A little light inspiration...

Just a quick design cheat. Try freeze frame at any time on the creative and colourful vid from the lush Mika. You have an instant 12x12 layout template from the intense *bubblegum* design (very BAM POP!)

Scrapbook Inspiration's did highlight how you can use the album covers - but I think you can get zillions more ideas from just keep freeze framing a real visual delicious music vid ;)



...erm, just watch out for those rabbits! I did have my kids ask what they were up to. *Cough, splutter, choke* "Let's have a chat, son..."

Happy Mother's Day (retrospectively...)

To all Mothers everywhere... I hope you awoke to the sounds of singing children, the smell of burning bacon and the scent of flowers as they were thrust in your face - at the bright and breezy hour of 6am.

I however was very spoilt and had a gentle wake up call after 7.30... followed by hugs, *said singing* and Delia's CHEATS cookbook (seriously happy...!!) I now am frantically making a list of must have ingredients that are sadly lacking in both my freezer and larder/store cupboard (urm... that will be just my cupboard then!?!) I do *dream* about a walk-in larder probably as much as some folk *dream* of a scraproom... it shows that food comes first; and paper knows its place ;)

I also was bequeathed yogurt cranberries (I was a little hesitant too... but am now munching my way through them as I type) as well as flowers, a mini salt-pig to coordinate with my beasty salt-pig (I am amazed at the eye for detail my wee ones have under the ever watchful eye of a top-notch DH... plus how DID their pocket money spread so far :) Love you MR F xxxx

Anyways, I have a tonne of emails - and some exciting things to be cracking on with this morning - so I will list the lucky 100 successful entrants to our first ever blog-a-view... and then I will be *needing* addresses to send you lucky ladies (and maybe gents) a little something for you to try. WATCH THIS SPACE for the announcement and details of the product heading your way...!

Later,

Becks x

PDQ

We all like to cheat (just once in a while... and then just a little...)

So I have been playing with samples from Bisous PDQ range. I thought I would HATE them... as seriously it is rocket science made simple. Grab a photo (in this case the only ones I had to hand - not good ones) and then whack it down (or you *could* carefully position...) and then you are done - unless you are a journal junkie like me, and also have to add the reason behind the pic.

The paper designs look layered and stamped - and are not at all basic (almost remind me of the Prima Hybrid type digi paper mixes...) They actually made me feel like I had accomplished something in bod all time - and doubled the total number of layouts completed in one evening. I seriously am back on this scrapbooking malarky!!

I would add an 'NB' that the pics were crazy ones that DH had created for me for Valentines - and the journaling has the full story... I DO NOT ever scrap myself, and I certainly DO NOT ever venture from behind the lense. I know this is wrong, wrong, wrong... but I cannot be the only one who thinks any photos of me just don't 'look like me'??! Same goes for my voice. I hear it and think - heck do I really sound like that??? Anyways - if you click in and can read my chicken handwriting, you will see why that pic got the PDQ treatment.

Am I hooked?! I think I will try a couple of other designs. It is definitely a confidence (aka I feel like I have finished something) boost... not sure if it is anywhere as much fun... as the main event is over far to quickly for my liking ;)