Life: wonky and disrupted

Rachel Jefferies and I recently gifted the ‘Mend’ mixed media kit to our premium members at 'Pixels, Paper & Paint(our Substack newsletter and community)

In the post for those members I created and talked about some messy collages using "Mend". It was Rachel who dubbed them ‘disrupted’ or ‘chopped up’ collages. “Mend” is now available in stores as well.

I so enjoyed making those pages that I decided to use them as inspiration for a set of pocket page photobook templates, so I can quickly and easily make similar pages. They are a lot of fun to personalise and play with.

Here’s the original layout that inspired them: 

And here's another with my "Budding" collection:

And it was so much fun to see Rachel use them with the new Lilypad bloghop collection:

Messy Pockets Disrupted  <—— find them here

Secret messages and soft colours

 

I loved the soft colours of this month’s BYOC palette, which lent itself to contemplative pages.

Not long ago I asked people in the scrappy community for theme ideas. Many of us now have older or adult children, so the theme of young adulthood and independence was a common request.

So while my BYOC collection CAN DO works as a ‘fall themed’ kit and is also loosely themed around learning, there are also little touches and elements that work for the young adult idea, plus the concept of determination and the tackling of hard things that are necessary when ‘adulting’.

I’m definitely not young ;-) but no matter how old we are, we can both forge new paths and draw on our reserves of determination.

Many of these journal elements I have included can carry little messages, like 20+, 123, ‘hard things’ and ‘the real world’.

The ‘single’ ticket and the ‘hard things’ tag on my layout carries the meaning for this page, which is outwardly a travel page but really isn’t.

Here’s another from the same trip (I was helping to amuse and care for the delightful Rosie while in Spain):

But it can take you wherever you want to go, as Geraldine and Brenda demonstrate below with two very different pages :-)

You can find the 'Can Do' collection at The Lilypad

Save big with a mammoth weekend

 

Hello from Wellington, New Zealand, where we are in strict lockdown for the first time since early 2020, thanks to a delta case which snuck in from Australia. And it's a lockdown with added masks, as way back when we last had Covid restrictions like this, it's was the 'alpha' strain (old school Covid!) and we didn't know as much about the airborne nature of it. Fortunately none of us, especially Daughter-Two, really mind wearing one, even on our daily walks.

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It's also very been very cold and wintry - so all in all a good time to be inside creating. Which is perfect, as it's a big weekend at The Lilypad.



There's this month's Mixed Media Monthly collection, an add-on collection from me, a new template set, lots of CU PLUS an exciting collaboration with Rachel Jefferies!

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M3 - 'ENDINGS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL'

Here's the day the last cruise ship left NZ in 2020:
 

And, on the same theme, here we are in France (wearing the clothes we were going to throw out!) after SARs disrupted a planned move from London to Singapore, and after all our belongings had already been packed up. 

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BITTERSWEET COLLECTION
An add on Mixed media collection from me:

You can grab the whole collection (for the best value) or get the core kit (papers + elements) or the papers, elements, paints and brushes separately

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KINDNESS CHANGES EVERYTHING

And THIS is really exciting! For a while Rachel Jefferies and I have been hoping to collaborate, and we finally made it happen:

You can also get the Journal cards, Mixed Media elements (paints and brushes) and elements separately:
 

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There's also a template set:

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COMMERCIAL USE-OK PRODUCTS ON SALE
Plus, all CU is also on sale, including some new designs:

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Here are just a few of the layouts that you can find in the gallery at The Lilypad  :-)

~ Lynn