Hi Pad Scrappers!Happy Friday! Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to the newest M3 Collection for April. For those of you new to the concept, M3 stands for Mixed Media Monthly. It’s a monthly collaboration from four of our most talented mixed media designers: Paula Kesselring, Rachel Jefferies, Little Butterfly Wings and Lynne-Marie. These awesome designers collaborate each month around a palette and three words. This month, the words are THRIVE/NATURAL/EARTH. Perfect for spring! The palette is a beautiful mix of cool greens, royal blues and bright yellows with some lovely earthy tones thrown in for balance. Here’s the main kit:One of the best things about M3 is that once the main kit is created, designers can create some “add-on” kits to go along with the main one. I always love looking at the creative ways that each designer interprets the theme … [Read more...]
Using Your Stash of Goodies in Different Ways
Scrapbooking can be described as a way of holding on or preserving personal or family history. This can be in the form of books, box or cards. These are using photos, printed media and art work (or elements). This is a niche The-Lily Pad fills quite nicely. Pages upon pages of memorabilia filling the gallery. There are many other ways to use these beautiful designs from the store other than a square page of family history.Newsletters for church, school or other clubs are a great way to use your fun stash of elements and papers. In todays electronical world, saving it smaller and then send out via email or group texts! It is nice way to show what is happening!Using it for sign up sheets is another fun option to dress up your activity too! Taking a theme and running with it! We had a No-Talent Talent show one year, and the sign up sheet is so happy that many sign … [Read more...]
2 free Spring Printables!
These 2 free Spring printables will help you add some spring blossom to your home and life just in time for this beautiful season! These will look great in any frame for your mantel, end table or even give your bathroom a fresh look! These will look great anywhere in your home - even in the kitchen on a clipboard for a sweet look.For the first project I used 2017 Add On by Just Jaimee and for the second project, I used Mixed Media Monthly March 2015 kit Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Create Crate Monthly: Blooms & Bunnies
Hello everyone and welcome to April! Spring is upon us and this month's Create Crate Monthly is chock full of blooms and bunnies to celebrate it. :) Take a look at all the lovely digital goodness awaiting you: Just to inspire you, here are some fabulous pages by the Pollys showing this collab in action: If you want to see all the Create Crate monthly kits and add-ons in one place in the Lilypad Store, you can find them HERE. You can also click on the Create Crate Monthly tab under Categories in the left-hand column of the store to see each month's kits and add-ons individually. I hope you have fun creating with the Blooms & Bunnies collab - we can't wait to see your pages in the Lilypad Gallery! Until next time ~Judie (HeyJude) … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Minimalist Pages
Have you ever worked with the Mixed Media products at The Lilypad? If so, then you already know how amazing the products are. But, if you haven't, then let me share a little secret with you...they are not just for art journaling, mixed media style of pages. They are for all scrapbooking styles and, even more specifically, for minimalist pages.It doesn't matter where you start, whether you have a photo chosen and want to build your design around that, or if you spotted some product or paper you just can't resist, and you have the urge to use them right away (that happens to me all the time, I spot a little piece of a kit and my heart skips a beat, I need to have it and scrap with it).If you think you might be overwhelmed by the magnitude of products in the monthly mixed media collection and not know where to start or even if it is a collection that you will want to use, try … [Read more...]
Something Magical This Way Comes…
Hi Pad Scrappers!Polly Liana here, scattering glitter above your head today. I just watched a lovely little film called The Unicorn Store. It's about a woman in a dead-end life, who is offered the opportunity to adopt a unicorn. The catch is, she has to get her life ready for the unicorn, which means filling it with love and magic. It was the perfect film for me right now... my husband and I are both looking for new jobs which can feel really scary. There's a part of me that wishes I could go back to the magic and comfort of my childhood, when all I wished for in life was having a unicorn and my life was filled with glitter and rainbows.Being a kindergarten teacher, my life is still filled glitter and magic but sometimes being a "grown up" can make everything a little less sparkley. I found this great quote from the movie and it inspired me to scrap a magical, glittery … [Read more...]
Introducing the BYOC for April!
Hi Pad Scrappers!I can't believe it's April already but it IS! I'm thrilled to be here to introduce you to our BYOC products for April. For those of you new to the concept, BYOC stands for Build Your Own Collection. Every month, the talented designers here at the Lilypad create products with the same palette. So even though there are lots of different styles, everything magically coordinates! Check out the new collection...First, gorgeously soft papers:Diverse elements and kits: Helpful templates:A totally clever alpha:And journaling cards for all you pocket scrappers: And even better-- it's all ON SALE this weekend!So head on over to our store for some great deals, post your layouts in our gallery for some love and stick around in our forums for some fun!Have a great weekend! … [Read more...]
Creating a Chalk Sketch in Photoshop
Hello all my artsy friends! I am dropping in today with a quick and fun technique for creating chalk sketched effects in Photoshop. In January, I posted an article about digitizing sketches to make them more versatile for use on digital pages. If you missed it, you can find it HERE. Today, I am going to show you how to convert those digitized sketches into chalk drawings. You can see the technique in action on this page: I used one of the amazing chalkboard backgrounds from THIS set by Paula Kesselring, and added my sketch to it. (Click on layout for full credits.) To achieve the chalked look, all you have to do is invert the sketch and then blend it with the Screen and Lighten blending modes. I started with a photo of the sketch (it was not extracted) and sized it to fit within the chalkboard element. Then I inverted the image … [Read more...]
Weather Patterns to Scrapping
A breezy, but with a chance of lots of sun greetings to you all! The season is is a changing, but kinda not sure what season it wants to be! Sometimes that is how our scrapping can be also. The sun can be shinning through the window, a warmth spreading across your arms, but the emotions within us is dark and troubling.There are days when the clouds and storms of life are so heavy on my shoulders, I feel like I am collapsing. I refuse to collapse, I instead will pour out my emotions onto a page. Many people see art journaling as dark and brooding. I have in the past tried to change that mindset, but sometimes, that darkness in creating can be a way to crawl out of the blackness.I went thru the gallery of Art Journaling here at the Lily Pad, and the art that flows is like the sunbeams through the window to my creative spirit. This alone is a great way to remind myself there … [Read more...]
April Challenges
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here and I’m here to show off a new batch of awesome challenges for the month of April. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st (the BYOC Challenge is posted on the 1st Friday of the month.) You can use the challenges simply to inspire you to keep creating new layouts OR you can also earn yourself a fabulous coupon for your next shopping trip in the Lilypad Store. (2 challenges = 10%, 4 challenges = 20% and 6 challenges = 30%). Those who complete at least 7 challenges will be entered in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate! Isn’t that an awesome prize?!?! You’ll get lots of great memories captured in your scrapbooks AND you could win a fat gift certificate prize!!! Pretty great, right?! So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!1. Scraplift Challenge - First up … [Read more...]