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Todays crush is Kristin Aagard Designs
Welcome to the 2023 edition of Love Our Designers (LOD)
This event isn't a traditional challenge in that there aren't any real rules.
It’s a fun event to scrap with products from a fave designer or try a new (to you) designer. It’s all about having fun and celebrating the uniqueness of all of our Lilypad Designers!
Today our featured designer is Kristin Aagard Designs! Her store is available at https://the-lilypad.com/store/Kristin-Aagard/
And to celebrate Kristin, her shop is on sale for today only as well!
A Bit about Kristin Aagard Designs:
newsletter signup link https://view.flodesk.com/pages/620c0632e0eda1a0d870ae07
blog/website link http://digidelights.blogspot.com/
facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristin-Aagard-Designs/140986752581916
facebook fan group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1695511550667319
TLP username @Kristin Aagard
Guest Polly Jennifer (@littlekiwi) asked Kristin a few questions about her design process and her favourite kits.
Firstly what is your design process for your products?
My design process usually stars with some inspiration from my own photos or life events. I usually like to jot down a list of the elements and patterns that I really want to include right from the start and then I add in little bits and pieces as I create. Often when I’ve been given a color palette or come across one I really love, I build inspiration from those colors. The color inspired kits are often my favorite!
What are your favourite kits that you have designed?
One of my recent favorite kits is called Ellie. It is inspired by my two year old niece, who is in the cutest stage of life right now! When I saw the October 2022 BYOC swatch, I instantly knew that I wanted to create the Ellie kit because of the green color that perfectly matched her favorite shoes! I added lots of little things that reminded me of her to the kit as well.
You can see the real life Ellie on this page I scrapped using the kit.
Since it’s getting close to Easter, I thought I’d share one of my favorite Easter kits, Bunny Trail. I love to create themed holiday kits, mostly because I like drawing cute, happy little characters. My daughter, Sophie, sat with me while I was creating this kit and told me how she wanted me to draw each character. She also created the crepe butterfly that I used in this kit!
My kids are all teenagers now, but this page I scrapped using Bunny Trail features all three of them with their Easter baskets when they were little.
I love creating kits about the great outdoors. One of my favorite kits to work on was my Desert kit. I loved drawing the cacti and the desert background elements. My favorite element is the camel.
I think that @ArmyGrl created a gorgeous page using the kit and featuring that camel!
During this interview Kristin also mentioned that she would LOVE to hear some suggestions for kit themes/ideas that you’d all like to see in the future from me!
Now before I share some of my fave kits & layouts I've created with Kristin's products, Kristin has graciously allowed me to share a sneak peak of her products for March 2023 BYOC releasing on March 3rd.
Also Kristin has graciously offered two $10 coupons to two lucky people who participate in this thread between now and Thursday February 23rd!
Now on to my favourites......first of all I absolutely love Ellie so I'll share my layout with it as well.
I must admit my fave thing about Kristin's kits are how her kits enable me to scrap about real everyday things. I was drawn to her Bread kit for exactly that reason!
I also think Kristin does some of the best sports themed kits around and so naturally while I am not a sports person myself, I am a huge sports fan particularly of Basketball
Finally I couldn't help but shout out the versatility of Kristin's kits....in a single layout I used so many of her products from her store and her blog
All of those kits plus a few blog freebies created this layout
Now it's your turn to play with her creations. Create a page with (mostly) Kristin Aagard. Explore her store and see what catches your eye....or if you already own some of her goodies, pull them out and have a play! Remember if you play and share your layout here between now and Thursday February 23rd you are in to win a $10 coupon from Kristin!
Please make sure you meet the TLP gallery guidelines of at least 50% TLP product.
Post your completed page in Kristin Aagard's designer gallery
and then come back here and share in this thread!
(note: due to time zone differences and the fact I am not feeling 100% today, the thread is up slightly early but the sale is not live yet)
Welcome to the 2023 edition of Love Our Designers (LOD)
This event isn't a traditional challenge in that there aren't any real rules.
It’s a fun event to scrap with products from a fave designer or try a new (to you) designer. It’s all about having fun and celebrating the uniqueness of all of our Lilypad Designers!
Today our featured designer is Kristin Aagard Designs! Her store is available at https://the-lilypad.com/store/Kristin-Aagard/
And to celebrate Kristin, her shop is on sale for today only as well!
A Bit about Kristin Aagard Designs:
newsletter signup link https://view.flodesk.com/pages/620c0632e0eda1a0d870ae07
blog/website link http://digidelights.blogspot.com/
facebook fan page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristin-Aagard-Designs/140986752581916
facebook fan group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1695511550667319
TLP username @Kristin Aagard
Guest Polly Jennifer (@littlekiwi) asked Kristin a few questions about her design process and her favourite kits.
Firstly what is your design process for your products?
My design process usually stars with some inspiration from my own photos or life events. I usually like to jot down a list of the elements and patterns that I really want to include right from the start and then I add in little bits and pieces as I create. Often when I’ve been given a color palette or come across one I really love, I build inspiration from those colors. The color inspired kits are often my favorite!
What are your favourite kits that you have designed?
One of my recent favorite kits is called Ellie. It is inspired by my two year old niece, who is in the cutest stage of life right now! When I saw the October 2022 BYOC swatch, I instantly knew that I wanted to create the Ellie kit because of the green color that perfectly matched her favorite shoes! I added lots of little things that reminded me of her to the kit as well.
You can see the real life Ellie on this page I scrapped using the kit.
Since it’s getting close to Easter, I thought I’d share one of my favorite Easter kits, Bunny Trail. I love to create themed holiday kits, mostly because I like drawing cute, happy little characters. My daughter, Sophie, sat with me while I was creating this kit and told me how she wanted me to draw each character. She also created the crepe butterfly that I used in this kit!
My kids are all teenagers now, but this page I scrapped using Bunny Trail features all three of them with their Easter baskets when they were little.
I love creating kits about the great outdoors. One of my favorite kits to work on was my Desert kit. I loved drawing the cacti and the desert background elements. My favorite element is the camel.
I think that @ArmyGrl created a gorgeous page using the kit and featuring that camel!
During this interview Kristin also mentioned that she would LOVE to hear some suggestions for kit themes/ideas that you’d all like to see in the future from me!
Now before I share some of my fave kits & layouts I've created with Kristin's products, Kristin has graciously allowed me to share a sneak peak of her products for March 2023 BYOC releasing on March 3rd.
Also Kristin has graciously offered two $10 coupons to two lucky people who participate in this thread between now and Thursday February 23rd!
Now on to my favourites......first of all I absolutely love Ellie so I'll share my layout with it as well.
I must admit my fave thing about Kristin's kits are how her kits enable me to scrap about real everyday things. I was drawn to her Bread kit for exactly that reason!
I also think Kristin does some of the best sports themed kits around and so naturally while I am not a sports person myself, I am a huge sports fan particularly of Basketball
Finally I couldn't help but shout out the versatility of Kristin's kits....in a single layout I used so many of her products from her store and her blog
All of those kits plus a few blog freebies created this layout
Now it's your turn to play with her creations. Create a page with (mostly) Kristin Aagard. Explore her store and see what catches your eye....or if you already own some of her goodies, pull them out and have a play! Remember if you play and share your layout here between now and Thursday February 23rd you are in to win a $10 coupon from Kristin!
Please make sure you meet the TLP gallery guidelines of at least 50% TLP product.
Post your completed page in Kristin Aagard's designer gallery
and then come back here and share in this thread!
(note: due to time zone differences and the fact I am not feeling 100% today, the thread is up slightly early but the sale is not live yet)
