Monthly Archives: May 2009

A Sun or Flower?

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More doodling to share with everyone, is it a sun or a flower? I was just playing around and also practiced more pattern making as well… The days are getting really hot and we have a nice little family of geckos or some type of lizard living outside our house on the walls.  They supposedly [...]

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Hen

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Another doodle in digital, here’s a hen image for digital stamping.  I was thinking about hens because my husband said I’m like a chicken in terms of sleeping when it’s dark and waking up when the light shines.  Seriously, if I were to be locked up in a dark room I would just keep sleeping [...]

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Owlie

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I’ve been playing around with illustrating on the computer and transforming doodles into digital stamps.  Here is what I created today, a cute little owlie.  Hopefully you’ll find it useful, if you click on the image you’ll find the full 300dpi PNG to download. I’m not sure where all this will take me in the [...]

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Up Up Creative

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I am so honored to have won the giveaway on Up Up Creative’s blog recently…and finally last night I got around to choosing the items I wanted from the shop on Etsy. Since I am located here in Italy and wanted instant gratification, I chose a few printable items from the shop.  Delivery by email [...]

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Using Digital Materials…

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I finally got around to using my own digital stamps and designs (check out my freebies) as well as some of the freebies from Funky Fairy Inspirations.  It’s exciting to be able to create my own designs and using them to realize some type of project.  So much to explore…just need time to do it [...]

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Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge

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I came across a new site for me that offers a kick ass challenge with great prizes as well.  It’s called the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge – go check out the latest challenge #2.  It’s definitely a sketch with lots of elements, which is a new way of creating cards for me.  Lots of layering, [...]

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Digital Tuesday Challenge

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The latest Digital Tuesday Challenge presented has the theme of tags.  We have to include somehow, one way or another a tag in our project.  I decided to just simply create a tag bookmark.  I used a lot of inks on the papers and a digital image of a child reading as well as my [...]

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Hearts On The Brain – Digital Stamps

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Today I have been doodling a lot with the shape of the heart and came up with a few digital stamps to share with everyone.  I printed my designs out on white paper to color them in, but I realized it would be interesting to print on pink paper or something textured for a different [...]

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The Sweet Stop Sketch #4

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The Sweet Stop challenge blog is still going strong and we are up to sketch #4 – which definitely was something new with the spin of the rectangular papers.  I enjoyed working on this sketch and coloring the little stamped flowers.  I am also in the habit of inking the edges of all my papers [...]

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Scraps and Sketches

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StampTV has multiple weekly challenges and I decided to participate especially in the scraps challenge.  So often I have millions of little patterned papers from other projects lying around.  I am too frugal to toss them, but find it difficult to use sometimes as well.  The challenges help to force you to use scraps!  Here [...]

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