SANNN'S FAVORITE FONTS - MARCH

 by Pink Lady Sannn

Who  doesn't have a folder on their computer filled with tons of fonts and you still can't find the right one to use on your page...

I often catch myself browsing through all kinds of font sites and downloading a lot of them just in case I will need them in the future.

Did you know you can use a font viewer to see all the characters of the font? I did that for a while but for me personally it just doens't work to see many different fonts at once. Since two years I use Pinterest for inspiration and I have many fonts pinned on my board. This way I can see all the different styles and types of fonts and great font combinations plus there's a link to get to the desired font right away and most of the time they are free for personal use too. Easy peasy!

Although I do journal a lot on my Project Life pages I’m not much of a journaler on my regular pages. Whether I write a lot or not I always want a font that matches the alphas or the theme from the kit I am using.

For the Month of Challenges at The Lilypad there where a few challenges I had to journal for.  There was a challenge for which you had to create a year 2013 in review page. I could have used pictures of my family but going through the photos I saw a lot of “food” pics and I realized they would go well with the Pink Reptile Designs Dinner Date Kit. I chose a black paper as a matte for my photo's resembling a a chalkboard and I used the font “Doodled Pen”, making it look like a real restaurant board.

For TLP's List Challenge I had to create a page with a list of 14 things that I would like to do, or hope to achieve this year. I thought it would be nice to use a fun font like “the Contessa” from Heather Joyce because it has that same retro, art deco typ of feel to it as the wordarts used in the kit I used: : What a Wonderful Day collab from Michelle Godin and Pink Reptile.

My list is changing monthly but here is my current top ten of favorite fonts to use with links and except for one they are all FREE!

1. Cinnamon Cake, 2. Days, 3. Scrap Marker [not free], 4. Lego House, 5. Doodled Pen,
6. Alex Brush, 7. Impact Label, 8. Kenyan Coffee, 9. Wednesday,10. Coming Home  

Happy journaling!

PRETTY PAGES FROM THE PINK REPTILE GALLERY

Today it's Christa's turn to pick another round of pretty pages from the Pink Reptile Gallery at the Lilypad.



It's Christa here, with my picks for this month's Pink Reptile Designs Gallery Standout. There was so many beautiful pages, especially after the Month of Challenges at TLP, that it was hard to pick just 3, so I picked 5!!! I just couldn't help myself.

Carl and Shayenne by nativescrapper
Christa: My first pick is this one by Native Scrapper (Cheryl). I absolutely love this page. It really embodies the saying "A picture says a thousand words"! I love the black and white precious photo masked onto the grayed textured background with the bokeh touches! The elements chosen of pale yellow flowers and butterfly is so eye appealing and soft, but that photo is absolutely pricless. A special moment between her niece and Carl.



Fave by dlw068
Christa: My second pick is this one by dlw068 titled "Fave". It is a page with lots of blank space, but draws your eye directly to the photo. I love the "viewmaster reel" clustered underneath the photo as if the photo was a print of one on the view reel. The flairs and stitches are a great touch to hold down the photo... Beautifully scrapped of her favorite, which has become a favorite of mine too!



Ugh by lauracw
Christa: My third pick is by lauracw...Titled perfectly with the word UGH! Cleaning and housework is definitely UGH when there is so many other things we want to do daily! I loved the way Laura has us getting a "look" into her laundry room stacked with those adorable cleaning bug elements. Even if there was no journaling, the title along with those cleaning elements and masked faux wallpaper says it all. Wonderfully titled and wonderful page!



Toed Away by Deeka
Christa: My fourth pick is by Deekaa. This was for the scrap therapy MOC challenge. While I cannot read the journaling due to it being in a language other than English, I still love the composition of this page. It is as if was a torn out page from her notebook. I love the clustering of the photo on an "roll-a-dex" card, and the type details re date time & location. The yellow sticky that has the simple word sigh/aargh, {after what appears to have been an incident where she got stranded and had to get her car towed} explains it all. These little things in life happen to us, and while not a very happy moment for the "pocketbook", it is great to scrapbook the everyday happenings, the bad along with the good things that happen to us. This is what scrapping is about... all the little things that happen to us, and it is great to see scrap therapy in action. The composition of the page and using the "Noted" collab was a perfect choice!



Penguins by Karenw
Christa: And now last but not least is my fifth pick. I just couldn't help it! This is by KarenW and I just adore the large photo of the Penguin. What an awesome photo! I love the little film strip with additional penguin photos. Penguins to me are always dressed up and ready to go. I just loved the composition on this page, the splash of turquoise paint spray and all the little date elements. A really wonderful and adorable page!



Thank you ladies for your wonderful layouts. Until next time - Keep scrapping those pages and adding to the PRD Gallery at TLP. Next month we could be featuring your page!

PRESENTING HOUSE BLEND - CHOCK FULL OF HEAVENLY COFFEE & TEA ELEMENTS

Have you ever heard the saying "put the kettle on, company is coming"? It means you are getting visitors, that's it's time for friendly and fun chats and a homely cup of coffee or tea!

Well it is Friday and I am releasing a brand new, huuuuuuge kit that I made in collaboration with the lovely miss Danielle Young of Danielle Young Designs, that is all about moments like that and then some!

Whether you are a coffee drinker or a tea drinker, I am pretty sure this collab is right up your alley, and a definite must have for your scrapbooking stash. It is "chock full of heavenly coffee" & tea elements and the non traditional colors & papers will definitely blend together for that perfect page.

HOUSE BLEND COLLAB

The collab contains 1 alpha in 3 colors, 32 papers and over a 100 elements! 

HOUSE BLEND JOURNAL CARDS
The coordinating House Blend Journal Cards include (6) 3 x 4″ journal cards  that can be used on your digital scrapbook pages, as well as in your Project Life/pocket page albums. The package contains individual .jpg files with and without textures and printable PDF and PSD files for easy at-home printing.

The journal cards are free with purchase of the collab [and will be automatically added to your cart], or they can be purchased separately.

INSPIRATION

Here are some layouts that the Pink Ladies, Polly's and cheery-o's brewed up for your enjoyment.

by audrey

by barbara

by marnel, meg and sannn

by elina

by amanda, cynthia and danica

by ellen, manuela, chery and ulla may

by susanne

by anja, natascha and céline

by helen

I hope you enjoy this collab as much as I enjoyed teaming up and making it with Danielle.
Have a good weekend and Happy Scrappin'!

VA VA VOOM HYBRID VALENTINE'S CARD

High time for a spotlight on one of Géraldine's amazing hybrid projects again. In the spirit of Valentine she created this goregous pop-up card with my Lucky In Love Elements and Papers!

front [wooden embellishments and black wire were added as a finishing touch, all other embellishments and clusters were made in photoshop, printed and cut out]

inside left [Géraldine used 3D foam behind the element clusters to add extra dimension to the card]

inside right [the grid paper background with paint splatter was used for all sides of the card and personalized with cut out and wooden embelishments]

Now my hands are itching to go and make one myself!

FEBRUARY BLOG CHALLENGE

Before we go into details I'd like to thank everyone who participated last month for their goregous contributions. I am glad we are doing random winner picks because who could choose! Want to see what I am talking about then click here to see all the January entries!

Now let's see who our January winner of the 10 dollar coupon to my store is:

** Merethe aka Lime **

Here's her beautiful contribution:

Congratulations Merethe!! I have sent you a PM on your TLP gallery account.

All other participants received their 25% discount coupons via their gallery accounts also only Kawouette got it via her FB page. Please make sure you check your messages!

Now for the January 2014 template challenge details:

After so many months of scrapping with a template, I thought it might be fun to do another scraplift challenge.

I do not have one particular layout in mind. Nope! I thought it would be fun to let you pick one from one of my FB albums and that would be the Rain Or Shine album. I picked that one because there's a large range of pages and styles so I am sure there's one among the 40 plus pages that inspires you and fits your taste!

Here are just a few examples of pages you will find there:

As you can see there are minimalistic pages [this one is by barbara]

but there's also the total opposite like this freestyle page by jordan

and stacks of course as shown in this page [this one is by loni]

heavily embellished pages [this one's by andrea]

photoless [this one is by heddy]

pages with a big photo [this one's by natascha]

and there's a whole lot of pages somewhere in the middle like this one by Courtney!

With those samples I think I made my point that there simply is no excuse for not participating! LOL. I just know there's a page in there waiting to be scraplifted by you!

REQUIREMENTS:

Lift a layout of your choice. Once you finish your layout then upload your page to one or all of your galleries and post a link to your layout in the comments section of this post before March 15.

Use your imagination, scrap about anything you want. Just make sure you use at least 75% pink reptile products. To help you with that I have a coupon so you can grab the Rain Or Shine kit at 40% off if you want too!

Use code: prdBLOF40offRorS [expires March 14, 2014]

FACEBOOK

Off course there's always a little something for free under the Free Gift Tab at the Pink Reptile FB page too!

Happy Scrappin'!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY SALE

A very happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

I am really excited because we have a lot going on at the Lily Pad this weekend. There's a huge Valentine's Day sale: all Valentine products are 30% off through sunday february 17.

Plus you'll get the cutest collaboration kit made by Jacque, Jaimee, Karah, Kate and Kaye FREE with a $10 purchase. It will be the best scrappin' Valentine weekend ever!

Just to add to your sweet tooth and make your heart skip a beat, I have added my "What I like about you" FULL kit to the TLP store. [*This was my feature kit over at Scrap Stacks in January 2014]

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU

The kit is packed with yummy goodies yet no calories are included and, even better, it will also be up at 30% off this weekend!

Includes:1 alpha in 2 colours, 18 papers [10 patterned ones and 8 matching solids] and 58 unique elements [60 in total]

INSPIRATION

The Pink Ladies have made some pages of their loved ones for inspiration:

by audrey

by géraldine

by akizo, carrie and ellen

by manuela

by elina, helen and anne

by marnel and susanne

by donna

FREE WITH PURCHASE

Spend 10 dollars at TLP and get this SUPER cute kit by Jacque, Jaimee, Karah, Kate and Kaye FREE!

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day, and Happy Scrappin'!