Aussiekate's Creative Space

Digital Whisper - Weekly Challenge "share"

2011-07-03T18:06:00.000+10:00

This week, at Digital Whisper - Kimmie kindly gave us a photo of an Iris in her garden - how PINK can a flower be!???

Our challenge was to create something around the subject of "share" - after a little fiddling I created a wallpaper/background shown below and I'm going to share it with you!

Please feel free to right click and save this image to use in your own digital creations!

Enjoy! Kate xo

Sweet Thoughts

2011-04-14T18:05:00.000+10:00

With the theme of "Sweet" from Digital Whisper this week, I came up with this.

Kate xo

Theme Thursday

2011-04-06T19:32:00.000+10:00

Wooohoo I'm on a Digital Challenge ROLL! This week at Theme Thursday they've got a very cute challenge centred upon the use of Jigsaw - and this is what I came up with. Make sure you visit Theme Thursday and see some of the fab pieces on display!

Kate xo

Apple Blossom Challenge

2011-04-06T15:32:00.000+10:00

So this week at Digital Whisper our challenge was to take this plain blossomy image below -

and create a digital masterpiece. I chose to deep etch the blossom and leaves (discarding the fence background and came up with this image below. Lots of nice filters, layer changes - pretty happy with this one!

Kate xo

So far behind

2011-03-11T11:55:00.000+11:00

Yes yes it seems all my blog posts lately are self apologising for being behind, busy and lazy. This challenge is a typical example of just how behind I've managed to get. I started this weeks ago... no idea now what challenge it was for LOL erm so yey at least it's done! I do remember it was a challenge around blending... heh

Kate xo

Digital Whisper - Introspection Challenge

2011-03-10T13:08:00.000+11:00

I always seem to be a week or two behind with my challenges lately grrrrr... this was put up weeks ago, started it, left it and went back to it. Challenge at Digital Whisper called Introspection - given the lady image and left to our own devices! Heres mine

Will my love of Turquoise ever cease?

Kate

I have a new blog

2011-03-10T12:22:00.001+11:00

If any of my digital challenge friends are interested in interiors and general designy stuff - I've created a new blog, which I plan to use as my web haven for all things interior.

I'm a Graphic Designer (as some of you know) but work in the furniture industry and am luckily exposed to all kinds of yummy furnishings and designery stuff, so I thought I needed a blog to share more of my creative frustrations with the world!

LOVENEEDHAVE

Kate xo

New Challenges at Digital Whisper

2011-01-26T16:46:00.000+11:00

Each week Kimmie gives us a new task for the week, I've managed to complete the last few and they are here for you!

I was most certainly in a pinky purpley kind of mood wasn't i?

Collage Obsession challenge - Luigi

2011-01-26T16:41:00.000+11:00

Collage Obsessions gave us a great image and some direction to create something snazzy with the image of "Luigi". With a slightly new way of doing things now, Collage Obsession is using guests each week to come up with the challenges, what fun!

Soartful Challenge

2011-01-02T20:08:00.000+11:00

So this week, "Soartful Challenges" set us the task of using the following image and giving us the theme of "Celebrate"

I'm really happy with the outcome of this challenge, I suppose we're all in a celebratory mood this time of year so here's my submission for the theme of "celebration" using the challenge item shown. thanks for the task!

Ah go on, have a freebie!

2011-01-02T18:54:00.000+11:00

I made these a few weeks ago for the Digital Whisper Christmas challenge, and am happy to offer them to my followers as a background freebie. Simply click on, click "save as" and save to your desired folder.

Digital Chalenge for Inspiration Avenue

2011-01-02T18:47:00.000+11:00

Happy New Year to you all!

Among my New Years resolutions would be to participate in more challenges, so I've kicked off with one for Inspiration Avenue and the challenge is to show where you'd like to be in 2011 with your craft. I'm hoping to be more productive, inspired and fulfilled with everything I do creatively. Fingers crossed I can put it into action! Challenge is here

last challenges for "Days of Christmas"

2010-12-25T23:04:00.000+11:00

I wish I had more time to devote to my Digital Whisper "Days of Christmas challenge" I totally ran out of time! Thoroughly enjoyed it tho and hopefully this means I'll be more inclined to DO some challenges from now on. Hope everyone has had a wonderful relaxing Christmas!

I know it's been ages

2010-12-18T21:59:00.000+11:00

I vow to be a better blogger honest!

Digital Whisper has a 12 Days of Christmas Challenge happening and thus far we're up to the 5th day.

In each challenge we are given an image and some direction of some method or technique to be included. Check out Digital Whisper and see if it's something you'd like to participate in.

I've completed the 5 so far and they are following

Will add more as I complete the tasks!

Soartfull Challenge for the week - Paris!

2010-09-22T19:24:00.000+10:00

I so love the challenges each week at Soartful Challenge and this weeks theme was much current LOVE of Paris! I'm in love with all that is French Provincial and I think you can see that in my entry!

Woohoo I Completed a Challenge!

2010-08-29T14:11:00.000+10:00

So I've been off to have my operation, no fun and will spare you the gory details. All went well and after a few days in hospital am now home recuperating. Thankfully this has given me every opportunity to get stuck into some challenges and hopefully finish off my digital scrap packs which I have deliberated over for months.

So here is my first "back into it" challenge for Soartful Challenges with the theme of goddess!

And again thankyou to all you sweet people who sent me wishes on my recovery!

Inspiration Avenue Challenge

2010-08-19T16:38:00.000+10:00

To encourage me to think of anything BUT surgery next week, I participated in a challenge! For Inspiration Avenue I completed this weeks challenge around my favourite beverage of coffee!

ergh!

2010-08-16T15:05:00.000+10:00

I'm here to apologise again LOL - I've been completely sick irritable and listless for weeks and not even remotely in the mood for creative pursuits. Utterly neglected my blog, my art and my followers - hopefully that will all change soon as I am off next week to hospital to have my gall bladder removed.

I shouldn't com,plain too much, it first started giving me grief in about 1995 so I've managed to prolong the inevitable for 15 years! So all going well, a few days of rest and recuperation and then back into some creativeness. Thanks for following and be back to my best soon, promise! xo

So Finally

2010-07-13T12:10:00.000+10:00

I get around to creating a challenge entry!

Ok this one is for a challenge so dear to me ( mostly because I won a couple earlier in the year and I can be SO competitive!)

For Mind Wide Open this month the theme is Bliss!

Where have I been!?

2010-06-26T20:06:00.000+10:00

I SO MUCH needed a break - time off to relax, reflect and do some arty stuff.

Decided to have some time off work, weeks.. heaps of time to myself.

A DAY after I begin my leave I rupture a disc in my back. ahhh ya hafta laugh! So I've been recuperating and not spending much time at the puter. The wanting that I had to be creative has been very frustrating but I finally feel ok enough this week to get back into it. So much am I OK I went and bought myself an arty present comprising a new Canon SLR camera which I am itching to use!

So watch this space, keep me on your bookmarked blogs list and I will be back to my regular updates in the next few days!

Something Completely Different challenge - butterflies

2010-05-13T14:30:00.000+10:00

I realised doing this challenge that I really have way too many butterfliy images to choose from!

So this week at Something Completely Different we had a theme of "butterfly" and direction for a twinchie. I'm assuming a twinchie is 2x2 inches? LOL so well I do all mine in 12x12.. so just imagine it shrunk to a 2x2 ok!

Soartful Challenge - fragrance

2010-05-13T14:23:00.000+10:00

The challenge this week from Soartful Challenges was the word fragrance, along with the perfume bottle below, must admit to not feeling very inspried by the theme - I'm not a very girly girl maybe thats why!

Inspiration Avenue Challenge

2010-05-12T15:20:00.000+10:00

A very unique theme this week at Inspiration Avenue - Architecture! I quite like this pic - I need to now come up with a way to use it!

Mind Wide Open

2010-05-10T10:03:00.000+10:00

One of my favourite challenges each month is now up running and ready for voting. Mind wide Open and the theme for this month was Courage - here's my entry.

Blog Giveaway

2010-05-10T10:00:00.001+10:00

Well it's my own fault, my week got busy and I really didn't do very much to promote my giveaway, lesson learned. On the plus side though, I decided that both the lovely people who left comments on my giveaway blog can have the prize.

Kimmy and Galit - I am giving you both a personalised custom collage. All I ask each of you to do is email me here supply me with a couple of pics, some words, colour preferences - and I will do a FREE custom digital collage for you both.
kate xox

Blog Prize Giveaway

2010-05-03T13:37:00.001+10:00

In celebration of my return to Etsy I have decided to have a blog giveaway!

Nothing complicated - all I ask you to do is check out the Etsy link above to my shop, leave a comment / critique / suggestion with this blog post and go into the random number generator draw to win a custom collage valued at $39.00!

Winner drawn Monday 10th May 2010 and once announced all you need to do is supply me with a couple of pics, some words, colour preferences - and I will do a FREE custom digital collage for you.

Sharing the love

2010-05-03T12:20:00.000+10:00

Now I know I'm personally relatively new to Blogging but I have been an avid follower, bookmarker and devourer of many fantastic blogs for quite a while, and this morning it dawned on me (as I was doing my usual morning look through my fave blogs) that I should really share some with you.

The thought being that nearly all of these fave blogs of mine, I have found through somebody elses recommendation or link on another blog.

The Feathered Nest - Awesome home decor ideas and inspriation, a regular blogger - always something new and interesting!

Blooming Ideas - some fabulous craft and decor ideas - always has superb links to other blogs.

Creative Home Expressions - LOTS of thrifty decor ideas, beautifully done.

Just Something I Made - The ultimate decor/craft/art/insprational blog - I don't know HOW she crams as much creative work into her week as she does. Totally a MUST BOOKMARK!

Trash2Treasure - I want everything in every picture on this blog. Great if you want some motivation to go paint something!

Soartful Challenges

2010-05-02T19:01:00.000+10:00

Soartful Challenges had a pretty broad theme to this weeks challenge of Bouquet. Luckily I have a gazillion flowery bouquet-ish images and came up with this piece. I am in love with this colour combination and the frame will probably get used again like this.

Something Completely Different

2010-04-30T19:57:00.000+10:00

Appears this is the last letter challenge for "Something Completely Different" X is it and I went with kisses!

Custom Collage - just what is it?

2010-04-30T17:16:00.001+10:00

Well I'm glad you asked! I've begun work on doing some custom collages which have so far been thrilling to do and my clients have been very happy with the end results. As a very visual way of showing just what can be done, here are two I have worked on over the last few days.

This gorgeous little man above (oh yeah and his Mum and Dad) is the newest addition to my family and is my adorable second cousin, Harrison. His Grandma has become totally enamoured with this little boy and wanted something a bit different to show of his adorable-ness! (I'm almost sure this collage will be a screensaver, wall poster, t-shirt print, scrapbook cover.. you get the idea!) Very happy with the look of this and think the colours go really nicely with the wedding family image.

If you are interested in a custom digital collage, please email me or feel free to visit my Etsy store.

Theme Thursday - Weekly Challenge

2010-04-29T19:36:00.000+10:00

Now this challenge at Theme Thursday was great - not done a Black & white challenge before and have had a couple of monotone items I thought perfect, for this week.

Collage Obsession - Weekly Challenge

2010-04-29T18:53:00.000+10:00

As usual the girls at Collage Obsession came up with an interesting image for this weeks challenge.

that being said, it didn't really inspire me at ALL!!! LOL but... after beginning I am very pleased with the finished submission - as usual very graphic design-y looking but I like it. looking forward to next weeks challenge!

Custom Collages on Etsy

2010-04-27T18:15:00.004+10:00

So I've started up my Etsy shop again, with some teeny teeny steps at offering my collage and graphic design work to the masses!

I've got a few projects in the works for custom digital collages, and for those new to the idea - I ask my clients to supply me with photographs, wording if you would like it included, colour preferences and theme preferences. This allows me to produce digital artworks that are utterly personal and individual.

The 300 dpi pieces can be printed and framed for your own use, gifted for special occasions, printed out as features for your scrapbooks, re-sized and used on Invitations or Thankyou cards. Take along to the local print shop and have the image printed onto a T-shirt or coffee mug!

The ones I have done so far, using family photos old and new, I have printed out and gifted as individual artworks, made into birthday cards, printed out and put into my scrapbooks.

An old image from 1947 of my Mother, her own Mother and Father and her Brother. Retouched, recoloured the image and wanted to give it an Australian feel, and feature the year in which the pic was taken. From a tiny cruddy photo that really was showing its age, I've salvaged it and given my Mum a gift!

My favourite colour, a seaside theme and a cute little girl combined to help bring this digital collage here together. I keep thinking this would make a really cute style of invitation!

A bit of retouching and recolouring and a flat old Black and white image comes to life!

An image doesn't have to be perfect for me to make it into a great collage. Spots and damage can be fixed and touched up, images can be recoloured, backgrounds can be removed!

Ah it's good to be back

2010-04-25T19:36:00.001+10:00

So i finally got around to getting back onto Etsy. There's not a lot there and I suppose it's a literal "dipping my toe in the water" but since I started this blog and began doing these digital collages I've been kinda amazed at how well they've been received! So I'm hoping I can get some custom collage work through Etsy.

Click the link here and feedback welcome!

Art Creations Friday - weekly challenge

2010-04-25T12:51:00.000+10:00

Art Creations Friday who always seem to come up with very pretty images for their challenges gave us a gorgeous little girl as our challenge - and I gave her an angelic beachy look!

Something Completely Different - Weekly Challenge

2010-04-25T12:47:00.000+10:00

Provided with the letter "H" at Something Completely Different, I pondered, and came up with a tribute to one of my fave actresses Audrey Hepburn. A Timeless Beauty!

Freebie background image

2010-04-21T21:20:00.001+10:00

Well I thought it time to give you all another Freebie background image! Made by me and available for free!

In jpeg format and you can resize to suit your needs.

Simply left click on the image to open in its own window, right click and "save as" directly to your computer.

My freebie images are for personal use only, you may use them in your art, collage, card making, jewellery making - you may not sell them or add them to any collage sheets for sale.

If you do click I would love a link to your work or blog!

Inspiration Avenue - Weekly Challenge

2010-04-21T14:11:00.000+10:00

Sometimes, I can look at a chellenge and look some more and just think - I have nothing for this. No inspiration, thoughts or ideas. I looked at the Inspiration Avenue Challenge this week, with the topic of "Bloom" and instantly knew what I was doing for it.

May you all "Bloom and Shine"

Art Creations Friday - challenge

2010-04-21T13:27:00.000+10:00

So this week at Art Creations Friday our pic was a very pretty veiled young girl and I came up with this piece. I thought she looked quite "Senorita-ish"!

Soartful Challenges - Shy Beauty

2010-04-21T13:23:00.000+10:00

This weeks challenge at Soartful Challenges was to use the following image, and the theme of "Shy Beauty"

and my submission came up like this, did I mention that I love purple!

Brag Monday

2010-04-20T20:16:00.002+10:00

Woohoooo, I'm featured this week at Graphics Fairy for Brag Monday!

I was very happy with the outcome of my B is for Bicycle collage, using primarily a great freebie bike from Karen at Graphics Fairy. If you do digital collage, scrapbooking, craft, art, sewing, cardmaking, interior stuff, oh lets FACE IT anything crafty you must stop by her blog. I have Graphics Fairy bookmarked and visit every day of the week.

Mind Wide Open Challenge - winner announced

2010-04-19T23:53:00.000+10:00

Ah the months are zipping by and this months Mind Wide Open challenge has been run and won!

My cutesy contribution managed a runner-up prize!

Congrats must go to Pam who won, her entry is fab, please check out Gails blog and see some of the great submissions!

Collage Obsession - Beach Challenge

2010-04-19T14:49:00.000+10:00

Now these girls at Collage Obsession always come up with great pics and fun themes, this week it's "Beach"

I had a lot of fun with this and am very happy with the outcome of the colour combo!

Inspiration Avenue's Latest Challenge - Metamorphosis

2010-04-19T13:35:00.000+10:00

Well I actually didn't get around to participating in this challenge, but loved the theme and the results here are awesome. My favourite is the cloche by Peggy's Paperwhimsy (at the top).

Over the coming weeks I plan to do some blogging about cloche's and show you the one I've done, if I can actually manage to photograph it properly!

Join in one of their weekly challenges here

Theme Thursday - Hats or Crowns Challenge

2010-04-19T13:27:00.000+10:00

Now I'm not a very girly girl so sometimes find the images conjured in my mind of what these challenges are about well.. sometimes i really do have to sit and have an incredibly long think about how I am going to put a collage together and this weeks Theme Thursday challenge was no exception.

With the theme of "Hats or Crowns" I came up with this. I adore this image and have been wanting to use her for ages.

Gothic Arches Challenge

2010-04-19T13:23:00.000+10:00

With Easter a distant memory I thought the "egg" Challnge this week at Gothic Arches was kinda odd, but I guess that Spring is anew in the Northern Hemisphere and the Egg challenge is justified!

My contribution to the egg challenge is below, and as usual I can't help myself but make my arches into tags.. I am going to try much harder for the next challenge to not be so predictable, maybe even use a different arch shape. i just SO ran out of time to think too much about any of my creations this week!

Something Completely Different Blog Challenge

2010-04-16T21:03:00.001+10:00

As soon as I saw the challenge I knew exactly what elements I was going to use... Does anyone else find themselves mentally doing collages while they're driving or doing the washing???? Anyway this weeks theme was the letter D - I have been stinging to use a dragonfly in one of my pieces and well... it begins with "D"!!

Something Completely Different - visit and see all the entries for this week.

Soartful Challenges - Bamboo

2010-04-14T20:42:00.003+10:00

I looked at this challenge a few days ago at Soartful Challenges I downloaded the image and looked at it, and to be honest - felt nothing...then I started playing around with the image. Combining it with a few other digital freebies and I have come up with this piece, very happy with the end result.

Gothic Arches Challenge this week

2010-04-13T20:58:00.001+10:00

Gothic Arches Challenge this week was to complete a mini Gothic Arch tag.

I've used my fave angels again and had a go at using a lovely shade of violet, with my theme being "Hope"

Check out the other entries through the Gothic Arches blog here

Art Creations Friday - Digital challenge for the week

2010-04-13T16:26:00.000+10:00

Art Creations Friday - the theme this week was to use this very pretty little girl below

and I came up with this submission below - she's titled "Sweet Sabrina"

Challenge for Something Completely Different

2010-04-13T16:22:00.001+10:00

I'm really into these challenges, and the ones that are currently running with "Something Completely Different" using different letters of the alphabet each week are really enjoyable.

The letter this week is B and my entry is below. I was very happy with the outcome of using my fave turquiose colourings and that stark yellow strip. Definately will be printing this one out and framing I think!

The beautiful bicycle image is from Graphics Fairy's blog here

Gothic Arches Challenge

2010-04-07T14:46:00.003+10:00

This is my first submission to Gothic Arches, this week was an open theme and of course I used my very own gothic Arch template to create my arch!

Hmmm... after adding my name to the list of submissions... the Gothic arches site asks you to leave a comment.. but for the life of me I can't see where? If any of you have your reading glasses on and can see where.. drop me a comment here and lemme know so I can do so!..

FREE Arches Templates

2010-04-07T12:47:00.001+10:00

Now for any of my fellow digi-collagers or digital scrapbook enthusiasts who may be insterested in a sublime site for collage challenges - I recently visited Gothic Arches - great challenge site and seems to be quite popular with the digi-addicted among us.

I am going to undertake one of the recent challenges, but as I was thinking about it I started to wonder about creating the actual arch. (The idea seems to be that within each challenge you utilise a gothic shaped arch in your collage) So I made some arches.

And awesome for you lot because i am giving the templates away as a FREEBIE!!! They are in jpeg format and you can resize to suit your needs.

Simply left click on the image to open in its own window, right click and "save as" directly to your computer.

My freebie images are for personal use only, you may use them in your art, collage, card making, jewellery making - you may not sell them or add them to any collage sheets for sale.

If you do click I would love a link to your work or blog!

Inspiration Avenue Challenge

2010-04-06T23:00:00.000+10:00

Once I began doing all these digital challenges, added them to the listings for the challenges and started looking at all these other peoples blogs.. I have found even more great challenge sites.

I took a look at Inspiration Avenue and they have a challenge this week with the theme of "fish".

Here's mine -

Another Digital Freebie

2010-04-06T18:42:00.001+10:00

I've finished another freebie background for my digital collaging friends.
I've got a nifty collection of backgrounds, made by myself, that I will put on here from time to time and make available to you for free.
Simply left click on the image to open in its own window, right click and "save as" directly to your computer.

My freebie images are for personal use only, you may use them in your art, collage, card making, jewellery making - you may not sell them or add them to any collage sheets for sale.

If you do click I would love a link to your work or blog!

AND it's of course in my most FAVOURITE colour!

Digital Whisper Challenge for this week - Peace

2010-04-06T12:14:00.000+10:00

So this week at Digital Whisper we have been given an image of some beautiful sky and given the word "peace" as our inspiration. I've been itching to use this frame and came up with the following.

Collage Obsession Challenge

2010-04-06T12:06:00.000+10:00

So my challenge this week at Collage Obsession was this image -

my end result looks kind of 'scrapbooky" but yeah am happy with the it. In looking at this final image (as a side note to my adoration of home interiors) I may have to stencil that swirly thing on a wall here in my own home somewhere!

And yet another great challenge site

2010-04-04T19:51:00.000+10:00

yes yes I know, I really need to calm down on the digital challenges but but but ok I am addicted!

Something Completely Different - site looks like a lot of fun and can be found here

Challenge for this week was a creation using the letter W in some way - here is mine!

Soartful Challenges

2010-04-04T18:39:00.000+10:00

Well it's been a productive week for challenges for me. Soartful Challenges have had a new one up for a day or so and my collage is as follows

Another great challenge site

2010-04-02T22:18:00.000+11:00

It's been Good Friday and to be honest I had nothing planned today. A lovely sleep in, some relaxing consuming of yummy food and a wander around the internet looking at some of my fave blogs. Through my wanderings, I came across this great site - Soartful Challenges

I've submitted an entry to their monthly challenge using the following image.

Collage Challenge for Art Creations Friday

2010-04-02T20:24:00.000+11:00

Yey I found another great digital collage challenge blog to add to my favourites -
Collage Challenge for Art Creations Friday

My submission for this weeks challenge is below

Wallpaper background FREEBIE GIVEAWAY

2010-04-02T19:24:00.001+11:00

Well people, I am enjoying collaging so much that I feel (like many other collage bloggers out there) that I should giveaway the occasional FREEBIE!

I've got a nifty collection of backgrounds, made by myself, that I will put on here from time to time and make available to you for free.

Simply left click on the image to open in its own window, right click and "save as" directly to your computer.

My freebie images are for personal use only, you may use them in your art, collage, card making, jewellery making - you may not sell them or add them to any collage sheets for sale.

Please feel free to link to me or comment if you use my images! Kate xoxo

New Collage site

2010-04-02T16:40:00.000+11:00

Now over the last couple of months I have become addicted to collage challenge sites. I've been submitting to Mind Wide Open once a month, Just started taking on the challenges at Collage Obsession and have found another one Wooooohooooey!

Theme Thursday seems to be mostly for paper artists, but they welcome digital submissions - I do paper stuff too but lately have just been pre-occupied with digital collages. Below is my submission for this week, the theme being "favourite letter"!

Check out Theme Thursday here.

Happy Easter

2010-04-02T16:17:00.000+11:00

It's only Good Friday and I already feel like I have eaten too many Hot Cross Buns. Have a safe, peaceful and Happy Easter all!

Kate xoxo

Graphics Fairy

2010-03-30T21:51:00.000+11:00

If you adore vintage images as much as I do a visit to Graphics Fairy is in order!

Karen is a mad keen collector of assorted ephemera and kindly makes them available free for download from her blog. The Graphics Fairy is also full of fab ideas and lots of useful links for digital collage artists.

Visit and enjoy!

Collage Obsession Challenge

2010-03-29T19:51:00.000+11:00

I found this one also tricky. I think I have a great degree of the "bah-humbug's" at the moment and don't feel very easter-ish. anyway the Collage Obsession challenge for this week.. we were given this pic below

and my collage came out like this

Digital Challenge time!

2010-03-29T19:46:00.000+11:00

So this week Kimmie gave us the challenge of the word "soft" which I found kinda tricky, so I went along the lines of feminine ballerinas! I've used some freebie elements, some stuff I bought last night at pickleberrypop, elements from elegias shop and some from Itkupilli’s shop Here it is -

Gone crazy at Pickleberrypop

2010-03-28T23:33:00.001+11:00

Sooo.. I sold a few things on Ebay recently.. tools furniture and assorted junk I haven't used for ages... has cash sitting in my Paypal account. True to reality and not being able to actually keep HOLD of money I visited pickleberrypop and went crazy buying digital scrapbooking kits!

I am currently watching the links all pile into my inbox and now (at 11.30pm at night) itching to get designing and doodling with them. If you are into digi-collage, scrapbooking or cardmaking, you may want to visit this site and grab a few of the kits to have a play with.

Some of the kits I purchased cost like $2.00!!! and they are bursting with papers and elements!

Another fabulous site I have encountered on my scrap travels is Elegias shop - her artwork is delicious and I'm trying to think of what else I can flog on E-bay so I can snavvle up some of these sheets too! p.s - awesome backgrounds!

Collage Challenge at Collage Obsession

2010-03-24T17:41:00.000+11:00

My submission for the "Fruitful" challenge this week at Collage Obsession!

New weekly challenge at Digital Whisper

2010-03-22T21:37:00.000+11:00

This week at Digital Whisper our challenge was in using the following image, create a digital collage

I liked this challenge for the week, and have dedicated it to my favourite band in the whole world

The Hoodoo Gurus!

and came up with this -

Collage Obsession

2010-03-21T20:29:00.000+11:00

Ok so I've become addicted to digital collage challenges!

Here's my entry for the Collage Obsession weekly challenge - challenge was set for the week as "Mirage" and an image of the chuch supplied by the blog girls at Collage Obsession.

All good fun!

I love love love Shabby Stuff

2010-03-20T20:51:00.000+11:00

Well I do love love love shabby stuff and have been a keen reader of this blog for quite a while, and if you dig the shabby look, please go check it out here

Her work is gorgeous, and I find myself getting lost in thoughts of doing all kinds of creative housey stuff.

OMG I won again

2010-03-20T20:34:00.002+11:00

Each month Mind Wide Open runs a challenge and my entry (of which I was very pleased) WON! My prize consists of some of Gails lovely digital sheets - very happy to be able to add more of her work to my collection!

P.S Bring on April!!!

I had a crappy week

2010-03-19T22:23:00.000+11:00

I really have had an ordinary week, stressful, upsetting.. and not even thinking about it, I created this morbid and dark pit-of-my-soul piece... I then looked at it and thoughht I needed a stiff drink and maybe some time off.

The mind is an interesting thing... and quite opposed to my usual cheery and bright, colourful creations.. I came up with this. I don't hate it, i'm just not sure if I like it.

If you're into digital art ...

2010-03-19T16:45:00.002+11:00

Digital Whisper - I haven't been a member for long but am totally getting into the weekly challenges and seeing some of the gorgeous work done by some very talented creative people out in cyberspace.

You have your own little area on Digital Whisper, where you can upload albums and pics of your work, share with others, partake in forum convos, join interest groups, chat... and of course check out the work everyone does. LINK HERE>

We had a challenge a week or two back that had to include a little tree supplied to us, this was mine!

A combo of freebies here, called Bayou picnic!

Artwork Jewellery

2010-03-18T16:20:00.001+11:00

I'm itching to get these pieces photographed. last week when I actually had five minutes to myself - I sat and made some jewellery pieces from my own digital art collages! I'm happy with how they've turned out, and I promise to get pics up soon and maybe put some in my currently-empty etsy shop.

"Angelica" made an appearance in a couple of rings, and with it being my first real red-hot go at resin pouring, I couldnt be happier with the end result. Hopefully somebody else likes them too!

Something for my Mum

2010-03-18T16:10:00.001+11:00

As my digital projects often do start as me just fluffing around with an image... I found the main photograph here on my Hard-drive a week or so ago and thought it deserved preservation, so I sat and pondered its fate.

The pic shows my Mother, her brother and her parents. By the look of it picnic-ing somewhere and at a guess I thought it was probably around 1947. Shh nobody tell my Mum that I blabbed to the world how old she is!

So I had a digi-play around with the image and came up with the block below. After feeling I had accompoished something with this, I printed it out, whacked it onto a coaster blank, and coated it in a layer of resin. It's awaiting one more drizzle of clear resin and then it can go in a parcel to my Mum.

Spring Challenge - Mind Wide Open

2010-03-18T15:13:00.004+11:00

Again we have spun around to another monthly challenge at Mind Wide Open, with this challenge entitled "Spring"! Predictable maybe, but I began my submission for the challenge using birdies & wreaths and the spring element given to us for the challenge. Love how it ended up, even I did find getting into the spirit of Spring, tricky! Thanks to Graphics Fairy for the lovely image freebies!

Collage Projects

2010-03-18T13:01:00.004+11:00

Each month at Mind Wide Open we are given a challenge, to create an artistic composition using an element of Gails choosing.

For the FEBRUARY CHALLENGE (and my first leap of participation) we were given an image and this was my interpretation of "Soulful".

And amazingly and happily, I won the months challenge! great start to my digital art life, and thankyou Gail for the honour and of course fabby prize!

I am fast becoming obsessed with digital art, and by the day am discovering awesome places that like minded artists are gathering on the interwebs! Over the course of producing my blog, I promise to give you lots of links to these great people.

First Post

2010-03-18T11:09:00.002+11:00

So long since I blogged this may take a while to get my head around. Wish me luck!