Photoshop Doodling

Just playing around with photoshop and this was the result!  Took all of 15 minutes.

I love that I can doodle on my computer using my wacom pen tablet!!

This kind of thing I just love to do... where I start with a blank background to fill (in this case I used the open graph book as my canvas) and just go from there... using my gut instinct to just add whatever I want.  SOOOO much fun!

Background + Vintage circle clip art graphics courtesy of the 'Just Something I Made' Blog

New Pip Pip Hooray Designs.

Boy have I been on a designing streak of late... I just can't stop! When I'm a roll like this... I don't like to stop & keep myself kind of in my designing bubble (which I'm sure frustrates my fella... I hope he understands)... cause it doesn't happen too often where I just keep going and going and going!

Here's just a few of my most recent new designs.... Was feeling the cute vibe it seems.

This first was a request from a lovely lady in Sydney, Australia for her daughters christening. It matches her cake somewhat...

Keep an eye out for this one to soon be appearing on a number of different products for different occasions.

And because I was feeling the cute vibe I decided to try my hand at a children's farm animal party theme design... here's what I came up with...  It's a mixed media design... with the fence being made up of an actual photograph of wood planks.  The rest is my own vector design created with my wacom pen tablet.

I'll post some more when my design streak wears off some :)

The Muppets Party Extravaganza!

Thought I'd talk about my latest labour of love which is a page full of all the best Muppets party ideas, free printables and party ware you'll find anywhere on the web!!

Since I was a young girl I have always been a massive Jim Henson fan. Anything muppet related I just seemed to adore. Brian Froud had a lot to do with it too... as I was and am still a very big fan. Brian Froud is the artist behind the Dark Crystal and the Labyrinth... his art is unique and filled with so much wonderful fantasy!

So as you may know... on top of having my designs selling in my zazzle stores I also write articles on Squidoo. I've found myself mostly gravitating towards creating pages to help other parents with their own kids party ideas.. mostly because I'm finding making the pages the most fun to do! :)

My latest Muppets page was one that has been in the making for many many months. It was the one of the first pages I wanted to do but thought there wasn't enough muppets resources on the internet for me to make the kind of detailed party pages I usually like to make. But I perservered and feel happy with this latest party ideas page... it's definitely my most favourite so far!!

Thanks to the latest brilliant Muppet Movie as well as Disney now owning the brand... it's having a resurgence the likes that haven't been seen for a very long time... which makes me very happy! And watching the new movie makes me happy too... I absolutely adore it. I have to say... I think its the best Muppet Movie yet! The perfect mix of funny, silly, corny, muppet old school and muppet new school to keep everyone entertained. But I think especially us old school Muppet Fans will be the ones to appreciate it most!

So this new Muppets Party Page.... is filled with so much Muppets party inspiration that anyone wanting to hold a Muppets theme party for their child will hopefully find this page beyond invaluable!!

Just click on any of the following photo's to view the page.

Personalized Jewellery / Product Backing Cards for Etsy or Ebay

These very affordable yet beautiful in quality and design personalized product backing cards... are perfect for the at home crafter or work at home Mum doing small hand made products.

You could easily punch a hole in the top to turn them into tags... punch small holes in the centre to hold earrings, brooches, hair clips.... or put them in clear bag as the backing card for strength and beautiful business marketing and promotion!  

Easily personalize with your own logo (best suited for .png logo's with transparent backgrounds) and text in just minutes online!

Each card costs under approx 50 cents each (even less if printed on standard card stock) and are double sided, full color large business card sized cards printing on stunning eggshell embossed & textured card stock (or you have the choice or white linen, metallic gold, metallic pearl, metallic platinum, recycled white or just plain white card stock)

More designs coming very soon so be sure to come back to my store.

www.zazzle.com/pip_gerard*

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Snail Garden!

Outside in the yard with my Mr while he did the very impressive job of removing the 100s of big weeds that had made home in our garden... I watched as he found what I can only describe as an orgy of snails! He picked them up on his shovel and put them all atop our green bin and I have to tell you I was enthralled! I just stood staring at this mass of shell, sluggy, slimy, slugness and was mesmorized! A sight I'd never seen and I doubt many others had too. So I ran and grabbed my camera to get the little slimy suckers on film before putting them back into their garden home.

"Home Sweet Home" Wall Print