christmas greeting

I've not done this for a while so I hope it works.

I was admiring a stamp the lovely Clare Brown had used on one of her christmas cards and wanted to duplicate it using photoshop. I couldnt find a font that looked similar though until yeterday when Scrapdolly shared a halloween transparancy on her blog and told me the font I needed was pharmacy.

It didnt take a minute to make and I thought I would share. I've uploaded it as a psd file so that anyone who wants to can play about with sizes etc.

Untitled-1.psd

More cards.

Rubbish photos - I really must try taking them in daylight.



This is a scraplift of a card by Tracie on the Penny Black Saturday challenge site. I made the snowflake background paper by using studio g stamps and green and red cats eye chalk inks. The red scalloped edge I cut using the rounded corner punch technique and then run it through the swirl cuttlebug folder in my zipemate. The decoupage reindeer is a free download from http://funkyfairyinspirations.blogspot.com/


Last years papermania christmas paper pack, Stampendous retro stamps and Studio g sentiment stamp, coloured with watercolour pencils, stickles added for dimention and a peice of floss to hold it all together.



I'm rather chuffed with this one, a bit more work. Paper is Foofala from 2005, layered onto green cardstock, ontop a strip of ribbon. Santa is image from weeds and wildflowers 'A Wildflower holiday' Stamp is another Studio g, pointsette is quickutz cut from tissue paper.

Not as expected

I had hoped that this blog would get me crafting more and I was going to attempt to get a little something on here every day. Hmmm, not happened has it. In fact this really hasnt turned out at all like expected as apart from one LO all I have been doing is Christmas cards of late, and I really didnt want this to become a card blog.

However, my reason for the blog was to keep track of everything I make and how I make it, supplies ect. so I will have to put up my cards.

Here goes (sorry quality of photos is not good, hoping santa will bring me a new camera)




Background, cuttlebug winter words folder
Magnolia tilda stamp (tilda with sled)
Crimson and Blake watercolour pencils
Stickles
Ice blue cats eye chalk ink

White space overkill?

I took a little surf around some of the digi blogs tonight. I haven't done this for a while and I was a little dissappointed. Most of them had no LO's on them but were only advertising kits for sale, and those that did have LO's tended to go for the very minimalist look - with a tiny photo stuck up in a corner and a few elements placed around it, leaving the rest of the page full of white space.

Don't get me wrong. I think white space is very difficult to do and even harder to get right. But I saw one LO with a tiny tiny photo in the top rh corner of a 12x12 LO - not at all in eye line and so small and insignificant I could hardly see it.

And although these LO's are probably wonderful works of art, I feel they are getting away from the whole point of scrapbooking .. the photo!

However not one to critisis something I havent tried myself, I have had my own go, and while I was at it, try out the technique from Weeds and Wildflowers. The blog there has started giving photoshop and digi tuts every tuesday and this week it was text around a shape.


Background paper and elements all from Carrie Stephens Spontaneous delight kit.

(Oh and can you spot the typo? I stupidly didnt save as a photoshop file so I cant amend it so will have to live with it!)

Latest pencil lines sketch

Whenever I need inspiration I log onto Pencil Lines and always find just what I am needing to get me started, it really is a brilliant site with some great designers.

This is my attempt at this weeks sketch. NB I still have to put the Goodwear buttons onto the flowers to match in with the other Goosefair LO's.

Supplies

S.e.i. Winnie's walls flora
s.e.i. Winnie's walls papered wall
Aspen Bazille
Black cardstock for matting
orange sukuara souffle pen
Transparency paper

More Goose Fair Layouts

I did add a fancy new background paper for my blog but it was taking sooooo long to load that I could read all the posts before getting to enjoy it, so I have taken it off and gone back to plain black.

Plus I think the Layouts show up better on black!

Here is what I have been up to the last couple of weeks.



Supplies

Crate paper Katie collection
KI Memories Noteletts
Plain Bazzille
Ribbon from my own collection
Fowers from sei Winnie's walls fab flora
swirls hand and cut out (see LO below)
Goodwear Buttons

Doing it digitally

I discovered that my hits count went up because a certain smacker on a certain smack blog wasnt too keen on this blog - moaning that I had given instructions on a scraplift. Mmm pity they cant read since that particular LO only had supply lists and a credit to the original and not instructions.

To be honest I was a little hurt that someone had been so unkind, but then I thought, well hey, I am doing this blog for me, not them, because its to remind me what stuff I used and how I went about each LO - already there are LO's in my albums where I look and think.. I wish I could remember what paper that is. And lets face it, I' m not sitting here forcing anyone's arm up their back making them read my stuff.

So this is a very quick digi LO using the latest free Miss Mint kit. And since there are no techniques apart from digi ones, and no extra bits of kits or any hybrid work, I am not going to say any more about it!