Nearly ready for new blog/website launch

Images of the day

Whimsical cats - kitty stocking

Hopefully sometime in the next week I will be ready to launch my new blog/website featuring my designs as digitals stamps for download. This is the image I decided to use as a freebie for the first post of my new blog ( without the watermark obviously ;) ) Christmas is just around the corner after all :)

I have also come up with a banner/button to use for advertising:

I may need to mess around with the sizing a bit but I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. Pretty simple - but at least it's clear to read and that means it should work in smaller sizes. I may put the little dragon design up for sale with the others on the website too. It seems a shame to just put her on the advertising and leave her to languish in my pictures folder :)

I'll be heading to hospital a week on Tuesday for my op - I'll try to get everything sorted and go blog hopping to promote myself before then. If all goes well I'll be home again by lunchtime the next day though I may take a few days off. The other half has ordered me to "take it easy" for a while afterwards so I plan to make the most of it :D

Images of the day

 Images of the day

whimsical houses: choo-choo train

whimsical houses - Australia

whimsical houses - cave painting

These are the latest aceos I've gotten done. The first one was suggested by my other half, the second came about after watching Masterchef Australia and I guess the discovery channel could be blamed for the last one :)

Images of the day

Images of the day

 

whimsical houses - cornfield

whimsical houses - beehive

 

It's been a while i know :) I've finally gotten a basic website made using my linework as digital stamps.

http://saffiredragoncrafts.webs.com/

I'm awaiting feedback from the person who first suggested it, so am making a few aceos while I have spare time in the meantime. There may not be many though for a while, I have just had a date come through from the hospital for a small operation on my heart that I've been waiting for since the Spring. I'll be going in on December 4th and am even now extremely nervous and finding it difficult to concentrate on painting/art. I'll see what I can do though so watch this space :)

Image of the day - Tiara

Image of the day

digital stamp - tiara

This is about the last one I'll be doing for a while i think. Now comes the process of tidying them all up to look as proffessional as possible. :)

Images of the day

Images of the day

Digital stamp - duvet day

Digital stamp - kitty heart

Digital stamp - little princess

The next few that I've gotten pretty much done. I'm on a roll now I've figured out what I'm doing :) I'm getting a lot more comfortable with the paths tool now and I can get things done quicker.

Images of the day - Whimsical kids

Images of the day

Digital stamp - little pirate

digital stamp - little ballerina

Finally I've redone all the ones i had already done and have started on new ones. They'll need a little bit of a tidy up still but the quality is a whole lot better in my opinion :) Hopefully soon I'll have enough done and tidied to actually start seriously thinking about getting myself a website to sell them :)

Image of the day - New and Improved Alley cat

Image of the day

 

Digital stamp - alley cat

 

Finally I am back after taking a week off to play Mists of Panderia the new World of Warcraft expansion. I have revisited my little alley cat because yesterday I found a tutorial online and figured out how to make my curved lines smooth using the paths tool :D I was soooo happy. Now my images actually look fairly close to proffessional ( in my opinion anyways ). I'm not sure you can actually see much of a difference at this size but I have been printing them out at A4 size to check for wobbly lines etc and the difference is Huuuge. The downside is of course I have to go through every one that I've done so far and do them again. Not sure if I'll put any more up here until I get through the ones I've already done and start some new ones, as I don't want anyone getting bored. I just wanted to let everyone know how I'm getting on and that I haven't vanished :)