New Jewels

It's 2am and I'm still up, I finished making about 12am and have been on etsy listing bracelets and now ordering books on amazon and checkin out my favorite blogs, oh how inspiring!

I ordered new beads last week for some orders I got for 'purple and pinks', so i opted for some more amethyst chips and rose quartz, and some new swarovski crystals in violet, fusha and other pastel colours. I am hapy with the results and made doublers for the shop.

I have as I have maybe mentioned before (lol) been making just a few Christmas cards lately, (approx 139!) which I have just handed over the last of the other night to a very happy customer. But as usual I had not many any up for myself and was stumped for an idea, and then tonight the inspiration/ idea came to me through a chain of events. I mentioned on one of my recent post 'flowers' about the photos for my mum, the hellebore plant, well she decided she wanted 6 cards made up, 3 black and white and 3 in colour. I made them up and look fab, but while i had the image on photoshop i had a wee mess about with it and came up with our 2007 Christmas card!So Happy Christmas to you all!

Here we go, third time lucky I'm going to try and get these cards up, i think they were saved too big, but we'll see. Yes!!!! That's what it was, and they were saved as pdf files too! I have really enjoyed doing these, and now I just hope they sell.

I did all of the designs on Photoshop, for the purple tree card. I started with a layer which I made pink, then a layer of text 'merry christmas'. Then a new layer which smaller rectangle in white, and then put a dark purple border round it. Then a new layer in a lighter shade of purple than the text and border and used the shape tool to make the tree, decorated it with stars and text. Then I used the magnetic lasso tool and copied the tree onto a new page and saved as a separate image. Then I went back to my original design and flattened the whole thing and saved it. Next I opened Illustator and printed off the flattened image and the separate tree and cut both out and used the flattened image as a background and the single tree as a card topper.

I'm sorry if this is a bit garbled, this is my first ever computer tutorial! And I have descovered how huge digital scrapbooking is and think I have been doing it for years and making them into cards but didn't even know it!

Been really busy the last couple of days so not had a chance to chat. Finishing off desorations in the flat my bo and his friend have bought to do up and sell on. The end is nigh' thank goodness and bo can move on to new jobs.

I have at last come up with a selection of christmas card designs!!!! So this week I'm going to start physically makng them up. I was intially going to use card toppers and layered paper ect. but that was because I could't come up with any of my own creations, but I have been inspired by the scarpbooking community and got back into photoshop and started layering!

Well I'm off now to do some more digital scarpbooking and look at some more scapping sites.

Here are 2 of my new christmas designs.

opps forgot to attach pictures....