Greetings, Pad Scrappers!Polly Liana here, feeling super lucky to be able to introduce you to the newest BYOC for March!What is BYOC, you ask? It stands for Build Your Own Collection. On the first Friday of each month, our fab designers release a collection of products that have been created using the same palette. So, even though each designer has her own unique style, you can mix and match products from this collection and they all coordinate. Let’s have a look at this beautiful release, shall we?First off, beautiful papers: fantastic elements and kits: helpful templates: and journal cards for you pocket scrappers: Beautiful, right? And the best thing is that it’s all on sale this weekend! So head on over to our store, show off your creations in our gallery and stick around in the forums for some weekend fun. Have … [Read more...]
Art Journaling Challenge Week 4 : Hues
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here highlighting Angela's art Journaling challenge for this final week of February. You can find it in the Lilypad forum, HERE.Each week we are exploring different colour schemes, and this week our scheme is Monochromatic.What is a Monochromatic (or Monotone for short) colour scheme?Basically Monotone is defined as only using only one colour (or hue as we call it in colour theory). The monochromatic scale is created by adding black to get a darker colour (the tone) or adding white to get a lighter colour (the tint)In digital scrapbooking the best way to visualise this is to look at the colour dialogue.The colour in my colour picker is my main colour. Have the colour view option set to HSL mode.Then look at the L slider - by moving that left or right we get the tones and tints for our monochromatic colour pallet.Using MonotoneHere are 3 … [Read more...]
February Challenge Spotlight
Hello there! It’s Polly Karen bringing you an inspiration packed Challenge Spotlight post! Each month we have 8 monthly challenges hosted in our forums and at the end of each month, I look through the challenge galleries and shine my spotlight of just a few of my favorites. So without further delay, let’s check out some amazing new layouts created for this month’s challenges! 1. Style Challenge - Use big typography/Paint/Alphas and use no photos:by kendrawalter: by cinderella: by Beth Holmes: 2. BYOC Challenge - Use 90% current BYOC products from at least 3 designers:by Janisn: by Mum23ms: 3. Journaling Challenge - Journal about your 10 favorite things:by myka: by cinna: by MariSt: 4. Random Challenge - Fill a … [Read more...]
Make It Monday Thank You Card
Welcome to another Make It Monday blog post. Polly Robin here with another card and I’ll show you how I made it!I needed some thank you cards and knew I wanted to work with a new die cut that I received. I needed five papers that went well together so I shopped my stash and found this Treasured kit by ninigoesdigi:The great thing about using digital kits from The Lilypad for hybrid projects is that the designers have done all the hard work for me. I knew that any 5 papers I picked would look good together so all I had to do was pick the ones I liked the most, and these are the ones I decided to use:Next, I do what I always do and used the Print function to save my papers as a PDF. I had to do this twice to get all that I needed, but here’s an example of my first selection I wanted to print:After my printing was done, I pulled out this die that I was given … [Read more...]
March into a New MPM!
Hello Pad Scrappers!Polly Liana, here to introduce the newest MPM collection. For those who are new to the concept, MPM stands for Memory Pockets Monthly. It’s a wonderful monthly collection that’s perfect for those scrappers who love to work with pockets and journal cards. Each collection is created by some of our most talented pocket card designers (this month it’s Designed by Soco, Sara Gleason, Becca Bonneville, Rachel Jefferies and Allison Pennington). They work with the same color palette so all of their designs coordinate, and they are inspired by one key word. This month’s word is NEW. March’s main kit has plenty of bright, springy colors and concepts. Let’s check it out:Have I got your attention? Well guess what?? It’s all on sale right now! This weekend they are 20% off. And furthermore, there is a great subscription opportunity that will save you money … [Read more...]
Art Muse Challenge Highlight : Week 3 Neutrals
Hi there, Polly Stefanie here with the third week's monthly muse challenge, you can find it in the forum, HERE.This week is hosted by Ona (wombat146).This week we are looking at the neutrals palette, the whites, blacks, beiges, creams and browns. But what exactly IS a neutral colour?In the first instance neutral colours are defined as hues that appear to be without colour and typically will not appear on the colour wheel. Neutral colours do not compete with primary and secondary colours and instead compliment them.The four neutral hues that are considered to be 'pure' (without any hue undertones) are black, white, brown and grey as they are created by mixing two complementary colors.All other neutrals are considered to be 'near' neutrals as they have a hue undertone. They are created by combining a pure primary colour with a pure neutral, the resulting tones colours … [Read more...]
Minimal & Maximal Monday: Same photos, 2 different layouts with Template Tips
Hello! Following on from discussing design styles for Beginners in my last post, I gave myself an informal challenge to produce 2 different style layouts using the same photos and same products, and seeing it's Monday and I like alliteration, well, here we are.Starting with a template my mindset was to make a minimal style page and then switch things up to make it more maximal, and because I mentioned that Artsy and Mixed media can work with either of those styles in that previous post, I purposely picked a kit with some artsy pieces and papers in it and a template that is simple enough that I could art-ify.Scrappers often gravitate to one particular style but there 's also a lot of scrappers that jump between styles as they feel and I'm one of those people. Maybe it's the kit, maybe it's the photos, maybe it's a challenge but something will pull me in one style direction and I … [Read more...]
So You want to Start Digital Scrapbooking: Design Basics & FAQs
I remember as a new digiscrapper, galleries were both awe-inspiring and also a bit daunting. If you are new to scrapbooking and galleries, the various different styles and methods people use may seem a bit overwhelming at first, and you may wonder what a scrapbook page *should* look like and how it should be.The good news and short answer is that like any artform, part of the beauty of this hobby, is that your page can look however you'd like and be however you want it to be. There is no right or wrong way to scrapbook. There are various common styles scrapbookers will adopt and commonalities to all of them so let's summarise and intro all the types and parts of scrapbook pages.*Basic Anatomy of a Digital Scrapbook Page*Regardless of the overall style of a digital scrapbook layout (or page, we use the terms interchangeably), each layout starts with a background paper just like … [Read more...]
Art Muse Challenge Highlight : Week 2 Rainbow
Hello there, Polly Stefanie here with a rainbow inspired challenge, hosted by scribler, you can find it here.For the month of February, each of our weekly challenges is exploring color. Last month, we played with black & white pages. This week, we are going in a completely different direction.It's time to head back to Junior High/Middle School science class where we learned the acronym ROY G BIV. Never heard of ROY G BIV? It stands for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Figured out this week's color exploration yet? That's right, we are going to explore a Rainbow of Color.For this week's challenge, I want you to create a page using at least three of the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet). It can be page with or without photos. If you use a photo it can either be in color or black & white. That is up to you. The … [Read more...]
Make It Monday Slider Card
Welcome to another Make It Monday Blog Post. Polly Robin here to show you how I made another card. This week I needed to make my father-in-law a card for his 84th birthday. Now something to know about him is that he is one of the top Door Dashers in his county. Y’all, he’s turning 84 and Dashes every day. He loves it so I wanted to give him a card to reflect that. I decided to do a card with movement that mimic’s his hobby. It’s not hard I promise!As usual, I roughly planned both the inside and the outside of my card in Photoshop just so I could get a quick feel for what I wanted to do and how I wanted to use the paper and elements. I knew I wanted to use Road Tested by Forever Joy since it had the perfect “man driving a car” element!Next, I created my print sheet by selecting “Print to PDF” and then printing THAT with my Epson ET printer.I also needed one … [Read more...]