Hey everyone I'm super excited to be presenting my very first Polly blog post here at TLP. Every month I enjoy playing along with the challenges and one of my favorites is seeing what designer will be giving us a cool new template for the template challenge. This month Lynn Grieveson is giving us a super easy clean & simple template design that lends itself well as a clean slate ready for your creative ideas! Find the November challenge template in the shop right now and it's totally FREE for the month.If you know me, then you know I love me some clusters but sometimes I just need a clean slate to be creative with. To let all my ideas just ebb & flow on the page. The template Lynn designed this month allowed me to do just that. This is Lynn's template:I started with the clean slate of her simple design with all that whitespace:and my first steps were pretty … [Read more...]
Monthly Muse at your fingertips
The Monthly Muse Challenge this month is being run by our amazing Ona. We are on WEEK #4 and you have until July 3rd to enter. WEEK #4 is all about TEXTURES, one of my favorite things about Art Journaling. It grounds your ideas (in a good way!) This is Ona's interpretation of the inspiration boards she provided from two amazing artists.Remember, you can make one page per week, you can make more. Just in case you don't know where to find these cool art journal challenges here are the links to all 4 weeks this month: WEEK 1: Collage Art, WEEK 2: Abstract Art, WEEK 3: Glue Book, and WEEK 4: Textures.Here are some entries for July's Monthly Muse. … [Read more...]
April Challenges
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you my monthly overview of the 7 new challenges for April. As a reminder, based on our percentage system, you can earn three levels of coupons for the store just by participating in our monthly challenges. In addition to the coupon, if you complete all 7 challenges within the month of April, you will be entered in a drawing to win a one month guest spot on the Lilypad Creative Team! This month we are once again offering TWO guest spots. The discounts available are as follows: 2 challenges = 10% off, 4 challenges = 20% off and 6 challenges = 30% off. Now let’s take a look at the new challenges: 1. Scraplift Challenge - April's scraplift challenge is hosted by Amanda (MandaKay) and she has selected our newest fulltime Polly (and winner of the MOC Polly spot) Wendy85. Your challenge is to look through Wendy's gallery and pick a page … [Read more...]
Pocket Scrapping Art Journal Challenge – Announcing a New Format and February Sponsor
Hi all, Sarah here. I'm so excited to share with you a new format for the Pocket Scrapping Art Journaling challenge starting with February. The challenges will now be weekly and anyone completing two of each month's weekly challenges will receive a coupon code from the monthly sponsor. For more information check out my post in the forum here.This month's sponsor is Amy Wolff. She is contributing a $3 coupon to her store for anyone finishing the required weekly challenges. For this week's challenge I chose to work with Amy's It's All Good (available for 50% off in the SOSN sale for today only).This week's challenge is to journal about something good in your life right now. You can find it in the forum here. This is the page I came up.Amy has a lot of awesome product in her store perfect for an Pocket Scrapping Art Journaling page. I love using premade journal cards … [Read more...]
Polly Picks – Celeste
Every two weeks we ask one of our staff members to choose their favorite products in the shop. Then we put those products on sale! Our latest sale involves products chosen by the lovely Celeste: Celeste is one of my favorite scrappers at The Lilypad. I adore her colorful, clean and crisp style. Her pages are so fun to look at, and I admire how she keeps the focus on the story. Celeste is such an inspiration and is always honing her craft. She is one of our most active challenge scrappers at the Pad. We asked Celeste to describe her scrapping style and this is what she had to say:"My scrapping style is fairly clean, but layered. I leave quite a bit of white space on my pages. I am a lover of patterned paper and really have a knack for mixing pattern, scale and color. I rely mostly on paint and round elements like buttons, brads or flair to finish off my … [Read more...]
The iDSD Celebration Continues
Time flies when there are so many fun things happening. We are so excited that so many of you are celebrating our special holiday with us here at The Lilypad. The store wide sale is ending soon. Don't miss the chance to grab some of the things that are on your wish list or even some new favorites while they are 30% off. The sale ends Monday, November 3, 2014.Let's recap some of the fun things going on during the iDSD celebration. This schedule of events is a great tool to keep close at hand so that you don't miss any of the fun.Hop on over to the iDSD forum for lots of games, challenges, and plenty of prizes. The DSD challenges will be wrapping up soon, so get your entries submitted before it is too late! There's still time to hunt and kiss that sneaky ole Bart. Are you up to the task of the Instagram Challenge? Join in and help spread the digi love.Don't forget … [Read more...]