PUSHING PAUSE ON SENIOR WEEK | A PARENT’S CHEAT SHEET
During the final week of high school, an era comes to an end for your senior. It’s definitely a bittersweet time- and in just a blink, you will be at the Big Days: Prom and...
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Senior Year Photos and Gorilla Warfare | Arm your Enemy
This whirlwind of emotions and all the accompanying end of year activities can make it almost impossible to capture the stories of the High school wrap up- especially in light of the fact that parents...
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How to Ruin a scrapbooking layout in 10 easy steps
Step 1: Overcrowd the Layout Who needs breathing room when you can suffocate your layout with an overwhelming amount of photos, embellishments, and text? Forget about visual hierarchy or balance – just cram as much...
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You’ve Got Layouts!
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to...
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Layout Closeup | Photojournalism Style
It’s always a challenge to tell a story with multiple photos in a layout without looking cluttered. You want the story to be linear- start at point A and end at B- and you want...
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Realistic Stamping | Fake It to Make It
Here’s a another before and after page by Justine who is a all star Joymaker on my creative team! You may know her as @bellbrid at the Lilypad. I love to tweak things to look...
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Brush on the Shine | Fake It to Make It
It’s the little things that add up to the making of a great digiscrap layout! Adding just a touch of sheen to an element can make it more realistic- and can help add an...
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The Shadow Knows | Fake It to Make It
Shadowing is, in my opinion, the secret sauce of a great digital scrapbooking layout. A page with no shadowing just looks wrong- a page with shadows that are too dark also misses the mark....
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GSO Winner announced!
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Fake it to make it! | Tweak of the Week
It’s a memory from high school that is clear as day- Sister Cecilia is handing back our essays for rewrite- marked in red pen- exclamation marks and circled spelling and her notes if the...
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Sunday Standouts | Final Week MOC
The Month of Challenges at the Lilypad is coming to an end- but that doesn’t mean the inspiration can’t rock on! There were 31-derful ways to expand your creativity and have a little fun scrapping...
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Sunday Standouts | MOC Week 3
The Month of Challenges at The Lilypad has just wrapped up it’s third week– just one more week to go! That means if you have played long- you’ll have created 30 pages and learned...
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