Some special things for May
Intermixing digital processes with art and collaging your travels.
WONDERFULLY CALMING & REGULATING BY RACHEL
I’ve always been a little nervous or tentative to dip my toes into hybrid crafting, mostly due to space at home for storing physical pages vs digital memory keeping.
It’s honestly been so liberating to intermix digital processes with playful art practices though such as in this piece which started off as a rigid grid, using some of Lynn’s templates called Travel Again. Then mixing up that process by adding a collage of printed elements, playful mixed media from the digital supplies to loosen things up a bit and then my own marks and paint washes from my art stash.
I’ve loved this process so much that I’ve been trying to make one or two pieces at least once a quarter. And to solve the space issue at home, I think I plan to make digital copies of these pages by scanning them in and then have them printed as a photo book.
I also enjoyed working on a smaller A5 format, but when I scan them in at high resolution I could always print them larger if I wish so win win!
And honestly, I adore these quiet photos of our family. Pausing, meandering and enjoying a change of scenery. I used bits and pieces from my pretty ‘Brine’ Collection to craft these pages.
Wonderfully calming and regulating for us all it was and we are counting down the days until we go back again this summer …
I’ve been enjoying working in grids so much lately that you might remember the launch of my ‘Boxed’ template line. If you like the look of these I’ll be having another release in this series soon and I’ve been using them to make monthly recaps like this page from January.
Both the ‘Brine’ Collection and the ‘Boxed’ Template set are my ‘Specials’ for May at the LilyPad and can be purchased on sale through the rest of the month!
DIAMOND DETAILS BY LYNN
Sometimes I find I look at photos a little differently when they are presented in a less-than-usual way.
Somehow the act of clipping a photo to a different shape, and moving it around to focus on what I want to focus on changes how I view them.
On the page above, the photos of Alex and Rosie walking along hand in hand, and the photo of me communing with a statue, are ‘standard fare’. But the cropping of the architectural details of the Spanish town of Oviedo really make me notice them in a way I might not otherwise have.
The same for this nearby cemetery:
And here I was able to combine the excited pilgrims with little details from Santiago, such as the cute Octopi and shell symbols that you could spot all over the city:
And, from a quieter day, the details of the botanic gardens we visited with Rosie:
It somehow adds a new creative twist to making ‘collages’ / travel album pages with travel photos, by allowing me to lose myself more in moving around the photos and deciding what little details to focus on.
And that mirrors what I do when I travel - focusing not just on the grand views and vistas, but also searching out little unique details of the buildings and plants of these new places.
The album template set I used for this trip is “Diamond Days”, which is on special as one of my May featured designs, along with my “Best China” kit.
We hope your weekend and week ahead go well and, as always, thank you for being here!
Rachel & Lynn