Happy new year and congratulations to the winner of last month’s challenge, Rafflecopter picked Ferdy’s colourful Christmas page “Us” as the winner! Please message me over at the Lilypad for details of how to claim your prize Ferdy, many thanks to everyone who played along with the challenge!
This month we have not one, but TWO fun templates for you to scrap with! You’re welcome to scrap with both templates and enter the giveaway twice, just make sure to create a separate entry for each layout so Rafflecopter counts both entries! Both templates have a ‘new yearsy’ feel to them: Kirstie created a fun countdown themed template (that big circle is crying out to be replaced with a clock element for a New Year’s Eve layout!) while Christa created a year in review template to help you look back on the highlights of 2017! The 2017 date is a separate layer so if you want to create similar pages for other years, or to use the layout to showcase a series of photos it’s really easy to amend and customise.
Creative Team Inspiration: Countdown Template
Here’s what the Creative Team put together using Kirstie’s Countdown Template, lots of new year cheer but there are also a couple of different takes on the composition that really help to show that using a template as a starting point for your page can spark other ideas!









Creative Team Inspiration: Year in Review
Here’s some pages from the team using Christa’s Year in Review template, I hope they inspire you to get creative and record your year (or make a list!) too!






Along with the templates, we also have another couple of free gifts for you to celebrate the new year! Christa has kindly put together a set of celebratory overlays and a set of date brads to share with you today (you can see how she used both of these in her pages above!) – simply click on the images to download!
THE CHALLENGE:
1. Download the free templates below. You can use them as is, flip them, resize them, anything you want to make them your own!
Countdown Template:
Year in Review Template:
2. Create a digital layout, a hybrid layout, or even a card or other project inspired by the template! It can be any theme that you wish. The only requirement is to use Kate Hadfield’s products (your page should consist of at least 50% Kate’s products and meet the Lilypad’s gallery requirements).
TO ENTER:
- Post your page in Kate Hadfield’s gallery at The Lilypad.
- Stop back and leave a comment in the Rafflecopter giveaway below, linking us back to your page by 11.59pm EST 31st January 2018.
The winner will be announced here on the blog and in the Lilypad Forums on the 1st of February! I hope you enjoy creating with these templates, happy scrapping!











Celebration Brads and Winter Brads freebies
what excitement!!! thank you for choosing me for the win!!! i know … it was REALLY Baby Ben’s face! he’s a looker!
Posted to Kate Hadfield’s Gallery and Challenge Forum
Thank you so much for the 2017 in Review template. I enjoy your colorful crisp elements and used them to complete the page.
Obrigada Kate. Gosto muito do seu trabalho.
Bom Ano!
Hugs
Cris
oh oh oh oh and oh!!! what a boatload of gifts! thank you so much Kate and Christa!!! now .. can you manage to gift me more TIME to scrap???? lol!
Ahh, if only I could! Wouldn’t that be amazing?! I hope you manage to find some crafting time soon Lisa!!
Merci
I see we are fellow Whoovians! Have you ever made any Dr Who themed items? Would definitely buy those as I know you could do them justice! Happy New Years!
Whovians unite!! 🙂 I have these Sharon: https://katehadfielddesigns.com/shop/bigger-on-the-inside although I think I probably need to make a new version now too!
Ooh! I would whole(double)heartedly support and purchase a newer version, Kate! 🙂 I still have many Whovian pages to scrap of our trip to the Doctor Who Experience in Wales (sadly, now closed). Cheers!
We went to the Doctor Who Experience when it was in London, I was so sad to see it had closed! I’ll add an updated set to my to-do list Natalie!