Lily Bee Finds

A Sketch Challenge, A Winner, and Some News

But before we present you with our newest challenge (and the last of the year), we have a winner from the last challenge (Sketch 4).  First, I want to thank you all for participating in our challenges. We love (LOVE) seeing your entries. They are inspired and inspiring! THANK YOU!

We had so many wonderful entries, but we could only pick one. So we entered everyone's name into the handy dandy Random.org, and the winner is

JULIE TUCKER-WOLEK!!!

Congratulations Julie! Please email me with your mailing info at milesofpaper [at] gmail [dot] com for an early Holiday present.

And speaking of Holiday, we have an announcement for you, after the new Sketch Challenge.

Today's challenge is brought to you by the lovely Kay Rogers.  Here's her very cool sketch:

And here is her beautiful take on the sketch:

Lily Bee Supplies Used:

Head Over Heels Smitten

Head Over Heels Courting

Head Over Heels Swoon

Head Over Heels Bubblegum

Head Over Heels ABC Stickers

Head Over Heels Mixed Cardstock Stickers

The rules:

1) Use at least two Lily Bee products (any two).

2) Post your layout on our Facebook page (please include the title Lily Bee Sketch Challenge 5) -OR- include a link to your project in the comments of this post. Please do one or the other, not both.

3) The deadline is Tuesday December 6th, 9PM EDT. We'll randomly pick one winner to receive some delicious Lily Bee products!

This is the last challenge of the year! Hope to see your work. :)

And now the other news! We have a nice surprise for you!

Starting tomorrow, December 1st, we are going to post a holiday related project. Every single day. For 24 days! Of course, we'll be giving away prizes too! So we hope to see you tomorrow (and every day thereafter!)

Thanks for coming by!

Soft & Sweet

I've been scrapbooking for quite a few years now but recently I've been going back through my photos that were taken before my scrapbooking years. They are still in photo albums. Many will stay there but I've been going through and choosing some of my favorites to scrapbook into layouts. I love how timeless the Lily Bee Design lines are that make this easy to do.

I'm always looking for a new approach to keep my designs fresh. Usually I start with my patterned paper and go from there. For this layout, I decided to put my patterned paper on the back burner and start with some Lily Bee Design Index Cards and see where the design went from there.
























By arranging a few of the index cards together into a collage I've created a frame of sorts for the sweet baby photo.

















Little hearts stamped over misting add some soft subtle detail.





















I did use one tiny piece of patterned paper to make a little heart embellishments by covering a piece of chipboard.

Lily Bee Supplies:
Index Journaling Cards:
Head Over Heels
6x6 Tiny Tablet: Head Over Heels
Cardstock Stickers:
Head Over Heels
ABC Stickers:
Head Over Heels
Clear Stamps:
Heads Over Heels

Have a creative day!

Focus On: Home Decor

Hey everyone! Hope You had a great weekend. And if you are in the US, hope you had a great Thanksgiving, too!

For today's Focus On, we challenged some of our team members to come up with projects to decorate our homes. We love what they came up with. (Click on photos to see a bigger version.)

Fall Frame by Piradee Talvanna

Lily Bee Supplies:

Pattern Papers: Harvest Market, Memorandum

Tiny ABC Stickers: Harvest Market

Others: Maya Road Chipboard, IKEA frame, String, Pearls, Silhouette Machine

Family Hand-Prints Frame By Lisa Dickinson

Lily Bee Supplies:

Memorandum: Grapefruit, Payday, Office Blue, Whiteboard & Lemon
Tiny ABC Stickers

Mixed Media Canvases by Kay Rogers

Lily Bee Supplies:
Harvest Market 6x6 Tiny Tablet

Harvest Market ABC Stickers

Harvest Market Pumpkin Seeds

Harvest Market Peach Crisp

Memorandum Whiteboard

Memorandum Clear Stamps

Altered Bird House by Julia Stainton

Lily Bee Supplies:
6x6 Tiny Tablet: Harvest Market
Cardstock Stickers:
Harvest Market
ABC Stickers:
Harvest Market
Clear Stamps:
Heads Over Heels

Thanks for the dose of inspiration ladies!

THANK YOU!

Today, we are thankful for so many things. 

Paper 

Glue 

Photos 

Memories 

Stories 

Love 

Friends 

Family

and 

YOU! 

Thank you for supporting us! 

Hope you have a great day, enjoying yummy foods, surrounded by your loved ones! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Keep it Simple.

If you are anything like me, you might be slightly freaking out that Thanksgiving is this week. Which means Christmas is soon to follow.

We are still trying to get through our Halloween candy! :)

Trying to make time or keep up with crafting and scrapbooking during the holidays can be a little tricky with all there is to accomplish! Let me share with you my secret: keep it simple.

My husband and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary last week-- it's obviously something I wanted to document. I usually spend quite a bit of time on my layouts, but with last week's schedule that wasn't an option-- so I challenged myself to keep it simple.

I used one photo and layered a variety of papers from the Head Over Heels collection (love!). I even used the (short) journaling and title from a recent blog post. Easy!

So the key is to keep it simple. And when you do, you will be amazed at how much you will get done even during this busy season!!

Lily Bee Supplies Used:
Head Over Heels: Smitten, Courting, Swoon, Crush, Dreamy, ABC Stickers
Lovely: Chipboard Stickers

Lily Bee + Maya Road Blog Hop Winner!

Thank you so very much for the love and support this past week! We really loved hanging out with the Maya Road folks, and working with their products was a delight!

We have randomly picked one winner to get some an early present from us, and it is:

Congratulations, Cynthia! Please email me with your mailing info: milesofpaper [at] gmail [dot] com

Again, thank you everyone! We have some exciting stuff coming up in December. We'll share more about it soon. Don't forget to "like" us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter for more up-date-news!

Focus On: Thankfulness

For the winner of the Lily Bee + Maya Road blog hop, please go here.

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a great weekend. This Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the US. It's my favorite holiday of the year. It's one of those holidays that is celebrated by almost everyone, regardless of religion, because everyone can find something to be thankful about. So we asked our designers to create projects that are thankfulness related. (Click on photos to see a bigger version.)

So Thankful by Jenni Hufford

Lily Bee supplies:

Harvest Market- Peach Crisp, Black Licorice, Turtle Neck, Pumpkin Seeds, Squash

Memorandum- Boardroom, Whiteboard 

Lovely- Parasol, Chipboard Stickers

French Couture- Handmade, Tailored

 Thankful 4 Us 2 by Cindy Liebel

Lily Bee supplies:
Patterned Paper:
Harvest Market Black Licorice
Harvest Market Squash
Jingle Spruce
Stickers:
Harvest Market ABC Stickers
Head Over Heels Mixed Cardstock Stickers
Christmas Town Chipboard Stickers
Other: KI Flower Buttons, Jillibean Soup heart stickpin, Silhouette die-cut machine & Fiskars punches

Thankful tag by Lisa Day

Lily Bee supplies:

Tiny Tablet: Harvest Market

Mixed Cardstock Stickers: Harvest Market

ABC Stickers: Harvest Market

I Am Lucky! by Linda Barber

Lily Bee supplies:

Tiny Tablet: Memorandum

ABC Stickers: Memorandum

Stamps: Picket Fence

Other: thread

What are you thankful for this holiday? Please share with us!

Thank you for taking some time to drop by! Hope to see you again tomorrow.

Little girls, like butterflies...

..., need no excuse.
I just love using butterflies in my projects for my daughter. This canvas will find a special place in her room, she too loves butterflies:)

Here is a quick 'How to' on creating this canvas...

1. Paint your background, spray two different colors of mist and wipe over it while the mist is still wet to mix all the colors.
2. Cut out your background paper (I've used my Silhouette to cut the circle around the big butterfly).
3. Use some different papers for the strips down the right hand side (I've used a border punch for one of the strips and some ribbon)
4. Punch out lots of different butterflies and you are done!




Lily Bee Supplies:

Patterned Paper:
Harvest Market - Pumpkin Seeds
Harvest Market - Pumpkin
Memorandum - Time Clock
Memorandum - Grapefruit

Tiny Tablet:
Harvest Market
Memorandum
Head Over Heels

Other Supplies:
Paint, Glimmer Glaze, Mist, Ribbon, Punch

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!

Lily Bee + Maya Road Blog Hop, Day 3

Happy Friday, everyone! Here we are on day three of our blog hop with Maya Road. How do we love their products! We think it combines fabulously with ours! What do you think? Let us know. We'd love to hear what you thought of this hop (or anything Lily Bee related!)

To wrap up this fun week with our friends, we have a few more gorgeous projects to inspire you to create this weekend!

by Kim Arnold
Lily Bee Supplies

Patterned Paper:

Heads Over Heels - Smitten

Heads Over Heels - Dreamy

 

Mixed Cardstock Stickers:

Heads Over Heels

 

ABC Stickers:

Head over Heels

 

Maya Road:

Chipboard banner pieces

Vintage Paper Roses

Wood Skinny Spools

Crystal pins
Crochet flower

Mist

 

by Jenni Hufford

Lily Bee Supplies:

Harvest Market: Peach Crisp, Black Licorice, Turtleneck, Pumpkin Seeds, Squash,

Mixed Cardstock Stickers, ABC Stickers

Memorandum: Boardroom, Mixed Cardstock Stickers, 

ABC Stickers, Journaling Index Cards

Maya Road:

Clear Transparensies

Kraft Mini Tickets

Love Chipboard Banner

Trinket Pins- Leaf

Kraft Library Cards w/ Envelope 

Jumbo Bottle Caps

by Lisa Dickinson

Lily Bee Supplies:

Patterned paper:

BubbleGum - Head Over Heels

Tiny Tablets:

6x6 Memorandum

6x6 Head Over Heels

Memorandum Index Journaling Cards

Harvest Market Stamps

ABC Stickers: Head Over Heels

Maya Road Supplies:

chipboard buttons, crystal beads

 

We hope you've enjoyed this hop as much as we did! Please leave us a comment for a chance to win a nice early holiday present from us! We'll announce the winner next Monday, November 21. So you have all weekend to let us know how you are liking our blog hops!

Don't forget to drop by Maya Road's blog too! The projects have been so beautiful and inspiring! Plus they are doing a giveaway too.

Have a great day, and see you on Monday.

Sketch 3 Winner!

Thanks to all who participated! All the layouts were beautiful. We love seeing how each person interprets a sketch. Every single entry was so different, and creative. We entered all of the names over at Random.org, and came up with

Michelle Easters

Congratulations, Michelle! Email me your mailing info at milesofpaper[at]gmail[dot]com.

Here's her take on our sketch 3:

 

Again, THANK YOU ALL for playing along! See you at the next challenge. Up early tomorrow!

Lily Bee + Maya Road Blog Hop + Sketch Challenge 4

Hello there! Welcome to day two of our blog hop with Maya Road!

Today, we have a combination of our blog hop and our Wednesday's Sketch Challenge. It's double the party! Double the fun!

Our sketch is brought to you by Ronda Palazzari.

Who went on to create this gorgeous layout.

Lily Bee Supplies

Papers:

Memorandum Whiteboard

Memorandum Boardroom

Memorandum 9 to 5

Head over Heels Smitten

Lost & Found Sun Soaked

Memorandum Index Journaling Cards

Memorandum Mixed Cardstock stickers

Memorandum ABC Stickers

 

Maya Road:

Kraft journaling jotters

Butterfly chipboards

Trinket pins (Heart & Round Pearl)

Trinket Flower Medallion

Maya Mist: Blue Popsicle, Sunflower, Earl Grey

Then we asked three other designers to take a turn with the sketch and come up with a different take on it.

First, we have Cindy Liebel.

Lily Bee Supplies:
Pattern Paper:
Memorandum Lemon
Harvest Market Pumpkin
Stationery Grape
Head Over Heels Smitten (6x6 Tablet)
This or That Pretty Fabric (6x6 Tablet)
Jingle Merry & Bright (6x6 Tablet)
Chipboard Stickers
Lovely
ABC Stickers
Harvest Market

Maya Road:

Chipboard Mini Tree, Love Chipboard Banner & Leaves Sets

Other: jeweled brads, pearls, shape & border punches & machine stitching

This one is by Julia Stainton.

Lily Bee Supplies

Patterned Paper:

Heads Over Heels - Swoon

Heads Over Heels - Crush

Memorandum - Whiteboard

Cardstock Stickers:

Heads Over Heels

ABC Stickers:

Heads Over Heels

Clear Stamps:

Heads Over Heels

 

Maya Road:

Banner Mini Chipboard Pieces

Orange Sherbet Maya Mist

Black Doily Transparency

Kraft Tickets

Daisies Vintage Lace Trim

Chipboard Button Pieces

Mini Spools

Crystal Trinket Pins

Cream Winter’s Roses

And this one by Kay Rogers!

Lily Bee Supplies:

Harvest Market Hayride 

Harvest Market Pumpkin Seeds 

Harvest Market 6x6 Tiny Tablet 

Harvest Market Mixed Cardstock Stickers

Maya Road Supplies: 

Die Cut Kraft Doilies 

Kraft Doilies 

Kraft Envelopes - Rectangular 

Kraft Scroll Frame Journaling Tags 

Autumn Mini Chipboard Set 

Love Chipboard Banner

And now it's your turn! We hope we have inspired you enough to take on our Sketch Challenge!

The rules:

1) Use at least two Lily Bee products (any two).

2) Post your layout on our Facebook page (please include the title Lily Bee Sketch Challenge 4) -OR- include a link to your project in the comments of this post. Please do one or the other, not both.

3) The deadline is Tuesday November 30th, 9PM EDT.  We'll randomly pick one winner to receive some delicious Lily Bee products!

 

Leave us a comment today to be entered to win an early holiday prize from us!

 

Also, don't forget to stop by Maya Road's blog too, and see what they came up with today! We love what they've done with the combination of Maya Road and Lily Bee so far. Plus they are also doing a giveaway!

Thanks for dropping by!

Playing with Memorandum (again!) ...

I cannot tell a lie - I love the Memorandum range and it is usually my go to when I am given a choice to use whichever range I want.  Today I am sharing my latest layout using Memorandum ...

 

I seriously don't think I will ever tire of Lily Bee's banner stickers!  I stick a little piece of cardstock under the end of the sticker so that the end does not attach to the page and it gives more dimension to the layout.

 And I love the way that the letter stickers are perfect for longer titles - particularly being able to curve them around shapes.

Lily Bee Supplies:

Patterned Paper:

9 to 5 - Memorandum

Whiteboard - Memorandum

Boardroom - Memorandum

Lemon- Memorandum

 

Mixed Cardstock Stickers:

Memorandum

ABC Stickers:

Memorandum

If you haven't yet had a playdate with Memorandum - I encourage you to!

Cheers

Lily Bee + Maya Road Blog Hop!

Good Morning and Happy Monday! We hope you had a great weekend. Today, we have a nice surprise for you. It's the first day of our Lily Bee + Maya Road blog hop. We've swapped products with the good folks at Maya Road, and we'll be combining them for some great projects this week. Our hop schedule is today, Wednesday, and Friday. Be sure to come back everyday for some great inspiration.

First, we have this beautiful mini-album by Piradee Talvanna. (Please click on each photo to get a larger view.)

Lily Bee Supplies

Patterned Paper:

Heads Over Heels - Courting HHP152

Heads Over Heels - Swoon HHP153

Heads Over Heels - Crush HHP154

Heads Over Heels - Dreamy HHP155

Heads Over Heels - Slushie SP0122

Heads Over Heels - Bubblegum HHP184

Cardstock Stickers:

Heads Over Heels

Index Journaling Cards:

Heads Over Heels

Clear Stamps:

Memorandum

Heads Over Heels

Maya Road:

Mini Album, Mist, Envelope, Chipboard, Ribbon, Crystal, Journaling Tags

 

How about this super fun layout by Katja Schneider.

Lily Bee Supplies:

Patterned Paper:

Harvest Market - Oatmeal

Harvest Market - Harvest Blue

Harvest Market - Black Licorice

Harvest Market - Turtleneck

ABC Stickers:

Harvest Market

Maya Road Supplies:

3-Ring Rectangular Canvas Album

Mini Pennant Banner Canvas Pieces

Kraft Envelopes Wavy Scallop

How's the weather Mini Chipboard 

Vintage Paper Roses

Wood Skinny Spools

Ribbon

And last but so not least, this sweet, sweet layout by Lisa Day.

Lily Bee Supplies:

Patterned Paper:

Tiny Tablet - Memorandum

Whiteboard - Memorandum

Boardroom - Memorandum

Mixed Cardstock Stickers:

Memorandum

ABC Stickers:

Memorandum

Index Journaling Cards:

Memorandum

Maya Road Products:

Chip Board Buttons & Banners

Pin

 

We are loving how Maya Road products go so well with Lily Bee's. Don't forget to visit Maya Road's blog, see what they are up to, and leave them some love!

 

Let's get the holidays started early, shall we? Please leave us a comment on each of the blog hop days, and we'll pick a super lucky winner next Monday, November 21 to win a great Lily Bee prize.

Thank you for coming by today. Have a great day and we hope to see you tomorrow!

Scheduled fun - a step by step...

I'm sharing a step by step for one of my layouts today - I always love seeing how other scrappers go about putting their pages together, hopefully you guys do too! This is my layout, using a mix of the Memorandum and Head over Heels lines.

My youngest daughter had a playdate recently and she and one of the other girls spent an hour on the phone planning what they would do, down to the minute! They stuck to the schedule too - it was super cute and I couldn't resist turning it into a layout.

Instructions.

First up, cut out the two roses from the bottom of the Swoon patterned paper, leaving the title strip below. Layer this on top of some muslin and black card stock and machine stitch it all together messily.

Next cut down a piece of white card stock to 11 1/2" square, ink heavily around the edges and mat it onto a piece of black cardstock. Do the same for two pieces of patterned paper, one 8 1/2 x 9" and the other 6 1/2 x 4 1/2" and doodle a messy line around the edge of each with a black journalling pen. Cut some strips of Kraft cardstock and use the same border punch - and please ignore the orange semi-circles, they ended up in the bin somewhere around step 4 lol...

Once you're happy everything is in the right spot, mark the placement of each element with soft pencil marks then separate the papers and splatter them randomly with black ink.

Put the papers back together using the pencil marks as a guide and stick them down. Use foam tape between each piece making sure to leave enough room around the edges to slot things under later.

Now to build the first cluster. Cut out one of the smaller roses from Swoon, choose a couple of stickers and mat them onto black and use a die cut machine or punch to make leaves out of patterned paper and Kraft. Also grab a scrap of muslin, a safety pin, some string and another smaller strip of scalloped black cardstock. Build the cluster by placing the larger items at the bottom and working your way up. Add some foam tape between each layer and trim any unseen parts of the stickers to use in your other clusters. Thread the string through the safety pin, drape it over the cluster and add a few drops of clear drying glue to keep it in place.

Once you're happy with the first cluster it is just a case of using smaller pieces of the same elements to create the second and third.

Try and mix things up a bit by using the elements in different ways, such as using the string to tie the rose and leaves together rather than threading it through the safety pin but try not to add any new pieces.

All that's left now is to add the title, journalling and fill out the background with some small touches. Use a black pen to lightly trace over some of the gridlines on the Payday paper, punch some small butterflies and glue some tiny scraps of muslin randomly over the page.

And we're all done!

If you have a go at a layout based on this step by step, please do load it to our Facebook page, I'd love to have a look!

Lily Bee Supplies

Patterned Paper:

Memorandum - Payday

Head over Heels - Swoon

Head 0ver Heels - Dreamy

6x6 Tablet

Head over Heels - Crush

Head over Heels - Courting

Mixed Cardstock Stickers

Head over Heels

Other

Cardstock, punches, muslin, string, safety pin, ink, lettering

Thanksgiving Placeholders

It's time to get a little crafty with Thanksgiving approaching. Since we won't be traveling for the holiday this year, I am looking forward to spending lots of time in the kitchen cookin' up a meal for the family. I usually don't decorate the table with any major Thanksgiving decor, but this year I plan on spicing it up, just a little.


I made these super simple paper acorn place holders and decorated each of them with fall die-cut embellishments & chipboard accents. I used my trusty Silhouette die-cut machine to cut out the large acorn and backed the tops of the acorns with extra cardstock for sturdiness. The small leaves on each acorn was cut out using the Slice die-cut machine.


I love pennants, so these little acorns couldn't be without a few pennant banners addressed with each persons name - I love how the tiny ABC Stickers come into play with this project.



My daughter had the pleasure of picking out the colors and patterns for her
acorn. As you can see, she is quite proud of hers. What I loved most about this project was that it took me only an hour to complete, with the assistance of my little one, of course.

Cheers!

Lily Bee Supplies:
6x6 Tiny Tablet: Harvest Market

Pattern Paper
Harvest Market Squash
Harvest Market Hayride
Harvest Market Peach Crisp
Harvest Market Black Licorice
Harvest Market Pumpkin Seeds
Stationery Pear
Stationery Tangerine
Stationery Grape
Stationery Butter

ABC Stickers
Harvest Market

Chipboard Stickers
Domestic Bliss
Christmas Town

Other:
Silhouette die-cut machine, Slice die-cut machine, Kraft Cardstock, String & Pearls