Lily Bee Design blog HOP!!!

Hi there, Lily Bee fans! You may have seen a couple of our new design team’s projects on the blog already but we thought it’d be fun to showcase the talents of our fabulous design team by doing a blog hop!

Our blog hop continues with this week's theme of Spring / Easter projects! We’re excited to be working with the following designers for the next year! They have created many inspirational projects using our new collections, so make sure you stop by each of their blogs to see their work and leave them some love and then head back over here for a chance to win some Lily Bee Design product of your own!

Here is a quick spring project that I made for today! I was inspired by all the fresh spring colours and created a few handmade flowers really quick for this card:

 I used a flower punch and a lot of 3D adhesive to make this fun card :)

Now, I think it is TIME TO HOP!! Here is the list of designers participating in the hop today:

Adrienne Alvis
Becky Williams
Christine Newman
Cindy Liebel
Diana Fisher
Diane Payne
Heather Leopard 
Leslie Ashe
Nicole Nowosad (you are here)
Patricia Roebuck
Stacey Michaud
Summer Fullerton
Wendy Sue Anderson

GIVEAWAY!

We’re giving away a Sweet Shoppe paper pack! 

• Comment on this blog post by midnight ET on 3/31/13, letting us know you completed the hop
• FOLLOW the Lily Bee Design blog in the upper right hand corner of our blog
• Like our Facebook page and share the blog hop link with your scrapbooking/cardmaking friends! Be sure to tag @LilyBeeDesign 
• Bonus: Make sure you are on our Newsletter mailing list

Good luck everyone and have a great weekend!

Lily Bee Design - Sweet Shoppe

Good Morning! This week on the Lily Bee Design blog,  we will be sharing some wonderful and sweet projects using one of our newest lines from winter CHA - Sweet Shoppe

Sweet Shoppe is fun everyday collection of a mix of soft and vibrant colors that can also easily be used for multiple, everyday themes! Soft floral patterns, mixed with trendy bokeh and happy polka dots are featured throughout the collection.

I am sharing a page today full of sweetness using this collection.   I was inspired by the title of the collection when using this page, and wanted to use as many of the fun, colorful patterns as possible to showcase the line!

Supplies: Sweet Shoppe (6x6 Tiny Tablet, Chipboard stickers, Embellishment bundle, Candystick Paper, Lollipop Paper, Pink Mint paper, Sat Water Taffy paper), Persnickety (Clear stamps), Stationery (Pear paper), Handmade (ABC stickers), Christmas Cheer (ABC stickers)

I used my Cameo to cut the leaves and title for my page, using some of the fun patterned paper found in the collection and then layered bits and pieces of papers from the 6x6 tiny tablet. This is one of my favorite ways to incorporate a lot of patterns, without using up all my larger sheets of paper.

I layered some of the new chipboard stickers from the Sweet Shoppe collection, tucked just under my photo along with some ABC stickers and a lot more paper of course :)

I love that no matter which collection the ABC stickers are from, they co-ordinate so well and are a perfect little addition to fill in gaps in your page. A quick little banner punched from some scraps of my tiny tablet and some machine stitching add a little bit of whimsy to the page.

Make sure you check the blog all week long for lots of sweet projects using this collection!

Lily Bee Design - Destination & winners!

Morning I am here today to share a layout made with the new Destination line from Lily Bee Design and announce the winners of the RAKs from the Lily Bee blog hop!

Thank you all so much for the sweet comments during the hop- it was nice to have so many visitors comment :) Makes me feel like I am not talking to myself ;)

I had two RAK's to give away - a few small goodies and faves of mine... the winners are:

KellyG and Lisa's Creative Niche - ladies shoot me an email or comment on today's post and I will get in touch with you to mail you your RAK :)

This week on the Lily Bee Design blog, we are celebrating the new CHA collection - Destination - and so keeping "destination" in mind, the challenge this week is to create a layout using any form of transportation!


Supplies used: Destination (6x6 Tiny Tablet, Atlas Paper, Passport Paper, Embellishment bundle, Chipboard stickers, ) Persnickety (clear stamps), Christmas Cheer (ABC stickers, Journaling cards),  Autumn Spice (clear stamps), Handmade (ABC stickers)

I decided that my take on the transportation theme would be a hot air balloon - and it was super easy to create, with the help of my Cameo. I cut 5 geotag shapes and then folded them in half and adhered them back to back to create the hot air balloon shape.

I added one of the new pennant banner chipboard shapes, up-side down, to create the basket of the balloon.

I then paper pierced a quick sun out of a punched circle from the tiny tablet and some stitched sun-rays over top of a journaling card:

I really love the vibrant red polka dot pattern in the Destination collection to off-set all that yummy woodgrain in the collection and knew that it would be great to create the parts of my title around the page:


Check out all the details of the challenge on the Lily Bee blog HERE

Lily Bee Design Blog Hop!

Four years ago, Kristen launched Lily Bee Design, went to her first CHA and the rest (as they say) is HISTORY!

We are so thankful for all our customers and fans, who have continued to support Lily Bee Design, as well as our amazing design team who inspires us each day with their amazing talent.

We are celebrating our 4th birthday all week long with daily blog hops and we’re giving YOU the chance to win the gifts! That’s right, each day will be a different hop with more chances to win!

So without further ado, welcome to the Lily Bee 4th Birthday Celebration Blog Hop.

Here’s what you need to do to be eligible to win:

• Leave a comment on each designer’s blog

• Follow the Lily Bee Design blog

• Leave a comment on the Lily Bee Design blog telling us youhave hopped

Wanna earn more bonus entries?

o Like Lily Bee Design on Facebook

o Follow Lily Bee Design on Instagram 

o Follow Lily Bee Design on Twitter 

o Follow Lily Bee design on Pinterest

o Pin any of this week’s design team projects that have inspired you, tagging #lilybeedesign so we can easily find the entries.

That’s a lot of ways to win! Plus, there's even more chances if you participate in our hop each day!

We always have several monthly challenges going on each month and would love to have you play along!


Here is a quick project I created for our celebration theme using a lot of fun Lily Bee Design products and this week's sketch for the sketch challenge:

I used some bits from the new Pinwheel collection for this page

- love these easy peasy pie charts in the collection here:

I hope you’re prepared to be inspired! Take a couple minutes to hop along to each designer’s blog and see what they have up their sleeves:

Andrea Budjack

Nicole Nowosad ( you are here )

Patricia Roebuck

Stacey Michaud

Lily Bee Design blog

Leave a comment below and on the Lilybee Design blog to win a one of 2 RAKs from me!

(comments close on March 3, 2013 at midnight ET)

Happy Hopping - and GOOD LUCK!!!

Lilybee & Free Cameo Cuts!

Good morning! Nicole here today to share with you a page I made for Lily Bee Design all about Love on this Valentine's Day!

I really wanted to use a lot of my old Lily Bee favorite papers, along with some of my new favorites to create this page of my daughter:

 Supplies used:Sw eet Shoppe (6x6 tiny tablet, Chipboard stickers); Destination (6x6 tiny tablet); Persnickety (6x6 tiny tablet, Fussy, journal cards); Autumn Spice (6x6 tiny tablet, Nutmeg, clear stamps); Christmas Cheer (6x6 tiny tablet, ABC mini stickers); Pinwheel (Chipboard stickers); Handmade (Patchwork)

I used the deep woodgrain paper from the Autumn Spice collection as my background, along with a scrap of my Handmade collection. I then cut a few fun circle shapes with my Cameo and backed them with some cute patterns from the Sweet Shoppe, Destination 6x6 tiny tablets:

The bokeh papers in the Sweet Shoppe collection are some of my new faves!!!

I added in a paper from the Christmas Cheer collection by punching out the numbers and leaving the negative space behind and layered some scraps of my favorite papers in behind them:

I  hope you like some of my new favorites along some old ones too!

If you like the Cameo cuts I made for this page - you can download there HERE for free!

Happy Valentine's Day!
xoxo

Old & New with Lily Bee!

This week, we are mixing old collections with the new ones on the Lily Bee blog.

Becky Williams and I are up today to start the week.

I used a lot of different patterns from the new CHA lines by using 6x6 tiny tablets. Only the background piece was a full 12x12 sheet from the Christmas Cheer line!

I really love the new Lily Bee embellishments too.. check out the brad and chipboard pieces here:

I made a quick Cameo cut and lined it with some older paper from the Buttercup line

and used a few different patterns from the new lines, Destination, Pinwheel and Sweet Shoppe for my title:

Please join us this week for more fun projects mixing old and new Lily Bee on the blog

Love Story at Lily Bee

I am up again today on the Lily Bee Design blog, along with Leslie Ashe - sharing some "love" related projects we have been working on!

I chose to take some older Lily Bee that I love and add some of my newest faves from winter 2013 CHA to create this page:

I have always loved the Lily Bee papers that are staples (running very low now) in my paper collection ;) You know, the ones with the leder on one side and the dots on the other? I love them. Down to my last few papers now... which stinks :)

I started this page my misting the arrow/chevron pattern with grey mist over the teal background, using some scraps from another Cameo cut.

 I have been neglecting my mist lately - unless it is to add drops of colour... so, it was nice to get messy for a change. I then pulled out my new stash of Lily Bee products from CHA and started layering on the page over a journal card from the Autumn Spice collection. I adore the fun piecart shape in the new Pinwheel line!

I added in some of those tiny ABC letters from Lily Bee that I will never tire of too. I did some stamping with my favorite Autumn Spice stamps and layered them around my page:

The arrows lend a more masuline feel, don't ya think?

You get a real glimpse of the new collections in the closeup above for the title - mixing Sweet Shoppe & Pinwheel together is so easy to do too!

The ever so talented Laina Lamb asked if she could post one of my Jillibean Soup pages and a card on the Creating Keepsakes blog today using die cut backgrounds!

Of course I said yes... check out the post and all the great projects she found using die cut backgrounds!

 

I am off to work on some assignments for March - I have lots to accomplish this weekend - next weekend I am off to Toronto to help TA at another Crop & Create event by Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine! Will be nice to catch up with the SCT girls and see Kristine Davidson again too! Then, that is it for me and travel for a bit - I think the hubby is getting jealous ;)

Random pages

... for no reason for a change... I found myself in a week with *gasp* no assignments! So, I thought I would create a few projects for no reason at all.... here we go!

First up, a card using a mixture of Pebbles Inc. lines:

and one using lots of Walnut Grove by Pebbles Inc:

and now, a fun card using some Persnickety from Lily Bee Design:

  

 I made this card in November actually at the Saskatoon Crop & Create event using some scraps from my Cameo cuts. I don't throw any piece out!

and just one last card, using some Jillibean Soup goodies. Been meaning to make a paper bow for a while now and just haven't gotten around to it!

Did this page, using a bunch of Lilybee Design Persnickety collection

 
 Lastly, a quick page ... put my Cameo to work on this page:

 and used lots of Pebbles Inc. on this one - love these lines!!!  

 

Cut some vellum clouds and layered over the background paper. A fun effect I will totally do again.

Who would have thought Vellum would make such a come back :)

I think that is more than enough for one day... Be back tomorrow with a page for Lily Bee Design!