This is love

An art/craft grounded in love, plus Yearn lands in stores

I often think how this thing we do is very much an act of love.

Like many of us, I started out recording the lives of loved ones, and each page I created felt like a gift to them and a record of my love. Nowadays, I create very much for the love of creating, but still the driver is my love of life and of the little things that I see and experience.

I started thinking about this today because it is a special day at The Lilypad, where the spotlight is on me as part of the ‘Love Our Designers’ event.

I love the collections that Suzanne chose to highlight in her thread - many of them are my own personal faves.

But it got me thinking about some of the collections of my own that I love to create with myself :-)

Nantucket

Nautical kits are so much fun to make - and so much fun to scrap with

THE NEW NORMAL

This is such a 'quiet' collection, I wasn't sure if this would work! But I actually love every page that I have made with it

MESSY POCKETS BOXED

I use these templates over and over again.

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A COLLABORATION I LOVE

Of course, I also love Rachel and I love collaborating with her.

So it seems appropriate to share some of my favourites among our many joint creations plus pages I have made with them:

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ON YEARNING

On the theme of love, our ‘Yearn’ Mixed Media Kit is now available at both The Lilypad and Oscraps.

I love the mix of soft colours, with bold black and rich gold. While it’s perfect for romantic pages - like this one with an archive photo of a loving couple on the beach in Brighton - it’s also really versatile.

I also used it for some art journaling about my yearning for London, where I have lived off and on but am unlikely to again.

The kit includes lots of interesting backgrounds, including some ‘busy’ botanical papers.

Although ‘busy’ they were easy to use by using a bold frame, creating a block of interest around the photo with paint and threads, and working with the patterned paper rather than competing with it(I found some great spots for my title and my text)

Meanwhile, Rachel found some moments of calm playing with stitching and fabric scraps plus printed elements from the Yearn kit:

This cute little miniature journal she crafted with some other bits and bobs found in her stash, combined with the Yearn Printables.

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Rachel & Lynn :)

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