…how to scrap. Boo. This always happens when I take a break from it, I struggle and struggle to make anything I like. I need to set aside some time this weekend to sit down and not leave the computer until I have forced myself to complete a layout. And not delete it. Sigh. Wish me luck!

I have not forgotten how to doodle though (seems like I can only do one or the other at the moment!) I have another new collab to tell you about and I just LOVE how this turned out! Check out what Holly and I created:

Oooh these colours make me happy Here’s what my CT and guests made with the kit (scrolling finger at the ready):

So fun! Movie Night is on sale at 20% off all weekend

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, it is a certain little person’s birthday coming up soon so we will be busy all weekend visiting farm animals and certain fast food establishments. Fun!

Whoa… where has this week gone?! I just realised how long it has been since I last blogged. It’s half-term here so I have slipped into a sort of kids-at-home-with-no-school-and-no-routine sort of twilight zone where I don’t know what day it is, or what way is up any more…LOL I’m still keeping up with my P365 photos though (insert very-proud-of-myself-grin here) and it has got to the point where DD asks me if I have taken my “photo of the day” yet at some point every day! Thankfully they all still seem to be tolerating having their photos taken so all is going well Thank you for everyone who got in touch about P365 and all the tips and links you shared, there are some amazing resources and inspirational sites out there, thank you for sharing!

I have a couple of new products to share with you, well one new and one from last week – oops! First the new one. Our guest designer this month at TLP is the lovely Nikki Beaudreau. Nikki was on one of the first CTs I was on so I have known her for quite a long time now! It was great to get to work with her, this is what we came up with! My Piggy Bank is on sale at 20% off all weekend:

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And this is last week’s release: Winter Games. Seeing as I didn’t manage to blog about these doodles in time for the usual weekend sale period, here’s a little coupon that will take 20% off these doodles this weekend too: winterbonus (enter into the box at the bottom of the shopping cart, must be logged into the store to work!)

We are really enjoying the Winter Olympics at the moment, despite the 8 hour time difference and constant channel hopping to find what we want to watch! We’ve been enjoying the snowboarding tonight, such an exhilarating sport to watch!

Phew! If you’ve got this far, thank you for reading! I hope you have a great weekend

Are you taking part in Project 365? If you’re a regular reader here, you will probably have a good old snigger at this but I’m doing P365 . You can stop laughing now. I know I failed horribly at Project 52 last year, and I think I did a month and a half of Scrap Your Day (which sounds much more impressive than it actually is because the idea is that you document the 25th of each month with a series of photos and a layout) but with week 5 of P365 under my belt, I am feeling pretty positive about the whole thing!

Every weekend I spend a good few hours cruising the galleries preparing for my turn to post on the GSO blog. I was totally fascinated with all the JYC / December Daily pages that hit the galleries towards the end of last year and then the year in review layouts and P365 books started popping up in the galleries at the start of January I just KNEW I had to try P365. The thought of having a book printed up at the end of the year is really spurring me on. I’m scrapping my pages incredibly simply (inspired by the wonderful Joey_M over at Designer Digitals) and I am not allowing myself to add any extra “stuff” to my pages in the hope that I will actually get them scrapped. Here are the first few weeks worth of double page spreads (I’m changing the background paper every week):

Simple hey?! It’s actually quite refreshing to scrap like this! Incredibly hard though, lol. I also discovered a totally unexpected bonus of doing this project – it really helps me focus on what layouts I want to make. Because I’m recording all sorts of events in my P365 book, I don’t feel the pressure to scrap them too. Which means I can make the layouts about personality traits or funny one liners without that nagging feeling that I should actually be scrapping the billion ‘events’ photos I have. It’s very liberating Fingers crossed I manage to keep it up all year! I would love it if you would please share your P365 layouts / blogs / tips with me!

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When I haven’t been stalking the kids trying to take candid photos of them (which admittedly has taken up quite a lot of my time lately) I’ve been drawing! It’s BYOC time again this week and I’ve made some romantic Valentine’s inspired doodles (20% off all weekend as usual):

Here’s some CT inspiration:

Such great pages, it’s so wonderful to see layout using my designs, it gives me warm fuzzies every time

I have more Chinese goodies out today – after I released  my Zodiac doodles last week I had a few requests for some more Chinese themed doodles, so I made some! I am really pleased with how these turned out. Also, the lovely and very talented Sara Lively created some wonderful little hybrid takeout boxes for me using the original Zodiac pack – both new releases are 20% off this weekend. Here they are:

Some wonderful CT inspiration, thank you girls!!

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While I was cruising round the galleries last week, I came across this amazing layout using my Shaping Up doodles. I had been thinking about showcasing some layouts here for a little while now, so when I saw Heather’s page I decided it was time I started! Here’s the page, I love how she used the wordstrips and layered all the doodles – I have been joking that I need to print this out and fix it to my fridge to help with my get-fit motivation! The healthy eating is going well, but the exercise regime… ah…. well… not so well. (Click HERE to leave her a comment!)

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Have a lovely weekend!

I just wanted to make a quick post with some links to some charity kits raising funds for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti (if anyone knows of any more, please let me know and I’ll keep this post updated):

Songbird Avenue: Port au Prince (release date 1st Feb)

Designer Digitals: Help Haiti

One Love at Scraporchard

Hope for Haiti by Lesley Grainger

This isn’t a digi kit, but I also wanted to to tell you about the Hearts for Haiti etsy shop which has been set up specifically to raise funds for Médeçins Sans Frontières. Various etsy sellers have donated items to this shop, when I last looked there was over 40 pages of handmade goodness to chose from.

ETA: Thanks for letting me know about the Sending Hope kit at Digital Scrapbook Place:

Right then. I think that I can honestly saw that this doodle pack has given me more trouble than ANY of the others. Put together! LOL To be specific – the dragon has given me more trouble than anything else. For quite some time it looked like a slug, a slug with legs, but a slug nevertheless. Hopefully I have cracked it now and its obviously a Chinese dragon rather than a legged slug, although DS is adamant that it is actually a caterpillar! I have a little game I play with him after I finish sketching out my doodles, I call it my Toddler Test. If he can identify everything I have drawn them I’m doing ok. If he can’t, then I need to rethink! This is the first time I have ever released something that has failed the Toddler Test, so I’m rather nervous.

Judge for yourself: dragon, slug, or caterpillar?!

Thankfully my CT and guest CT weren’t phased by the dragon/slug/caterpillar and came up with these beauties:

Happy New Year to those celebrating next month (and apologies for making the dragon look like a caterpillar!)