Froggy Finds: Weddings & Anniversaries (Part Two)
Hi, It’s Polly Beth and I’m back to share more products that you can use to create layouts about weddings and anniversaries. The “Fairytale” kit and pocket cards by One Little Bird can be used to create layouts on love, whether a wedding, finding your true love or an anniversary. I particularly love the muted pink, green, yellow and grey color scheme.
Joyce Paul Design’s “You and Me Bundle” works equally well for pages about weddings or anniversaries. It has a bolder primary color scheme and lots of hearts and great word art.
The “Forever & Ever” kit from Just Jaimee is described as “a love-filled, texture-rich collection made for telling the stories that matter most — the big love, the quiet love, the everyday moments that somehow turn into forever memories.” It has fun scrabble tiles that spell out Love, and lots of word art.
Rachel Jefferies & Lynn Grieveson create wonderful products and their “Hear My Voice 20 Loving” collection is a great choice when scrapping weddings and anniversaries. I’m drawn to the soft pink and greens and artsy bits in this collection.
If you style is more fun and whimsical the “Doodle Valentine” bundle by Grace in Color fits the bill and includes an Alpha set.
Rachel Etrog’s “Our Story Begins Here” Collection is perfect for documenting a love story, marriage or relationship. I particularly like that this collection includes pocket cards and digital stamps which work so well for pocket pages and pages with lots of photos.
There are also products that are not part of a kit or bundle that can be used when you create layouts on these topics. I pulled out two sets of elements and two that are templates.
I encourage you to dig into what’s available in the store. I browsed under the following Themes to find these products to highlight: Weddings & Anniversaries and Love, as well as under Holidays: Valentines Day. Of course you can always use elements that were not created specifically with the themes of love, weddings, anniversaries & valentine’s day. I created this layout for my daughter’s wedding using five different products available at the Lilypad none of which are on these themes. I encourage you to try out some of the highlighted products and to dig around in you stash! Happy Scrapping!
I was born in North Carolina and grew up all over the place because my Dad worked for Citibank and was transferred every few years. I lived in: New York State, Ireland, England, Belgium and finally Baltimore, Maryland which I call home. My husband was in the Navy, so we moved around a lot for those 8 years but now we have settled down in Barrington, Rhode Island with our Pug dog. Our only child, a daughter, lives with her husband and daughter in Pennsylvania — I wish they were closer! I had a 30+ year career as a Law Librarian and an Academic Librarian which I loved, but took early retirement last September which has freed me up to be a Grandma and to really get in to all of my hobbies — digital scrapbooking, as well as knitting, reading, taking walks, and hanging out with my dog. I’m also learning to play Mah Jongg.
My creative style is primarily clean and simple, but I do enjoy trying out new styles but am uncomfortable using lots of elements on my pages. My primary motivation for scrapbooking is to document my life and to tell stories, so my layouts always have at least what the photo is and a date, and often there is a whole story. My default style is either using one or two photos only and making them the star of the layout or using a lot of photos to document an event with minimal elements and journaling. Templates are great for this and for many years I always used templates as a starting point, but lately I have either not been using them, or I will take one as a starting point and then change it to suit my needs.
My words of advice for new scrapbookers are: You can’t do it wrong, just get started and enjoy the process. Be patient with yourself as you learn new techniques and skills.
I am inspired by my fellow scrapbookers at the Lilypad, and by our designers’ products. I love color and am drawn to art, layout, products and images with lots of color. I start with the story I want to tell and the photos that document it and draw from the colors in the photo and from the theme of the story. I use Lightroom to organize supplies, and Photoshop to create layouts.
