My First Creation for...

The Digi Twins! I made the layout below using their kit 'XOXOXO' it is a beautiful pink kit with lots of choice including different types of stitching! If you want to look at it in detail, you can here - it also includes an alpha :0) The present type bows on either side of my title are not included in the kit, you can get them separately in all different colours here - if you look at the link you can see their great detail. I put this lo in a template challenge over at Digital Candy - the template is by Tanyia Deskins. The stitching was part of the template, You can't really see it this small, but I gave the stitches a bit more depth by creating a new layer underneath it & putting in some 'holes'.

The layout features my daughter Caitlyn. The right block photo was the month she was born, the middle block photo was on her 1st birthday & the left block photo was on her 2nd birthday (you can see the attitude can't you lol) the large photo is of her this month. I hope you like it!

Attention Photoshop Users!

If you're looking for brushes to use in photoshop then check out these (courtesy of a user on a yahoo group I'm a member of):

Adobe Photoshop Brushes - there's also lots of other goodies if you go into the other categories listed on the right.

Through the above website I also found Graphics-Illustrations if you join the 'Green Blub Gang' (it's free) you get a link to your email for free downloads/brushes/tuts. I haven't had a chance to go through it all yet but it looks good!

Just thought I'd share x

Yay! So excited!

Just a little note to let you know that I'm now on The Digi Twins CT!!!! I'm so excited & can't wait to get started - so expect to see some great lo's using their gorgeous designs in addition to JPT's!

E :0)

Another challenge, another layout...

So I found another challenge I wanted to do over at Digital Candy...it's called Lucky Dip. There's a surprise kit to download & make a lo with.

Here's what I came up with, hope you like it...

The kit is called Bloom Sunlight by Melissa Herzog Designs - it's so easy to work with! The font is called 'All Caps'

Ellie x

Some more layouts & a bit of news...

So here's my two new layouts first...

I made them both with a kit called 'Vintage Chic' by Just Passin' Thru available at Pretty Scrappy. It really is a gorgeous kit with beautiful colours & a great selection of frames to choose from.
Here's my first lo...it features my nan on her 91st birthday



My second lo features my dad's cat - Sushi. We got her when I was still living at home, I think I was about 15 at the time which makes her about 13 years old - she's getting on bless her & her legs are getting a bit stiff with old age. I remember being proud of myself as I thought of her name when my mum and I were going to collect her.



I was a bit more creative with this one (I'm gradually trying new things with my layouts). I managed to get the string of the tag to look like it's going under the staple, I also got a couple of curls on the centre flower element to look like they curled under the frames iyswim? The colour of the text is from Sushi's fur. I really like this lo, I hope u do to, leave me a comment if you feel so inclined :0)

So now for my news...are you ready?

I'm really excited...

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wellllll, it looks like I may be on the CT for The Digi Twins whose designs are available from Digital Candy!!! How cool is that??!!! I will be uploading blinkies as soon as I can lol!!! They've got some gorgeous designs & I can't wait to get started! That's in between doing my lo's for JPT & my sudden addiction to Guitar Hero 3 on Wii lol! I got a 100% on one of the songs the other night! Yay me! I'm well impressed considering when we bought it home I was absolutely useless at it & my hubby was brilliant at it. I've now also got the top scores for at least nine of the songs hahahaha!

Anyway that's the essay for today lol, feel free to leave me some love, let me know what you think of my layouts/my blog etc.

By the way check out Pineapple Plantations Designs (link on my blog list) for a freebie collab kit called 'Out Of This World' It's really really good!

Just Completed Another Layout...

called Happily Ever After. I did this for a challenge over at Duchess Designs.



Credits:
Template: Duchess Designs
Paper & Butterfly: Penny et Angelique
Flower: HeishmanFarmsDesigns
Ribbon: Ephemeral VIctorian
Wordart: britt-ish design

Hope you like it,

Ellie x

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Wow! So here it is...

...my first post on my own blog! I've been playing with the layout of it for a couple of days now & I'm finally happy enough with it to be able to post - although there are a few more things I'm going to try and do on it lol
Another big thank you to Duchess Designs for allowing me to use 'Secret Garden' to get this blog looking so great!
So you may be wondering who I am & why I decided to get my own blog well in addition to what I've written about myself on the sidebar, here goes...
I started digi-scrapping in January this year after discovering it was soooooooooo much easier (& less expensive) than paper scrapping which I had a brief affair with in the middle of last year but with a baby crawling around and another one on the way I knew my scrapping was going to have to take a back seat for a while! That was until a search through Google put the idea of digi scrapping in my head - I've been hooked ever since! It seemed like a natural progression for me as I have a background in computers & now I'm often on my laptop during my kiddies nap time & after they've gone to bed playing with my latest lo in PSE 6.0.

I am now a member of several forums & a few weeks ago I had the good news of being picked to join Just Passin' Thru's CT! I'm still excited about the news lol I've already done a couple of lo's for JPT which I hope to show on my blog along with some of my other lo's I'm most proud of.

As for my aspirations in the digi scrapping world...well I'd love to be on a couple more CT's & after using my graphics tablet for the first time the other day, possibly getting into designing eventually once my kiddies have grown up a bit & I get a bit more free time lol

Well you've probably read enough about me now so I hope you'll come back to my blog occasionally to see how I'm getting on & what lo's I've been doing, if I come across any good freebies then I'll probably post on here too...I'm off now to see if I can tweak this blog design a bit more!

Ellie
xxx