Hello there, Stefanie here with some gorgeous love and heart filled templates to inspire you for the upcoming holiday.One thing I love about templates is that you can use them as intended - to document your Valentine's Day, but you can also get creative and go off script and document other stuff. I want to highlight some LOVE-ly templates that we have in store and what our Pollys and creative team members have created with them. Images will be linked to the store and galleries.Kayla (keepscrappin) created a wedding layout using one of Designed by Soco's Templates.and I made a layout about little everyday joys from February.This time I created a layout featuring two photos, one from when hubby and I were dating and then a second at our oldest's wedding.garrynkim created a stunning layout about a young man in her life, what a cutie!A layout I created … [Read more...]
Monday Mash-Up | Varied Template Styles
Hey everyone welcome to a little Monday Mash-up using two varied style of templates. Mashing templates together creates new ways to stretch your stash and gives you the opportunity to try a new style, save time, or stay inspired as we scrap all of our memories. definition: Mash-up noun- informal.* a combination or mixing of dissimilar elements, especially content from different sources.There's been many mash-up posts on the blog, like using the same designer kits with different themes or like using more than one kit with the same color scheme. But today I want to share how I use different styles of templates to create one unique page to fit my needs or artistic inspiration.I had a photo in mind already and an idea of what I wanted to scrap so I spent some time in the Shop just perusing Fiddle Dee-Dee's templates … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | Winterize Me
Hey everyone I'm back on the blog for a little fun this happy Tuesday. At least I hope it's a happy day where you are. As we push closer to the end of the year, many regions of the world are gearing up for winter. The color, snowy season that blankets the earth with its wonder. Of course with winter and snow come lots of outdoor activities (and indoor ones too) as well as things like shoveling and of course, our favorite holiday, Christmas. lolI was browsing the winter section of the shop earlier and saw so many wonderful things that can help us document all those cold memories. One thing I was really interested in seeing was the template options so I figured I'd come over to the blog and share them here too. I wanted to find options with clear winter themes and others that may not be specifically themed but could definitely work to winterize my pages.The template area of the … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | A Clean Slate
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...]
Template Tuesday: One Template, Two Styles
Hello Friends!Each month, The Lilypad offers a free template for the monthly template challenge. For the November 2022 Template Challenge, TLP designer Lynn Grieveson has created yet another gorgeous and versatile template, which you can download HERE.Here is the template:With its messy stitching and paint/paper blend beneath the photo, this beautiful template has a decidedly artsy/mixed media feel. And scrapping in an artsy/mixed media style is definitely outside my comfort zone! But one of the things I love about the TLP challenges is that they gently nudge me to move outside my comfort zone, to learn a new technique, to try a new style.So I thought it might be fun to use the same template, with the same photo and the same journaling, to create two very different family history layouts: one of them an artsy page (well outside my comfort zone); and the other done in … [Read more...]
Monster Mash: Specific Commonality
Hi there and Happy Halloween, I'm popping in with a Mega Mash-up for the end of October so given the timing, I'm calling it a Monster Mash. In the past colour schemes, designer styles and themes have been the focus of my product mashing but today all I'm looking for are packs that have spiders or spider webs as my commonality. The process would be the same if you were to pick circles, hexagons, stars, hearts... you get the idea right?When I search for 'spiderwebs' in the store, much like bats, spiders and spiderwebs feature in Halloween kits like are on sale at the moment but are also in insect and backyard related kits, as well as some superhero kits like my photo theme is today. (And I'm so grateful that it's so much faster than if I went to my physical cupboard of paper scrapping things and had to pull out every paper or element that was spiderweb related because I don't sort and … [Read more...]