Homemade sheild and sword

Sometimes as a parent you get 'one of those letters' come home from school requesting your child comes in 'fancy dress', you know the ones, the ones where you sit there and think 'Oh no, not again'!! Well, we had an outfit for this 'event' but we didn't have the 'added props' to go with it. SO, creative mind kicks into gear, need to find a cost effective way of making a sword and shield. Blue Peter eat your heart out, and thanks for helping me through my childhood.

So, some packing strips we got with a recent purchase for a tallboy, for our bathroom refit, was turned into the sword, and rather a lot of duct tape, 'Yay, duct tape'!! And two pieces of cardboard stuck together, for extra strength, became a shield, and an 'arm loop' at the back, and yet more duct tape!! My huband took pity on me and decided to do the ornate cross for the front. So, 'Yay us' and 'Yay duct tape'.

New Girly cards and some Gorjuss ones too!

Have a few birthdays coming up so figured I should start making some cards that might fit the people I'm aiming them at.







Gorjuss is a tradmark of Suzanne Woolcott.

New cards.

One of the mums down the school is getting married this weekend and I decided to try my hand at making wedding cards, my first time! I also made one which is just an 'On your special day' card that was rather 'girly'.

Famous!!

I got intrigued by the whole 'red curtain' and gleaming words 'thing' the other day and made this, I thought it was fun! All made from scratch on Photoshop CS2.

Digiart

This is by no means the best, but it was fun doing it. Using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet or mouse I decided to try some digital painting and playing around with some shapes. The possibilities of Photoshop are endless and fun. Hope you enjoy the video!!

Card making.

I have been cardmaking since January 2009 and here are a few I've made since then and up until now. Hope you enjoy the video!!

Give it a try, yourself, it can be fun and you can really personalize them for friends and family.

I made an egg from a square.

I thought I'd do something silly for 'Scouting for Girls' seeing as they made it to Easter Number 1 in the UK. So I made their artwork from their single into an easter egg, sort of. A bit of manipulating and using the right tools on Photoshop and this is what I got from and to!