Blog Prize Giveaway

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.

Custom Collage - just what is it?

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.

Custom Collages on Etsy

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!