Yay! It's Friday. Time for another Designer Spotlight here at the Lilypad. Today's spotlight shines brightly on Jacque Larsen.Jacque's style can only be described as fun, fresh, and a little "cuh-razy"! She is known for her completely creative hand drawn, cut, and colored paper pieces.Jacque has the following new goodies this week.This perfect little element pack for making Valentine pages.and this Happily Ever After Collab with Valorie Wibbens. Isn't is just so cute?In addition to the two products above, you really must check out Jacque's store. She makes the cutest alphas, papers, and cutouts. Her store is so versatile - everything from paper dolls and puppets to athletic and spy gear - she has it in her store. Here are just some of my favorites from her store:Here are some layouts using Jacque's yummy products:Before I leave you, I … [Read more...]
Gallery Spotlight and Tadpole Tuesday
helloooo! polly Amanda R here and today is Tuesday! YAYYY! time for another TADPOLE TUESDAY!!! that means some new awesome goodies for only $1.00! I'm also bringing you some awesome pages from our gallery. it is always a pleasure to browse our gallery and it is hard to pick only two pages... well, I found two of my currently passions, let's see:this page by Eryn made me so happy! I love photoless pages and she really doesn't need photos here, huh? Jaque's Friendly Faces do it so well. I love that blue paper, reminds me the water and her shadows really pop the faces off the page. such an awesome fun page:Big Pools:this one by mimsmom looks so real. I love papers, patterneds and krafts are my favorites and she used them so perfectly! this page reminds me a paper scrap. I love the buttons and ric racs, how she did the journaling and this photo is so sweet. these colors are fantastic … [Read more...]
Spotlight on: Valorie Wibbens
It's Friday- weekend, yay!Polly Martina here with a new version of the Designer Spotlight Series. I'm happy to present you Valorie Wibbens alias Spotted Dog Designs this week.She's a gorgeous designer, her stuff is funky and versatile, perfect for every page. The doodles, buttons, splahes or stitches or her awesome template,she has only beauties in her repertoire. But designing isn't the only thing she's very talented in, her Layouts are eyecandy and her photos are so sweet. You can take a look at her blog, too.This week she releases some new templates at her shop.(images are linked)And now I'm gonna show you some yummies of her store:Hand Painted AlphaBlock it V.3AccoutrementBy Definition Stripsdecorative stitchesSmile! BYOC JanuaryLayouts using Valorie's stuff:believe...by Shanna prepared by Leslietaste the rainbow by KeelaRain Rain by … [Read more...]
Gallery spotlight and It’s tadpole tuesday!!
Pollywog Katrina here with my first blog post! So excited. One of my fav parts of being a polly is looking through the gallery at all the seriously amazing pages made with Pad goodies and if you haven't been to the gallery lately stop by, you will be amazed!The first page is by DamayantiEverything is placed perfectly and your eye is drawn right in to the perfection of this page. I just love it.Next I picked a page by cintiascrapI love how creative this page is, the composition is just so wonderful. Something I would have never thought of. Perfection.and I had to spotlight 2 more pages that came from our wonderful polly's with the amazing Jan BYOC goodiesFirst is Leslie's (1boy1girl) First I love every page she does and this one is no exception, every single bit of it is wonderful!And next is Sarah with her amazing layout, first Sarah never cease's to amaze me with … [Read more...]
Januarys BYOC and Some Anniversary FUN and GAMES
This weekend we're going to have games, chats and prizes throughout the weekend, and you can find it all HERE.Januarys BYOC is full of Pinks and Greens so I hope you like these colors as much as me. I love the variety in this months BYOC, and ever designer just rocked it!Here are some goodies from our designers, check out their shop to see everything they are offering in this months BYOC.Kate HadfieldKarah FredricksAmy WolffJenna DesaiJacque LarsenKaye WinieckiAmy SumrallEmily MerrittVallorie WibbensLiliGina MillerDawn InskipAnd This is what our Fabulous Polly did with the BYOC this month:LeslieKarenMabelJulieKatrinaKeelaCherryJheriAmandaKarenRez (me)Rez (cute little Valentine)AnsoLaurenTikiPeppermintDúniaColleenKeelaCaroleeJenna … [Read more...]
Gallery Spotlight! Plus some other fun happenings here at the pad!
Its such an EXCITING time at the pad!First off it is the first Tuesday of the month which means..... January Challenges are HERE! :) I am so excited for you all to go check out this amazing forum full of inspiration! I challenge each and every one of you to try at LEAST one challenge.. if not two, or three!Second, its TADPOLE TUESDAY!!!!!!! That means some super yummy goodies hit the store today at only ONE BUCK! you can't beat that! - So go check it out... go ahead.. I will be here when you get back! :)Ok, I am one lucky duck browsing the galleries today! The inspiration that can be found at the Lilypad gallery amazes me each and every time I get a chance to thumb through it. I was told to pick two and only two and after much contemplation I just CAN NOT WAIT to show you these inspiring pieces of art.....ivana alves - If you have not checked out her gallery yet... RUN don't … [Read more...]
First Friday of 2010 at the Pad
Remember when Y2K was such a big deal? And here we are at Y Two Thousand AND TEN?? Amazing.The designers at the Pad just didn't let the new year sneak in either, but have some fun new goodies to tempt you with for your scrapping pleasure.Kaye Winiecki has this new alpha that really brings to mind 'luscious':Kate Hadfield has released this set of doodles sure to come in handy for that pile of christmas photos:Valorie Wibbens has put up two delightful yarn doodles sets:And Emily Merritt has this versatile mix of awesomeness:Now the Pollywogs have put their magic to work featuring these new designs:Leslie (1girl1boy) created this beauty with Kaye's alpha and Kate's doodles:Kate scrapped! and used Kaye's alpha, also:Keela used Kate's doodles on this christmas page:This is MandaKay's turn with the alpha and doodles:Here Shanna takes the alpha and … [Read more...]
Gallery Spotlight and Tadpole Tuesday
Polly Dúnia here with the Gallery Spotlight, and this is a hard work, because the gallery is full with amazing pages!I would like to spotlight five fantastic pages (I couldn't choose less than five):My Gifts by Pixiedust, this page is perfect in every little detail: photos, colors and design, everything that caugh my eyes.Moment Captured by Crazygirl, this layout is what I call perfect in its simplicity! Just little touchs of elements, a poweful image and a great word art work, I simply feel in love with this page!Happy by Gabi, this page makes me feel happy, love the crop of the photo, the calm colors and the positive message in it!{heart} U by Amandajane, I love the super cute pic, and the white background that makes the photo pops, and little touches of elements are just perfect on it!the best secret santa ever by tkradtke, absolutely fabulous page, and such different … [Read more...]
Designer Spotlight: Amy Martin
Happiest of Holidays fellow padsters! Polly Julie here with a holiday rendition of our designer spotlight series. Today I'm putting the spotlight on Amy Martin, who is not only a great designer, but a fantastic scrapper as well! She has a *gorgeous* collab with Paislee Press out this week - A Midwinters Flight. Soft and calming, the colors just put me in a good mood! I think of cold winter mornings and sitting by the fire while I watch it snow out my window!26 gorgeous papers, oodles of yummy elements, three complete alpha sets and six layered templates - this kit is jam packed and begging to be scrapped with! The Pollys went all out with pages with this kit - it's so versatile! Check out the inspiration!From Karen:From Jheri:From Lauren:From Lisa:From Shanna:From Sabrina:From Rez:From Leslie:From Renee:From Jenni:From MandaKay:From SarahAnd one … [Read more...]
Shining the Gallery Spotlight
Polly Sara here with some fresh spotlight picks. Perusing the gallery was an extra special treat for me this week, as I'm fighting off some terrible sickies. All the gorgeous pages were like a soothing balm to my zapped sickly creativity. And with the Christmas holiday quickly approaching the gallery was full to bursting with beautiful holiday pages. As always the job of choosing a couple pages to share with you today was so so SO difficult. And interestingly enough the two I kept coming back to over and over aren't even of the holiday variety. I can't wait to share them with you!First, I'd like to shine the spotlight on Goals for 2010 by Jasmin. I was immediately drawn to how she played with the painty and doodley goodness here. That, married with the fabulous pops of color with her neutral color scheme really gave the page a fun and funky vibe that exudes the kind of … [Read more...]