National Scrapbook Day Events 2025 + Life in Pictures Deconstructed No.7
NSD Schedule of Events + Scrapbooking Deconstructions & 50% Specials
Before we dive into today’s post: This one ended up a little longer than usual, if you’re reading by e-mail and it cuts off partway through, you can read the full post online here.
If you’re here for our regular Wednesday trip down memory lane where we revisit stories that we have been telling, deconstructing some of those page designs plus popping some of our older products on sale, we have those a little further down.
First, this weekend marks National Scrapbooking Day 2025. Also abbreviated to NSD and it’s now an international celebration, so you may also see the abbreviation iNSD!
An annual celebration dedicated to the art of memory keeping, a day for all of us to come together to honour our craft and celebrate memory keeping, creativity and our community.
Schedule of Events
[ THE LILYPAD BLOG HOP ] - ENDS TODAY
Our annual blog hop has been live for almost a week, hosting a FREE montage of ephemera, papers, stamps and more from our Lilypad designers!
TODAY is the final day to collect all of the parts to our ‘Chronicle’ Collaboration, and you’ll find matching kits ‘Capture’ and ‘Converse’ in the shop this weekend as iNSD free with purchase kits.
Join the start of the Blog Hop Here and ensure you complete it by the end of today when the downloads will be disabled.
[ THE LILYPAD PICK YOUR PRIZE ] - ENDS SATURDAY, MAY 3RD AT 11PM EST
Our popular Pick Your Prize giveaways are back at the LilyPad!
We are each giving away one of our products to a lucky winner who gets to choose exactly what that prize will be!
Whilst collaborations are normally excluded as prizes, we’ve both made it allowable for a ‘Hear My Voice’ themed product to be among the entries if that’s your preference!
To play along, all you need to do is look through each of our shops at the Lilypad and choose one product that you would love to win.
It’s also a great opportunity to browse our products and bookmark or ‘wishlist’ what you’ll be planning to purchase at the weekend once our NSD Sales are live.
Instructions and small print and your chance to play along can be found here for Lynn Grieveson
Instructions and small print and your chance to play along can be found here for Rachel Jefferies.
Ever curious about which products in our portfolios are our own personal favourites?
Below we’ve both shared our personal picks to inspire you.
How about you? Let us know in the comments which product you pick after browsing through all there is to offer in our shops!
PICK YOUR PRIZE - LYNN’S FAVE NO.1 - (YOU’LL GET) THE BLUES
PICK YOUR PRIZE - LYNN’S FAVE NO.2 - HEAR MY VOICE ‘KNOWING’
PICK YOUR PRIZE - RACHEL’S FAVE NO.1 - SINOPIA
PICK YOUR PRIZE - RACHEL’S FAVE NO.2 - HEAR MY VOICE ‘GROWING’
[ WHOLE SHOP SALES & NEW RELEASES ] - THURS EVE 1ST MAY / FRI AM 2ND MAY 2024
Depending on your timezone our Sales and some of our New Releases will go live during Thursday evening on the 1st of May or Friday morning on the 2nd May.
Mark your calendars for the following:
The Build Your Own Collection at the LilyPad for May 2025 goes live with new Collections from each of us.
Look out for the ‘Happy Place’ collection plus the ‘It Was Here’ templates from Lynn
Look out for the ‘Lived In’ Collection from Rachel
See Sneak Peeks a little further down!
The Big Storewide Sale at the LilyPad goes live - Save 40% on everything - Save 50% on Commercial Use.
The Big Storewide Sales at Oscraps goes live - Save 40% on everything - Save 50% on Commercial Use.
Bigger Discounts can be found on ‘bundles or collections’ that were already discounted.
Sales end on Monday 5th May.
[ SPECIAL SATURDAY NEW RELEASES AT THE LILYPAD ] - SATURDAY 3RD MAY 2025
Mark your calendars to visit us again at the Lilypad for additional New Releases, come back to see what’s new!
E-mail subscribers will be able to purchase these products early by reading their e-mail that will be sent to you on Thursday evening on the 1st May or Friday morning on the 2nd May depending on your timezone.
FREQUENCY OF NSD E-MAILS
Just a note that during NSD weekend we’ll be sending our regular Thursday Night/Friday Morning e-mail to introduce our Build Your Own Collections at the LilyPad (you’ll also be given a link to shop the Special Saturday Products early if you so wish).
We’ll also write to you again on Saturday with a reminder of our additional NSD New Releases once they are available for public sale and then we’ll pop back on Monday before all of our events and Sales are over 👍🏻
OTHER NSD EVENTS
Join us at the LilyPad for Live Scrap and Chats, other chatroom shenanigans, Scrapbooking Challenges in the forum along with games, misc fun, find all of the details here.
LIFE IN PICTURES DECONSTRUCTED NO.7
Join us on another trip down memory lane. Revisiting stories that we have been telling, deconstructing some of those page designs plus popping some of our older products on sale for this week’s flash sales.
AND SO THE ADVENTURE BEGINS, BY RACHEL
When I look back at this page design now I’m reminded about the important role of element choices and how they add additional context and help to quietly tell much of the story.
Here are two photos of Simon and I almost twenty years apart but of course the story is still unfolding and the chapter of our lives fully open hence my choice of word strip as a little understated title ‘and so the adventure begins’.
The soft faded botanicals are serving as symbols of growth, the many butterflies are serving as symbols of metamorphosis and movement, where we’ve been and how we are moving forward.
I love the painted papers in this collection and this one in particular with the whitewashed are adds a ‘glow’ and much breathing room for the design. Almost an invitation for me to sit and think about what our future may hold and were we are heading next.
I used the colour dropper tool to carefully pick out little accents of blueish greens from my clothes from the 2005 photo and added them around the page and added those little touches of peach for contrast and to round out the colour scheme.
PRECIOUS, BY RACHEL
At the time, this was a quick snapshot. I remember it well, it wasn’t staged, apart from me quickly saying “Simon quick, look at me” so I could capture this moment where Keaton had quickly and spontaneously hugged Simon from behind.
Looking back at this photo now, I realise how much weight lives inside these small, unscripted moments, who’d have known those little legs would grow so quickly!
I love my scrapbooks to be packed full of pages that are not just about the events we plan, but that capture these smaller moments that we almost don’t notice and can easily be missed - luckily mummy is always close by with access to her camera!
I had fun with a simple design here, allowing for lots of breathing room with the negative space. Placing the paints and stamps to add tiny details and a little glow around and behind the photo and adorning the little spaces with intricate small beads and scatters and thin threads for contrast.
Everything is small and dainty to tie in with the ‘precious’ title that’s casually placed in my favourite font above the date stamp.
Both of these pages were crafted with ‘Hear My Voice Changing’.
READING AT HOME, BY LYNN
Sometimes I like to revisit my more traditional scrapbooking days, especially when I am scrapping (or re-scrapping) photos of my girls when they were young. There’s something about the simplicity of traditional patterns like plaids, florals and retro-inspired repeating patterns that give a cosy feel perfect for reminiscing about these childhood days.
Add to that soft, muted but rich colours plus worn edges on elements and textures on papers, and you have a recipe for gentle, sweet memory pages.
I love the pictures of my youngest reading, and I added a soft filter to them to add to the cosy quiet feel.
And here’s a favourite picture of my sister and I, also created with the “Green Shoots” kit:
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS
The examples shown above (plus many other products!) are included in our ‘Something Old Something New’ sale at the LilyPad which includes discounts of at least 50% off - save extra on bundled collections ;)
Find photobook templates, elements, and collections for today only, 30 April 2025.
We’d love to connect with you, leave us a comment to say hi or let us know which product was your choice for Pick Your Prize!
Thank you for reading and as always, thank you for being here and we’ll see you again at the end of the week.
Rachel & Lynn
Loved the blog hop, thank you!