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{fresh seeds} Quoted, Listed, and Taking Shape

Happy Friday!!

This week has positively flown by for me, as weeks always seem to do as the holidays approach.  We've been happily busy with holiday preps and considering gratefulness and trying to slow everything down just a *wee* bit so we can really soak up the magic of this time of year.  And can I just say that reading all your comments in the {giveaway} post got me even MORE in the mood for the holidays, if that were possible.  LOL!

All that to say a lot of my happily busy mood lately has been creating some {fresh seeds} and I'm really happy to share these with you today:

Taking Shape

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Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

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Plant Your Story: Listed {volume two}

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All three sets are available in my shoppe throughout the weekend for 20% off!!

As always I looove to see your stories and art too, so please feel free to share with me anytime.  Just shoot me a mail or share them on my facebook page.  And if you haven't signed up for my newsletter yet you may want to do that so you can be the first to hear the latest news and get the latest exclusive savings.  Woot!

Next week I'll have oodles to share with you with more news and fresh goodies on the way, including another collaboration with my dear friend Crystal.  She's posted a peek at what's to come on her blog, so be sure to check that out. 

Also the Grow With Love: Kids project is ongoing and we've been so happy to see all the amazing pages!  You are welcome to join in anytime and we hope you do!  ♥

Stay tuned for some {blooming creativity} inspiration.  In the mean time I hope you all have a beautiful day!

Sig

{giveaway winners} ♥

now to break out the drumroll…..

Thank you to everyone who participated in the {fresh seeds giveaway}!!  I’m happy to send Congratulations to….

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Blogwinnerpys Congratulations to Alice C.  and La’Sahawn!!  Please send me an email to claim your prize.  Woot!

 

{blooming soon} and a {giveaway!}

Happy Wednesday!

Lots of sunny news today and I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!  I can hardly believe we’re on the brink of the holiday season and I’m starting to get really really excited.  I’m a complete geek for Thanksgiving, all things advent and Christmas.  But before I get completely carried away with the holiday spirit I am happy to say that it’s Wibbet Wednesday….

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…and Summer Garden is available today for 50% off!!  Summer Garden is a fun and playful set of templates inspired by all things sunny and all things summer, but I think you’ll find can be used for most any page.  Or if you’re like me and still catching up on summery pages (lol!) this is the perfect time to snag them.

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AND…I am also excited to share peeks of a few {fresh seeds} coming to The Lilypad on Friday that you can use for whatever and whereever your creativity guides you.

First is Taking Shape, which was previously available as part of my collaboration with Tiny Toes Designs during my guest stay at CatScrap.  If you haven’t snagged it yet and if you love a play with shapes and papers, this playful set of templates is for you!

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I am also releasing two new installments of my Plant Your Story series…a fresh set of Listed templates and a fresh set of Quoted templates.  These are really fun for documenting the every day..be it in the conversations we share, the little things our loved ones say or documenting anything listy.  I have seen some amazing pages from the girls so far that use these templates in non journal-y ways too..so the possibilities really are endless!

Plant Your Story: Listed {volume two}

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Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

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Sooooo…if you’d like to win one or all of these {fresh seeds} just leave a comment below telling me what your favorite holiday food is (yum!), for a chance to win before Thursday 18 November at 10pm (PST).  One winner will get to choose which they’d like to be gifted with and one lucky winner will win.them.all!  You can increase your chances at winning by posting about the giveaway on Twitter and Facebook.  Be sure to come back here with a link in the comments.

Good Luck!!

Sig

{grow with love: kids} day three

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend filled with all things sunny and fun!

And I hope you have been enjoying the first couple of prompts for Grow With Love: Kids edition as we continue to set the foundation for the course of the project.  We have love loved seeing your pages so far!  And we hope you continue to share your pages in the comments for each day as you complete them.  It’s so inspiring to see how each of you scraps from the heart for your kiddos!

If you’re just joining us, welcome!  There is still lots of time to dive in and you can hop in anytime along the way!  If you need to catch up on the organizational posts (backstory, schedule, giveaway/prize details and such) feel free to check out the first post to capture all that information.

So far we have considered our general feelings about parenthood and how they may have changed over time, we’ve looked at the origins of our child(ren)’s name(s).  And today with Day Three we get to dive into something playful and fun!


I fly right back to elementary school with this one (I always loved activities like this in school!  but that could be my inner geek talking).  I think you’ll find this playful and light-hearted prompt can emerge as one your child(ren) will really love.  And there’s lots of room to let your creativity soar!  This prompt really lends itself to having a fantastic play with alphas and elements, as you scrap their personalities in words and colors.

I really had fun considering my Bugga’s personality and traits in a succint adjective-heavy kind of list.  I can’t resist playing with paper, so I made little shapes with the letters of her name cut out and surrounded them with words that describe her.

I love Crystal’s composition for her pages with the acrostic below the prominent photos.  Since she has three children and wanted each to have their own page, she opted to use the same basic design but tweak the colors and elements of each to really reflect their personalities.  Clever!!

Hope you have just as much fun playing with names and descriptives!  We can’t wait to see your pages!

And don’t forget to hop over to Crystal’s blog Thursday for day four for another little something fun before we start to dive into a little meatier territory.

Happy Scrapping!!

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I'm happy to say that I have brought my Plant Your Story series to The Lilypad.  As you know the storytelling of scrapbooking is something so near and dear to my heart so I really love to play with different storytelling inspired designs and ideas.  And the Plant Your Story series of templates is designed with your own stories in mind: the everyday, the event, the special and fun little tidbits, the serious, the playful. 

So starting today you can find my heart of storytelling at my new home! Woot!  And all five of these sets are available in my store for 20% off through the weekend.  Double woot!

Plant Your Story: Letters and Lessons, inspired by pages where I've shared my heart with Bugga through letters I write to her, sharing hopes, truths, lessons…

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Plant Your Story: Listed {volume one}, inspired by lists…lists of favorites, of hopes, of fears, of dreams, of things.

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Plant Your Story: Blocked {volume one}, inspired by my love for playing with journaling in design-minded ways, so it becomes a part of the design itself.  Playful and fun!

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Plant Your Story: Blocked {volume two}, originally available at Catscrap this autumn.  More blocky fun!

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Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume one} inspired by all things quotey.  Those quotables our loved ones say, the silly things our little kids say, favorite quotes, conversations.

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I'll be back tomorrow to share some inspiration from recent releases and more!  Hope everyone has a beautiful weekend! 

Sig

{grow with love: kids} day one

Welcome to the Grow With Love project!  Crystal and I are thrilled to dive into this adventure with you and we hope that you will find this process meaningful, reflective, heartfelt and fun!  We had such a wonderful experience working through the Grow With Love: Marriage project together.  At different times we felt challenged, inspired, accomplished, pooped, and then inspired some more.  We hope the Kids edition will be just as fruitful!  Well, minus the “pooped” part.  I think you’ll find this version, while still encouraging and challenging at times, is “lighter” and probably a little easier to flow because in many ways, as scrappers and parents, our children are our muses.

If you’re just joining us, welcome!  Let me share a bit of the backstory of Grow With Love…

Crystal and I had it on our hearts for a long time to collaborate on a project that was something more than “just” templates…we hope it can be something fresh and different; we hope it can be so much more..a kind of fresh storytelling adventure for those who want to take it.  We hope this project not only helps us to create beautiful pages from the heart that we and our families can treasure, but reaches out beyond the page to have a tangible touch on our real lives too.

And so emerged Grow With Love, a series of 20 journaling prompts that we hope will encourage you to step out of your comfort zone a little bit, reflect on your relationships and loves, and love a little more deeply and truly.  This is not only a scrap project. This is about changing yourself and your relationships for the better.  Along with the prompts, we have set up 20 templates that you can use to document this process as we “grow with love” together.

We feel so deeply about our hopes for Grow With Love that while we are digital scrapbooking template designers, we hope that anyone and everyone who wants to play along does…be it paper scrapping, digiscrapping, with the templates, or without.  Let your creativity guide you along the way, using any products and any medium.  In the end it is our hope that you will have created a series of pages (that can become an album) that you will have poured your hearts into and that you will be proud of.  Whether you’ll be using the templates (you can snag them here and here) or not, we hope that you’ll be inspired to share your heart and stories and delve in to new creative territory along side us!

So let’s get started!

The format will be the same as last time.  Crystal and I will take turns gabbing about the day’s prompt.  So you will hop back and forth from my blog to hers, to soak up the prompt and and inspiration to get you started.  This time, though, we’ve slowed the pace a little bit, so it will be easier to “keep up” because even if you’re superspeedy 20 prompts in as many days is ummm…heavy.  lol!  Instead of sharing every day, we will share and blog a prompt twice a week, over the course of 10 weeks.  I will blog Grow With Love on Mondays and Crystal on Thursdays.

Week One: Monday 8 November (Sara) and Thursday 11 November (Crystal)

Week Two: Monday 15 November (Sara) and Thursday 18 November (Crystal)

Week Three: Monday 22 Novembe (Sara) and Wednesday 24 November (Crystal)

Week Four: Monday 29 November (Sara) and Thursday 2 December (Crystal)

Week Five: Monday 6 December (Sara) and Thursday 9 December (Crystal)

Week Six: Monday 13 December (Sara) and Thursday 16 December (Crystal)

Week Seven: Monday 20 December (Sara) and Thursday 23 December (Crystal)

Week Eight: Monday 27 December (Sara) and Thursday 30 December (Crystal)

Week Nine: Monday 3 January (Sara) and Thursday 6 January (Crystal)

Week Ten: Monday 10 January (Sara) and Thursday 13 January (Crystal)

*This is just an outline.  You can scrap at your own pace.  We will keep these prompts and posts on our blogs indefinitely for anyone to peek at and join in.*

But if you’d like to scrap along with us, please do!  Those of you who do will automatically be entered into our {giveaway} at the end of the process, eligible to win gift certificates and your pages printed in your very own 20 pages photo book!

Ok, whew!  Shall we dive in to Day One?

Today’s prompt is:


This is a good place to start getting ourselves into the frame of mind of reflection about our parenting, and about our kids.  While this prompt is pretty self explanatory, some things to consider as you take yourself back to the days before you had kids: how did you view children when you weren’t yet a parent?  Were you longing for them as long as you can remember?  Or maybe did the idea of parenthood freak you out a little?  Were you the kind of person who couldn’t resist interacting with children when you saw them or spent time with them?  Or did you cringe a little sometimes when you went out to eat and were seated next to a table with a family and a loud little one or three? (not that anyone writing this post ever had those feelings before).  Think about how your own family life shaped your ideas and feeling about having children?  How did your faith or career or friends shape your view?  How did your hopes and expectations for the future impact your idea of parenthood?  Was being a parent always in your picture when you thought of the future?

Scrap and share.

Here’s Crystal’s take on the prompt:

And here’s mine:

We can’t wait to see all your beautiful pages!  Don’t forget to share them with us in the comments.  And don’t forget to head over to Crystal’s blog on Thursday for Day Two (or right now for that matter as she’s having an amazing! contest right now).

Happy Scrapping and Happy Growing!!

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