Just Me

At Last!!!!

I can finally ( albeit very briefly , I've forgotten the deadline for design submissions for Stamp It again & will be busy finishing off my ideas today!! )reveal the calendar my sister , Erin & I have been working on for the last year!!!! It's been SOOO much fun creating this together! The exquisitely beautiful faeries in each page are made by Erin
& I've done the graphic design work!!! What do you think???

and the back cover.....( which is my favourite!!!)...

We've had 100 printed up & they look ( if I may say so myself ) great!! We will be selling them soon so let me know if you're intersted in buying one!

Thanks for popping in

xx

Mel

Exciting stuff...

Heya! Hope you're well & happy! I have some exciting stuff happening this week...one of my sketches is up at Scrapsanctuary for their challenge this month.They've reopened and are celebrating their First Birthday!! Congratulations Ladies!!!  This is a snippet of my lo...

Pop over & have a look at the challenge..It's sponsored by Stamp It( Check out my new stamps !) . I'd love to see your take on the sketch!!Thanks for asking me to do this one , Brigitte, it was a lot of fun!
Some more exciting stuff that I can't quite reveal yet is the Calendar ( Note the capital "C" !!) my sister, Erin & I have been working on ...it's almost ready for printing!!! I can't put up a sneak peek just yet , but hopefully within a week you'll have the first glimpse on the result of the hours of fun ( & some frustration ) that we've been having !!
Anyway, must go....children are waiting to be fed ! I'll be popping into blogs soon ( now that I'm not so insanely busy ) ...catch you round!
Thanks for your visit
xx
Mel

And some more fun...

....I can't seem to help it!! lol

I'm trying very hard to remember this because I've been in such a grumpy mood of late!! I might print it up & put it on the bathroom mirror , or somewhere where it'll be really in my face!! Wish me luck!!!
xxx
Mel

Still having fun...

....playing in Photoshop. ( Just for something completely different!! lol ) Have I mentioned how much I love that program?? Here's another thing I got "lost " in...

The leftmost butterfly is one by Syrin ( from Catscrap ).Also from her designs ..the rusty locket, rusty bookplate & rusty square bookplate.All the other stuff I made in ( I was going to be really tragic & say my Beloved Photoshop but then I thought you'd think I'm a complete loser!!! lol ) ...so ...I made the rest in CS3!!! Of course , being obsessive as I am known to be ..I had to make a matching banner. Am I a lost cause???
Don't answer that!
Life is chugging along reasonably well here ( yes, I do exist outside of Photoshop! ) the usual stuff with kids, home , hubby, pets etc.I'm enjoying my newish career designing logos & book covers..oh..hang on...that's using Photoshop so doesn't count as "Outside Of Photoshop"!! Sigh...

Anyway, I'm off to Yoga soon so I should get ready...just as soon as I upload my new Banner....

xxx
Mel

Been having fun...

...I've been learning how to make seamless patterns in CS3
( and having an absolute ball , I might add!! ) This layout is a combination of three new patterns I created!

Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

I'm happy to say that things are flowing beautifully here...Still things to be sorted but generally it feels very different , much more peaceful. Which is saying something when there are four kids here in a house that's not quite big enough!.
Speaking of peaceful...I had a fantastic weekend away at the Brahma Kumaris meditation retreat on the weekend of my birthday. What an amazingly peaceful place! The people there are so lovely . ( I also go there on Tuesdays & Thursdays for Yoga class which is a lot of fun! ).
On the not so peaceful side I've been having some problems with my computer ..Photoshop kept crashing ...it was a bit distressing! Especially as the calendar my sister & I have been creating is almost completed and I have other design work to be doing!! It was difficult not to freak out...I love my little MacBook...it's such an amazing creative tool!I took it up to Userland so the clever guys up there could check it out & it seems something I'd been working on was corrupted somehow ( ?) so now it's gone & all is well!!! Phew!!
Anyway, time to stop waffling & get on with my day!
catch you soon
xx
Mel

Upside down

Long time no post! Hope you are all well ( all two or three of you who still read my blog lol!!!).
The dust is starting to settle & things are feeling a lot less stressful lately, Thank Goodness!! Still a lot busier than I like to be , but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel at last! I'm happy to say that some of the changes that have thrown me so terribly are starting to reveal their blessings!
Thank you to those of you who have been there for me through this tumultuous time!
The layout above was such a joy to create! I just love the photo! ( And I want to eat the little heart elements I made in CS3...they look so yummy !! )
I haven't been doing so much scrapbooking ( paper or digi ) lately , partly due to lack of time , but I'm still being creative in other areas. I've been asked to design a couple of book covers and a business logo , which I'm really enjoying !!I'm especially enjoying the Divine Synchronicity that brought these thing to me!..Or me to them?! (I've been wanting a change of direction with my creativity for a while & had actually been thinking that I'd like to try designing book / album covers !!)
Anyway..it's quiet so I might go & absorb a bit of peace before everyone gets home in a few hours!!
Thanks for dropping in
xxx
Mel

Just for the love of being creative...

Hiyah. Whoever's reading this... I hope all is well in your world.Mine's been ....interesting lately. Upside down, reshuffled, disrupted...just waiting for the dust to settle so I can breathe a sigh of relief & say " Phew...I made it through all that shit & I'm still smiling " ...
I really hope you're smiling now, that Life is good for you & that you know you're safe & loved.
xxx
Mel

ps: Thank you , my gorgeous Lusi, for your love, support & friendship!!