I’m a creative who pulls inspiration from all corners of life—both the joyful highs and the real-life moments that punch you in the gut. Honestly, I don’t think I can pin down a single scrapbooking style for myself, so let’s just go with eclectic. My layouts really depend on my mindset. If I’m in a deep, cerebral mood, you’ll likely see something chaotic and messy. If I’m more relaxed, it tends to come out clean, simple, and structured.
My brain is usually running on several channels at once, so it’s completely normal for me to be working on a digital layout, dabbling in a hybrid project, and getting messy with art journaling or mixed media—all at the same time.
Here are a few of my go-to tools: Digital:Â Adobe Photoshop CC + my MacBook; Photos:Â Canon Rebel or iPhone; Hybrid:Â Cricut Joy + sewing machine; Art Journaling:Â watercolors, stencils, and artsticks
And when it comes to embellishments—digital or physical—I’m always reaching for messy threads, ribbons, and Polaroids. Always the Polaroids.
Hello all my artsy friends and welcome to the end of Daylight Saving Time. The Daylight Saving Time tradition started 100 years ago and was originally organized by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary as a way to conserve coal during…
Howdy Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here with the awesome job of introducing you to our newest BYOC for November. For those of you new to the idea, BYOC stands for Build Your Own Collection. The first Friday of each month,…
Hello everyone!  Polly Karen here!  It’s November and I’m here with an at-a-glance look to show off the 8 monthly challenges that the Challenge Polly’s have created for this month.  Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted…
Veteran’s Day is observed Friday, November 10th and I look forward to it for a variety of reasons. There are many in my family that have served- – – –Â but I have 1 in particular that I favor –…
Veteran’s Day is observed Friday, November 10th and I look forward to it for a variety of reasons. There are many in my family that have served- – – –Â but I have 1 in particular that I favor –…
Happy Halloween everyone! It is the end of October (what?!?!) and everyone’s favorite costume wearing, ghost story telling, excuse to eat candy holiday. I hope you have something fun planned for the evening. 🙂 I’m just popping in to…
Hello everyone!  Polly Karen here, bringing you the Challenge Spotlight post for October.  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…
Hi friends!! It’s Monica here to show off our newest Memory Pockets Monthly collection, Cozy! Memory Pockets Monthly is a pocket scrapbooking collection put out each month by six amazing designers here at The Lilypad. It includes alphas, elements, journal cards…
If you are like me, I could always use an extra fun touch of decorating around my house!! So I made some free and fun printables for you! I made this printable using That’s Scary kit by LBW How fun is…
Ribbon works well in any layout design, being very versatile in how you can use it. It can be used in it’s entirety or you can select pieces of it to use. Resizing, warping, recoloring….these can all produce very different…
Hello all my artsy friends! Last week I shared with you the process for loading all of those yummy styles Photoshop and PSE (if you missed the article, you can find it HERE). This week, I want to share a…
Howdy Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here, and super excited to share with you our newest M3 Collection for October. For those new to the concept, M3 stands for Mixed Media Monthly. Every month around the third week, some of our very…