fresh seeds | Plant Your Story

Fresh Seeds | Plant Your Story: Journaled {volume three}, Plant Your Story: Titled {volume one}, and Sage page designs

September 27, 2013 By Mrs. Gleason

One of my most favorite things to do is to play with design in my scrapbooking while still keeping the focus on The Story. And so I find myself inspired by layers and play-with-paper and balance and journal spots working together seamlessly in one design. And it’s that kind of spirit that lives in this week’s new releases.

Meet Plant Your Story: Journaled {volume three}:

This follow-up set of “journaled” templates focuses on the use of journal cards beyond the horizons of typical Project Life or pocket scrapbooking compositions. I love journal cards even though I don’t typically scrap in pocket-scrapbooking ways. Still I love to use them to include journaling in my pages or to layer or to add interest in my designs using “filler” journal cards.

Also new this week is Plant Your Story: Titled {volume one}. I find myself drawn to pages with strong title work and yet it is a facet of my own memory keeping that I sometimes neglect. I find myself playing with titles and title work more often and with more “gusto” when I have a design that incorporates a title seamlessly. These page designs were designed in the spirit of embracing “titling in design”.

And finally. Fresh this week are the Sage page designs. The Sage templates are designed in the spirit of play with paper, love for balance and clean lines in design, and the every day moment.

All is available at The Lilypad for 20% off through Sunday September 22, 2013. Subscribers to The Garden Report receive an additional 10% savings.

Here is some beautiful inspiration with this week’s fresh releases.

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 through the contact form or share them on my Facebook page.

I so hope you have a beautiful weekend full of memory making (and keeping too!).

Fresh Seeds | Coconut Tree

September 19, 2013 By Mrs. Gleason

I’ve always been drawn to stories of hoping and dreaming. There is something so empowering about a person daring to believe in things, in others and in themselves. I think it’s brave. I think it’s bold. I think it’s authentic. And so full of…color. And those things shine BIG in this beautiful collection.

Coconut Trees have long been associated with tropical environments, beaches, islands and other places that people find themselves wandering away to in daydreams. It’s the quintessential dreamy tree. And so Coconut Tree seemed the botanical name choice for a kit about Dreams and Hopes and celebrating stories of imagination, following dreams and living boldly. Coconut Tree features vibrant colors, hope{full} words, and a sense of happy. It was unveiled as part of The Digi Files in July and now it’s come home to The Lilypad.

Meet Coconut Tree:

Coconut Tree is available at The Lilypad for 20% off through Sunday September 22, 2013. Subscribers to The Garden Report receive an additional 10% savings.

Here is some amazing Coconut Tree inspiration, showcasing just how versatile this kit is. There are pocket scrapbook pages, project pages, girl centric pages, boy centric pages, artistic pages and every last one of them is full of WOW:

And I’m happy to share a fresh free download. The Coconut cards coordinate with Coconut tree beautifully but can also be used in any pocket scrapbooking pages or other layouts.

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 through the contact form or share them on my Facebook page.

Here’s to a wonderful weekend full of Hoping and Dreaming and Going Forward. Happy scrapping, friends!

{fresh seeds} | Petals No.4, Helenium, Stargazer, Grab Bag

November 4, 2012 By Mrs. Gleason

Happy fresh month. Happy BYOC. Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day. Happy Happy. So very much to be happy about! This time of year is one of my most favorite. I just adore the cooler weather, the celebration of creativity, the bubbling anticipation for the holiday season that is just around the corner. And the sense of gratitude that covers it all.

And the beginning of November is FULL of all of that. This month’s Build Your Own Collab at The Lilypad is another stellar collection. It is a burst of color and warm and creativity. (more…)

{fresh seeds} Trellis and Marigold

September 7, 2012 By Mrs. Gleason

It’s September. And I’m still shocked that’s so. So when I say that, I’m saying it with an extra emphasis of disbelief, “It’s Sep.tem.ber.” Feel free to add (!!!!!!!) for added effect. You could also slowly shake your head. Or raise your eyebrows as high as they’ll go.

But it’s true. And despite my lamenting over just how quickly time passes every month, the start of each month does make me oh so happy because that means it’s BYOC time at The Lilypad. And this month, we’ve revived the classic school-y palette and spirit of 2011’s Wicked Smart collaboration. The result is a fabulous collection of academic inspired goodies that will perfectly suit any school-y story. And yet the range and depth of the offerings bring versatility to them so they can be used for everyday stories too. It’s an amazing collection that makes me want to scrap, scrap, scrap. (more…)

{fresh seeds} Goldenrod and Dogbane

July 6, 2012 By Mrs. Gleason

The month of July has landed and with it a fresh BYOC collection at the Lilypad! It’s full of fun and all things sunny with a splash of the celebratory. The palette reflects patriotism and all things summer: BBQs, the beach, fun and games.

And it’s that essence of fun and sunny that has inspired my fresh BYOC goodies. (more…)

{fresh seeds} retiring

June 18, 2012 By Mrs. Gleason

This week is a Week of Retiring Products over at The Lilypad where gobs and gobs of products are available throughout the week for 50% off before we say goodbye to them forever and ever.

And I’m saying goodbye to the following products: Dandelion (templates, story seeds and the full “garden”), Bountiful, Liatris {story seeds}, Daisy {painty} and {story seeds}, Happy Noodle stamps, and Ooey Gooey {words and alpha} and {clipped}. Each is available for 50% off from 18 June through 24 June 2012. (more…)