Blog

{blooming soon} Larkspur + Grow With Love

By

So it’s been awhile since we’ve done a {fresh seeds} giveaway and the sun is shining and it’s Monday and so it feels like it’s time for a little fun and a little sharing.

I have TWO wonderful new releases coming to The Lilypad on Friday and here’s a chance to win both!

Larkspur is the latest in my Full Bloom series of templates, which are typcially richer in layers and details and papery goodness.

And here’s a peek at a couple pages my team has created already…soooo loving the amazing they are bringing!!

by Madlen
by Madlen
by Niki
by Niki

It’s also time for a fresh set of Grow With Love: Letters templates and Crystal and I are really having fun with this month’s emphasis.  It’s something I think we can all find inspiration to scrap….our hobbies.

Sooooo I’d love to share BOTH these fabulous new releases with one lucky commenter!   If you’d like to win Larkspur + Grow With Love: Letters {July}, just leave a comment below, for a chance to win before Thursday 23 June at 7pm (PST).   You can increase your chances at winning by posting about the giveaway on Twitter and Facebook, if you’d like.  Be sure to come back here with a link in the comments (please post as a new comment each time).

I will announce the winner here on the blog and in my newsletter on Friday 24 June when these {fresh seeds} hit The Lilypad.

Lots of luck!

{fresh seeds} dandelion

By

I was so honored to be featured on The Daily Digi in April and if you missed the fabulous chance to grab Dandelion in the April Digi Files, you can now snag it in my shop at The Lilypad!  I really loved working on this project and I created it with the hope that it would be the best representation of my personal scrapping and design style, so it had a little bit of everything in it: page design templates, {clipped} template masks for papers and photos, a handful of doodley {story seeds}, and a couple of story starting journaling prompts.

You can grab the Dandelion {templates} and prompts or Dandelion {clipped} + {story seeds} OR you can snag the Dandelion {garden} which is the bundle of the two!  All are available at The Lilypad for 20% off through the weekend.

The Dandelion {templates} were designed in the spirit of  wishing, hoping and the promise of beauty and joy found in the every day….with varied design styles ranging from a “fuller” page, richer in layers with many little details and a little more depth to cleaner and more linear designs.

Dandelion {clipped} + {story seeds} include 25 clipping templates for papers or photos.  Simple sentiments are inspired by all things wish{full}.

Love them all? Dandelion {garden} is the wish{full} bundle of the Dandelion collection:

And here’s some amazing inspiration from the girls:

As always I looove to see your stories and art too, so please feel free to share with me anytime.  Really!  Just shoot me a mail or share them on my facebook page.  And if you haven’t signed up the 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.

Registration for Grow With Love: Staycation has begun.  Staycation is a fun and relaxed and inspired summer adventure in storytelling.  I encourage you to learn more about it {HERE} and keep your eyes peeled for a fun blog post from Crystal and I and a Q&A about the project!

I hope your wishes come true this weekend!!

{fresh seeds} Liatris

By

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie

The Warm is most certainly upon us here in the desert Southwest and it won’t be long before The Warm melts into The Hot and then into The Oven Hot From Which There Is No Escape….and so I am happily soaking up the warm rays and enjoying the sunshine and blue skies before I feel compelled to lock myself in my house just so as to get some relief from it.  LOL!

And it is that happy kind of sunshiney mood and warm that has inspired Liatris and Liatris {story seeds}, my contributions to this month’s (amazing) BYOC at The Lilypad.

Liatris is designed in the spirit of the every day, of fun, sunshine, summer and play…with varied design styles ranging from a “fuller” page, richer in layers with many little details and a little more depth to cleaner and more linear designs. This set is perfect for any summer or vacation page, everyday page, all about me, or event page and gives you room to “play” and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.

Liatris {story seeds} is a collection of 21 different fun fun fun and playful word art strips and bits (in colored, b/w plain + distressed .png versions and in .abr brush format) and 6 4×6 photo clipping templates (in .png format).  They are the perfect little touches for your every day, summer or vacation pages or photos.   Inspired by fun, sun, warm rays, and the every day. Liatris {story seeds} will give your pages, blog posts, and cards a little extra fun touch of fun and whimsy.

 

And here’s a spot of Liatris inspiration from the Z&S team and the Pollys.  These pages make me smile!!!

Liatris and Liatris {story seeds} are available for 20% off through Sunday 5 June at The Lilypad.

As always I looove to see your stories and art too, so please feel free to share with me anytime.  Really!  Just shoot me a mail or share them on my facebook page.  And if you haven’t signed up the 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.

There are a few fun sunshiney and summery happenings on the horizon, including Grow With Love: Staycation — a fun and relaxed and inspired summer adventure in storytelling.  I encourage you to learn more about it {HERE} and mark your calendars for the upcoming registration period.

I hope you are enjoying a happy sunshine-y day!

and the {KCB} giveaway goes to…

By

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the giveaway sponsored byAMAZING Kristin Cronin-Barrow!!  She has such a dear heart and is so talented!!  Crystal and I looooooved seeing all of your entries.  Every one was heartfelt and personal and different and BEAUTIFUL.  I loved seeing what songs resonate with you and move you!   So thank you for taking the time to share a little bit of yourself and your pages!  I hope that you all feel happy with what you’ve created!

So…I sat down for a few moments with Mr. Random (of Random.org) and he has selected our lucky winner!

Glory — Glory submitted this beautiful layout featuring her theme song “Unwritten”…I just love the sense of possibility she captured here!

Congratulations to post #4 — Glory!!  Glory, I will be emailing you shortly with your gift certificate!  And thanks again to everyone for playing along and sharing your songs!

And keep your eyes peeled for more opportunities to win too!  Some new giveaways are on the horizon.

{fresh seeds} grow with Love: letters edition {june}

By

Well goodness another month is drawing to a close and many of us find ourselves saying goodbyes to school years and hellos to summer.  And as this season of travels and staycations draws near, Crystal and I were inspired by journeys, getaways.  And we threw in a little taste of fatherhood too (since June *is* the month o’ Dads here in the U.S.) as we created June’s Grow With Love: Letters templates and prompts.

Meet Grow With Love: Letters Edition {June} — a set of four layered templates created in the spirit of journeys, adventures, getaways and vacations.  As always, these Grow With Love templates are accompanied by a series of thoughtful story-driven journaling prompts which are borne from the hope of helping you tell your stories and put pen to page.

We hope you’ll have fun getting inspired with these!  You can use the templates and prompts together or separately to suit your own story and pages.

And here’s a touch of inspiration:

Grow With Love: Letters Edition {June} is available at The Lilypad for 20% off through Sunday May 29.

As always I looove to see your stories and art too, so please feel free to share with me anytime.  Really!  Just shoot me a mail or share them on my facebook page.  And if you haven’t signed up the 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.

There are quite a few fun goings on on the horizon including fresh collaborations, a wonderfully fun summer Grow With Love experience, and more giveaways!

Speaking of giveaways.  There is still time to check out and participate in the ongoing Scrap Your Theme song giveaway sponsored by the amazing Kristin Cronin-Barrow.  Not only will you walk away having created a fun page, the winner of this one will receive a $25 gift certificate to her store!!!  Which is pretty WOW, right?!!

{fresh seeds} Preserved

By

It probably goes without saying that one of my most favorite things about scrapbooking and memory keeping is The Story.  Okay, it’s the most fulfilling, challenging, heartfelt, emotional, beautiful reason I love it so much.  And so when I have the opportunity to work on a project that is rooted in the inspiration of storytelling my heart does a little happy dance.  Which is just what it did last summer when I collaborated with my dear friend Sandra to create Preserved.  And it remains the one set of templates that I receive inquiries about: when will you bring this to The Pad?  Or seriously, woman why haven’t you brought Preserved to The Pad yet?!  So I’m really happy to say that today is the day!

My Preserved templates have landed at The Pad:

These templates can be used in myriad ways really from any themed page to all about me pages and any story centric pages.  You can make use of the journaling spots in the designs or you can scrap without them.  And if you love pages with quite a lot of room for journaling…these really make it easy to focus on The Story.

Here’s some fresh Preserved inspiration from the girls and the Pollys:

You can grab Preserved at The Lilypad for 20% off through Sunday May 22.

So hope you like them!  Happy Scrapping!  Happy Preserving!!

1 … 10 11 12 13 14 … 34