www.mylyb.com
Just a quick share tonight of some amazing layouts our friends have sent us via email and Facebook.
The first three came to us via email from Maisa Mendonca, and feature the Sweet Summertime collection. Each one is sweeter than the next! And so summery. Thanks for sharing Maisa!
"Lemonade for Sale"
"Our Favorite Place"
And "Cousins"!
Swoon! I am in love! Please please please go over to Maisa's blog by following this link. You'll see TONS more pictures and closeups from these beautiful pages. Tell her "Oi" from Little Yellow Bicycle (Maisa is from Brazil and "Oi" means "Hi" in Portuguese).
Next up - this yummy two-page layout from our friend "Michelle Oncloudnine" over on Facebook, featuring the Baby Saurus collection.
You can find more from Michelle by checking out her blog here! Thanks for sharing Michelle! Love it!
For those of you who couldn't make it to the show this year, we want to bring the booth to you!
Nathalie and Thom welcome you to our booth.
Sharon shares a big fabulous smile.
Sally Lynn shows off new ARTC product. I hope you were able to make it to the ART C class!
Miss Greta takes time out to flash a nice smile for the camera.
And, here are a couple of photos of the "RULER".
I don't know why he looks so mean!
Here are a few great shots of some additional projects from our fabulous Biker Chicks. These girls do such incredible work. CHA wouldn't be CHA without all of the great projects! Thank you Biker Chicks!
Feeling Blue? Blue is a good thing with Winter Twig. Renee Foss created these wintry and wonderful wood blocks. I want these for my mantle this winter. Don't you?
Greta worked up this beautiful Wonder and Wishes Christmas Layout. The paper flower kit is a must!
These flowers are just gorgeous.
Here's another peek of Wonder and Wishes. Watch for this in your favorite LSS.
The Hello Fall wreath (we just have to show it again) was a real hit at the show! See why you must have the paper flower kit ???!!!!
Soccer will soon be here... make sure you plan to take care of your coach!
Here are a few embellishments from Game On. Plan ahead. Make sure you are outfitted for upcoming season!
And here's one more project to share by Liz. Head of the Class rocks!
We'll be posting more projects this next week. We trust that our new releases are better than ever! Be sure to check out LYB website to see full collections and ideas.http://mylyb.com/
If you care to comment, please tell us what you like, and I will pick three of you to win a special LYB goodie bag! VERY SPECIAL MEANS VERY SPECIAL!!!
thanks,
Lori
Did you know that in baseball, the major leagues are called "The Big Show"? Of course I only know this because I watched Bull Durham a few too many times...but anyway.
For us here at LYB, the Big Show, naturally, is CHA! And we're here at CHA Summer (Booth 321) to share our new collections with you! A couple weeks ago I posted some teeny tiny pics of what you can expect from the new collections, and now it's time for the big reveal.
First up - Head of the Class - releasing in August! Just in time for back to school shenanigans, this collection is the perfect backdrop for your little (or big) smarty pants! I posted a teeny pic of a layout, and here's the full layout (created by Biker Chick Liz Qualman):
Head of the Class mixes primary colors with gray and a teeny bit of grunge!
One of my favorite pieces is the "10 Things" pocket ... with pencils for journaling!
Cute!! You will also love the Chipboard Pieces (with thermography) and Clear Cuts (with glitter accents):
...plus canvas borders (that can also be banners!)
A couple more fun projects:
"Back 2 School" by Biker Chick Greta Hammond:
An amazing altered lunchbox by Biker Chick Renee Foss:
And "School Rules" by Liz!
And next...Get Your Game On!
Game On will be available in August - and it's so perfectly sporty! Parts of the collection are themed to a specific sport - basketball, baseball, soccer, or football - while the rest of the collection coordinates with every sport. So it's wonderfully versatile for the multi-sport families too!
New to LYB collections with this release are Canvas Colorables! An idea borrowed from our Art-C mixed media collection, Canvas Colorables are great for your own altered art project ... or to add texture and dimension to your scrapbook page! With one for each sport in the collection, there's one that's just perfect for you! Be sure to check them out!
Here are a few more peeks!
Love these banners:
Fresh Verse Cardstock Stickers for every sport:
And a few more projects:
"Football Champion" by Renee:
"Soccer Star" by Biker Chick Vicki Boutin:
"The Team" by Liz:
And a cool soccer clipboard by Greta!
You will love the cozy-sweater style and fantastic fall colors of in the Hello Fall collection! This collection will blow into your LSS in September. It's a brisk breath of autumn cool!
One of the coolest things from this collection is the fall flowers! In addition to the paper flower kit (made here into a beautiful fall wreath by Greta):
Here's another pic:
M-M-M ... Love these!!!!!
... we've also added these wonderfully fun felt flowers - to add warmth and dimension to your layouts and projects:
So cute! Plus stick pins in coordinating jewel toned colors:
I love the teeny "Count Your Blessings" envelope pockets - with your choice of four flags to customize your journaling:
There are cardstock stickers with embossing and buttons:
Super cool canvas tape rolls (approx 3/4" by 36")
This Family Tree Page Kit has everything you need to make a two-page layout - perfect for heritage albums, family pages, or your Thanksgiving celebration:
Plus Fresh Verse, banners, journaling cards, chipboard, corrugated, and so much more! Can't wait for August!!!
Our Christmas collection, Wonder & Wishes, will be at your LSS in the early fall. A jolly burst of holiday hijinx, Wonder & Wishes is stuffed full as a stocking with traditional plaids and prints, angels & elves, reindeer & mittens, a touch of matte silver foil, a fanciful flourish and a twinkle of glitter!
Take a look at this "Countdown to Christmas" layout Greta made:
There are so many fun pieces in this collection. I wish I had space to show them all! Here are just a few:
Fresh Verse cardstock stickers:
And Favorite Pieces:
More rolled canvas:
Chipboard pieces:
The cutest little stickpins:
Love this twine and baby pompoms!
A "10 Things" Pocket shaped like a present!!
Felt flowers with glass beads:
Plus cardmaking stickers, corrugated alphabets & Shapes, flower button dots, and so much more!
Here are a few more projects:
"10 Things I Love About Christmas" by Vicki:
"All Wrapped Up" by Greta:
A chipboard album by Greta:
And a paper wreath - also by Greta!
And a cute topiary by Liz:
We know so many of you have been waiting for it ... it's Winter Twig!! Reprising the blue, green and brown hues from the oh-so-popular original Twig collection, Winter Twig celebrates the wonder of winter with fun patterns and natural curiosities!
Check out this layout by Renee:
i love the cardstock sticker labels in this collection - great for a title, journaling accent, or photo caption!
And these Chipboard Word Stickers with glitter accents are amazing!
Love these Fabric Favorites with mini pom-poms!
And Clear Cuts Shapes - the perfect accent piece!
The Chipboard Shapes have frosty glitter accents:
Plus changeable 5 Things journaling pockets!
And this confetti garland is so stinkin' fun!
A few more projects from this wonderful collection!
A cocoa gift tin by Liz:
A medley album by Greta:
"Snow Angels" by Biker Chick Tania Willis:
And a paper wreath (that perfectly showcases all of the beautiful papers in the collection) also made by Greta:
PHEW! That's a lot of info. Thanks to all of you who stuck around and read all the way to the END of this blog post!!I think you'll agree, our designers have outdone themselves, yet again. Three cheers for our wonderful Senior Creative Director Sharon Kropp and Creative Director Lori Marek, the designers, and of course our talented Biker Chicks!!
We're still putting some final tweaks on the website updates - where you can see the collections in their fabulous entirety, just by following the links. I'll post again when it's ready!!!
Meanwhile, Lori will be back later this week with some CHA pics for you!
Peg
I'm telling you, folks, these Training Reels just keep getting better and better. It was a sweltering 93 degrees and humid here in Connecticut today, but one look at this Sweet Summertime layout by Biker Chick Tania Willis just made me cool and happy that it's SUMMER!!!
Here ... take a look:
See? I mean the colors and the details and just the fun of it all is amazing in its awesomeness, isn't it? In the video, Tania will show you how to make this oh-so-cute little watermelon journaling card with the cute little bite taken out of it!
And so much more, I just need to let her tell it herself. So now here's Tania!
And a few more quick close ups!
Love love love love love love LOVE it!!!
And here is the PDF with all of the instructions PLUS templates for the watermelon journaling card!
Download 10 Things I Love About Summer Instructions by Tania Willis
You can follow Tania's blog by clicking here. Go over and share the love, ok? Did I mention Tania recently joined the Fiskars Design Team too? We are so lucky to have her!
Hope you're having a SWEET SUMMERTIME of your own!!!
Have fun making this bright and cheery layout, and come back later this week for some more Biker Chick Sweet Summertime shares before we roll out all the new goodies for CHA!
Happy crafting!
Peg
It's always fun to pick a winner! The winner of the Clip It Up Main Base plus an assortment from the Little Yellow Bicycle Cupcake Love and Sweet Summertime collections is:
Vicki Follett!!!
Congratulations Vicki! Please send your mailing info to "peg@cthruruler.com" with "Clip It Up Winner" in the subject line and we'll get your prizes right out to you!
Be sure to check out Simply Renee's blog to see who else won!
Thanks to everyone for playing and have a great weekend!
You may remember the blog post back in June, when we introduced the new Déjà Views, a Little Yellow Bicycle brand. In that post, we invited YOU to be our Guest Designer!
All you had to do was go pick up some of the new product, and submit it with your own tutorial (written instructions or video) for a layout or project, using the Déjà Views materials for all or part of your project.
Designers whose projects are selected for re-posting on our blog will win $25 in product from our Little Yellow Bicycle, Déjà Views, and Art-C collections. (If you missed the original post, click the link to learn all about it!)
Well we were SO happy to receive this amazing submission from Kate Vickers, who hails from Burlington in Ontario, Canada! We know you're going to love it too!
And here's a little hint - Kate used the "10 Things I Love About Summer" journaling pocket which she coordinated with some papers from our Boardwalk collection ... which we just-so-happened to retire recently and place at 70% off at our Little Yellow Bargains online store. Bonus!
So here's Kate to tell you all about her project!
Making Waves with Déjà Views and Little Yellow Bicycle
by Kate Vickers
Little Yellow Bicycle recently launched a new collection of embellishments from “Déjà Views – a Little Yellow Bicycle Brand.” To welcome the new collection they ‘challenged’ all of us LYB fans out there to scrap a layout with the new brand for a chance to be featured as a Déjà Views guest designer. Read more about this on the Little Yellow Bicycle Blog. I wasn’t planning on submitting a layout, but I came across this really cute journaling pocket, '10 Things I Love About Summer’, at Michael’s and it followed me to the cash register! The journaling pocket goes really well with last year’s summer release, Boardwalk — which Little Yellow Bicycle graciously sent to me when I recently won one of their challenges.
I decided to incorporate the journaling pocket into a layout of my oldest daughter visiting Port Dover Beach on Lake Erie.What I like about the "10 Things I Love About Summer" journaling pocket is that it allows you to create a lot of journaling without it taking over the entire page. As well, it’s not immediately visible so your journaling is a bit more private. The journaling pocket also doubles as a page title with its bold lettering.
I wanted to create a sandy beach type effect as a page border at the bottom of my layout. I considered gluing real sand to kraft cardstock before I realized that I would be reinventing the wheel! Why not just use real sandpaper, right? So that’s what I did. The sandpaper that I used needed some spiffing up, however. So, I brushed on a layer of Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles. While it was still wet, I put some microfine clear glitter on it as well – just to create more sparkle. The overall effect is fabulous, it really sparkles and looks like sand catching rays of sunlight.
I invested a bit more time into making waves. Here is what I did, step by step:
1. I used Little Yellow Bicycle’s Pool Side/Turquoise Tonal paper from the Boardwalk collection and I die cut some wave shapes. I used my Silhouette die cutting machine with a shape called ‘Wave Border’. There are a lot of different shapes that you could use – it doesn’t have to be this one. You could also draw some wave shapes onto the paper and hand cut them. It doesn’t need to be precise. You could use any blue/green coloured paper, it doesn’t have to be the same one that I used.
2. Next, I roughed up the edges of my waves with a Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Paper Distresser. I couldn’t use it to get into the corners and around the really small edges though, so for those areas I used the blade on a pair of scissors to distress the paper. This creates a sort of ‘foam’ effect – like what the water does when it hits the beach.
3. I added more depth and texture to my waves by brushing on some Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint in Picket Fence (white). Any white acrylic paint would work for this step.
4. When that was dry, I mixed some Adirondack Alcohol Ink in Sail Boat Blue with some Adirondack Alcohol Blending Solution and painted overtop of the entire wave. This goes on very translucent and creates even more depth and interest.
5. Last, but not least, I applied Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles to my waves. This added a finishing sparkle. My motto is that everything is better with glitter! LOL!
6. My waves curled and distorted with all the paint and ink treatments. This made them look more interesting and more authentic. I applied them to my page without smoothing them down. I wanted to maintain the distorted curviness of them. I think that the overall 3D effect is very eye-catching.
Here is a shot of my ‘waves in progress’.
Some other design elements on the page are that I added dimension to my flag banners by applying them, along with a small circular picture, to the page with pop dots.
The final page layout:
__________________________________
Oh. My. Wow! Makes me just want to pack my beachbag and flipflops and head out for some boogie boarding! [Followed by some serious scrapbooking, of course!]
Could we ask for a better first submission? I think not. Thank you Kate for this stunning and creative layout. You've set the bar really high. (Be sure to follow the link to Kate's blog for more cool projects from Kate!) Anyone else have anything to share? Send it to me and if we use it on the blog, you'll win some fun free products!
Happy scrapping!
Peg
Never let it be said that we don't love a party here at LYB! And we recently heard that our friends at Clip it Up by Simply Renee are celebrating their FIFTH BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday Clip It Up!
Take a look at this adorable tiered "Birthday Cake" Audrey, one of their designers, made with a Clip It Up and LYB's Cupcake Love collection! You can go to Simply Renee's blog for instructions on how to make it!
What an amazing centerpiece for a birthday party! How clever!
So here's a little Happy Birthday Contest where YOU get the chance to get a present! After all, what's a birthday celebration without presents??
Clip It Up by Simply Renee will give away a Main Base, and we're giving away an assortment from the Cupcake Love collection, plus some of our newest collection - Sweet Summertime - for good measure. We'll pick TWO winners on Friday (LYB will pick one, and Clip it Up will pick one).
Here's how to win:
Post a comment here on our blog, and also on Clip it Up's Blog - telling us your most creative birthday project. To double your chances of winning, post a comment on LYB's Facebook Page, and also on Clip it Up's Facebook page! Be sure to tell them we sent you - and wish them a Happy 5th Birthday!
We'll announce the winners on Friday! Good Luck!
Peg
Hello Friends!
Hope you had a great weekend! Just a quick share today from our Facebook page.
The folks at Scrappy Boutique in Orlando, FL, posted this amazing Sweet Summertime layout on our Facebook page and we just LOVED it and wanted to show it to you!
Hope you like it too. You can find Scrappy Boutique on Facebook by following this link and visit their website by following this one! And HERE is the link for their online store (yes they ship internationally).
Thanks for the great layout, Scrappy Boutique! We love it!
And so we come to the LAST of our CHA Sneak Peeks for the week. Last but not least, it's Winter Twig!!!
Remember how much you loved the original Twig collection?
Well now you can celebrate the wonder of winter with Winter Twig – reprising the blue, green and brown hues from the popular Twig collection with a scattering of fun quirky patterns and natural curiosities. Enter a wintry world of whimsy and fantasy with Winter Twig!
Here are a few quick sneak peeks! You're gonna love it!
Rich blues, browns and greens with fun patterned papers:
Snowflakes and pom poms:
And lots of frosty fun!
Have a great weekend everyone! See you next week with another Sweet Summertime Training Reel plus a little contest with Clip It Up by Simply Renee!
Peg
