Week 13: Birthday, Reading by Firelight, Drawing...and Staying Home!

Stories of Life Templates 4 by Scrapping with Liz
Must Watch Templates 1 by Scrapping with Liz
Room with a View Elements by Pink Reptile Designs (buttons)
It's Your Day Papers by Paula Kesselring
Sprung Elements by Pink Reptile Designs (be happy word art)

Hey there! How is your week going? Staying home? Getting tired of it all? Well, at least we can scrap. I'm a homebody so it's not getting to me too much. My kids, on the other hand, are another story. They are ready to see friends and resume normal activities.

I did have some fun connecting with some of you all during TLPs World Connectdness Event. It was sort of put together quickly last week and I jumped at the opportunity to be able to connect with everyone during this time of isolation. I did a live scrap/chat yesterday and scrapped these pages to show the process of how I scrap my weekly pages. I did record that and hope to share it soon. Upload speeds around these parts are iffy so I have to find a good time to upload when my hubby isn't working and nobody has on-line classes (yes, even homeschoolers do some work on-line!).

So, as far as week 13 goes, we stayed home...again. Celebrated a birthday! Thankfully we have a large family so it sort of felt like a birthday party. We continued on with a normal school routine (it does my kids, and myself, good to keep to a semi-normal routine), zoomed with friends, took on-line drawing and chess classes, read outside by the fire and exercised in the garage.

Stories of Life Templates 4 by Scrapping with Liz
Must Watch Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz
Room with a View Elements by Pink Reptile Designs (stitches)
Room with a View Papers by Pink Reptile Designs
Big Day Word Art by Little Butterfly Wings
Sprung Elements by Pink Reptile Designs (be happy word art)

That's pretty much it. Is this time helping you get caught up on scrapping projects?
-Liz

Stories of Life 4 and March Memories Templates

New album templates - great for weekly or monthly summaries or for stand-alone pages too. If you love magazine styles or the cut-out look or if you need to scrap quickly but with maximum impact, these are great designs to have in your stash. They are 20% off through March 29th, 2020.

And here's some team inspiration for you:

ByDonna

By Anita

By hnudao

By Stefanie

by Cynthia

by Ellen

by Iowan

Week 12 and DYD Pages!

Stories of Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Must Watch Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz
Pocket Arts Stash Builders 2 by Rachel Jefferies Designs
Room with a View Papers by Pink Reptile Designs
Room with a View Elements by Pink Reptile Designs

Popping in here really quick on this Monday night to share with you the pages I created this weekend. It took me forever to upload my videos so that I could add my QR codes, thus I could not share them with you last night. I love living out in the rural mountains with plenty of space for my kids to run and play outside, but I don't care for the internet!

Anyway, I took so many more pictures this week. I think it was due to staying home more. #socialdistancing Yes, I homeschool, and yes, my hubby works from home but that doesn't mean we stay home all of the time. We've enjoyed a slower pace and therefor a little bit more time to take pictures. I hope you all are holding up with all that's going on out there. Thankfully we can scrapbook at home, right?

Stories of Life Templates 3 by Scrapping with Liz
Room with a View Papers by Pink Reptile Designs
Room with a View Elements by Pink Reptile Designs
Itsy Bitsy Alphas Volume 8 by Amy Wolff Designs
Bookmark Stamps by Sahin Designs

 And here are some DYD pages that I finished up. Just 8 more to go!

Holly Jolly Templates by Scrapping with Liz
Jingles Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Be Very Merry Elements by Mommyish
Be Very Merry Papers by Mommyish
DYD 2019 Style Bundle by Mommyish
Oh Deer December by Sabrina's Creations
Falala Kit by Designs by Soco
Must Watch Templates 1 by Scrapping with Liz

Holly Jolly Templates by Scrapping with Liz
Jingles Patterns and Backgrounds by Allison Pennington
Be Very Merry Elements by Mommyish
Be Very Merry Papers by Mommyish
DYD 2019 Style Bundle by Mommyish
Oh Deer December by Sabrina's Creations
Falala Kit by Designs by Soco
Must Watch Templates 2 by Scrapping with Liz

-Liz

Going, going, gone! 50% OFF Retiring Products Sale!

I have lots of designs on sale for 50% off before they retire from the store to make room for new designs. There are calendar toppers, monthly reviews, card sized designs, and MORE! There are a few Bundles retiring, and the individual sets from those bundles are also retiring although I won't include all the images here.

Go have fun shopping! These will retire on March 31.

Having Fun with Photo Clusters

Hello again!  It’s me, CT Robin here to share with you some cool ways to use Liz’s various photo cluster templates.  During this crazy time, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and anxious.  Sometimes those feelings can impede creativity and our mojo.  Since I know I’m feeling that way right now, I figured I’d share something I do to help me scrap a page when my focus is off.  

I love using Liz’s clusters as they help me jump start my page by getting my photos down first.  The great thing about these templates is that we can use them as is, or we can modify them to suit our needs.  Let me show you what I mean.

Here AmandaJ uses the Funky Photo Mats and then simply adds a gorgeous title and some fun elements.  Voila!  Her page is done!

But there are so many other things we can do too.  We can add or subtract a photo spot like Lor did here. She started with the Photo Clusters template set and simply subtracted one of the spots.  

But EllenT used the same template set and filled three of the spots with paper.

And AmandaJ went one step further.  She used Photo Mat templates and replaced ALL the photo spots with different papers!

Another nifty thing you could do is to use ONE photo in ALL the photo spots simultaneously.  Cfile did exactly that with Liz’s Cluster and Edge Freebie 2.

Speaking of Edge templates, you can take a cluster from one of Liz’s cluster packs and mix it with an Edge template. Here Lor used a cluster from Photo Cluster with one of the edges from Edge Templates 2 for the added visual interest.  Pretty fun!

And if we are mixing clusters and templates, we might as well mix a whole different template with these clusters like AmandaJ did here. She took the photo spots from Funky Photo Mats and added it to a template from the Big Photo Templates 5. 

All of these techniques are super-fast and easy, and help us make great pages, don’t you think?!

I don’t know what the coming days will bring for our world, but I do know it’s important to find some creative release so we can better take care of ourselves and our families.  I hope this blog post will help you realize that we can scrap a pretty page quickly when we need to!