My MOJO is back to Stay....!!!

At last, after far far too long of being MIA, my scrap mojo is back, and this time to stay. Already this week ive created 2 scrap layouts, with plenty more in mind.
Its been so long since i sat down to scrap a layout, my mojo just went missing. After my nephew was born (7 weeks ago) obviously i wanted to scrap some of those gorgeous pics of him. The first layout i did was my favorite photo taken just minutes after he was born.
Since then my mojo has been back in full swing. :-)
Im also hoping that this motivation spreads itself to my blogging....
Im always complaining that i dont blog enough, and obviously this is my fault lol, so hopefully ill stick to my goal of blogging more often. Hold me to this lol.

This was the first layout id made in months. I love this photo of my mum, my sister and myself saying Hi to my nephew.

I decided to make this layout for my best friends birthday, as a present for her.

Where oh where have you been.....?

It doesnt matter how much i try i always find serious gaps in my blogging. Its shocking. I really gotta get on top of it.
I havent done ANY blogging since late last year, and ive only JUST started making cards again for the first time in months. But i havent made a scrap layout in even longer. Im hoping to change all that but.
We recently moved and i now have my own scrap space in our garage- im over the moon to have my own space. So now i have the space, i need the motivation lol.
I have a few ideas for some scrap layouts i want to do. Year before last i made my mum a scrapbook for christmas, a 'year in review' of my son. I loved this idea and i have decided to do one for every year now. Im going to go back to 08 and start from there.

I Got My MOJO Back!!!

Howdy all. :o)

After months and months of non scrappyness, I have FINALLY got my mojo back.
For the first time in about 3 months i sat down to create, in the scrap sense. My little sister turned 18 yesterday, and instead of reaching into my stash, I MADE a new card for her. It was the first card I'd made in months. I still havent done a scrap layout but I feel one on the horizon lol. I also made a few ATCs over the week too. My mojo is well and truely back in full swing :-)

My sisters card.... Simple, but i like it.

Pages from my Art Journal.

These are some pages from my art journal.



This is one of my faveorites. Its was about 3am when i did this, and for the 5th night in a row I just couldnt get to sleep.

Another AJ Page

This is another art journal page I did for a different swap. Every few weeks, in a journal group im in, we recieve a journal and after writting in it for 2 weeks, we send it on to our next partner. Its a journal round robin of sorts. This is a page i did for that journal.

This was a quote my Yr 12 art teacher once said to me after seeing my workspace :-) Yes, Im a messy creator lol. Its since become my faveorite defence.

Inside an Artists Mind Swap

Recently I signed up for a swap on Swap- Bot called Inside an Artists Mind. In this swap we have to fill a 20 page sketch book with our 'creativity', and send it on to our swap partner. Along with our preferred playlist of music that inspires us. Im choosing to paint, as well as art journal alot of my pages. I started on my pages last week, and have been doing at least a few a day. Im really having alot of fun with this swap, and I look forward to recieving my partners too. I've been scanning my pages as i do them, so i can keep 'copies' :-)

 This first one is a line from one of my favorite songs at the moment- "I'll be your lover too"- By Rob Pattinson.

Body of Work.... 7 years later i have it figured.

Last night  I had trouble getting to sleep, so while i was trying to get to sleep as usual i had a million different things running through my head. My mind tends to wonder when im bored. I found myself thinking about different painting techniques i could try and different canvases i wanted to do. Then i started thining about my Yr 12 body of work- My main work of art to be marked for my HSC.
Now, i can't actually remember what i submitted for my BOW 7 years ago- memory problems due to stress lol. But i know i wasnt overly happy with it. Nowadays, with more artistic experience under my belt, i know i could do better. I have a much better way of presenting my theme.
Going off the theme i picked in yr 12- "Bottled Emotions", I re did my BOW in my head. It actually merged and transformed for over an hour :-) and then i figured it out. I know exactly how I could have represented my theme perfectly (surprisingly it had nothing to do with bottles- more so boxes :-) If only I could go back and do it again the way i planned in my head last night lol.
Even though I have no one to submit it to, or no reason to even do it, im going to make my Body of Work. I just wish I could show my yr 12 art teacher how much better I did this time around lol.