Hoping I’ve snuck in in time for this weeks dare on celebrations. (edit: seems I have a whole extra week!)

For those non-MMORPG fans, a big yellow question mark indicates a computer game character who has a quest for you to complete – the perfect addition to DH’s birthday ultimate quest LO.

Credits: Papers: Oscraps 7th birthday kit, Studio Mirranda – Popsicle Pop,
Elements: Just Jaimee – Leah’s happy place mini, Creashens – Summer Sorbet, Mommyish – You are Amazing
Alpha: Karah Fredricks – Life as we know it.
Fonts: Meiryo UI Bold, Last King Quest, Pea Jack n Jane.

A music dare this week and it just had to be the good old Knebworth album from 1990 – 1st bought on cassette tape, containing classics like “Money for nothing” Dire Straits & “Hey Jude” Paul McCartney.
Credits: Paula Kesselring – My personal notes kit, Pink Poppy Press – Alpha, Chaos Lounge – charm, Studio 68 – wordart, Own handwriting – font.

Oh how I would love to be able to teleport, so when I saw this week’s digidare on “what super power would you like?” I just had to join in. Save time, save fuel – as long as they can put me back together right at the other end it’d be awesome!

This is the first time I’ve found a use for the wind distort on gimp to give the “beam me up” effect, tried this when the “erase every 2nd row” didn’t seem to work. Rotated the photo 90 deg, ran the wind distort & rotated it back.

Credits: The Lilypad – Made for each other collab, Oscraps – Comfort collab, Obsidian Dawn – travel brushes, Alphas – Karah Fredricks & Ziggle Designs, Elements – Molivera Designs, Chili Designz, Dede Smith, Studio 68, Fonts – Toxica, Pea Bev.

Time for a digidare this week – scrapping a 2 sided situation.

Credits:
Mommyish – Sweet Summer Kit & Alpha
Girl Boy Girl Designs – Sk8tr Kit & Alpha
Fanette Design, Elements – Erica Zwart, Bowesclan, Mye de Leon – Rules of the Road kit, Anna Aspnes, Karah Fredricks – Tiny Book Alpha.
Font – Sans, CK Blackout, Porcelain.

It’s been an interesting & productive month of scrapping this January – 23 layouts done! I’ve been enjoying the month of challenges at The Lilypad and it’s certainly been worthwhile in terms of 21 completed challenges and a number of them I really love. Never thought I’d get the whole 31 challenges done – was doing fine until I hit the late teens and got stuck on a few. And then the floods came and I spent more time watching facebook than I should have.

So not a bad total in all. The last time I had this productive a scrapping month was doing Jessica Sprague’s December Holiday’s in Hand though that was template based and a lot simpler.

Been a long while since I’ve done a dare but I do love challenges to get me going. This week we are to scrap about a RAK – Random Act of Kindness done to us by a stranger.

Credits: Papers & Border – Scrapflower Daydream Collab, Dawn Inskip. Elements – Carina Gardner, Megan Fisher, Anna Aspnes, Mye de Leon, Kimeric Kreations, Mizz Kitten, BTDS, Face off! font. Font – Adler.

Took me a while to refind this tutorial from a few months ago so if I post it here I can find it again if I need to.

On the Oscraps blog is the tutorial for turning a photo into a B&W line sketch then adding back part of the colour photo so that it looks like a partly finished painting from a sketch.
My LO done with that technique:

 

Had started this LO a few months ago with the intention of trying a moving scrapbook page but looked like it would be too difficult. When I saw this week’s digidare to scrap “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” I knew which photos I wanted and remembered that there was a started LO somewhere.

Good to get back to scrapping after way to long playing Stronghold Kingdoms.

Credits: Paper – Girl Boy Girl Designs
Photos masks – Water LO Project
Elements – Mye de Leon Rules of the Road, Kitty Designs, Erica Zwart
Alpha – Designs by Sarah
Fonts – Pea Carmen & Pea Stacy Fancy

This weeks digidare is to scrap your “Greatest Hits” whatever they may be.

I went for my Top 5 favs on the Ipod, but my Digishow Podcast is by far 1st on the list. Thanks to Steph, Katie, Peppermint and the whole gang for the awesome show each week.

Credits: GBG Designs Sk8tr kit, Karah Fredricks border, Scrapcop journal spot, Vera Lim table & cup, Lisa Witney ipod & alpha, fonts – Calibri & Pea Jay.