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Mixed Media Beginners: Artsy Pockets & Photos

September 11, 2023 by The Lilypad 1 Comment

Mixed Media Beginners: Artsy Pockets & Photos

Hi again! For this month's Mixed Media Beginners I was inspired by a recent blog post by Gaelle on pocket scrapping. (If you haven't seen her blogpost about getting started with Pocket Scrapbooking on the Project Life app, you can check it out here). Pocket scrapping can be clean and simple, messy and mask-y, or somewhere in the middle, which I call 'Clean and Artsy'.Personally, I started making digital pocket pages through Project Mouse and my style definitely evolved over the years from 'clean and simple', with a lot of plain pocket cards and rectangular photos and white borders (and also rounded corners - I remember those days, Gaelle!), to 'clean and artsy', where my borders were obscured with painted or blended edges, elements overlapped everything and there were less clean lines and more doodles and scribbles, but still featuring a white background and border. That was my real … [Read more...]

SOSN Stash Mash – Sept 6, 2023

September 5, 2023 by The Lilypad 2 Comments

SOSN Stash Mash – Sept 6, 2023

Hi there, if you are a regular visitor to the TLP Blog, you might remember the Monday Mash-up Series from last year, where we looked at strategies to step outside the ‘one kit only’ scrapping box to increase your confidence in mixing and matching and ability to stretch your stash. (And if you didn’t see any of them, you are forgiven LOL and the good news is you can still access them). Anyway, with all those lessons up our sleeves, this year I’m introducing the SOSN Stash Mash!Every Wednesday when TLP Designers put a selection of goodies on sale at half price (here’s a link to this week’s specials category), I’m reminded of some specific treasures I have in my stash and feel inspired to pull them out from the depths of my harddrive again. And I know now that I can find a few kits among that day’s selection that will work perfectly together to tell my stories and support and enhance my … [Read more...]

Mixed Media Beginners: Dolls and Art Dolls

August 14, 2023 by The Lilypad 3 Comments

Mixed Media Beginners: Dolls and Art Dolls

Hi there! Even if you lived under a rock, I would bet you'd know Barbie has been trending. Well not really bet, I'm not much of a gambler but I'm also probably one of few people with no interest in seeing the movie. It did influence the selection of the photo I'm scrapping today though and a Mixed Media product to feature this month - namely Art Dolls.___________________________What is an art doll? Good question, kind of hard for me to answer. Looks like they're also known as collage dolls. These are unique and whimsical paper-pieced art portraits that are often flat but can incorporate dimensional and found objects or traditional scrapbooking elements. They can vary from lifelike illustrated people with a wardrobe of pre-made costumes, much like press-out paper dolls you may remember from childhood, to equally strange and wonderful creations, limited only by imaginations.In the … [Read more...]

Beginners Mixed Media: Make mine a Double!

July 11, 2023 by The Lilypad 5 Comments

Beginners Mixed Media: Make mine a Double!

Hi there, if you haven't already seen, TLP's Summer Bucketlist event has started and not only are there extra challenges and some super cute pins to collect from participating but various whole categories of products are discounted in the store each a week so keep an eye on the forum and newsletters for the week's sales news but this week is perfect for a Mixed Media Beginner to do some stash building with Art Journaling & Mixed Media, Ephemera and Stamps categories on sale so if there's something from any of these categories in your Wishlist that you've been eyeing, here's your chance!So with these sale categories and this week's theme of Adventure and/or Tastes/Food of Summer in mind, I'm making a Summer birthday food essential Mixed Media page today for, and inspired by Rae's own page for her challenge. Given how many photos I pulled out to use, I decided it called for a … [Read more...]

SOSN Stash Mash – June 28, 2023

June 28, 2023 by The Lilypad 1 Comment

SOSN Stash Mash – June 28, 2023

Hi there, if you are a regular visitor to the TLP Blog, you might remember the Monday Mash-up Series from last year, where we looked at strategies to step outside the ‘one kit only’ scrapping box to increase your confidence in mixing and matching and ability to stretch your stash. (And if you didn’t see any of them, you are forgiven LOL and the good news is you can still access them). Anyway, with all those lessons up our sleeves, this year I’m introducing the SOSN Stash Mash!Every Wednesday when TLP Designers put a selection of goodies on sale at half price (here’s a link to this week’s specials category), I’m reminded of some specific treasures I have in my stash and feel inspired to pull them out from the depths of my harddrive again. And I know now that I can find a few kits among that day’s selection that will work perfectly together to tell my stories and support and enhance my … [Read more...]

Beginners Mixed Media: Mesmerizing Marble!

June 19, 2023 by The Lilypad 4 Comments

Beginners Mixed Media: Mesmerizing Marble!

After over a year now of both digital mixed media experimentation here on the blog and looking at home renovation inspiration images and samples for tiles and benchtops in real life, today I'm bringing in the marbled look to my digi layout. (Inspiration is everywhere, right?!). Marbling is a fun technique to create your own paper and paper -based elements in paper crafting.I remember making 'marbled prints' for art when I was in school, using a container full of water with some oily drops of coloured dye or ink floating on the surface, mix with a toothpick to create a swirled pattern and then lay some thick plain white paper over the top to absorb the marble magic, and voila! (You can also apparently use shaving cream, milk or other substances to hold your coloured pigments of varying kinds (Google has lots of how-to links) and the marbled effect is fun surprise every time).In … [Read more...]

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