....I'm not actually working today! That makes a very pleasant change so I am now catching up on various blogs, updating all my posts and, surprise, surprise, actually finding some time to spend messing around in photoshop!
I'm actually sitting here in my office, sipping my jasmine tea and just messing on the computer whilst son #2 sticks all my invoices and till receipts into a folder for me! He is currently moaning like crazy about how boring a job it is, how he hates doing it even more than he hates entering details onto the computer but that is the price you have to pay if you want to get a student loan and your mother needs her accounts doing!
It is currently tipping it down outside, typical British summer weather to be honest, although it has been really nice the past few days. The forecast for tomorrow is a bit iffy but am hoping that it will at least be dry. We have plans to walk (crawl?) up the Wrekin but only if it is not raining.
For those who may not know, the Wrekin is a hill not that far from here and it is 1,335 feet above the Shropshire Plains. You can get some glorious views of Shropshire from the top provided, of course, that the weather is fine. The above is a photo of the Wrekin taken from the grounds of Attingham Park, a stately home on the outskirts of Shrewsbury.
There are many local legends about the Wrekin, and here is one courtesy of Wikipedia:
A giant called Gwendol Wrekin ap Shenkin ap Mynyddmawr with a grudge against the town of Shrewsbury decided to flood the town and kill all its inhabitants. So he collected a giant-sized spadeful of earth and set off towards the town. When in the vicinity of Wellington he met a cobbler returning from Shrewsbury market with a large sackful of shoes for repair. The giant asked him for directions, adding that he was going to dump his spadeful of earth in the River Severn and flood the town. "It's a very long way to Shrewsbury," replied the quick-thinking shoemaker. "Look at all these shoes I've worn out walking back from there!" The giant immediately decided to abandon his enterprise and dumped the earth on the ground beside him, where it became the Wrekin. The giant also scraped the mud off his boots, which became the smaller hill Ercall Hill nearby. Ironically Shrewsbury is subjected to flooding from the River Severn on frequent occasions naturally.
Anyhow, since the weather is too wet to do anything outside today, I decided to have a play with the Soft Denim swatch and came up with these gingham papers:
Feel free to download them - just click on the preview to take you to the download link!
I'm off to do some more photoshopping! Hope you all have a lovely weekend, no matter what the weather is like where you are ;).
I'm having a slightly less stressful week, this week and am catching up on various jobs, as well as trying to clear some of the paperwork in my office. I don't know about you, but I absolutely hate filing, it is the one thing I leave for ages and ages until I have mountains to do. I keep trying to persuade my children to help out, but they know me too well! If I'm trying to get them to do a job in my office, it will usually (in their opinion) be boring, and the pay is nowhere near enough! It's beginning to look like I might have to do this mountain of filing all by myself, sigh!
However, on a brighter note, I have used my part in this month's ADSD blog train to make a desktop for June and here it is:
I used the pupcats font and a ribbon template from Royanna Fritschmann plus the flowers, frame and papers from my kit.
If you would like to download it, then here it is:
Desktop 1280 x 1024
Desktop 1024 x 768
Desktop 800 x 600
I'm off to do some accounts for a card shop now (I lead such an exciting life!). Hope you have a lovely day!
Well, after a hectic weekend when I had to work until 2 am on Sunday morning and then until just gone midnight on Sunday, then having to dash out to a client to sort out tax returns and accounts I have finally had chance to upload my part in this month's ADSD blog train. I am sorry this is late, but real life hits big time on occasion. The preview of my part of the kit is shown below. 
and comprises:
- 5 papers;
- 6 flowers;
- 1 Butterfly;
- 2 ladybirds;
- 1 overlay
- 2 ribbons;
- 1 journalling paper; and
- 1 frame
Please take time to go visit all the stops on the blog train - there are some fantastic designs out there and they will be available for all of June.
http://adsdesigners.com/adsdblogtrain.htm
Have fun! I'm off to create a desktop using my part of the kit and am hoping to upload this tomorrow for those interested!
Well the new blog train is released later today but I am afraid you will have to wait until later in the day for my part. I have had to unexpectedly work all weekend and am off out to a client's very soon. I am sorry but I just will not have time to post my part until later this afternoon/early evening depending on how long I am out. You wouldn't have thought an accountant who mainly prepares tax returns and accounts could have sudden emergencies like this, would you? I bet you never realised accountancy could be so exciting!!!
To follow the next step in the ADSD blog train, please visit our central hub for the complete list of stops:
http://adsdesigners.com/adsdblogtrain.htm
Have fun on the train and I will be back later! Oh, and I will also check out the tulip download to see what is wrong with it :)
It's been a busy month here so far, but I have at least managed to get out and about with the children. We went to Carding Mill Valley on May Day Bank holiday. It rained off and on part of the day, we got soaked, but had a great time! It's now getting to the stage where I can get to the top of the Long Mynd without having a heart attack in the process, and having the energy to walk for several miles afterwards too!
We went to Shrewsbury yesterday, well three of us did (me, daughter and youngest son) and the weather was lovely. At one point, it was as if there were clouds encircling Shrewsbury but above us, we had brilliant blue skies! Anyhow, the main reason for the trip was to go to the pictures and to do a bit of shopping. However, because we didn't get there until gone 11 (someone (i.e. me!) spent too long finishing off a book before getting ready to go out), we only ended up going watching the film and having a late lunch! Still, the film (the new Star Trek movie) was definitely worth it and we all want to go again, it was so good!!
Well, I have just finished stapling together 30 copies of the notices for church this morning and need to get a move on if I am to get there on time..... I'm going to leave you with this:
It's a tulip from our garden, just after a shower of rain. PU, CU and S4H all ok. Click on the tulip for the download link. Enjoy!
Note: the original download only included the jpg so I have now corrected this and the zip file includes the png as well. Thanks for letting me know about this - just goes to show I'd be dangerous if I had a brain!!
....found some time to blog again! I can't believe it has been so long. I remember when I was little (obviously only a few years ago, lol;))when time seemed to pass so slowly. Term time at school lasted a month of Sundays, and the summer holidays seemed never ending, but nowadays, I only have to blink and a week has gone by.
I'm in the middle of uploading my part in the ADSDesigners blog train for this month, and am running just a little bit late. I will be posting it soon, and hopefully you will like it. In the meantime, I thought I'd just let you know that the tutorial I did for Bellascraps magazine is now available online:
It is an Easter basket I made and I am just checking with Holley of Bellascraps whether or not I can offer the templates here as a freebie or not. I know it is something I created and all, but I just want to make sure I don't infringe any copyrights and so on. In the meantime, you can click on the photo and it should take you to the tutorial on the Bellascraps website.
Anyhow, I reckon my share of the "Sunshine Beach" collaboration should be just about uploaded now, so I'll be back shortly with the links.
Well, it is obviously that time of year when online digital scrap shops look for new designers, as Funky Playground Designs are running a designer contest now. As a wannabe designer I naturally applied, and although I doubt that I will even get past round 1, I know the experience will be good for me.
and these are the solid papers I made as an add on:
Well, the April ADSDesigners blog train is released today and there are some wonderful creations out there! The theme this month was Spring, and here is my share of the megakit:
There are 12 papers in all, 19 elements and an alpha (upper and lower case plus numbers)
The download links are in three separate files:
The other designers and the links to their blogs are:
Mags - http://magsgraphics.blogspot.com/
Mardesia -http://craftersboutique.blogspot.com/
Willow Grace Designs - http://willowgracedesigns.blogspot.com/
Blind Sight Designs - http://www.blind-sight.org/blog
Anne-Marie - http://a-mdigitaldesigns.blogspot.com/
Shel - http://shelbellescraps.blogspot.com/
Gina http://gina-moondancecreations.blogspot.com/
Linda - http://lindasdreamdesigns.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://ronimasil.blogspot.com/
Lois AKA Ladye - http://scrappinwithladye.blogspot.com/
Melanie - http://88designs.blogspot.com/
Crystal aka sAmazed http://amazedscrapper.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://knittinjen.blogspot.com/
Penny - http://www.alliekatcreations.blogspot.com/
Digital Keepsakes - http://digital-keepsakes.blogspot.com/
JIC Creations - http://jiccreations.blogspot.com/
Dawne - http://desertbloomdesigns.blogspot.com/
by God's design http://digibygodsdesign.biz/
Foxy - http://foxyladycreation.blogspot.com/
Crystal - http://crystalcreationsbydesign.blogspot.com/
Jody - http://munchkynscraps.com/
Lynn - http://heavenlycrafts.blogspot.com/
Laura - http://mytreasuredscraps.blogspot.com/
Cre8: http://cre8iveformuladesign.net/blog/
Wendy & Sarah - http://kikkinkreations.blogspot.com/
Wendy - http://brokenjarcreations.com/blog
CandysTreasures - http://candystreasures.blogspot.com/~
Anne http://mousee23.sosblog.com/index.htm
Zena - http://digitalscrapbooklove.blogspot.com/
Bonnie - http://bonniecarter.blogspot.com/
Gail - http://gails-space.blogspot.com/
BlueVelvet DeZigns - http://nutnbutdezigns.blogspot.com/
Aubrey's Mom- http://scrappinbyaubreysmom.blogspot.com/
Jen - http://www.scrappingwithjen.blogspot.com/
TMA Designs by Lynn - http://themathematiciansassistant.com/
Beckmoore ~ http://beckmoorescrapalittle.blogspot.com/
EmCeeScraps http://emceescraps.blogspot.com/
ScrapperGirl Designs - http://scrappergirldesigns.blogspot.com/
Liz - http://grungeandroses.blogspot.com/
Brandi White - http://esnqueen.blogspot.com/
Morgaine Creations© http://morgainecreations-gone-scrappy.blogspot.com/
My Sweet Tater http://tatersplace-mjstitch.blogspot.com/
Designs By Mel - http://designsbymel.blogspot.com/
Lei - http://fairydustprincess-magicmaker.blogspot.com/
Judith - http://justanotherscrap.wordpress.com/
Donna - http://www.tootlebugz.com/
Lacson - http://www.bhebhethartzdesignz.blogspot.com/
Erika {aka PinkuPixie} - http://ppbits.blogspot.com/
Panda Bear Designs - http://www.pandabeardesigns.blogspot.com/
Catherine - http://cattscrapps.blogspot.com/
The links will be valid all month, so you have plenty of time to grab the freebies!
PS Sorry for the error in the elements link. I've fixed it now, so thanks for letting me know:)
As an aspiring designer, I decided to enter the Faith Sisters.com designers call and uploaded my kit last night. Whilst the swatch was really lovely, I had my usual trouble of not knowing when to stop. After all, if you have 6 colours in the swatch, then obviously you need 6 plain papers plus 6 patterned ones! All that plus elements on top, when all you are supposed to make is a mini kit.... sigh! Anyhow, after playing around with designs for a while, I ended up with 8 papers and 16 elements as you can see here:
You should check out the other would be designers though, there are some amazing kits there:
http://www.faithsisters.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/6664
All the kits are downloadable, so why not go and have a look? You can vote for your favourite one although you do have to be registered and logged into the gallery in order to vote. I don't think for one minute I will get any further, but it is all good experience and hopefully, one day...!!!! I'd appreciate it if you would let me know what you think of my kit in comparison to the others, as I know I need more experience, but please be gentle with any criticism, I bruise easily!
Well, by the time I had the kit finished, and because I am such a procrastinator, I ended up with far more papers than I should realistically have in a mini kit. so I took 5 papers out although looking at these now, I'm wondering whether I should have left them in and taken some of the other papers out instead....oh well, too late now! Anyhow, I thought you might like to have them so here they are:
Just click on the preview to download:) Hopefully two freebies in one day will compensate for my less than frequent postings!
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