Father’s Day Free Printable
This coming Sunday is Father’s Day – I have one fantastic dad and I’m married to a great one too, but first let me say that I believe fathers can come in a variety of packages. Both non-traditional and traditional…
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Bring in the June BYOC!
Hi Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here, thrilled to be able to introduce you to the BYOC for June. What’s BYOC, you ask? It stands for Build Your Own Collection.   It’s a unique concept developed by the Lilypad:  each month…
Future of Scrapbooking???
On a ride to drop off friends at airport yesterday, the kids binged on 1970’s cartoons. The Jetsons was on, and they were all laughing at the “future” things they had to use in their homes and work. Many of…
Using String And Bling
Two of my favorite digital scrapbooking products are string and bling (buttons, sequins, flairs, beads, etc) which are so versatile and can be used “as is” or can be altered in many ways. STRING: String can be re-shaped. I like…
June Challenges
Hello and happy June everyone!  It’s Polly Karen here and I’m back to show off a new batch of awesome challenges for the month of June. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on…
May Challenge Spotlight
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you another monthly Challenge Spotlight post.  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…
Graduation! Scrap that CAP!
The end of May, beginning of June in the Northern Hemisphere means graduations are happening! What is the Alice Cooper chorus?: No more Pencils, No More Books, No more Teacher’s Dirty Looks! This is a time of last steps and…
White Textured Backgrounds in Photoshop
Hello all my artsy friends! I’m dropping in today with a quick tip for creating textured white backgrounds for your digital scrapbooking pages. Are you in love with pure white backgrounds? If you take a look at my Gallery you…
Beautiful Backgrounds with Alcohol Ink
Hi Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here with a fun activity that is perfect for doing outdoors with kids AND will make some fun backgrounds for hybrid projects. I’ve been getting into using alcohol ink lately and I’m really loving it. …
Paper Borders
A fun way to work with digital paper is to use it to create a page border. You can use solid or patterned paper. One or more papers can be layered together to create an interesting page border. Determine which…
Recipes for Summer Fun!
As the school year draws to an end, I start my plan for memories for the summer. Although my boys are growing up, and go to summer camp most of the summer, we still do some fun things just us…
Say Hello to May’s M3!
Greetings, Pad Scrappers! Polly Liana here. I hope you had fun at our iSND celebration recently– I did! Well, we’ve got more fun in store because today we’re releasing our M3 Collection for May. For those of you who are…