Fancy winning yourself a little something?! I have TWO (yes, 2!!) giveaways to tell you about today! First up is the chance to win one of these gorgeous camera strap covers:

Sooo pretty!! You can check out Jess’s etsy store HERE.

Second giveaway is for my new BYOC products (which will be released on Friday 3rd!) – there’s a summery sort of theme going on with them so if you fancy some sunshiney goodies here’s what you need to know:

Just in case you can’t see the images, all you have to do to enter the giveaways is to leave a comment on my blog here before 12 midday EST on Thursday 2nd July. I’ll then do a random draw to pick the winners

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I’m working backwards with my promise to myself to (a) do every Hodge Podge challenge this year and (b) scrap with every collab I make. This one kills two birds with one stone so to speak (Gina’s “Summer” challenge and the Backyard Bliss collab) – cunning hey?! This is Matthew at the school summer fair, happily hooking duck after duck after duck

Full credits are HERE

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Are you following the Gallery Standouts blog? It has been a really interesting exercise for me to do this every week. There’s so much inspiration out there in the galleries in so many wonderfully varied styles, it’s great to “have” to look through the galleries on a Sunday morning with a nice cup of tea.

See you on Friday with some summery BYOC goodies!

Hhhmm, following my remarks about Photo Freedom Maegan left an interesting comment about the LOM class suggesting that digital scrappers print out all their photos too. Um, no. Thank you very much. I’m digital for a number of reasons, one of them being because I have enough clutter in my house as it is without adding more prints to the mix! I do need to tag my photos more efficiently though and have plans to adapt a similar method to one described in the book. Eventually. One day. Hopefully. (I’m a realist, I know how lazy I am….lol)

It’s interesting to get some feedback on the various organisational ideas out there though, if you’ve read here before you probably realise that I am not the world’s most organised person.  In my mind I have plans and schemes to organise myself, they just rarely make it out of my head and into reality. It’s interested to know what works for you guys so thanks for the comments.

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I made another collab with Lili this month, I really enjoy working with Lili – our styles seem to mesh together really well and she’s lovely to work with. Here’s what we made:

and here’s what I made with it (some cheesy pictures of me and the kids larking about with the camera), it feels very strange to be scrapping with my own stuff again, it has been a looong time! I think if I paper scrapped this is what my pages would be like, lots of scribbles and paint and paper pieces:

Here are a shedload of pages from our CTMs:

Have you got sore fingers from all that scrolling?! All the girls did just a great job with this kit, it’sso amazing the buzz that I get from seeing people actually scrap with my designs! Lovely warm fuzzies, thank you girls.

Have a lovely weekend and I hope the weather where you are is better than here – rain, rain and a bit more rain. Bleugh.

I seem to be busy doing, well, not very much if I’m totally honest. Mainly, I am ferrying children round to various school and social events (although I did manage to tag along on one of them this week – a school trip to the local zoo with DD’s class, hurrah! I LOVE the zoo) and then running around at home tidying up after them and preparing for the next round of pressing social engagements. What worries me is that they are only 5 and 3, that’s it going to be like when they are 15 and 13?! Scary thought.

Here’s a quick layout share from earlier in the week. I made this (or I should say – remade this, I’d already scrapped these photos before but was never really happy with my page and decided to do it again) for Traci’s new Hodge Podge “scrap an emotion” challenge. Matthew is a bit like me when he wakes up (ie miserable as sin) and I snapped him in his full grumpy glory a while ago:

Full credits are HERE

I also finally got round to picking up a copy of Photo Freedom, I haven’t finished it yet but it’s an interesting read. There is a fair amount that doesn’t apply to digital scrapbookers but a lot that can be adapted or that does apply. My process of getting my layouts off the computer and into albums has stalled a bit of late so my plan for the summer is to get moving with that project. DD is suddenly really interested in my scrapbook pages so I’m planning to rope her into helping me out during the school holidays – keep her entertained and doing something useful at the same time. Result. 

…food!

Nothing to do with scrapbooking, but I just thought I’d share this with you on the off-chance that you  have somehow managed to miss the hundreds of graze codes going round at the moment! I signed up for a “one free box, next box half price” deal and this is what I got for my first box:

Drooooooooool. I think the idea (as the name suggests) is that you snack on these boxes of goodies throughout the day. This lot lasted about 10 minutes. Utterly delicious. My only bugbear is that I’m not too sure how well the plastic packaging inside the recycled cardboard box actually fits with the green ideals. But having said that, it’s not going to stop me eating my way through the next box

If you’re interested in giving it a try (you can cancel at any point with nothing owed if you try the first box and aren’t keen on it, plus you can let graze know your likes and dislikes – perfect if (like my hubby) you’d rather eat your own toenails than tuck into some fresh pineapple) you can use this code for one free box, and then one box half price. AND if you do, I get to donate £1 to the Rainforest Alliance each time this code is used. Luverly.

1 free box, next box half price: TY5HYY5A

Regular scrapbooking service will be resumed shortly

The BYOC colours this month just said, “BOY” to me so I took the opportunity to work through some of my request list and create four new boyish doodle packs (all are 20% off all weekend as usual):

and here’s some CT inspiration (including some amazing work from my June guests):

Now that the pesky blog hack has been fixed I am going to scrap tonight, oh yes!  I’m a bit out of practice but I’m feeling the need for a bit of scrap therapy Have a great weekend!!

Oh good grief, WHAT a couple of weeks! The more observant of you might have noticed that this little blog has been pretty quiet of late, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet – my blog was hacked by some horrible bot thing that tinkered with the settings and wouldn’t allow me to post It feels like every spare minute I’ve had (which hasn’t been much – two week half term, nuff said) has been spent in wordpress forums trying to find a cure. Anyway, long story short (too late I think) hubby managed to fix things so here I am, whoo!!

I have lots to wiffle on about but the first thing I need to do is give out a couple of coupons. I know quite a few of my customers aren’t subscribed to my newsletter and use this blog to keep up with new product releases. And so, they will have missed two Tadpole Tuesday products from last week. So for the next couple of days you can use these coupons to pick up Green Fingers and Vegetable Patch for $1 each (sorry for the individual coupons, it does mean placing two orders if you want both but I can’t work out how to do it any other way so people can just pick up one if they want!):

• greenfingers
• vegetablepatch

Inspired coupon codes aren’t they?! Enter the code in the box at the bottom of the shopping cart, valid until the end of Saturday.

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One more new release to tell you about, this time a lovely summery collab with Gina and Rach (speaking of summer, you might like to check out the latest Hodge Podge challenge if you have some summer pics to scrap!) called Backyard Bliss (again, use this code until the end of Saturday to pick it up for the original selling price of 20% off: backyardbliss)

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I shall be back tomorrow with June’s BYOC products (HOW is it June already?! Scary, really scary). Aahhhh, I can’t tell you how good it feels to be back and blogging again!