Em Stafrace| Just a Girl with Ideas: Allison Pennington

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TAG YOU’RE IT | DECEMBER RANDOM CHALLENGE AT THE LILYPAD

This month I am hosting the Random challenge over at The Lilypad which is a bit of a stash grab. I love challenges like these because you use product you may not have visited from your digi stash for a really long time. So have fun trawling through your TLP digital scrapbook product collection and find all those Labels, Tags and Tabs that are screaming out to be used. I would love to see heaps of them and when I say heaps I mean at the very least 5 should be used in your creation.

GETTING CREATIVE WITH TAGS, TABS AND LABELS:

Sandwich Tags and Tabs between papers so they peep out from the top.

Stack Tabs, Tags and Labels to create some fun clustered layers.

Use Tags, Tabs and Labels to Journal on, add dates or key words to.

Use multiple Labels to add lists to.

Use Tags in a Bunting.

Create a collaged gallery of Tabs, Tags and Labels.

For extra inspiration I have put together a TAG YOU'RE IT PINTEREST BOARD that has tonnes of great ideas to inspire your pages. Also here is a quick link to the LABELS & TAGS CATEGORY in the TLP Shop.

Below is what I came up with. A Christmas page of lil mister and his ’T’ light Christmas ornament.

‘MAGICAL CHRISTMAS’

Click on the image to see all the credits :)

Remember our monthly challenge rules:

Your page must contain at least 75% Lilypad product. Your page should be posted to the Lilypad Gallery and then linked to the DECEMBER Challenge Layouts thread so it can be tracked, and to this thread.

The Lilypad uses a percent system for our challenges; the number of challenges you participate in determines the store discount you will receive at the end of the month:

2 challenges = 10% off

4 challenges = 20% off

6 challenges = 30% off

If you complete 7 challenges, you will receive a coupon for 30% off, plus you will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate from the Lilypad! The first seven challenges will be posted on the first of the month; the eighth challenge is the BYOC challenge, which is posted on BYOC release day. Each page counts for one challenge (you cannot use one layout for multiple challenges).

I can't wait to see your TAG YOU'RE IT CHALLENGE pages in the gallery!

Em

GO BIG OR GO HOME | SEPTEMBER INSPIRATION CHALLENGE

This month I’m hosting the Inspiration challenge. It’s all about making a big bold statement on our pages. It’s all about highlighting a SINGLE NUMBER or a SINGLE LETTER and making it stand out as one of the main design features of your page.

Consider your scale and proportion though because whilst this is the key element of your page you don’t want to detract from your subject matter and photo. So have fun and play around with digital styles, fonts, alphas and placement of all your other elements to help find the right balance.

The only rule is GO BIG OR GO HOME!

For extra inspiration I have put together a PINTEREST BOARD

It’s filled with lots of great pages and projects that highlight a SINGLE LETTER or NUMBER in the design.

'7th BIRTHDAY'

TALK TO ME ALPHA DOZEN | Allison Pennington

HARK ANOTHER VERY SMALL ALPHA | Allison Pennington

THE FRAMES (WITH ROOM) | Allison Pennington

IT’S A BREEZE ELEMENTS | Allison Pennington

BIGGER & BOLDER PAPER PACK | Allison Pennington (No longer avail).

As an alternative try :

SUPER DUPER BIG & BOLD PAPERS | Allison Pennington

POP MINI | Allison Pennington (No longer avail)

HELLO DAYDREAM TABS | Allison Pennington (No longer avail)

Hope you’ll join us over at The Lilypad for this months challenges.

Em x

A BLAST INTO THE PAST

Don’t you just love how scrapbook challenges get you thinking, not just outside the box in regards to design but in reeling those memories in no matter how vague at first they may seem. I've noticed this month how I have visited old photos and recalled long ago memories. Like the one below called Dancing Queen. This page was so much fun to create. Whilst making it I found myself transported back to my grandparents lounge room and dancing on Grandpa’s feet. Such a wonderful memory to revisit and because of it I’ve felt him close this week. Miss him.

DANCING QUEEN’

DEAREST DIARY KIT COLLECTION | Dawn Inskip
ALL GOOD THINGS STITCHED | Dawn Inskip
ALL GOOD THINGS TAPED | Dawn Inskip
BE WHO YOU ARE TORN PHOTO TEMPLATES | Dawn Inskip

‘JUST ADD SUNSHNE’

HOT HOT HOT KIT | Lynn Grieveson

‘UR A LOOP’

SILLY COLLAB | Pink Reptile Designs & Studio Basic

’22 TOGETHER'

BUILT FOR TWO KIT | Allison Pennington
PRETTY AS A PICTURE V.2 PAGE DRAFTS | The Nifty Pixel

Do you ever find yourself transported into another moment of time gone by when you scrap?

It’s part and parcel isn’t it really of our memory keeping and to emerge ourselves into wonderful memories. I’m so grateful to get my scrappy on and to be able to capture those truly special moments.

Have a great memory keeping day!

CUT OUT FANCIES | JULY RANDOM CHALLENGE

This month I am excited to be hosting the Random Challenge over at The Lilypad, which I am calling ‘CUT OUT FANCIES’. I thought it would be fun to start cutting out negative space in our pages to create some bold eye catching design tricks in our digital projects; just as paper scrappers do in theirs when they use svg.files.

As you know the svg.file has become a popular way to add cut outs of pattern, quotes, titles and niches in paper scrapping. No more laborious fussy cutting when you can use a cut file! But in digital scrapping its even easier to create that same look, and something we probably do often without realising it.

CHALLENGE CRITERIA:

So, this month, lets really make our CUT-OUTS sing and add some cut out negative space in our digital project. This technique is a fun way to enhance your page and create some extra special scrappy artworks.

You could use a word art, quote or type a title to use as a mask to create a negative space cut out from your background paper.
Maybe try a repeat pattern to cut out a bold background.
Use a shape as a mask to house a photo, flair button or any other element of your choice.
Then layer a solid or pattern paper underneath to create a peek’a’boo effect.
Whatever you choose, the combination is entirely up to you so long as you incorporate a minimum of 2 UNIQUE cut outs in your page.

In my page below, I have cut out some [Organic Shapes], to house some mixed media bits along with a [Title], I fashioned from a word art. I then added a [Block Border] and some ‘+’ signs scattered for added interest.

Digital Credits:

TALK TO ME KIT | Allison Pennington

FRAMES & STUFF V.2 | Allison Pennington

ARTSY BITS 12 | Lynne-Marie Designs

MAKING YOUR MARK WORD ART | Li Li Wee

For extra inspiration I have put together a PINTEREST BOARD CLICK HERE. It’s filled with lots of great cut out design ideas and some TLP product I pulled from the shop that could be handy to use in your project. I also pinned some great tutorials found on the web outlining different ways to create a punched/ cut out shape in your page.

Remember our monthly challenge rules:

You must use atlas 75% Lilypad product in your pages. Also, The Lilypad uses a percent system for our challenges; the number of challenges you participate in determines the store discount you will receive at the end of the month:

2 challenges = 10% off
4 challenges = 20% off
6 challenges = 30% off

If you complete 7 challenges, you will receive a coupon for 30% off, plus you will be entered to win a $50 gift certificate from the Lilypad! The first seven challenges will be posted on the first of the month; the eighth challenge is the BYOC challenge, which is posted on BYOC release day. Each page counts for one challenge (you cannot use one layout for multiple challenges).

Have fun scrapping up a storm!

PLUNGE INTO GRUNGE | STYLE CHALLENGE

This month I’m excited to be hosting the Style challenge over at The Lilypad and I thought it would be cool to scrap a style that I just can’t get enough of and thats...GRUNGE! Yep this month lets get messy and take the plunge into grunge!

When I paper scrap I can’t help but reach for my gesso, inks and mists. These are some of my favourite go to wet mediums and I am always spritzing, scrapping, or brushing them onto my pages. So I thought this month it would be fun to get all icky with a mix of digital wet mediums and create a painterly, grungy, messed up background as a base to build our design on.

When creating a grunge background you have to think lots and lots of layers. So get layering and stash grab your digital brush tools, clipping masks and painted overlays to help create all that grungy goodness. Anything goes here, there are no rules just visualise getting inky fingers whilst making a hot pretty mess!

For the specific challenge criteria head on over to The Lilypad forum and check out the April challenges, but for visual inspiration I have put together a PINTEREST BOARD CALLED INKY FINGERS. In there you will find lots of great pages (serious eye candy) and products that might help you on your grungy painterly exploration. Below is a page I created of my lil’ mister showing off his haul of Easter eggs and I’ve included tonnes of painterly brushes and stamps.

I hope you’ll join me this month and get messy wit it!

Em x

PICTURE PERFECT!

Time to share some more of my Guest Polly pages from over at The Lilypad.

This is my second lot of pages I've shared here on the blog and with my term nearing a close I still have more up my sleeve so figure I can squeeze one more post after this one in a weeks time,

its been a big month he he

Hope you like this lot though ;)