Lily Bee Finds

Friday Faves- October 30 edition!

Happy early Halloween, friends of Lily Bee!
I hope you have a beautiful and spooky weekend ahead of you!

I wanted to share layouts by two talented designers for our Friday Faves this week.

Check out this FABULOUS set of cards by Lynn Ghahary .
She can work that Audrey like nobody's business!





I also wanted to point out two beautifully elegant layouts by Camilla Ekman.



Those two ladies rocked the Audrey, did they not?
Happy Friday, friends!!!

Audrey Challenge Winners

Congratulations to our two Audrey Challenge Winners.

I enjoyed this two page layout by Jenni Hufford. Clean simple. I loved her scallop circles along the tops and bottoms of the pages


I loved this page by Pearl! She was so creative with using our packaging from the Tulle Flowers right on her layout. I loved the message as well.

' FALL ' in love with Audrey.........

if you haven't already - you will after using this line with your Autumn/Fall pictures. The rich yellows and and reds are perfect for your fall layouts. And it just so happens these fall pictures from last year had blue, black and red in them. PERFECT! I used my sillouhette to cut the leaves out of Audrey patterned paper. The background was done by spritzing with some Lemon Metalic Maya mist to bring the yellow out. Rubon's and Frames are from the Audrey line too.

the script paper I used on this card is from and old book - but the blue, yellow and reds are all from the audrey line. THis fabulous Halloween mini album was done by Jill Sprott - she's done an awesome job utilizing the Audrey collection - i think i see at least one of EVERY paper in the collection!
SO get out those fall photos and if your struggling and try to match them up with the Audrey line - its the perfcet combination!

Katrina decided to use the French Coutre line which is also fabulous with Fall photos!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to upload projects over at our Ning site.

Friday ' s Fave ' s

WOW finding lost of fabulousness! I know that's not a word but that's the word to best describe what I've been seeing over at our Ning site and at Two Peas. Here is some eye candy for you:
Found this in the Two Peas Gallery by scrappygirljen. I thought it was so fun how she created the circles along the sides.

Here is one by GudRun again over at Two Peas. Simple and classy.

Melanie Blackburn's layout caught my eye over on our Ning site. I love the various papers layered under her photo.

The Vintage Poppy is so versatile for fall. I love how Jana Eubank used her Noel Mignon kit for a perfect Harvest page.

Dandelion Pages Kit Club

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are having a fabulous Wednesday! So excited to share a kit club with you who are featuring out Vintage Poppy line and Three Little Birds for October.

Dandelion Pages I LOVE her site. The kit is beautiful and look what Guest Designer Greta Hammond did with their kit.

Monday Motivator

Happy Monday!

Monday is one of the busiest days of the week, and it can be a challenge to find time to get your scrap on in the midst of accomplishing a sizable "to do" list. No worries -- today's post is all about quick and easy ways to use Lily Bee's Audrey line. Both of the pages featured today use Audrey Fashion Frames and Audrey "Classy" patterned paper in some way:

Layout #1: "Our Girls"

"Our Girls" came together in just over 30 minutes. I began by prepping my cardstock, misting over the negative spaces from the Audrey Fashion Frames. I also lightly misted the large flower with cream-colored mist, and went over the little flower with blue stamping ink. Within minutes, the cardstock was dry, and I began to work on the page itself.

Much of my Audrey stash has been reduced to little scraps, but even those scraps are precious. They became the basis of the photo's "frame." I pieced together a foundation of scraps, but rather than spending time gluing each piece methodically, I just swiped each piece with a little bit of glue, drew "frames" around a few of the pieces, and then turned up the edges to add texture and dimension. To add a bit more color to the black and white paper, I used a blue watercolor pencil to fill in a few flowers, and went over them quickly with a thin brush while standing at my kitchen sink. The watercolor pencil also came in handy around the title. My sewing machine is always at the ready, so I stitched around the photo twice, to add a bit more definition to it.

Handwritten journaling always speeds along the process, as do hand-drawn lines and frames. The effect may not be as clean or precise as typewritten journaling or ruler-guided lines, but it's definitely more charming and personalized, which is what I wanted to capture on this page.

Layout #2: "Oh Brother"

"Oh Brother" was also created rather quickly, thanks in large part to the Audrey Fashion Frames that I used here. By combining three of the frames and a square piece of Audrey "Classy" paper, the page came together in no time at all. To create the "scalloped" border under the title, I cut in half the colored circles that are included in the Audrey rub-ons, and placed them alongside each other. This time around, I typed my journaling. Because finding the words was challenging for me, typing actually sped up my process, since I could compose my words and revise them prior to putting them on the page.

If you have any pages that use the Audrey line in quick and easy ways, be sure to post them on Lily Bee's Ning site. We'd love to see them! And you never know -- you just may be featured as one of our Friday Faves!

Friday Faves!

Happy Friday everyone!
I hope that you are having a beautiful fall day.

This morning I took a stroll through the gallery at our NING site to see what I could find.
There is SO much inspiration to be found there, please stop by if you have a chance.

Here are the layouts that caught my eye this week.


Puzzle by June Goh.
I love the way June cut the paper to make fun and funky flowers.


Dad's Little Girl by Antionette van Hattum.
This is just such a strong, striking design. I really like the way Antoinette put everything together here, and that little birdie tab is adorable.


Love the Beach by Lucy Edson.
LOVE this page. the hearts, the masking/misting, the texture...it's an awesome page to be sure.



Have a great weekend, and upload your projects to our NING site. Next week this could be you!!
xo

October Guest Designer-Vicki Boutin

SO SO ThRilleD to have Vicki Boutin as our Guest Designer. I have admired her work for years and was so excited when she mentioned Lily Bee on her blog. She has created some stunning work with our products. Thanks so much
Vicki and everyone Enjoy!






Must have scrapbook supply?
If I had to pick one thing...it would be patterned paper!

When and Why did you first start scrapping? When my son came along I went to new Mommy groups and one of the Mom's introduced me to scrapbooking. I have an art background, so it was love at my first sniff of glue! That was 8 yrs ago.

Guilty Pleasures? Oh, so many!! :) I have to say it is Diet Coke. I love thr stuff.

Two things you want very badly this moment? A good nights sleep and a trip to the South of France!

3 items in your purse?
Airline headphones, a lint brush and gum
Favorite scrapbook technique or style?
I LOVE stamping, paper piecing...pretty much any technique!

When do you feel most creative? At midnight when the house is quiet...hence the need for sleep!

Do you snack while you scrap? No. Just sip my diet coke.

Do you have a scrapbook confession?
My work area is a MESS!!!! A total disaster right now!!!

Favorite TV Shows?
Medium...love it! Only show I watch on a regular basis.

Job's you've had?
I have worked in department stores, sold shoes, was a perfume tester girl, worked in a toy store, sold caravan holidays in Europe, a Dental Assistant and a Treatment Coordinator.

What are you listening to right now?
I love music!!! Love the new Miley Cyrus "Party in the USA"...."put my hands up, their playing my song..." Such a catchy tune! Anything I can dance along too!

a bit sketchy on a Tuesday.

good morning everyone...Nicole here.

i will confess, and this will sound odd.
i have a hard time with sketches.
weird, right?
i can't quite put my finger on why, lol...but i do.
so i decided to take on the sketch challenge today...to help me fear them a bit less maybe?!
here's the sketch we all used...from the PageMaps website...the only one i ever visit when in need of a sketch. this was for a 12x12 page...(i love that they also offer 8.5x11 sketches.)

and here are a few layouts the Design Team came up with, using the above sketch as a guideline.

Observation by Katrina Huerta

(i just love how Katrina used that bold rub-on from the Audrey line as the title for this.)

No Doubt by Jill Sprott

(seriously?! Jill set out to show that the black & white papers in the Audrey line can be adapted to use with any bold color you may have in your stash...mission accomplished...WOW!!)

My New Family by Lori Gentile

(Lori's details always catch my eye...look at those cool pleated flowers!)

Because to Her... by Nicole Harper

(i decided to make an 8.5x11 with this sketch...just eyeballed the proportions a bit. and i disassembled one of the brown tulle flowers to use as a border above my photo.)

Blow by Brenda Hurd

(love how Brenda reworked the sketch...placing the embellishments in different places, etc.)
so there you have it...5 takes on a theme.

everyone starting at the same point, but ending someplace different.

(and i've broken my fear of sketches a bit, so i'm pretty happy!!)

have a lovely week!!

Friday Faves

Happy Friday to all! Welcome to another edition of Friday Faves. This week we have some more wonderful and amazing layouts to share with you.

"Face of an Angel" by CamillaE is so striking. I love the shape she created and the adorable photo of her son. I love all of the layering, especially the tags behind the photo.

Is this not the sweetest photo you've ever seen? It's too cute for words. I love it! What a gorgeous two pager!!! "To Love Well" is by Jenni Hufford.

Emmy Brannstrom created this adorable page, "My Precious" for her pet. Not only is the picture by her friend wonderful, but her attention to detail really makes it stand out on the page.

We want to thank everyone for uploading layouts and projects to our Ning gallery. We are having a great time pulling our Friday Faves from the gallery each week.

A quick reminder to enter our Audrey Challenge. The deadline, October 20th, is coming up soon. We look forward to seeing your entries.

scrapping disney with audrey

hey lily bee readers!
today i wanted to quickly share how our versatile audrey line can be used to scrapbook disney photos.

i am in the process of doing a disney mini and just didn't get it done quite in time. i'll share it later down the line when it is complete.

but never you fear, we have two FABULOUS disney projects from our equally fabulous designers.

first, here is an awesome Disney Cruise layout by design team member Brenda Hurd.



next we have this precious disney acrylic mini album by leah killian.























these projects have me itching to finish up MY disney album.
hope you've enjoyed them as well.

happy tuesday!!

xo,
lily bee

Halloween with Audrey

Halloween is my favorite holiday. Every year I try to celebrate that fact by making fun projects. This year I made a banner and some tussie mussie treat bags using the Audrey line.

I love to make banners and each time I make one for me, I make sure to add photos. If it's going to take up wall space, I like it to have that personal touch.

In this case, I used our costume photos from the last three years starting in 2006, just a few weeks after my second son was born. I love seeing the progression and I love knowing that I can continue to add to my banner every year and keep it current.

To make the "BOO" letters really pop, I put our fantastic white tulle flowers behind them. I love how they poof the letters right off the banner toward the viewer.

And, this is where it ended up in my home. We have a little table in our living room where all of our Halloween "guys" hang out. Unfortunately, it's the place that gets the worst lighting, but I wanted to share where I really put it.

We host a big Halloween party every year and this year I'm making a bunch of these little tussie mussie treat bags for each of the kids to take with them. They are really easy to make and they look really great.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your week.

Lori

more from the fabulous virginia tillery

I'd like to share some recent projects from the
super-talented Virginia Tillery!

Thanks so much for sharing your fabulous Audrey creations, Virginia.
You certainly knocked our socks off!







a blurb from virginia:

Here's my other project! I would like to make sure to give credit to Katie Watson on this one; she inspired me so much with her beautiful Christmas houses that I've been waiting all year to make my own versions. I just *had* to go ahead and try one out with a Halloween house. :)








thanks again, virginia!

friday faves 10/2

hey everyone!
hope you are having a beautiful fall friday!

today i'm sharing layouts that caught my eye by featuring our frame die-cuts.
all of these projects are from our NING site,
so share away. you might find yourself here next friday!!

i love the way that each of these layouts uses our die cuts creatively,
whether framing a photo, making a mini, or showcasing the journaling,
these projects are sure to inspire you to get out your lily bee goodies and create.
happy weekend, friends!!

antoinette:
antoinette used the papers in such an inventive, cool way. not just for the journaling block, but she used the borders to frame her lovely photo.


melanie:
melanie used a die cut paper for her darling title as well as a few sweet embellishments.

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wendy :
i really like the way wendy used the die cut papers for the pages of her book. such a cute little album, and not too complicated...i like that.






last today is becky.
this layout doesn't feature the die cuts, but i'm in love with it and had to share it today.
becky poured her heart out onto this page and i have no doubt she will treasure it forever. the border is AMAZING and i could just look at it all day. thanks for using our products for such a special layout, becky.

scrapping disney with audrey

hey lily bee readers!
today i wanted to quickly share how our versatile audrey line can be used to scrapbook disney photos.

i am in the process of doing a disney mini and just didn't get it done quite in time. i'll share it later down the line when it is complete.

but never you fear, we have two FABULOUS disney projects from our equally fabulous designers.

first, here is an awesome Disney Cruise layout by design team member Brenda Hurd.



next we have this precious disney acrylic mini album by leah killian.























these projects have me itching to finish up MY disney album.
hope you've enjoyed them as well.

happy tuesday!!

xo,
lily bee