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…)
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…)
I’m so very happy to share this week’s release..a fresh collaboration with Crystal Livesay of Live Your Stories. We were inspired by all things sunny and happy and fun to bring you this series of templates that feature one of scrapbooking’s most classic and loved page elements: banners. And we so hope you like them!!
Meet Bannered:
Happy June!!! And I can’t actually believe that I just said “Happy June!”. Time flies ever faster. But here we are and it’s sunny and bright and all the typical trappings of summer (Heat, Crazy Heat, and More Heat) have landed. In fact, as I type the temperature gauge reads 112°.
And with all the sunny and summery comes another fabulous BYOC at The Lilypad. It’s full of bright and happy colors and fun energy.
And it’s the bright and happy and summery that inspired these fresh products.
I just loved getting crafty with my punches and paper and baker’s twine to create these hand-crafted paper punched pennant-y and twine-y banner trims. Meet Garland: (more…)
So, I was just waxing poetically about my aspirations for documenting my own December this year and it’s that hope for embracing the moment, the details, the imperfections and the storyMaking that inspired the creation of this week’s fresh release: Pear Tree {the album}. It is a project that has been in the works for many days and weeks now and that the ever-so-considerate Sick derailed from my hoped-for timeline. But it’s here. And I’m really excited about it. And I hope that you’ll find it’s FULLness and it’s classic and versatile pieces a wonderful stand alone project or supplement to any December storytelling project you are embarking upon this year.
It was created with a heart for giving you options, for creating the kind of pages and/or album that fits the story you will create and document this year. It is a project full of possibilities and one that lets you embrace your own creative directions while getting to the heart of what matters most to you this time of year: the details. I really believe that magic lives in the details.
It’s BIG and it’s versatile. It’s full of pages of various sizes, from simple to more layer-y. All with the hope of helping you easily document your December.
Meet Pear Tree {the album}:
This layered template album can be used in whole or in part, for digital or hybrid scrapping of your December stories. Includes templates in varied styles and sizes so you can pick your favorite size or mix and match to create a mixed media kind of album.
Every template design is unique while still carrying a cohesive look for an overall album and classic enough to be able to mesh well with any other projects. They are meant to be built upon with your own style and customization and can be used with any products. You can also re-use any of the design pages throughout the album, flipping and modifying to make them your own and to suit your scrapping or album needs and style.
You can mix and match the sizes with each other, you can mix and match the background paper pieces, the photo spot design layers, the overlays or trims here and there to make this album completely your own. Or you can use it in a straight-forward way too. Have fun playing with all the components to create what suits your story best!
The album contents include:
* 25 12×12 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used as is or easily sized down to suit whatever album size you may be after (I’m going 8×8!)
* 15 6×8 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These can be used alone or as a supplement to the larger pages or any other pages you may be creating this holiday season.
* 10 5×7 layered templates (in .psd + .tiff formats). These too can be used alone as a mini album or as a supplement to the larger page sizes or any other pages you may be creating this holiday season.
Pear Tree also includes some additional album designing goodies:
* 10 BIG word transparency overlays (made to fit 6×8 pages or photos but can be resized to suit your needs) sentiments include: Bright, Family, Favorite, Happy, Holiday, Joy, Laugh, Love, Merry, Tradition, Tree, Wish
* 10 transparency overlays in various sizes (5×7, 6×8, 12×12) which can be used to overlay papers or photos or printed on transparencies. Patterns are classic and versatile.
* BIG number transparency overlays for the entire month (December 1 – 31)
* 12 simple frames for photos or paper/journaling spaces in various sizes (2×2 instagram size, 3×3, 5×7, 6×8, and 12×12)
* 12 word stamps for stamping photos or papers. Sentiments include: Advent, Anticipation, Deck the Halls, Fa la la, Giving, Laughter, Magic, Memories, Merry, Noel, Tradition, Twinkle
* 17 clippable trims for clipping papers or photos (in .png format and sized BIG for easy resizing)
All the transparency overlays can be used to create actual printed transparencies for hybrid or traditional paper scrapping projects or they can be used digitally in a variety of ways.
The pages and the extras are created with a heart for Documenting YOUR December. And I so hope you have fun with them!
In total, when all is said and done this is a collection of 50 templates and oodles of extra details and tools. I can’t wait to use it myself and share the process with you!
I hope you find Pear Tree a lot of fun to work with and make your own! And something that will help you document your stories with a boost of ease and time!
Pear Tree {the album} is available for $10 (and only $8 through Sunday 4 December!) at The Lilypad
In other news, and something that is equally special to me…this week marks the release of the final installment of the Grow With Love: Letters project.
This is Grow With Love: Letters Edition {December}:
The {December} installment is inspired by the holiday season and by the close of another year. We explore sentimental, silly and more traditional takes on documenting our stories of “reflection”, tradition, and holiday in encouraging journaling prompts.
And here’s a spot of GWL inspiration {so gorgeous}:
Pear Tree {the album} and Grow With Love: Letters Edition {December} are available in my shoppe at The Lilypad through Monday 5 September for 20% off through Sunday 4 December!
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.
Happy December! Happy Scrapping!!!
Happy September!! This year is determined to fly by at speeds that leave me reeling and hoping for a moment to breathe and pause so I can catch up with life and tasks and mountains of things I want to pour myself in to, but instead of making another “how did we get here so fast?!” declaration I am welcoming September with arms open w i d e because I’ve been told this is the month that the heat starts to wane..the month when I won’t feel like I’m baking myself when I step outside. And I’m in the mood to give September a big fat hug because it is the month where things slow down a bit and normalcy sets in, I can just feel it. We are settling in to the routine of the school year, the weather is settling, everyone is healthy (thank goodness) and good things are on the horizon.
I hope that as summer wanes and as the school year begins for many of us that you are finding September a welcome sight as well…full of hope and promise and warm. And a fresh (amazing) BYOC at The Lilypad.
With all this promise of autumn beauty and deep breaths, and the fresh hope of the school year, and these yummy colors, I was inspired to create Sugar Maple:
The Sugar Maple templates are designed in the spirit of the warm and the onset of autumn 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 autumn, vintage, school, everyday page, all about me, or event page and gives you room to “play” and modify each page to suit your personal scrapping sensibilities.
I’m also happy to introduce Sugar Maple Seeds. Sugar Maple Seeds are a collection of classic journalers, journal mats, daters and tags. Inspired by the warm and rich welcome of autumn and with the heart of encouraging you to capture your story, Sugar Maple Seeds coordinates seamlessly with the September BYOC but can also be used beyond that in coordination with any of your autumny or everyday pages throughout the year.
Includes 24 different journalers of different sizes and shapes, some with journaling lines, some without, and a few date tag elements to give you a cornucopia of choice in adding that perfect journaling touch to your pages.
And here’s a spot of Sugar Maple inspiration (WOW.):
Sugar Maple and Sugar Maple Seeds are available in my shoppe at The Lilypad through Monday 5 September for 20% off!
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 so many fabulous happening on the horizon and I can’t wait to share them with you! I so hope you have a beautiful weekend!
