Hey Everyone! Crystal here with my first blog post here at the pad and I am excited! It's soooo close to Christmas and the gallery is overflowing with amazing pages for the holiday. So many pages about traditions, trees, cookies and snow! It's so much fun to see and makes me so happy because Christmas is full of sweet memories for most all of us it seems. I thought I would take a bit and show off some of these amazing pages I have found! There are oodles and oodles and I even did cut it down a bit! All images will be linked to the gallery as well so make sure you head over there and show some love! I hope you enjoyed all these festive pages!! You can visit the Christmas section of the shop to find so many perfect kits and elements to scrap your holiday memories! … [Read more...]
Pad Poll – New Years Resolutions
.Did you know there are only 16 days left in 2010!! Yup out with the old and in with the new is right around the corner. And for some of you, or maybe all of you, that means New Year's Resolutions!! Well I for one make them. But then it seems every year, I break them too. Or at least I could have done better on them. So that's what I want to know from you. How long does it take you to break your New Year's Resolution? Now I know it sometimes depends on what you were resolved about. But lets use year's resolutions as a guide..How long does it take you to forget about your New Year's Resolution:(polls)Be sure to check out the results from previous polls, here.. … [Read more...]
Tadpole Tuesday $1
It's Tadpole Tuesday again here at the pad. Check out all the great $1 deals! Introducing WISHLISTA huge new collab with Catscrap!Yours free with $10 purchase(some exclusions apply) … [Read more...]
The Lighter Side of Life – Week Seven
As my kids would say, "Holy Guacamole!" Where in the world has the time gone? I looked up and realized that December is already almost halfway gone.For those of you who are riding along on this challenge we are thrilled to have you. If you're new, welcome and we are so very happy to have you here at the Pad. This week's prompt is about [B]Hopes and Dreams/When I Grow Up[/B]. You could choose to document your own hopes and dreams or those you have for a loved one. You can also do this from a child's perspective by documenting what they want to be when they grow up.Hop on over to the forum and join us! … [Read more...]
Font Finds – The Quiet One
Doesn't everyone LOVE when they find an amazing new font?I personally think fonts are an addiction, I know I have at least 2000 fonts installed on my computer.And you want to hear something exciting??Each month here on the LilyPad blog we are going to feature on a font we've found that will be perfect for telling your stories.Starting us off, I thought it would be perfect to feature our in house 'fontographer' Heather Hess.And she was so amazing to share a font with us all!!! Isn't that fabulous??Click here to get it for free.Here are a couple examples using it:Or check out some of Heather's other fonts here.25% off any order over $2.00coupon : happyf0ntingexpires: 12/15/10 … [Read more...]
Froogy Friday – 12/10
Happy Froggy Friday and TGIF!Did you see all of the new goodies? SQUEAL!Come look...come look.... … [Read more...]
What’s Hot?? Banners and Garlands!
Have you gone through the gallery recently? It has been an explosion of banners and garland. Must be something in the air. Check out these beauties that have gone up in the past week:FalalalalaLA! by JenJSanta by KarenFavorites by mlewiscute, cuddly, sweet by jdesaiFavorite Things by 4noisyboysNaughty or Nice? by aly3212011 christmas card by DanaSnow! by jam1el33Color Love, Color Wonderful by Strange.Bird2ge+her by talktoheatherxmas abfallentsorgung by cocoFamily Fun Night by Lisa CarollMerry Merry! by christina[Natal 2010] by Dani Vignolifruits by Ana.PaulaIf you find yourself inspired but needing a little bit of help, here are a few templates Amy and Valorie have to offer: Garland mini v1 by Amy MartinGarland by Amy … [Read more...]
December Scraplift Challenge
Challenges are off and running here at The-Lilypad!Sometimes we need a little extra kick of inspiration to get us going.So this week we bring you the Scraplift challenge.Polly Jenni tipped us of the beautiful work going on in the gallery of our very ownValorie Wibbens, and let me say it is stunning.Here are some examples of the lovely pages and lifts so far:Valorie's More and More:Jenni's lift:Valorie's Mud:Crystall's lift:Valorie's A Perfect Moment:Coco's lift:Hope you all are inspired. And to find out a bit more about Valorie, check out her blog here!Don't forget the rules of this challenge:1) Your page must contain at least 75% TLP products2) One challenge per layout no combining challenges3) Upload your finished page to the scraplift gallery and post in the December Scraplift … [Read more...]
Tips and Tricks – Creating PDF
So yesterday I was all set to upload my calendar design onto a site to print (and take advantage of 50%off!) But lo and behold, they did not support .jpegs. (Okay that seems totally crazy to me, but whatcha gonna do?) But they did support PDFs.And that's how I got shoved into the lovely world of PDFs. So I was thinking, what a great Lilypad T&T (at least I hope it is helpful to you, lol)Now first of all you need to have Adobe Acrobat already on your system. Which if you are like me and all over the web, you probably have and it is updated regularly by Adobe whether you like it or not.Next, open you jpeg in your Photoshop program. I am using PSE 7. Then go to SAVE AS. When the box opens up choose PHOTOSHOP PDF (*.PDF,*.PDP).Whoo hoo. Now you have a PDF.You will need to do this to all the documents you want to be in a PDF document. Now if you want all the images to … [Read more...]
Lovely Lyrics
Hello to all of my friends out there, this is Aly... one of the newest Polly's! I know this is the time of year that is crazy for everyone. The hustle and bustle of the Holidays is all around us. Somedays I just blast my Christmas music to help calm myself. I don't know about you, but music can have such a dramatic impact on my mood. One song that has been on my mind is the Christmas song, "Still, Still, Still." You can find the full lyrics here...I hope that through all of the fun and joy of the holidays, we can all take some time to be Still! … [Read more...]