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{grow with love: kids} day five

November 22, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend! Welcome to Week Three and Day Five of Grow With Love: Kids Edition. If you’re just finding us, we’re so happy to have you join in this adventure-in-scrapping with us!! You can find all the details you need to know {HERE}. The most important thing to know is: anyone can participate with us at any time (and we hope you do!). And that no matter your scrapping medium, no matter your style, how long or how short you have been scrapping, no matter *what* — Grow With Love can help you harness your inner storyteller and bring your stories to the page. Just let your creativity guide you throughout the process and let yourself be challenged a little and we think you’ll be really happy (and proud!) of your pages.

We have seen some amazing pages so far! And we can’t wait to see what’s to come!

So far in the first four prompts we’ve had quite a lot of fun scrapping some history and some personality. We will build off of this foundation into a little meatier territory this week.

Today’s prompt asks us to consider shades of ourselves that we see in our children. Let’s take a look:

When we were developing prompts this one (and day six’s too) immediately floated to the forefront of my thinking because these days it seems there isn’t a day that goes by when Bugga does something or says something, or even sighs in such a way, that it doesn’t remind us of me. Family, friends, they all remark about how she’s so much like me. So I got to really thinking about that and what of myself I see in her. What I’m happy I’ve shared with her.

In some respects this prompt could be approached as an all about me page. In that you need to get a little introspective and reflect about your own personality and character. And for the purpose of today’s prompt we’d like you to consider yourself fairly, not critically. Consider those things about yourself that make you proud. The things you feel are strengths. When you see your little one, what of yourself do you see?

So take a little time to get reflective and then smile as you scrap those similarities, large or small.

Here’s a bit of inspiration from Crystal:

I can’t wait to see how your kiddos carry a piece of you in them too!

And don’t forget to head over to Crystal’s blog on Wednesday (note the different day due to the Thanksgiving holiday) for Day Six.

{blooming creativity} — Taking Shape and Listed and Quoted, oh my!

November 21, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

Hope everyone has been enjoying a beautiful weekend!

Bugga and I woke before dawn and drove to the river to catch a fabulous hot air balloon launch and ohmygoodness it was SO neat! I've never been to one, so it was a first for both of us. I was surprised by just how close we were to all the launching balloons. It seemed they were on every side and the bright and beautiful colors, the sound of the hot air and flames popping and blowing, and the quiet of the floating surrounded us. Bugga was fascinated. So was I.

Anyway..good way to start the morning and now I'm settling in to finish up a couple holiday projects and some {fresh seeds} coming for Black Friday and beyond. But before I get lost in all of that I wanted to share some amazing inspiration from my creative team and the Pollys. I always feel so freshly inspired when I compile and see all the amazing inspiration because it reminds me just how a template can take eleventyhundred different forms and voices..depending on the story being shared and the style of a scrapper. And this week is no exception. Lots of WOW here.

Taking Shape

Plant Your Story: Listed {volume two}

Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

You can snag all three in my shoppe for 20% off through today. Woot!

Hope you all have a beautiful day!

{fresh seeds} Quoted, Listed, and Taking Shape

November 19, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

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

Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

Plant Your Story: Listed {volume two}

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!

{giveaway winners} ♥

November 19, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

now to break out the drumroll…..

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

and

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

{blooming soon} and a {giveaway!}

November 17, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

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….

…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.

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!

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}

Plant Your Story: Quoted {volume two}

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!!

{grow with love: kids} day three

November 15, 2010 By Mrs. Gleason

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!!