Yay, got my mojo back

I'm so glad I've got my new laptop, I was worried for a while that I'd lost my mojo for digi-scrapping, but now that I've reloaded everything I'm back. It helped that Designer Digitals had their quarterly sale last weekend, with lots of chats and freebies. 

Here's a few LOs I've done since then, using freebies from the chat day as well as other goodies from DD.

Also, I actually managed to do a paper LO last month too! I chat on a social group on UKS called animal, vegetable and mineral for those of like who sometimes like to do LOs without people. Last month the challenge was to use our favourite stamp, and I love this set by Rhonna Farrer for Autumn Leaves. Also decided to use up some of my hoarded stash, so I included the lace cardstock and layered several chipboard flowers. I really enjoyed paper scrapping, though it was a bit annoying that stamps can't be flipped, now I'm used to Photoshop brushes lol.

Arty Farty Jigsaw Swap

Here's the first piece I've finished for this swap on UKScrappers. The theme's music, and we were to include the purple ribbon. It was great fun to do, I did a digi background, added some inchies, and the note is chipboard with a Basic Grey rub-on on top.

Eggs!

For Easter we decorated some eggs, using templates downloaded from the Playhouse Disney website. In case you can't recognise them, from left to right are Handy Manny, Tigger and Mickey Mouse. Amy had great fun with them, but I was stunned when I read the 'artwork release form' we'd have had to fill in if we wanted to send in the photos to enter the competition.

Choice phrase: ' throughout the universe in perpetuity'. I also liked the fact that they could use the entry in 'any and all media now known or hereafter developed'!

All in all, we had a fun Easter, though there's still too much chocolate in the house. 

I also had fun this evening when I went to do my tutoring, as well as my pay I was given a dozen hen eggs as well as a goose egg! One of the perks of living in the countryside:).

Inspiration from everywhere

I've been visiting a lot of blogs lately, and feel I want to pretty mine up a bit. I'm just not sure whether to use one of the sites that provides backgrounds, or whether to have a go at making my own. Any suggestions?

As for inspiration, I've realised it's everywhere - in adverts, on the web, magazines, and of course on the forums when I click through all the fabby LOs everyone else does. This week there was a web inspiration challenge on Designer Digitals. I chose to take inspiration from the IKEA website, and created this page.

Not many supplies to list, papers by Mindy Terasawa.

Apart from that, I've been trying to get up to date with my 365 LOs. It speeds things up so much to use a template. Here's the pages I've completed for March so far.

Our team on UKScrappers, Charli's Angels, set the weekly challenge this week. We decided to use the initials of 'angels' as the challenge. For 5 points each the LO was to contain Any new stash, Notes or journalling, Glitter/Glitz, Embellishments, Lace and Sewing/Stitching. Here's my LO. 

Finally I got a new printer, yay! Now I might actually do some more paper scrapping again. I've just joined a new eco-themed cj, so will start planning that, along with working on the arty farty jigsaw swap, it's always good to be busy!