Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you a 2nd SUPER-sized special edition spotlight post! We are past the halfway point of this year's Month of Challenges (MOC) which I really can't believe! The month is going so quickly! I'm back to shine my spotlight on a couple of layouts for each challenge posted since my last one. I'll start with January 8th and go all the way through today's newest challenge. I failed miserably at narrowing my choices down last time, so let's see how I did this time around. Ha ha! So grab a snack and a drink and enjoy all these amazing layouts!Day 8 - Scrap One Color/Hue:by Mama Shades: by alinalove: Day 9 - Bokeh Effect:by rdutch: by Kegger: Day 10 - Title with NO Letters:by Saar: by Roxana: Day 11 - Tell Me a … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2021
Digital Template Combinations
Hello everyone!! We are a little more than halfway through the 2021 Month of Challenges here at the Lilypad and I hope you have all been having fun, getting lots of inspiration and getting lots of scrapping done. I am hosting today's challenge which involves combining two templates together to create a single cohesive page (one of my favorite ways to play with digital templates)! Here is a look at the two templates you will be playing with in the January 18 Challenge: The challenge is to combine parts of each of these templates to design your own unique digital page. This is how I combined the two templates together: If you are wondering how the two templates ended up looking like ^^my page^^ I am going to walk you through my process. Start by opening up both of the templates in your design program (I use … [Read more...]
January M3 is Here!
Greetings Pad Scrappers!Polly Liana here, thrilled to introduce you to the M3 products for January 2021. For those of you new to the concept, M3 stands for Mixed Media Monthly. Each month around this time, some of our most talented mixed media designers collaborate with a palette and and a phrase. The words for January are When Nobody is Watching. Let’s have a look at the fun main kit:Fantastic, right? What’s great is that after they create the main kit, each designer can create a few more add-on products that coordinate with the kit but allow the designer to follow her own style. Lynn Grieveson has created some great ones: Awesome! And the best thing is that they are on sale this weekend! All January 2021 M3 products are 20% this weekend, along with some equally great products that are newly released today.What was that? You say you want MORE? … [Read more...]
FIND YOUR HAPPY!
Can we talk?Y'all, this month has been a doozy for me. I did pretty well early on through most of the shut down time, but for some reason, this month - whew! It has sucked the life out of me. Bleck! And honestly, I'm not sure why. I guess, my extroverted self just finally had enough.Also, to answer the question is there ever enough family time? Yes, yes there is lol Don't send me hate mail on that please. Just be kind and bring me cake...or tacos.So, like most of you, I stomped my foot and said enough! I had to find my happy - in all the little things out there. Not gonna lie, some days I had to look a little harder than others. So when I need artistic inspiration or just a little happy, one thing I do is head to the TLP gallery! And these are the beauties I found - check them out! They gave me happy!!Oh this one - so much happy here!!! Thank you sm_amber !! These … [Read more...]
Product Round-up for Pocket Scrapping in 20201
Hello Pad scrappers!!!Now that 2021 is here, I'm thinking about how I'm doing to document in my pocket scrapbooking album this year. There are lots of excellent products in the store for pocket scrapbooking and I want to highlight them today.Album CoversFirst of all, Scrapping with Liz offers a title template every year which makes a great album cover. You can visit her blog to grab it.I also love using these Twenty Twenty One word art images by Paislee Press on my cover page each year.Calendar & Week CardsThe next thing I always look out for is calendar and week cards. Here are new cards that were added to the store for 2021.TemplatesThere are some great templates in the story for pocket scrapbooking in 20201.After you have your cover page, weekly/monthly title cards and templates chosen documenting … [Read more...]
MOC Spotlight Part 1
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you a SUPER-sized special edition spotlight post! Since we are knee deep in awesome daily challenges here at The Lilypad for MOC (Month of Challenges) I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to shine my spotlight on a couple of the standouts for each of the daily challenges so far. I am going to try my very best to pick two for each of the first 7 challenges that have already been posted for this month… but we all know I’m terrible at narrowing my choices sometimes. Ha ha! So grab a snack and a drink and enjoy all these amazing layouts!Day 1 - Blind Scrap:by Farwen: by Saar: by Amson: by LoveItScrapIt: by jaye: by extase: by AmandaJ: I'm only to page 4 and I must stop! There are so many amazing pages for just … [Read more...]