Digital Scrapbook Designer | Sara Gleason – The Lilypad

The Petals collection is a colorful, happy, and paper-y collection of 15 different hand-crafted layered paper borders/mats. There are monochromatic, two-toned and multi-colored borders and mats. No two are the same and none are re-colored.

Made to coordinate with the happy and fun May 2012 BYOC collection here at The Lilypad but can be used with any variety of product lines and palettes.

Use them alone or in combination to dress up your pages and papers, frame photos, or add that extra touch of hand-crafted whimsy to any layout.

These crafty colorful borders and mats, and all of my products, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

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**Be sure to check out all of the products in the Petals series** Petals No.2, Petals No.3 {ziggy zaggy}, Petals No.4 {mixed media}, Petals No. 5 {holiday}

Inspired by the spirit of everyday storytelling, documenting the details, and leaving a legacy, Beech Tree is a versatile and cohesive set of page designs created with the hope of helping you easily build a time capsule in scrapped form.

Beech Tree includes photo centric page designs, featuring photos of varied sizes from BIG full page photos to small/instagram sized photos and with plenty of room to journal the details as they happen. You can use the this album in document any single day, any series of days, or any every day. The possibilities are endless!

This layered template album can be used in whole or in part, for digital or hybrid scrapping of your multi-photo, every day stories. Includes templates in 12x12, 8.5x11 and 6x12 (in .psd + .tif format) so you can pick your favorite size or mix and match to add interest and dimension and create a mixed media kind of album.

Coordinates beautifully with the April BYOC product line here at The Pad and can be used in any project scrapping, including A Week in the Life, A Day in the Life, or Project Life.

The album contents include:

* 25 12x12 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used to create stand-alone pages or to create a cohesive album. You can go BIG and scrap the full size or you can easily resize to suit your album creating, creating a mini album (in any smaller square size -- you could even vary the sizes and scrap some 6x6, some 5x5 and so on).

* The same 25 page designs are also offered in 8.5 x 11 letter size. These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes.

* 8 simple 6x12 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats) designed to coordinate with the larger pages or to be used in any Project Life album. These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes. They are supplemental though could be used to create fun and separate mini mini album.

Every template design is unique while still carrying a cohesive look for an overall album and classic enough to be able to mesh well with any other projects. They are created in such a way that they effortlessly standalone in a graphic photobook kind of way but the designs also can be built built upon with your own style and customization and can be used with any products. You can also re-use any of the design pages throughout the album, flipping and modifying to make them your own and to suit your scrapping or album needs and style.

You can mix and match the sizes with each other, you can mix and match the background paper pieces, the blocked photo mosaic-y pages, the prompt driven designs here and there to make this album completely your own. Or you can use it in a straight-forward way too.

Have fun playing with all the components to create what suits your story best! These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping. Visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

In response to many requests for a fresh set of photo-less design templates, I am happy to introduce Dogwood. The Dogwood templates are designed in the spirit of story-centric and story-driven pages...inspired by my own photo-less layouts. This series is perfect for anyone who enjoys scrapping without photos, anyone who loves story-centered scrapping, or anyone who loves the look of a photo-less page, but needs a little outline to get started. As always, Dogwood is versatile enough to be adapted to scrap any general page and gives you room to "play" and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Includes 4 layered templates in .psd, .tiff, and .PNG formats, with shadows that can easily be modified or removed. Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs.

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

Other photoless page designs in the photoless collection include Birchwood, Redwood, and Elmwood

Visit my blog: Plant Your Story for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news. And for some photo-less scrapbooking inspiration, I encourage you to visit To Photo or Not To Photo a post about photoless memory keeping.

I love the look of little details on my scrap pages and projects. Little touches of something extra to help draw focus to a photo or element or journaling. Or to subtly add a detail to the story.

The Hosta decorative tapes collection includes 30 different washi style tapes featuring simple sentiments to add just the right touch of extra detail and accentuation to your pages and projects, cards, or blog posts. These fun tapes are a versatile addition to any everyday page, general page, project life spread or post.

The tapes include weekday sentiments (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) as well as the following sentiments: today, I love this, right now, everyday adventure, a great day, remember, memory, snapshot, the story, favorite moment, the good life, true story, smile, giggle, this, iLike, a fun day, good times. Also includes 5 basic and versatile patterned tapes. You can use them in combination or separately.

All products are created at 300 DPI for optimal printing quality. These products, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly. Please see my TOU for full terms.

I hope you have fun playing with these Hosta tapes! Feel free to visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, story centric journal prompts, updates, goodies and news.

Inspired by the happy every day stories the Happy Stripey alpha is a full lower-case doodle-y, stripey and dotty colorful alpha and numbers, plus the following symbols: !?,.:;"}-*/@+=^&)] that is versatile enough to mesh seamlessly with any page. And it coordinates beautifully with the March 2012 BYOC line. All products are created at 300 DPI for optimal printing quality. These products, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly. Please see my TOU for full terms. I hope you have fun scrapping your own stories with Happy Stripey! Feel free to visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, story centric journal prompts, updates, goodies and news.

Ambrosia {album} by Sara Gleason

Whether we love Valentine's day or dread it, this is the ooey gooey time of year.  And one fabulously wonderful byproducts of this holiday time is the opportunity to intentionally focus on those things and the people we love. 

It's a great time to be deliberate in our counting of blessings and enjoyment of the little moments that make up the mosaic of our lives.  And it's that gratefulness for moments, for character, for the little things that make us smile that is at the creative core of this mini-album project. It's all about the letting yourself "count the ways", consider the reasons you love a person, value a relationship or find joy in your day.

It's fun and cohesive and it's versatile. It's full of pages of various sizes, in a simple and cohesive style with plenty of white space to drive the eye to what matters most -- the core of your pages in the Reasons album. All with the hope of helping you easily share your heart, document the reasons that make your life full, and celebrate The Why. You could scrap "10 Reasons" you love your spouse or child or you could document what makes you smile, or count the reasons why you love anyTHING or any ONE.  The possibilities are endless!

This layered template album can be used in whole or in part, for digital or hybrid scrapping of your ooey gooey stories.  Includes templates in varied styles and sizes so you can pick your favorite size or mix and match to add interest and dimension and create a mixed media kind of album.
 
Coordinates beautifully with the February BYOC product line here at The Pad.

The album contents include:

* 12 12x12 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used to create stand-alone pagesor to create a cohesive album.  You can go BIG and scrap the full size or you can scrap the 6x6 mini album size (already resized with adjusted shadows and included) or easily resize to suit your album creation (you could even vary the sizes and scrap some 6x6, some 5x5 and so on)

* 11 additional 6x6 simple layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes.  They are foundational and created to help you supplement and build your mini album.

* 8 4x6 simple layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats).  These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes.  They are supplemental though could be used to create fun and separate mini mini album.

Every template design is unique while still carrying a cohesive look for an overall album and classic enough to be able to mesh well with any other projects. They are meant to be built upon with your own style and customization and can be used with any products. You can also re-use any of the design pages throughout the album, flipping and modifying to make them your own and to suit your scrapping or album needs and style.

You can mix and match the sizes with each other, you can mix and match the background paper pieces, the photo spot design layers, the overlays or trims here and there to make this album completely your own. Or you can use it in a straight-forward way too. Have fun playing with all the components to create what suits your story best!

Ambrosia also includes some additional album designing goodies:

* 5 transparency overlays in various sizes (4 6x6 and 1 4x6) which can be used to overlay papers or photos or printed on transparencies. Patterns are classic and versatile.

All the transparency overlays can be used to create actual printed transparencies for hybrid or traditional paper scrapping projects or they can be used digitally in a variety of ways.

The pages and transparencies are created with a heart for Documenting your reasons, cataloging character, or taking stock of the little joys. And I so hope you have fun with them!
 

All products are created at 300 DPI for optimal printing quality. These products, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly. Please see my TOU for full terms. I hope you have fun scrapping your own stories with the Ambrosia collection! Feel free to visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, story centric journal prompts, updates, goodies and news.

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Paper Garden {volume three} by Sara Gleason

The Paper Garden templates are designed in the spirit of a play with paper. This set features fun layers and encourages you to have fun scrapping those beautiful papers. They are perfect for any general page and designed to still give you room to "play" and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Includes 4 layered templates in .psd, .tiff, and .png formats, with shadows that can be easily modified or removed.  Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs.

Coordinates with Paper Garden {volume one}} and Paper Garden {volume two}:

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

Visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

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Violet page designs by Sara Gleason

The Violet templates are designed in the spirit of every day scrapping...with a fresh design style of cleaner and more linear designs so that your photos and words are the focal point. This set is perfect for any everyday page, moments scrapping page, portrait page, all about me, Project Life, Photo a Day projects, blog posts, or to coordinate with the These Are The Days collection. They are photo centric and conducive to journaling and project scrapping.

Includes 8 layered templates in .psd, .tiff, +.png formats. Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs.

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. 

Visit my website: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

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Aspen page designs by Sara Gleason

The Aspen templates are designed in the spirit of documenting your year, in review in a single page with varied design styles ranging from a "fuller", quirkier page, richer in layers with many little details and a little more depth to cleaner and more linear designs. This set is perfect for any multi-photo, year in review, monthly, or week in the life or everyday page and gives you room to "play" and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Includes 4 layered templates in .psd and .tiff and individual .png formats, with shadows that can easily be modified or removed. Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs.

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. 

Visit my website: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

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This time of year leading up to the holidays? It's probably my most favorite time of year without question. It's so FULL. And generally speaking, it's full of the good things..those little things we sometimes let pass us by in the hustle and bustle of "regular"days. And I really believe that magic lives in the details. And it's The Details that have inspired the creation of this album. It's BIG and it's versatile. It's full of pages of various sizes, from simple to more layer-y. All with the hope of helping you easily document your December.

This layered template album can be used in whole or in part, for digital or hybrid scrapping of your December stories. Includes templates in varied styles and sizes so you can pick your favorite size or mix and match to create a mixed media kind of album.
 
Coordinates beautifully with any holiday storytelling project you may embark upon this time of year.

The album contents include:

* 25 12x12 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used as is or easily sized down to suit whatever album size you may be after (like the December friendly 8x8).

* 15 6x8 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used alone or as a supplement to the larger pages or any other pages you may be creating this holiday season.

* 10 5x7 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes or any other pages you may be creating this holiday season.

Every template design is unique while still carrying a cohesive look for an overall album and classic enough to be able to mesh well with any other projects. They are meant to be built upon with your own style and customization and can be used with any products. You can also re-use any of the design pages throughout the album, flipping and modifying to make them your own and to suit your scrapping or album needs and style.

You can mix and match the sizes with each other, you can mix and match the background paper pieces, the photo spot design layers, the overlays or trims here and there to make this album completely your own. Or you can use it in a straight-forward way too. Have fun playing with all the components to create what suits your story best!

Pear Tree also includes some additional album designing goodies:

* 17 clippable trims for clipping papers or photos (in .png format and sized BIG for easy resizing)

* 12 simple frames for photos or paper/journaling spaces in various sizes (2x2 instagram size, 3x3, 5x7, 6x8, and 12x12)

* BIG number transparency overlays for the entire month (December 1 - 31)

* 10 BIG word transparency overlays (made to fit 6x8 pages or photos but can be resized to suit your needs) sentiments include: Bright, Family, Favorite, Happy, Holiday, Joy, Laugh, Love, Merry, Tradition, Tree, Wish

* 10 transparency overlays in various sizes (5x7, 6x8, 12x12) which can be used to overlay papers or photos or printed on transparencies. Patterns are classic and versatile.

* 12 word stamps for stamping photos or papers. Sentiments include: Advent, Anticipation, Deck the Halls, Fa la la, Giving, Laughter, Magic, Memories, Merry, Noel, Tradition, Twinkle

All the transparency overlays can be used to create actual printed transparencies for hybrid or traditional paper scrapping projects or they can be used digitally in a variety of ways. The pages and the extras are created with a heart for Documenting YOUR December. And I so hope you have fun with them!

These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

Visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

Oak Tree by Sara Gleason

The story of gratitude is one that weaves itself throughout our everyday, not just in times we set aside for giving thanks. The little joys we find, the love we carry in family and friendship...all the beautiful things worthy of saying "thank you...that is the story worth sharing in our pages and art any time our heart feels full of gratitude.

Oak Tree is a full digital kit inspired by these stories of giving thanks and finding joys and it is my hope that it will inspire you to document your own story of gratitude. Whether you are documenting these days for your child(ren) or for yourself (and please do!), Oak Tree is FULL of hand-crafted crafty goodness with a heart for the gratitude story. And it is versatile enough to help you tell any story, for any age and any gender.

Oak Tree includes:  

22 classic and versatile papers

a full lower-case worn canvas-y alpha and numbers, plus the following symbols: !?,.:;"}])-*/+=~

and 94 unique elements

elements specifically include:

• 1 scrappy pennant border
• 1 ribbon/felt stitched stacked border
• 1 ricrac textile stacked border
• 1 twine tie
• 1 striped bow
• 1 grosgrain ribbon
• 1 twill trim
• 1 string
• 1 ribbon knot
• 1 ribbon flower
• 1 ribbon stack
• 6 buttons (2 fabric covered, 1 clay, 1 leather, 2 vintage-y)
• 3 clay leaves
• 2 clay doodads
• 4 chipboard elements
• 4 autumny stickers
• 1 yarn wrapped frame
• 1 paper frame (with and without a layered .psd with photo mask for clipping)
• 1 stacked circle element
• 3 stacked and stitched felt elements
• 2 felt flowers
• 2 painted paper leaf elements
• 1 painted paper pumpkin
• 5 painted leaves
• 2 hand-crafted paper flowers
• 4 hand-crafted fabric flowers
• 1 dried flower
• 1 nut
• 1 autumn seed
• 2 yarn circles
• 2 painted word art pieces
• 1 twine mat
• 2 painted mats for photos or journaling (with and without a layered .psd with photo mask for clipping)
• 1 vintage paper blossom
• 1 circle scatter
• 10 painty stamps (also in .abr brush format)
• 4 journalers
• 1 blank pennant (for dates, titles, journal blurbs)
• 11 different word arts (some sentiments include: "so grateful", "family", "home", "finding joy", "I love you so", "together", "tradition", "making memories", "counting blessings", "my favorite things"

All products are created at 300 DPI for optimal printing quality. These products, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly. Please see my TOU for full terms. I hope you have fun scrapping your own stories with the Oak Tree collection! Feel free to visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, story centric journal prompts, updates, goodies and news.

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(this alpha is included in the full Apple Tree kit so please check your stash before purchasing.) Inspired by the telling of our schooly stories and life lessons The Apple Tree alpha is a full lower-case chalkboard-y alpha and numbers, plus the following symbols: !?,.:"}-*/@+= that is versatile enough to mesh seamlessly with any page. All products are created at 300 DPI for optimal printing quality. These products, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly. Please see my TOU for full terms. I hope you have fun scrapping your own stories with Apple Tree! Feel free to visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, story centric journal prompts, updates, goodies and news.

The Sugar Maple templates are designed in the spirit of the warm and the onset of autumn with varied design styles ranging from a "fuller" page, richer in layers with many little details and a little more depth to cleaner and more linear designs. This set is perfect for any autumn, vintage, school, everyday page, all about me, or event page and gives you room to "play" and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Includes 4 layered templates in .psd and .tiff formats. With shadows that you can easily modify or remove. Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs. *new* I've now made a second download available for .png format versions of the templates.

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

Visit my blog: http://plantyourstory.com/ for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news.

In response to many requests for a fresh set of photo-less design templates, I am happy to introduce Redwood. The Redwood templates are designed in the spirit of story-centric and story-driven pages...inspired by my own photo-less layouts. This set is perfect for anyone who enjoys scrapping without photos, anyone who loves story-centered scrapping, or anyone who loves the look of a photo-less page, but needs a little outline to get started. As always, Redwood is versatile enough to be adapted to scrap any general page and gives you room to "play" and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Includes 4 layered templates in .psd, .tiff  and .PNG formats, with shadows that can easily be modified or removed. Also includes color coded layers and layer descriptions and tips for getting the most out of the template designs.

So whether you’re in a time crunch, feeling a little un-mojo-y in the creativity department, or whether it’s your preferred launching point for scrapping your pages, these templates are a fantastic tool for scrapping pages you will love. You can use these templates as your creativity guides you and in whatever way suits your style and the story you are trying to tell. They are versatile and can be used time and again to achieve different results. These templates, and all of my templates, are S4H/S4O friendly, and OK for use in Creative Team scrapping.

Other photoless page designs in the photoless collection include Birchwood, Dogwood, and Elmwood

Visit my blog: Plant Your Story for more inspiration, updates, goodies and news. And for some photo-less scrapbooking inspiration, I encourage you to visit To Photo or Not To Photo a post about photoless memory keeping.