Em Stafrace| Just a Girl with Ideas: Mommyish

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GO GREEN FOR MOTHER’S DAY | MAY INSPIRATION CHALLENGE AT THE LILYPAD

Hi everyone, welcome to the month of May! The May 2019 Inspiration challenge is inspired by this months birthstone the EMERALD.

The lushness of the colour green is so refreshing and symbolises so many things including the colour of life, renewal, nature and energy. It is also associated with meanings of growth, harmony and safety.

I just love this colour and thought why not make it this months inspirational hue and then I had a brain wave moment, what do all these symbolic meanings of the colour green remind me of? Yep you got it, my mum and being a mum! So lets step this challenge up and create a page dedicated to the theme of Mothers Day and make green the main colour palette of your design.

CHALLENGE CRITERIA:

Create a project that focuses on the theme Mothers Day and what that represents for you. You could scrap about your own mum or someone who has been like a mum for you. You could scrap about the highs and lows of being a mum or if you’re a mum to fur babies thats totally being a mum too! The skies the limit on this one.
You must use the colour Green as you primary colour palette. This can include as many shades, hues and tones of green that you like. So have fun with green!
Other colours can absolutely be included. However please make sure green remains the predominate colour.

Here is my page dedicated to my wonderful mum. My mum has been an amazing support for me all my life but more so these past few months since my diagnosis. She has totally stepped up and helped with running the house and looking after Tige when Dan has worked away from home and when I’ve been too unwell to do it myself. I can’t imagine how our little family would of coped without her tremendous love and support. Love my mum! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

I used various shades of green and teal in my page with a touch of red and black as accents.
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For extra inspiration I have put together a PINTEREST BOARD called GO GREEN this has tonnes of great ideas to inspire your pages.

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 MAY 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 Mothers Day pages in Green!

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

POLLY POST | YEP YOU READ THAT RIGHT! HEHE

Last month was a massive month playing along in the MOC 6 challenges over at The Lilypad. Not only did I learn tonnes of exciting tips and tricks in digital scrapbooking, by participating I also had an opportunity to share my scrappy style with some of the digi scrap world heavy weights!

One of the reasons the MOC is held is to find a new Pollywog for The Lilypad and lil ole me was offered a Polly position! OMG blow me over, I was picked! This year was a record year of participants with over 300 finishers of the 31 challenges so it was hard to pick just one, instead four of us were selected which is just incredible! Congrats to my fellow newbie Polly's Christa, Annemieke and Tracie, its going to be fun getting to know you gals!

It’s always been my dream to hang at TLP in a more permanent way and yay its finally happened! I am so excited to get into the swing of things and really look forward to sharing over the coming months some technique tutorials, hosting some fun challenges to get you scrapping out of your comfort zone and to share some lovin’ in the gallery. I hope you’ll join me over at The Lilypad. If you are looking for a new digi home stop by and join in its surely going to be a fun ride!

So to kick start my Polly Posts here is the first lots of pages created using this weeks New Releases!

This page I created for Fiddle-Dee-Dee’s Blog Template Challenge. Only a couple of days left to get your page in for that one :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Em x