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, Kindred, is perfectly lovely and so beautiful! The warm colors and the precious theme are perfect for November around these parts, but I know that they will be perfect for other times of the year as well!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 … [Read more...]
Catching Up on PL 2015 in One Hour a Day
Like everyone else, I get behind on my Project Life. Sometimes there's too much going on, or I don't have time to sit and put the pages together, or I'm finishing a good book and want to focus on that - whatever the case may be, I end up with weeks and weeks of Project Life to put together. Once I'm pretty far behind like that, it starts to bother me and I want to pick up the slack fast. Over the last two years, I've come up with a plan that helps me catch up on my Project Life by just dedicating an hour a day for five days. Here's the breakdown of what I do.Day 1: Get the photos readyOn day 1, I sit and go through the photos I have for each week. You may remember, I have it set up so that Lightroom sorts them by week for me. So when I sit down I pick the photos for each week. It's at this point that I also do any editing I need to do. I try to keep my photo editing for PL pretty … [Read more...]
Pocket Scrapping Out of Order: Tip #2 & 3
Hey scrappers, Polly Jewelle here! Today I have a two more tips in our pocket scrapping out of order series to share with you. Although I primarily do hybrid pocket scrapping I believe these tips can work with digital pocket scrapping as well. Lets get started!Tip #2 Keep all your record keeping in one placeIn this day and age we have the ability to keep records about us, our children, pets, activities, etc. However with the growth of technology we seem to be keeping these records in a bunch of different places. For example how many different social media accounts do you have? Do you post pictures, quotes, funny sayings your children say on them, etc? I know I do! I used to think since I was recording all these moments it would be so easy when I was scrapping to just go pull all that stuff together to put into a pocket page. Boy was I wrong! It took a lot of time to go … [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...]
Pocket Pages: Newbie Perspective
Everybody knows that Pocket Pages, inspired by Becky Higgins' Project Life, are all the rage right now. And they are not going anywhere! The concept has been around for a while but it took me, personally, a couple of years to jump on board the bandwagon. My personal story involves completing P365 (a photo a day) in 2010 and it was a fantastically documented year for us! Then I sort of wimped out after that with regards to organized projects and continued scrapping whatever struck my fancy (which, by the way, is totally cool). Last year, I dabbled in the Pocket Pages, doing a 2 page spread a month, but I still havn't completed the year because it is very difficult for me to summarize most of our months in 2 pages and still manage to get any "story" documented. Not to mention, streamlining the photos. I took forever just figuring out what to include! So this year, I decided it was … [Read more...]