Hello everyone! Polly Melanie here with the round-up of everything that’s happening in the world of Memory Pockets Monthly!
Memory Pockets Monthly is a pocket scrapbooking subscription at the Lilypad. Six Lilypad designers have joined together and every month they release a new collection with a variety of add-ons. When you subscribe to Memory Pockets Monthly, you become part of a great community!
It’s been an exciting month! I have a beautiful new main collection to show you, AND I have a sneak peek for you of a very special add-on that will be available on Froggy Friday this week! (You’ll have to wait until the end of this post to see it, though!) Let’s get started …
Here’s how designer Sara Gleason described this month’s main collection, Almanac:
ALMANAC is rooted in the details of our family backstories, family current events, family characters and sharing time with those we love most.
As memory keepers we find ourselves documenting our personal and family histories, collecting memories and recording events and every days over time. As we do so what we are really doing is creating a collection, a yearbook, an ALMANAC of our own stories. It could be said that our ALMANAC is our personal time capsule.
These colours are PERFECT for summer! Click on the image to see everything that’s in this month’s collection:
I think the add-ons are outstanding every month, but this month the add-ons are really something special! Amber has a great set of “Let’s Be Real” cards for the not-so-happy moments & Sara has a great set of cards for storytelling. Liz has beautiful sets of minimal photo templates, Allison has a fun set of retro month cards, and as always, there is lots and lots of colourful paper! Here is sample of the add-ons available this month (click on the image to see the full collection of add-ons!):
Are you into planners? This is a new trend in the scrapbooking world, and Polly Sarah likes to use MPM in her planner! In this blog post, she shares her new planner & some fun planner accessories she made with the Almanac collection!
One of the things I love about this month’s collection is all the elements & cards related to telling a “then & now” story. That’s exactly what designer Amber LaBau wants you to scrap for this month’s storytelling challenge! For her challenge, she wants you to focus on a comparison of then & now. You could compare your childhood to your children’s childhood, or talk about how you personally have grown or changed over time, or even look back at your school career or your child’s school career!
For this challenge, I talked about going to the gym at different times in my life, and how I had to stop going because of my illness. Now that my health has improved, I have started going to the gym again & I am pretty excited about that!
For this month’s visual challenge, designer Krista from Sahlin Studio wants you to record the temperature on your pocket page or layout! Often, a big part of a special memory or a special day is the weather. For example, maybe your summer memories include a day at the beach under a scorching sun. Or maybe you want to remember how many layers you need to keep warm on the coldest day of the entire winter!
We had a lot of rain in June & July, so in August, I wanted to document all the beautiful sunshine we’ve been experiencing!
This month I’ve started a new series for our monthly tutorials in the MPM forum. We’re going to look at the different parts of a pocket page in more detail, and look at ways you can incorporate the parts on your own pocket page. The first tutorial in the series is all about the title card. I show you a few things included in every main collection that can help you record the time of your pocket page, whether you want to include the month, the week number or dates of the week.
Are you still on the fence about subscribing to Memory Pockets Monthly? Here’s what’s included in the subscription (click on the image to subscribe!):
As promised, here’s a sneak peek of a brand new add-on that will be in the store this Froggy Friday! This new add-on is called Foundation, and it is a special installment in the MPM series. These are the perfect basics for your pocket scrapping & we know you’ll LOVE this collection! (Please note: This kit is NOT free for subscribers, but subscribers do receive the 35% off add-on discount!). PLUS, the designers will also have their own add-ons for this collection! I can’t wait!
As always, I leave you with some gorgeous eye candy from the Memory Pockets Monthly gallery! Did you know we also have a Memory Pockets Monthly Pinterest board where MPM subscribers have been pinning their projects?
Here are some pages by the Lilypad Pollys and MPM subscribers that caught my eye in the gallery!
^by Sucali
^by Celeste
^by Nancy Beck
^by Marnel
^by Kelly (KayTeaPea)
^by Marnel
^by Cristina
^by Karen
^by Aaron
^by Hana
^by Farrah
^by Raquel
^by Amy (anrobe)
^by Nancy Beck
^by Jenn McCabe
Raquel says
Thanks for featuring my page! :) Everything here looks amazing!
jenn McCabe says
I think this is my fave MPM yet … and I haven’t had a chance to play with anything except Liz/Paislee Press’s add-on! Need to rectify that asap. :) Beautiful post Melanie and gorgeous pages this month! xoxo