CHA - Day Three!

Hello there! We are still at CHA, and this is day 3. Before we share our projects for today, we wanted to thank you all for your support and love. Thank You!

Today, we wanted to show you the Victoria Park projects. The line has been really popular at CHA, and the colors are amazing.

Layout by Julia Stainton, designer of Victoria Park

Layout by Cindy Liebel

Mini album by Georgia Keays

Layout by Linda Barber

Thanks for coming by today. Please come back tomorrow to see our last CHA projects.

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Focus On: New Year's Resolutions

Happy Monday! So here we are on the second week of January. Most people commit themselves to resolutions each year. Some of us have a long list of what we want to accomplish this year. Some of us are going to focus on one small change at a time. Some of us are just going to take life as it comes.

And because I'm nosy as heck, I asked a few of our designers to share their resolutions (or lack there of) with us.

Layout by Lisa Dickinson

(this is also Lisa's Project Life album opener - a reminder to love life everyday! )

Lily Bee supplies:

Patterned Paper:

Memorandum - Grapefruit, Whiteboard, Time Clock

Head Over Heels - Flirt

Memorandum Cardstock Stickers

Layout by Cindy Liebel 

(NEW is Cindy's One Little Word for 2012)
Lily Bee supplies:
Patterned paper: Memorandum Office Blue, Lemon, Grapefruit
Memorandum Mixed Cardstock Stickers
Memorandum ABC Stickers
Memorandum Index Journaling Cards
Lovely 12x12 Rub-Ons
Other: Maya Road crystals, Queen & Co. pearls

Layout by Jenni Hufford 

(all of her resolutions in a layout to serve as a reminder!)

Lily Bee supplies:

Memorandum: 6x6 Tiny Tablet, ABC stickers, Cardstock Stickers, Boardroom, Whiteboard, Grapefruit

Harvest Market: Pumpkin Seeds

Layout by Georgia Keays

(a few words to remind herself of what she wants to accomplish in 2012.)

Head Over Heels:
Swoon-HHP153
Dreamy-HHP155
Smitten-HHP151
ABC Stickers-HHS159
Mixed Cardstock Stickers-HHS158

Jingle:
Jingle Index Journaling Cards-JLJ150

Did you make resolutions for 2012? Will keep a journal? Or perhaps a scrap page? Please share with us!

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A bit of This & That...

Happy New Year everyone! My turn to share a layout today and I have done one on my son Archie. I am a HUGE Beatles fan so when I was shopping and saw this Yellow Submarine t-shirt I just couldn't resist. Archie loves it too, to the point where it is difficult to persuade him to take it off! He wanted me to take some pictures of him wearing it and when I downloaded them I was struck by how similar to Paul McCartney he looked - think the cover of Abbey Road, long pants, bare feet, floppy hair - but thankfully without the cigarette.

I chose a real mix of products for this layout - that is what makes using Lily Bee so easy - all the lines go together beautifully.

I am a sucker for polka dot paper and Linens from the This & That range is one of my all time favourites. I thought it might be fun to make even more of a feature of the dots by filling some of them in with string.

Of course Archie saw me doing this layout and it has now ended up in his room!

Lily Bee products used:

This & That - Linens paper

This & That - Brooch paper

This & That - Mixed Cardstock Stickers

Harvest Market - ABC Stickers

Head Over Heels - 6x6 Tablet

Memorandum - Index Journalling Cards

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Studio Peek - Georgia Keays

Hi Everyone, Georgia here to answer some questions from the lovely Linda about myself and my scrap space:

1. Do you have a dedicated scrap space?

Um, sort of... Just under 5 years ago we moved into our dream home where we plan to stay until our kids move out. We spent many months thinking, planning and trying to cover every possible scenario to come up with a design which would suit us for the next 20 years. Six months after we moved in I started scrapping and it's been musical rooms ever since.

Last month when Linda first asked me to share some photos my space I was using the study...

which left my husband, who does quite a bit of work from home, in the games room in the noisiest part of the house. The kids are getting older now so we have decided to turn the playroom into a scrapbooking / homework room for the kids and I to share and my husband can have his study back!

This is the playroom at the moment, I'm really excited about getting it set up.

2. When do you scrap?

I'm almost exclusively a night scrapper. Normally a couple of times a week I'll sit down after the kids are in bed and scrap until the wee hours. If I'm lucky I can sometimes squeeze in a bit of scrap time on the weekends too.

3. Would you say you are a fast or slow scrapper?

Definitely slow. A single layout will take me around 4 or 5 hours to complete.

4. How do you organise your stash?

I sort all my paper by manufacturer and then by collection and my embellishments by type. I have this weird ability to remember not only which manufacturer and line each embellishment belongs to but also when and where I bought it. I'm pretty sure that and old song lyrics account for around 90% of my memory.

5. Do you listen to music while you scrap?

I can't scrap without music but I MUST have dead silence when I am journalling.

6. What is your dream travel destination?

I love to travel, pretty much anywhere will do - so long as I need my passport I'm happy!

7. What SuperHero power would you like to have?

What I really want is a cone of silence like they had on Get Smart. I have three gorgeous, beautiful, LOUD children so a few moments of quiet now and then would be lovely.

8. Favourite colour combo?

Probably yellow and navy blue - with black of course!

9. Perfect weekend?

Spent with family around the pool.

10. Favourite family picture?

I'm really bad about getting in from of the camera so I don't have a pic of us all together but this is a recent one of the kids I like.

11. Favourite Lily Bee layout?

This is a really old layout but still one of my favourites.

12. Is there one last thing you'd like to share?

I'm always a bit intimidated when I see pictures of scrap studios because I am a very messy scrapper. Just in case anyone else feels the same I thought I'd share a photo of my scrap desk right now...

I hope it makes someone feel better about their own!

Thanks Linda, that was fun! I'll make sure to take some more photos to share once I have my new space set up - before it gets too messy!

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Day 15: Dear Santa...

Hi everyone, Georgia here with another Christmas project for you - using the Memorandum line! I thought it might be fun to record the kids' wish lists for this year, unfortunately the ones they wrote for me today were nothing like the ones I had them write in November - yikes!

I went to grab some ledger paper from Memorandum for a background to tie in with the lines on our Dear Santa chalkboard but as I was looking through my stash I realised the range would be perfect for the whole layout.

The business letter embellishments lent themselves to the theme of my page beautifully. As well as using a lot of the cardstock stickers I had the kids each write their list on a journal card and then made a little pocket to slip the cards into.

I hope I've managed to give you a little bit of inspiration although the bad news is if you have been putting off your Christmas projects because you don't have any Christmas product, you now officially have no excuse!!

Lily Bee supplies: Memorandum:

Boardroom, 9 to five and Whiteboard 12 x 12 papers

Mixed cardstock stickers

ABC stickers

Index journaling cards

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Day 1 - Lucy's Christmas Memories

ETA: We have a WINNER!

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Welcome to Day One of our 24 days holiday inspiration where we'll have something new to inspire you every day from now until Christmas. Of course it wouldn't be Christmas without presents, so we're throwing in some give aways too - starting with one today!

To get the ball rolling, I've created a memory box for my eldest daughter Lucy. Lucy really loves writing in her diary at the moment so I thought it would be nice for her to have a special place to record her holiday memories.

This was so quick and easy to make I thought I'd include some step by step instructions for you too...

To start, I made a basic origami box (you can find some easy instructions here) and reinforced it by tucking in some thick card stock before folding each side.

Then I made three memory tags, each on a different theme, using the same basic design for each.

To start, cut a piece of black card stock 5" x 4", one piece of patterned paper 4" x 2.5" and another 8" x 4". Attach the small patterned paper to the card stock and fold the longer piece in half and place an eyelet in each.

Stick the 8" x 4" paper to the tag so the fold lines up with the end of the tag to make a flap. Cut another smaller piece of patterned paper and stick it under the flap for journalling.

Use stickers, alphas and index journalling tags to embellish the inside of your tag and include a spot for a photo to be attached later.

Embellish the front of your tag by layering paper, stickers and index cards. The Jingle sticker sheet has some great titles you could use to create the topic for each tag. For this one I've used some of the banner stickers to create Christmas trees to tie into the trimming the tree theme.

Thread some string around the tag and through the eyelets, tying them together to keep the flap closed. I've attached the string to the back of my tag with masking tape and then finished it off by placing another piece of card stock over the top.

and that is one tag done! I've made two more using the same steps, one for Lucy to record the presents she receives...

and one for photos of the day itself...

[Lily Bee Products Used]

Jingle - Cranberry

Jingle - Mistletoe

Jingle - Tinsel

Jingle - Egg Nog

Jingle - ABC Stickers

Jingle - Mixed Cardstock Stickers

Jingle - Index Journalling Cards

Memorandum - 6 x 6 Mini Tablet

And for the giveaway... leave a comment on this post by Monday 4 December and we'll draw one name at random to receive a Jingle Collection Kit!

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