Month of Challenges. Just the name brings forth joy in my heart. The first year I participated was a slightly different feeling. Let's call it terror or maybe fear. I had no idea what to expect and was a a little frightened at the idea of scrapping a page a day for an entire month. Much less a challenge every day! I made it through and now that fear is gone. It has turned into pure anticipation! 31 days of challenges to complete!One of the best tips that was shared with me early on was find a way to track which challenges you have completed and submitted your page to the thread. There are numerous ways to do this - pen and paper, excel sheets, even just looking at the board! See my face on those threads? That means I've replied inside them. My favorite is to mark that I finished the page and mark that I added it to the thread. Why the two steps? Because there are times I finish … [Read more...]
Overcoming Mental Roadblocks to Scrapping
Have you ever had an idea in your mind you just couldn’t get over? An idea that prevented you from doing something else? That’s a mental roadblock – an idea that keeps you from doing something that you want to do. Personally, my head is full of mental roadblocks…tons of them. Today, I’ve put together the four most common mental roadblocks that keep us from scrapbooking, and I’ve come up with some ideas to help you overcome them. I’m so behind, I’ll never catch up – Yeah, know what else, neither will I. I've been scrapping for almost nine years, and there are still tons of things that I haven’t scrapped. I still haven’t finished scrapping our trip to Disney two years ago! One thing I learned is that if I want to get some scrapping done, I have to let go of this idea. Who cares if I’m behind? At least I’m doing some layouts, right? I just don’t know where to start – I’ve … [Read more...]
Straw Rockets For The 4th
Hi there, it's Katrina, aka katrinahunt13, here to share a hybrid project that you can get the kids involved with. I know we have international pad members, but this coming Tuesday is the United States 4th of July, which means summer party! Summer parties, usually mean gatherings of kids too! What I am sharing today is a fun and safe way for the little ones to "shoot" fireworks also. And bonus, they don't need to wait until dark and they won't run out of things to shoot!I give you Straw Rockets!!! I will list the supply list below, but chances are you have everything already on hand! And the digital supplies from The Lilypad store are fun to use this way and can be adapted for any party or activity! For this project, I used Bella Gypsy's Rad, White and Blue collection. So the supplies you will need are a printer and regular printer paper (cardstock is too heavy for this), … [Read more...]
Adding Text From Journal Cards
Journal cards are very versatile. One of my fave ways to use them is to remove the text and use it separate from the card. Let me show you a number of ways you can do this.Here are some journal cards and the text that I have removed from the cards, using these products:Paislee Press - A Love Story Journal CardsJust Jaimee - Storyteller 2016 July - 6 x 4 Pocket Journal CardsAmy Wolff Designs - Jot It Down Vol.4One Little Bird - Carson Park Journaling CardsIn photoshop, I selected the magic wand and and selected "this week", then I inverted the selection (select>inverse). I right clicked and chose "layer via copy" to put the selected text on its own layer. The orginal layer can then be deleted or you can unclick the layer if you think you might want to activate it again to use another part of the journal card (this is what I do because I never know exactly what I … [Read more...]
Memory Pockets Monthly December 2016 | Wonder
Hi Everyone! Crystal here for this months MPM round up! I can't wait to share with you everything that has been happening in the world of Memory Pockets Monthly!This month's collection, Wonder, is perfectly lovely and so beautiful! The bright and happy colors and theme are so perfect for all of your December and Winter memories. I just adore it so much!What is Memory Pockets Monthly? MPM is the monthly pocket scrapbooking subscription here at the Lilypad. Each month, our six very talented MPM designers create a single collection for all your pocket scrapbooking needs. They also create a wide variety of add-ons to complement the main collection.Here’s a peek at this month’s main collection!Each month the designers also release add-ons to the main collection. This month’s add-ons are outstanding! There are so many awesome options to add to this collection! Perfect for … [Read more...]
Recreating Painterly and Blended Background Photo [with video]
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Hey everyone! I thought I would do a quick post on how I did the photo blending on my background on this page with the November 2016 awesome M3. A lot of this was learned from Jana and the November 2016 Champions at Scrapaneers (which featured an awesome kit of Lynn's!).First off you are going to need a smart phone, or know how to recreate your own pencil like sketching in your photo editing software. I used the Prisma App for both of my photos editing but for this little tutorial, I am going to focus on the blended background photo.Open your photo in Prisma and you will find all kinds of fun filters to create painting/drawing effects on your photos. These change regularly! So if there is one that you like edit a bunch of photos with it and save them because it might not be there long!For my photo I ran the #GettUrban filter. I wanted to keep some of the blue of … [Read more...]