Hiya Canaries!

Tis the season for documenting all our favourite parts of this crazy time of year, and today I'm sharing with you, a video that shows how I've set up my Document December Album.

Of course, I'm using the DD kit from Scrappy Canary (why the heck wouldn't I?! It's GORGEOUS!), and I've added a few little extras to the mix, to make the colour palette more aquas and yellows with hints of the traditional red and green.

Check it out:




I've kept the layout very easy to move around, and I'm sure, as I add photos in, I'll be switching things up, but for now I'm so happy to have managed to get this much done!

Now it's time to get those photos taken and printed out!

Back with more soon.

Merry Merry!

 Linda xx

I absolutely loved the Spearmint Leaves kit that you can see in the shop here (unfortunately sold out). This is my second page from the kit and I used a more muted colour theme for this one, but as I say in my video I see a lot of similarities in the design of the two pages which seems a bit odd as I wasn't even thinking about it at the time, I guess I was just on a roll and that design worked.

I have taken to grabbing white card stock as a base for everything lately. I feel that it works to 'ground' a layout design really well. I grabbed some white card stock, vellum, a doily and some wood dots out of my own stash to complete this page.

This is my second layout out of the kit and there is honestly enough of the kit left to make another one if not two pages. It was a great kit full of well coordinated and scrumptious scrapbooking goodies.

Here's the process video which I hope you enjoy (please feel free to subscribe to my channel *wink*)

Hey Polly peeps, hope you had an awesome weekend full of crafty goodness. I am back today with a process video of how I made the page below with the March main kit.
To finish off I added some water colour paint after I had stopped filming so this looks a little different to how it finishes off in the video.


I hope this gives you some ideas on how to use your kit. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week. Manda xxx

Hey guys, so its another late Wednesday night and here I am with another blog post and Project Life layout using the February Salted Caramel Ice Cream kit. I absolutely adored the gold papers from MME in the kit this month and couldn't wait to use them. I knew I wanted to use them on a Christmas layout. From there I knew I had to strive to finish my 2013 and luckily this week I did. It is such an achievement after you complete your last layout in a year long book. My PL for 2013 was only 16 weeks since I started in September but I still felt that same accomplished feeling. I cant wait to look back on this year after completing 52 weeks and seeing how it all looks and how I feel about the whole process.


Enough rambling tonight (you can tell I am tired). Here is the layout I created. Sorry about the low quality pics. I took them today with a cloudy, rainy sky and the focus just didn't seem to want to work the way it usually does.



I am a huge fan of simple colours and white on white at the moment, especially for title cards.


As always guys you can check out my process video below and see just how I created this layout. I did start out with a lot of Polly! products from the past two kits and then later on throughout the layout wanted to really focus on those gold papers..


Thank you so much again guys for your support. These Polly! post and videos are getting the most attention on my Youtube channel and I really appreciate it. Thank you so much!

Love always Nae xoxo

Hey everyone, happy monday! It's Manda here and today I am sharing with you a layout I made using the Passionfruit Souffle kit.



Thanks so much for stopping by.
Happy scrapping!
Manda xxx

Hey guys, Nae back with a Saturday blog and vlog for you all. This week I decided I would take a little walk back in time and look at my old layouts and albums from the mid 2000's. It was a completely different time in my life and it was interesting to compare it to my new pretty PL pages.

Please be warned however when you do view this video. I made it on the favour of Project Life. I am very pro Project Life at the moment and think it is the most amazing system of scrapbooking ever. I do love 12x12 layouts and I love what people can do and fit into a 12x12 layout (especially the girls here at Polly!).

This video is more a comparison of my own layouts and what I now prefer for memory keeping. Please do not take any of this as offensive or personally. My goal as of late has been to promote Project Life as much as possible and that includes more vlog posts like this!


In the video I reflect on old layouts, and compare them to my more recent layouts. You will see a whole bunch of paper piecing, fussy cutting and tedious amounts of hand stitching and doodling. I thought these layouts were so amazing when I made them and now I look back and see just how far the world of scrapbooking has come. Its amazing.


Anyways before I ramble on with more useless rubbish here is the video.



If you are a PL creator, let me know some of your upsides to Project Life or maybe even some downsides you found to the system.

If you are a traditional 12x12 layout creator, why not let me know some bonuses of your scrapbooking. Or why not even buy a pocketed page protector and try and integrate it into your traditional albums! I would love to see what you all create.

I hope you enjoy the videos guys and Ill be back again next week with another great PL layout and process video. Thank you all so much for your love and support.

Love always,
Nae xoxo

Hey guys,

Nae back again with another Project Life layout. After about 6 months of doing Project Life, I have really started to find my scrap style again! Its great and its so nice to finally have a formula to work to. Pastel colours are really not in my scrap formula but in February's PL kit, I was given a little challenge. The cards were pastel and quite busy. Most of my layouts usually use less busy cards but despite this, I was still able to use these beautiful cards to my advantage and fit them into my style!

You may be a little concerned for how far behind I am with PL but dont worry. I am working on both 2013 and 2014 and you will be happy to know, with these Polly! assignments, I now only have 2 weeks left of 2013 to do. This layout is of my week 13 and 14, the first weeks of december. Life was really busy with me for work so not a lot of photos taken but a lot of things happening!! Im sorry if you are sick of looking at Christmas. I am not a fan of themey papers and embellishments and Christmas papers are one of my biggest hates. I hope this layout will help inspire you to not use such traditionally themed products on your layouts but still conveying the essence of the holiday.


So for this layout I decided to stick primarily with the cards from the kit. I plan to use the beautiful gold black and white MME papers for another layout later on in the month. When I was doing my layout for this week I completely misplaced my embellishment add on kit and I am still trying to find it. It definitely would have looked awesome with this layout.


As much as I had no idea what I was going to do with the teeny thin washi tape, I soon found a new love for the stuff. I loved using it as a background strip for my journalling. On photos, on cards it worked everywhere and just gave that beautiful little hint of colour!


And as always, with every post I put here on the Polly! blog, here is my process video!! I hope you enjoy guys. Thank you so much for all your love and support especially on my youtube channel. I am now up to 160 subscribers. I love your comments and subscriptions so please leave me some love on the videos!! I always post back!



Thanks for checking in guys. I am loving your support. I cant wait to get back on here in a few weeks and share with you another fun Project Life layout!

Love always, Nae xoxo

Hi everyone, Manda here today I am sharing with you my first process video on how I used the Passionfruit Souffle kit to create the page below. Hope you like it :)

Hey guys,

So I only just got my February Polly! Kit in the mail yesterday and with travelling last week I had no time to actually scrapbook using some of the wonderful things in the new kit. Luckily, I had a second layout with January's kit that I thought might help you relive last months kit and if you loved it as much as me, maybe even go back and get some more of the goodness in the Raspberry Shortcake Kit.


For my layout this week, I got to use a few of my favourite colours, the black, bright pink and yellows from the Studio Calico Print Shop papers in the kit. Unfortunately I don't use a lot of patterned paper in my layouts and prefer to just embellish photos but this week I really tried to use as much patterned paper as I could.

Hope you enjoyed my little layout share and of course as with every of my posts, I have included a process video for the layout. Enjoy!!


I hope this has inspired you to get out last months kit and have a play. I really loved the bright bolder colours in the kit and would love to see what you all create. Hopefully next week I will have a few unboxing videos of the February PL kit and the add on.

Until then, happy creating!!
Nae xoxo

Hi, Manda here today I am sharing a video walking through the goodies you will be receiving in your February Kit. This is my first video ever so I hope you like it. Have a great week!

Hey guys,

So today I wanted to do something a little different with you all and share my scrap space. I am a youtube fanatic and I am constantly searching videos for scrap room tours. To be honest, most of them are the same old boring white washed rooms with a little burst of colour. Walls lined with shelves packed with stock they will never use (or even know they have). As much as I enjoyed watching these videos in the beginning I am now sick of seeing these videos and so today I wanted to share with you my own take.


I don't know if it is wrong of me to say that I feel my video is more of a 'realistic' scrapper's space. You know, the ones that don't have a billions of dollars to spend on a full room of product. I feel that this video opens you up to the possibility of using the spaces you have in your home and still creating something beautiful and individually you.


It doesn't have to be something you lock away from the family, it can be a space you share with everyone. I know if I locked my scrap stuff away in a separate room I would never use it. It would stay closed and I would forget about it. I love that my room is open and inviting, it is small and comfortable and something that always strikes up conversation when we have guests over. Its a great excuse for me to get out my album (I only have one at the moment) and show it off.


I would love to see your scrap spaces. Videos or photos, link me to your scrap spaces in the comments below! I cant wait to gather some little hints and tricks from all your spaces.

I'll be back next week with a new PL layout I created using the January Raspberry Shortcake Kit. I had a great time creating it and I cant wait to share it with you all.

Until then, keep on creating and live what you love.
Love always,
Nae xoxo

Hello, Hello!! Ruth here today to chat all things watercolour.

Making kits every month for you that include the latest hottest trends is the most wonderful part of my work. I really love pouring over the catalogues and preorders, hunting for the best combination of new and on-trend products to include for you each month.

So let's chat about these hot trends that you see each month in your kits! This year, I thought it would be fun to highlight a current trend each month that is showing up in the Polly kits and look at that trend across the board right now, and at a few fun and relevant things that might interest you about that trend and how you might use it in scrapbooking.
This month we are looking at watercolours, they are HOT HOT HOT, in scrapbooking and everywhere else, and I am certain this watercolour trend will show up again in future kits, as anyone who has seen images from the latest CHA will have seen lots more watercolour influenced designs and ideas are being released in 2014.
Watercolour has been hitting as a hot idea across a lot of markets from phones, to cakes, fashion to party decorations and even on our nailpolish, it is a big craze. (click on any images in this blog post to find the original sources)
We have option in papercrafting, to have it all down for you or to try and DIY the watercolour. I love to use both, as I simply cannot create some of the beautiful effects that are in some of this month's products. You can see it in the Basic Grey Fresh Cut line that is in both the January kits as well as in the designs from Studio Calico's Printshop which also shows up in both kits.
The wonderful thing about watercolouring, as I mentioned, is that is also something we can add on top of our products, Three fabulous resources for watercolour ideas are firstly this youtube video from Kimberly Crawford on watercolouring techniques with gelatos,


Secondly an awesome step out of a watercolour layout by the queen of wet media, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Exciting things are happening here at Polly!
At the start of the year I decided to invest in a little video camera to make short videos for the blog.
I came across a bargain on my travels this weekend and managed to pick up an awesome Sony Bloggie video camera for an awesome price. I had a go at making my own video and love how it turned out.
I have decided that this will be a regular feature from now on. I will feature Sunday Scrappin' episodes every so often as well as some extra surprises ;-)



In today's episode I worked with the relatively new Pebbles Inc. Seen & Noted collection. I have been waiting to use this collection pack for weeks. This photo of my gorgeous Louie suited it perfectly.
As you can see in the video I originally planned to use two photos, however decided it best suited one. I didn't really have a plan when I started shooting, as you can see I moved the alphas three times!!!


I love how the page turned out.

The products I used.
Kraft Cardstock
Papers from Pebbles Inc. Seen & Noted range.
The Twinery Carribean Twine
Prima Flowers
The Greatest View chevron bag & badges
Pebbles Inc. Alphabet
Simple Stories tab stickers
Crate Paper Storyteller red peg
Kaisercraft white resin flower
My Minds Eye yellow phrase words
Studio Calico chipboard speech bubble and heart & arrow stickers
Assorted washi tape, string, paper doilies


I have also used the Jenni Bowlin Pinwheel punch. This is a limited edition release from Jenni Bowlin/Fiskars. I am taking pre-orders for these punches for $16.95 and they are expected in the next 2-3 weeks. Please see the shop here for more details.


Until next time.

xx