Several weeks ago I ventured into the world of rubber stamping, paper crafting, and handmade cards. Instead of boring everyone here with details about my new adventure I made a separate blog on Blogger and started to post there. It’s not working. The crafting is going fantastically, I have several cards made already, and have truly enjoyed having a new outlet for my artistic side… but trying to wedge this small part of my life into a place separate from All She Is wasn’t working. I have been blogging here for over four years now, and it’s home. Plus, Blogger sort of sucks once you’re used to having all the control and options that using Wordpress and your own domain allows you.
So here we are. I have brought my few posts from Bonafide Shambles over here, and will throughout the week begin posting the cards I have already made. I also want to show off the new desk and crafting area Chris and I put together last weekend, and start displaying more of digital art work.
With one change comes another, in addition to making Bonafide Shambles a seamless part of All She Is, I am going to try and post more about living a gluten-free lifestyle here. Many of the blogs in my feed reader are centered around gluten-free eating, and there are a large source of inspiration for me. I may not have as many recipes or witty words to offer, but I would like to start chronicling this journey publicly, in hopes that it might help someone else.
There will be a few new sets of links. I have over 300 blogs in my feed reader, unfortunately I can not link ALL of these people in my side bar, so please keep an eye open for some new pages with links to my favorite card-markers, gluten-free bloggers, and much more.
Hopefully these new additions to my blogging fodder will mean more reguluar posts! We shall see.
This morning I opened the front door to take out the dog, and found a box in my way! It was combination of an etsy order from Mary Dawn at My Pink Mexico (check out her blog as well!)… and a box of scrapping goodies from her as well, for my birthday. There was a beautiful card tons of different things that I’ll happily attempt to photograph and post about tomorrow. Today I wanted to show off a few of my digital pieces. They aren’t “scrapbooking” or even “stamping”… but the creativity I use in Photoshop is something I hope to be able to translate to hand made cards.
These are a few recent pieces, mostly for characters or an online persona of my friends, or myself… we used them as signatures on chat boards, and in role-play rooms to depict characters. I’ve been making them for about 6 years now and my style is constantly evolving.
Some of the resources used on these may look familiar to a digital scrapper. One is Dreamsicle by Rene’ Bross, several are kits from mbennet at Sweet Shoppe Designs, a few are from Adeyeo’s Batik Kit, and Li’l Romance by Kim B. I also used several brushes and textures from assorted sources. The styles used on the fonts are all mine.
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Mary Dawn has inspired me to start stamping. There are a few other things I’d like to explore too… scrapping, blog layouts, digital art, and so on… so this new blog (merged with my existing blog, All She Is 6/25/08) is going to be a place to do just that. Explore my creative shambles.
Said Ben, to John on the most recent episode of lost… and how right was he? My fickle bitch lately has definitely been my muse. Buuuut… she’s back, and I’m loving it.
See? (All with the exception of the last one are for my characters in LKH role play.)
