Artsy Journal Templates 15

Today Liz is debuting a new set of Artsy Journal Templates! This is a popular product line that has all kinds of artsy details like paint, scribbles and stamps, free-form and playful arrangements, and interesting journaling treatments. Artsy Journal Templates 15 has all of that, and is sure to be fun to work with. This set is 20% off through April 2, 2017.

Ophie scrapped some fun sports photos.

Ellen scrapped this beautiful page with a cute photo of her dog.

Week 12: Walks, Birthday, Debate & More

My Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Counting the Weeks Volume 1 by Amber Labau
March BYOC products:
Me, My Selfie and I papers by Pink Reptile Design
Me, My Selfie and I elements by Pink Reptil Design
Serendipity Paper by Mommyish
Serendipity Elements by Mommyish
Tweet Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Tweet Elements by Allison Pennington
Cloud 9 Elements by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Pocket Cards by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Papers by Sabrina's Creations
Duly Noted Journal Cards by One Little Bird Designs
Duly Noted by One Little Bird Designs

You know what I think I love most about having 7 kids ages 2-14? I get a variety of everything. From seeing the excitement of a 2 year old use the potty for the first time, watching a 7 and 9 year old develop a plan for a yarn maze and observing a 14 year old develop her debating skills. When I look at my page this week that is what I see. So many ages, so many exciting things happening for each one of them...and I get to watch it all happen. #soblessed

Here's the journaling on my pages. It's a little all over the place.
Left Page:
What a fun week. The top left photo is from a grocery store trip. I had 3 of my girls with me. We took lots of walks. It's been so nice outside. They always have to have their walking sticks. The kids made a yarn maze on the front porch. On Saturday we celebrated Matthew's 8th birthday with a baseball game with cousins & Oreo ice cream cake. The top right photo is from movie night. They are so cute on the couch all close together with their popcorn. Lydia, Abi and Isaac helped me make the cake for Matthew. They love to stir! 

Journaling on right page:
1. Ashlyn had her debate this week. She did so great. Much improved from the fall. I think she's getting the hang of it.
2.Lydia's been taking lessons for a couple months now. She's the first to practice every day.
3.Waiting at the orthodontist. Isaac enjoyed playing with the checker pieces while I did school work with Lydia.

That's it for this week!
-Liz

New Album Project Templates

It's that time: time for new project templates! If you are making monthly or weekly summary albums, or if you are putting together a calendar page each month, there are new templates ready! And, they are on sale 20% off through March 26, 2017

My Life Templates 4 - 2017 is a new set of pocket style spreads, digi style.

March Month in Review '17 Template is a spread for a monthly summary. Just doing one of these each month will make for a fantastic album at the end of the year.

And 2018 March Templates is a set of calendars in different formats, for all your gift giving.

Donna scrapped a sports banquet with My Life Templates 4 - 2017.

And here is Dagi's calendar using 2018 March Templates.

And Abish scrapped this little 4x6 card with a gorgeous nature photo.

Cristine scrapped a lovely March in Review page.

There's a few more days to grab those retiring items. Grab them while you can before they are gone for good!

Week 11: A little more normal....

My Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Counting the Weeks Volume 1 by Amber Labau
March BYOC products:
Me, My Selfie and I papers by Pink Reptile Design
Me, My Selfie and I elements by Pink Reptil Design
Serendipity Paper by Mommyish
Serendipity Elements by Mommyish
Tweet Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Tweet Elements by Allison Pennington
Cloud 9 Elements by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Pocket Cards by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Papers by Sabrina's Creations
Duly Noted Journal Cards by One Little Bird Designs
Duly Noted by One Little Bird Designs

After our busy week last week this week was a little more laid back and normal. We kept to a normal school schedule, co-op, music lessons, art class, gymnastics, etc... We even got a date night!

Photo #1 - Matthew is doing Yoga with me. His form is a lot better than mine. Lately he is obsessed with his muscles...I wonder if it will get worse the older he gets. #boys?
Photo #2 - My hubby and I enjoying a date night. I got this amazing Salmon dish...it melted in my mouth. He got his fave, a Cuban.
Photo 3# - My daughter practicing for debate. It's happening this week and she's so nervous. She'll do great though!

And what about those 2 at the top right. Too cute for words. They are a year apart but it's like having twins. They like to do whatever the other one is doing...or they like to boss each other around and tell each other what to do...or they like to be mischievous together.

Each week the 3 middles have art class. They learned some face painting techniques his week. Matthew's mustache cracked us up. I think Kyla did pretty good.

The picture at the bottom was at the docs office. It was just a routine visit, but I ended up having take all the kids with me. We took over the waiting room. It became our school room for an hour.

Here's little scrapping tip. I need that entire space at the bottom for my photo, but I still wanted to use the little journal card that I made with the template. I turned the opacity down on the paper layer and gave it a vellum look so you could still see the entire photo, and I could still add some journaling on top.

That's it for this week!
-Liz

50% Off Retiring Products!

The Lilypad is having an annual product retirement sale. Retiring products are 50% off March 17-26. If you see something you like, now is the time to buy at a great price ... and before they are gone for good! Here are all of my retiring products:

























Have fun shopping!

Week 10: There's a lot going on...

My Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Counting the Weeks Volume 1 by Amber Labau
March BYOC products:
Me, My Selfie and I papers by Pink Reptile Design
Me, My Selfie and I elements by Pink Reptil Design
Serendipity Paper by Mommyish
Serendipity Elements by Mommyish
Tweet Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Tweet Elements by Allison Pennington
Cloud 9 Elements by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Pocket Cards by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Papers by Sabrina's Creations
Duly Noted Journal Cards by One Little Bird Designs
Duly Noted by One Little Bird Designs

When I look at this busy page it really conveys what are week was like. There was so much going on. I had to squeeze in little bits of journaling, add a photo spot and include 3 QR codes!

There was homeschool gymnastics day. It's always a blast. Kyla and Emmie both won a t-shirt for crossing the tight rope. I've been trying to include a weekly art lesson in with our regular homeschool activities.  This week we did some chalk portraits.

Here's the journaling from photo #1 and #2 above:

1. Daddy with the girls who stayed behind while the rest of us went to Chapel Hill for Doc appointments.
2. Sweet sisters wait for me as I check out at Wal-mart.

Abi was sick early in the week. She woke up with this weird ear infection where her face was swelling up, but she had no fever and no fussiness. You wouldn't even had known she was sick if her ears weren't draining and her face wasn't red and puffy! When I went to get her medicine I found a $2 puppy pillow. I just had to get it for her. Thankfully she's all back to normal now.

There's a picture there of us eating our lunch out side of Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC. We had multiple appointments and packed a lunch. Then we did school in the hotel room. When we got home we all played a new game together called Quixx. It's a fun dice game that our whole family can play, minus the 2 youngest kids.  We've already played it a half dozen times.

Oh and the picture at the top right is a boy trip to Lowe's. I think Daddy enjoys having more boys to take with him to the construction store.

And just for fun here are my QR code videos if you would like to see them:

Here's Matthew teaching Abi how to talk. This is amazing on so many levels. Matthew has only been hearing for 2 years. He has to work on hearing and talking every day. For him to be teaching his little sister is just amazing.

Abi spontaneously said I Love You to me this week for the first time. We caught a video of her shortly after saying it. Then Isaac had to get in the fun and start telling us something.

I downloaded this new app called Boomerang and my kids had a lot of fun playing around with it. Here's a compilation of some of their videos.

Well then, I think I was a little chatty this week. I hope you enjoyed hearing a little bit more of my week. 

-Liz

Photoshop Silhouette Tutorial Part II - 4 years later!

Four years ago I posted a Photoshop Silhouette Tutorial. Since then we have added 3 more children to our family, and I finally got around to making silhouettes of the rest of our children. Poor Matthew joined our family 3 years ago, and I just made his! I was going to update my tutorial, but after watching my old video, I realized I made my silhouette the same way and there wasn't much to update.

You can watch the tutorial here:

Instead of making a new tutorial I'm just going to share my new silhouette wall. Here's our youngest son. I found an old frame at a thrift store and decorated his silhouette with some digital scrapbook paper form The Lilypad. I printed it out on my home printer.

Here's our updated wall. Now that I'm look at it the crooked frames are driving me crazy! I need to go fix them.

Here's the wall in our old house. Not sure which one I like better. I don't have that wall space in the new house.

Check out this page I scrapped way back when, when I only had 3 kids. I really need to do this again.

If you have any questions let me know.

-Liz

That's My List and Photos in Strips Templates

Liz has some fun new templates in store for us. There are several formats of lists to scrap about your life right now or your favorite things. And there's another set with some fun photo strips. These fresh designs are 20% off through March 12, 2017.

By Donna:

By Ophie:

Here are a few pages by the Polly's at The Lilypad:

byAshley

by Marnel

by Shivani

Week 9 & February Calendar Page

My Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Counting the Weeks Volume 1 by Amber Labau
March BYOC products:
Me, My Selfie and I papers by Pink Reptile Design
Me, My Selfie and I elements by Pink Reptil Design
Serendipity Paper by Mommyish
Serendipity Elements by Mommyish
Tweet Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Tweet Elements by Allison Pennington
Cloud 9 Elements by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Pocket Cards by Sabrina's Creations
Cloud 9 Papers by Sabrina's Creations
Duly Noted Journal Cards by One Little Bird Designs
Duly Noted by One Little Bird Designs

It's a new month so I went a little crazy shopping the March BYOC at the Lilypad! I'm really loving picking and choosing what I want to from each designer and having it all go together so well. Plus it gives me a good stash for the entire month.

Anyway, a little more about Week 9 at my house. It was all the normal stuff...school, piano, co-op, church, etc... I highlighted some of my favorite moments.  The journaling is below.

Journaling Left Page:

   Matthew loves geography. He especially loves drawing flags! He was hard at work this week after I bought him a new flag book.
  On Saturday night we went to the Farmers to see all of their farm animals and new puppies. Kyla wanted to bring one home.
  On Sunday we went for a mini hike. 


   Abi loves to listen to be a part of school work. Here she is listening to Lydia read aloud to me.  I love that look on her face. Pure joy.
   On Friday night we went out for ice cream after watching Aunt Virginia do her CrossFit WOD competition. #irony  

  These two love each other. 

Journaling Right Page: I got a new book  called "Different is Awesome". It's about a boy with a missing limb. Abi loves it. She likes to match her nubby up with his.  Whenever Daddy sits on the floor they must pile on top of him! No rest for him. Grandpa is working on our land a little bit and Isaac got to go for a little ride.

I also made my 2018 February Calendar page. I'm sticking to lighter, brighter colors for my calendar this year. So far I'm lovin' it.

2018 February Calendar Templates by Scrapping with Liz
All Things Considered Papers by One Little Bird
All Things Considered Elements by One Little Bird
Puppy Love Papers by Pink Reptile Designs
Love is All Around Papers by Lynn Grieveson
Loves is All Around Elements by Lynn Grieveson