone and happy spring! It’s Polly Karen here. I’m here with a look at the new batch of monthly challenges. This year we added one more challenge each month to give you more opportunities for creating pages! Now instead of 7 monthly challenges, we’ve added an eighth challenge. You do not have to complete all 8 challenges in order to have a change to win a guest spot on the creative team either, we added another one for those who have requested more challenges and you still only have to complete 7 of them to be considered for a guest spot on the creative team! You can choose one to skip if you want! So, mostly everything remains the same. You complete challenges in order to earn a coupon of your next purchase in the store (2 challenges = 10%, 4 challenges = 20% and 6 challenges = 30%) AND everyone who completes at least 7 challenges will be considered for a one month guest spot … [Read more...]
Patriotic Layout Standouts – July 2016
Happy Fourth of July to all of my stateside friends! As we celebrate Independence Day this weekend, tons of layouts have been popping up in the gallery that show everyone's patriotic spirit. Today I wanted to share a few of my favorites with you.This layout by lowan uses the red, white, and blue colors and employs some incredible edge clustering work! I love how the edge of the page is so energetic!This blocked layout by Sweeet has lots of great things going for it. There are some awesome clusters that work to balance the page, the use of the large photo really makes a statement, and the angled photo in the middle is a nice break from all of the linear elements of the rest of the page.This layout by disneysheryl65 has a lot of busy photos on it. Keeping them in a grid format really helps to bring order and keep the layout from looking to overwhelming. Also, the … [Read more...]