Well, here it is, the November collaboration from ADSDesigners. This is an amazing kit, and here is my share of the collaboration:
You can download the papers and elements by clicking the previews, or they can be found here, along with the alphas:
I'm out all day tomorrow, so will try and post before I leave, but the collaboration will be up all November, so it gives you plenty of time to visit everyone's blog!
As an accountant here in the UK, between now and the end of January is my busiest time of year as I struggle to get all the tax returns and accounts sorted by the tax return filing deadline of 31 January. Since I don't have anyone to help me do the accounts, this means that I work all sorts of hours and most days of the week in order to get all the work done. As a result, I have very little free time although I am taking some time off at the moment to have a play with Photoshop!
This week has been particularly busy as I have been out at a client's premises most of the week and it will be the same for the next two, possibly three weeks as I have two large sets of accounts for different clients to do. I get so busy I forget to not only look at the clock to see what time it is, but also at the calendar and forget what day it is and where we are in the month! I had mad panic this week as I actually looked at the calendar and realised that our car needed to be taxed at the end of this month, so we would have to get it MOT'd on the next week.... one frantic phone call later to the garage, and it was booked.
Anyhow, since I've had most of the day off so far I thought I'd let you have another freebie. I've been playing around with cardboard styles and trying to recolour them and this is what I came up with:
The above is the traffic on the M6 - it wasn't actually raining at this point (or if it was, it was only very light rain), but just take a look at the low clouds. But shortly after this, once we had managed to get through Edinburgh (I took the wrong turn just as we hit the outskirts of Edinburgh and it then took us an hour to get form one side of the city to the other with all the roadworks and what not!), we were on the Forth Road Bridge in torrential rain:
The drive from there to St Andrews was awful, with spray and all sorts on the road. But when we finally arrived, what a change in the weather. We had a beautiful afternoon, with blue skies (albeit cloudy at times) and glorious sunshine. Of course, I was in my element taking loads of photos! Here are the old ruins:
And this is the harbour:
Looking across to the pier:
Looking back from the pier at the town:
On the pier looking back at the old cathedral ruins:
Part of the castle ruins:
This was taken on the Wednesday morning - we have brilliant blue skies all day and it was absolutely gorgeous, really warm and sunny:
And a better shot of the castle:
Sam loved it, and is going to apply here, so it remains to be seen whether they make him an offer and if he can get the required grades.
I'll be back some time this week with another freebie - don't know what yet, or when , as I have four tax returns, amendments to a set of accounts and a set of company accounts to do plus a trip to Warwick University tomorrow for their open day! It's a busy week!
It was absolutely freezing here this morning when I got up, and if it is like this now in early October, then just how cold will it be in December/January? I love Autumn, and Winter, but never look forward to the cold mornings when I have to allow at least 5 minutes before the school run to get rid of all the frost on the car windscreen and windows! We changed our car last October, and the one we have now has heated seats for the driver and front passenger. I thought these were just a luxury item and not a necessity (our car was not new when we bought it, so it is not something we had to pay for specially), but oh, boy, do I appreciate the heated seats when the mornings are cold!
Have you seen the new Autumn kits that have been released in the digital shops recently? I don't know what it is about Autumn, but as well as the usual pumpkins, and Harvest stuff, plus what seems to be the obligatory Halloween kits (I'm afraid I don't "do" Halloween), there are also lots of owls about in the kits. So I thought I'd have a go at making an owl myself, and came up with these:
The first one is an owl template, in both a psd file for those with Photoshop and seperate png files for each layer for those using other programs, and the second one is a set of owls made with different papers. The template is for commercial use, but the individual owls are only for personal use.
I have just read Pioneer Woman's latest blog entry and if you have never read her blog, you must go check it out:
http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/ (Sorry, I just can't get the hyperlink thingy to work today so you'll have to copy and paste this into your toolbar!)
It is awesome, and always makes me laugh, cry and run through a whole gamut of emotions. The latest blog is about how when she and her hubbie were first courting, he took her out to the back of beyond (where they now live!)and she saw a woman mowing the grass in her bra and knickers, 'cos you never see anyone out there in the back of beyond, obviously, so you can do that sort of thing. Then in order to take a photo of an amazing sunrise, Pioneer Woman recently dashed outside wearing only a small white curtain wrapped around her like a toga and a pair of really ugly sandals...only to find that at the crack of dawn, there were one or two people about to watch her looking somewhat less than glamorous in her very fetching curtain!
Living in the middle of rural Shropshire (the county that most people have never even heard of!), means you never see sights like that and are more likely to come across a ferocious spider rather than someone half naked pushing around a lawnmower. And talking of ferocious spiders, I walked into our garage this morning (half of which has been converted into my office) and in the large sink there was positively the most enormous spider you have ever seen. I dashed into action, turned on the tap and practically flooded the sink and garage floor with water in an attempt to get rid of the spider. But it refused to go down the plughole (it actually wouldn't fit, it was so big) so when I thought it was dead, I turned the tap off.....
Did you know spiders can breathe underwater? I'm sure they must be able to because it was underwater for ages and as soon as the water had all drained out, it started uncurling its legs and trying to get out of the sink!!!! I must have tried three times to get rid of it, obviously without touching it as there was no way I was going to do that, until eventually, I ended up putting the plug over it as it was stuck in the plughole, and then our youngest son had his big brother dispose of it for me later.
It just goes to prove the old adage that men (or teenage sons in this case!) are good for three things: putting out bins,lifting heavy objects and killing spiders!
You know, when I signed up for this collaboration, I though I had loads of time, and yet before I knew it, the end of the month had rolled round and I was panicking over how much I had not done! I'm still hoping to get at least an extra hour in each day (in lieu of the 48 hours a day and 14 days in a week I really need) but so far, my prayers have been unanswered. Guess all I really need is better organisation!
Anyhow, the Sugar Shoppe collaboration is released today, and here is the preview of my contribution:
Download the papers here, and the elements here (or click on the papers and elements previews).
The other participants and the links to their blogs are shown below:
Creative Digital Scraps by Chiara
Judith of Just Another Scrap Kalo Designs
Kathy Goldstein Designs The Scrap Loft
Krystal of Scraps Sealed with a Kiss
Mandy at Scraps With Spunkitude
Mardesia at Crafter's Boutique
http://designsbymel.blogspot.com/
Nadine at Scrappinmamma's Digitals
This is an awesome collection of kits, so go take a look and see what you think. The links will remain up for all of October, which should give you plenty of time to get to see each one. Happy downloading!
Make sure you stop by tomorrow to get it as I'll also have the links up to all the other kits too. And if you haven't already picked up the Cornocupia of Color kit, today is your last chance.
Well, I have so much work on at the moment, I am having to get up extra early to try and fit everything in......but somehow, I never seem to make any serious in roads into my "to do" list. I have several deadlines this coming week, so need to work most of the weekend, but I also need to sort out my computer, back up onto my new hard drive and get the my laptop to access my accounts data from the desktop direct! Sounds like a fun packed weekend either way, eh?!!
I'm having a look at designing courses right now. An amazing opportunity has come my way and I have the prospects of potentially being able to go on several online designing courses and then review the courses! Sounds like a dream come true, to be honest and I can't wait to get started!
In the meantime, however, I need to do our Church notices for tomorrow morning, and then try and reconcile a client's VAT with the accounts program he has been using. The notices will be fun though, as I get the chance to use Photoshop to make bible verse tags, which I really enjoy. And talking of which , did you see the video for the release of Photoshop 4? I would love a copy of that, especially the full all singing all dancing master edition, but no way can I afford that sort of money at the moment... guess I'll just have to put it on my wish list!
Despite all the work, I have managed to make a freebie, and here it is:
It's a set of four paper bits that can be used as photo frames or mats, or any way you want really. They are varying sizes, but can obviously be resized to suit. I created these from scratch, so they are for commercial use, personal use and scrap for hire. Feel free to use them as you will, just don't repackage and claim them as your own.
Download here or by clicking on the preview.
Oh, and before I forget, someone asked if I could do the cardboard set in primary colours. No problems, just give me some time to work on them!
I don't know what the weather is like where you are, but it is a beautiful sunny day here in Shropshire. It makes a pleasant change to see the sun after all the cold, damp weather we have been having recently. I was tempted to take the children out for the afternoon, but unfortunately, I have to work.
However, I have managed to make the promised freebie despite having spent most of yesterday afternoon designing a poster for our church away day and in trying to keep apart two of my sons, who seemed determined to start World War 3 in our house. It got to the stage at one point where I took the power cable for the computer away from the elder son, and had to physically restrain the younger from kicking his brother to pieces!
Anyhow, here is the freebie, at last - a set of cardboard background papers. Feel free to download, but please note this is for personal use only due to the restrictions on the overlays, etc that I used to create these.
Download by clicking on the preview, or here. Let me know if you find these useful ;).
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