Hi friends. I'm here with a fun throwback Thursday post this week. MOC is going on in the forum right now and each day brings a new challenge. MOC Day 4 asked us to re-scrap an old layout of ours and if you haven't completed that one yet, then this post may be helpful right now.Of course, there are many reasons to re-do or revisit an older layout. Maybe your overall scrap style has changed and this would allow you to create the older layouts in your new style. Maybe there's some new products that fit the theme, mood, or photo more than when you first scrapped it (hello fellow digi-stash hoarders like myself lol). And then, maybe you just weren't quite happy with the old layout and re-doing it is the only thing that will ease your feeling you get when you look at it. (again, I'm raising my hand, lol)I went through my gallery here and found a super old layout that at the time I … [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 | 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: Making it Your Own
Hello friends! Did you know that each month The Lilypad offers you a free template for your digital scrapbooking enjoyment? You can find the freebie in the monthly challenges section of the pad's forums, and they are always awesome! I love using templates when I'm in a creative rut and I *really* love modifying them to make them a little more unique to my scrapbooking style. I tilt, rotate, enlarge, shrink, add and delete items on the template as desired to discover what will fit best with that I'm envisioning - I like to think of it as a creative puzzle that I play with to come up with a new look for my layout.Sara Gleason designed the August template challenge freebie and it is such a great design! It is perfect as it, but I had a few photos I wanted to scrap so I decided to take this freebie and see how I could make it my own with really only a few changes.This is the template … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | BIG Photo Backgrounds
Hello Scrappers,Kayla, aka keepscrappin, here again with another Template Tuesday quick tip to stretch your template stash. It's no secret that I love BIG photos. I always say go BIG or go home! One way I like to use BIG photos is as the background for my layout. It's such an easy way to get a different look from your templates and it really helps showcase the photo.For my example today, I used the first template in Press Play #5 by our talented Lynne-Marie. I've been eyeing this template pack for ages and was so happy to finally come up with an idea to scrap a layout with it that would do it justice. Don't be afraid to modify the template a bit to make it work with your BIG photo. I selected all the template layers above my photo and used the arrow keys to nudge them down a bit so they wouldn't cover my eyes. I clipped some papers to … [Read more...]
Template Tuesday | Split Backgrounds
Hello Scrappers,Kayla, aka keepscrappin, here with a Template Tuesday quick tip to stretch your template stash. I'm all about the ease of scrapping with templates and love to re-use templates in different ways to get a different look. An easy way to do that is to add another paper on top of the background paper layer of the template to create a split background look.I used the bottom center template in Recyclables 77 by Scrapping with Liz to get the split background look.Notice that I lined the extra paper up along the bottom of the horizontal paper strips in the original template. This helped my layout in three ways. First it let me use more of the wonderful papers in the kit and second it created a bolder foundation for my photo cluster to rest. Third, it gave the layout a different look. It's always best to look for natural points to split … [Read more...]