New Doodled Floral, Stencils & a TUT

Hey all! This summer is cruising by... eek!  How have you all been? :)

 I added some new files... they are at the bottom of the post.

OK I am going to say it, I am LOVING stencils, I love drawing them, and I love tweaking and experimenting with them. Modeling paste?... oh my goodness!  I love that I can use the Cutting File Stencils in different ways and even as a printable digi image ( I have more ideas and inspiration later this week :)  ).  I noticed that there must be others that like them too as I did some math... I have had 2358 downloads of the Free Stencils  as of today .... sales on the 5 latest cutting file stencils?  .... not so much... really bad $29 ( bad enough to seriously rethink this stencil making love of mine. I have to put food on the table, you know?)  Now I admit, I am mostly to blame as I have all these ideas, and I haven't shown you any of  them!  Maybe you just don't "get" what fun they are ;) So let's try to change that now LOL!

So here is something you can do with Cutting File Stencils that you CAN'T DO with bought pre-made stencils :) ( This one needs a Digital Cutting Machine)

I made 2 card fronts with one cut of the Circles Stencil.

I did a gradient wash onto an A2 card stock panel with watercolour crayons and a waterbrush. ( a red, orange and a yellow Neocolor II )

Make sure the panel is SUPER DRY before proceeding.  I used Make the Cut! software with my digital cutting machine and visual lined up/eyeballed my A2 panel on my cutting mat in the middle of the square Circles Stencil that I saw on the mat "on screen"  and added some junk card stock on each side my panel so my blade wouldn't hit bare mat.  Then I cut.  I peeled away the panel.  Leaving the negative bits on the mat... that is important.

I secured another white A2 card stock together with the cut panel with painters tape top and bottom so the panel wouldn't slip.  Now all you do is glue down each leftover piece off the mat into the holes in the panel.  I used a UHU stick for my glue.  NOTE: Take each negative circle off the mat ONE AT A TIME ...much easier to figure out where they go that way ;)

I made these 2 cards...

I embossed the cardstock underneath the watercolored stencil cut panel... looks so cool!

The image used for both cards is the new Doodled Floral 1.  The product includes the outline DIGI and 2 pre-coloured images :) 

I also added a new digital cutting file stencil set:  Four Point Star Pattern Stencils

MTC/Silhouette Studio/SVG/GSD/DXF/V-PDF/PNG

The 3 above stencils are included in the set.

.... I'll show you what I did with this stencil set tomorrow :)

And for the digital stamp lovers out there.  I am putting my stencil happy love on hold and have some new images in the works.  ... gotta put the nose to the computer screen and get 'er done!

Have a great day!

:)*  Fred

Emma the Mermaid Coloured Set

After a few more gray hairs and panic attacks, I have finally finished Emma the Mermaid & Friends in all their technocolour glory! I am so sorry for the delay ( like really sorry!)... I will just say this, this one was a struggle for me but I think it all came together in the end so nicely :)

You can find them HERE.

Now I am working on more flowery and fluttery things and a couple of sets I am long overdue in completing.

:)* Fred

Digi-Freebie - Floral Doodle Digital Stamp

I needed a "break" from designing and decided to test out the new Painter 11 demo. LOL.... you have to know me ;)

I ended up with this crazy floral doodly concoction :) I digitally watercoloured it but you will have to wait and see it, I am going to make a card out of it first. :P

I thought I will add it here as a digital stamp for you to print out and colour. ( if it tickles your fancy ) If you use it and "show it", pretty please tell them where to find me!


Please click to enlarge, then save image to your hard drive.

Mwah!
Fred

Blog Candy Time! 100,000 on my counter

Hello friends! I am looking at my hit counter and very soon the odometer will turn 100,000 yippee! I doesn't seem that long ago I had a 5,000 hits challenge and I thought THAT was a long shot LOL! Thank you so much for your friendship and support and riding with me through my spits and spurts :) You are all a blessing to me and my family.

Please leave a comment on this post ( one only). You have until Wednesday 12:00 PM EDT . I will announce the winner that afternoon.

The Candy is a $20 CAD Gift Certificate to my store. Thank you and good luck!

:)* Fred

P.S. while I have your attention, Emma the Mermaid is almost ready to come out and play! Here is one of her friends and he's ready to partehhhh!


this Blog Candy contest is now CLOSED. Thanks for playing!

FSS- Bunneh's are up at the STORE

This cute little bunneh! is up at the STORE. There is a digital stamp version and coloured versions. If I get time tomorrow, I plan to have a few freebie coordinating Easter papers :)

I got more up my sleeve but that is all I could muster to get finished today LOL! I was away for the weekend; I hope to catch up and have more goodies by the end of the week :)

Have a great day!

:)* Fred

Bunneh!

This is what happens when Fred has trouble finishing a project; she starts another one! LOL. I painted this yesterday.

Oh I love little bunneh's! The basket was originally purple but I decided to show a more subdued version ;)


:)* Fred

P.S. Eggs are really hard to draw with a graphics tablet LOL!

A Momentary Diversion

I got sidetracked and made this in Painter LOL! Feel free to use in your crafty endeavours if you like.

Now off to draw some fishies, I am.

Have a great day,
;)* Fred

Butterflies Doodle-dallion Sheets!

Now up at the store! Butterfly DoodleDallions in 3 pretty pastel colours! These are great for the fronts of spring cards :)

Have a great day! More coming soon.

:)* Fred

Happy Belated New Year LOL!

Long time no write! LOL I hope you all had wonderful holidays and are sticking to your New Year's resolutions ;)

It's been crazy here. We nearly bought a house and we are working on some small renos. I have been designing a few new things, "trying" to get some old things finished ( uggh). During all this, the old puter got sick, so I was out of commision for a bit. :O

I spent last week attempting to make a video tutorial ( what a learning curve THAT is!). I had hoped to post a tutorial this week that uses a really nifty little art program called Artweaver to colour flowers. The reason I like it is its a small download, it's FREE, and it resembles Painter in so many ways and has some similar tools to Photoshop. So if I taught a technique using this program, the skills could be easily transferred over to Painter or Photoshop. As soon as I have it done I will post it. ;)


Here is a card I made using an outline flower sheet I am still working on ( coloured with pencils). The background is my own using some flowery doodles. I coloured the backing scalloped frame and the ribbon with a Mark It marker. The bottom is cuttlebug embossed and the blue stripe is doodlebug glitter on double-sided tape.

Have a great day and I'll try not to be a stranger ;)

:)*
Fred

Snowflake Medallion FREEBIE

I am working on a snowflake medallion design. Here is the prototype I first printed. To colour, I used the Gradient Flood-fill tutorial. I'm not sure if I like the black on this... future coloured versions will be a bit lighter and the outline will be a darker version of whatever colour I am using instead of the black. The background is a snowflake paper from the Blue Poinsettia Pack or the Poinsettia Red & Blue Bundle found HERE at the store.



This card, was made with an outline printout of the same medallion. I coloured the darker parts with a Tranquil Teal Bic Mark-It marker. The lighter layer was coloured with minty and cream coloured pencils - a bit of blending with OMS on the mint shading before I shaded with the cream. The dots on the medallion are meant for glitter "love" LOL. I added Patina Stickles to the perimeter and spots. I added an aurora borealis gem to the center. The ribbon is white iridescent organza coloured with the same teal marker. The background was done with chalk pastels with the techinque I posted HERE. * So basically, everything started out white and was coloured in LOL!


Close up to show the stickles... OK I think Patina Stickles is my fave colour!!! :) but you can't really see its true multi-faceted colour, trust me ... it is fab!

Now for the good part:
I am going to make this a tradition LOL! I had a snowflake medallion freebie last year, and I want to carry on the tradition :D

Here is the Digital Stamp version of this Snowflake Medallion and one sheet with minty and light blue coloured versions. DOWNLOAD FROM HERE
I will have another download with more coloured versions early next week ( as I have run out of time... busy busy LOL).

***The Terms of Use are different for this download. You can make coloured digital versions/sheets of this medallion and share with your friends/blog/groups. Just please make sure my name and blog address are somewhere on the sheet. Please don't sell the sheets. You CAN sell your crafted items and cards still. Please tell your friends and show me the link love :)) if you post your cards, etc. *** Thanks so much.

I'd love to see your creations... hint hint LOL

I'll be away this weekend, so if you don't hear or get replies from me until Monday don't panic LOL.

:)* Fred

CARD - Emma the Hugger in Blue

Here is another Emma the Hugger card; this time I used some blue mistletoe paper. The embossing was coloured over with a sakura stardust glitter pen. See my bow? Still a bit wonky but better than some previous efforts. Thank you YouTube for letting me search for bow tying videos, and thank you to the generous folks who made the tutorials. {grin}

Have a great day!
Fred :)*

Emma The Hugger

" Try not to hug a snowman too tight... He might melt! "

(Very big grin!) Tuesday night, this idea struck me and I had to run with it! :)

Emma the Hugger can be found in the store :
Emma The Hugger - Snowman Edition



***( 3 products - Digital Stamp, Decoupage, and a Paper Pack)

Have a great day!

Emma The Cat - now for sale

Emma the Cat is now for sale at the store.

Emma The Cat - Digital Stamps Set - outlines to print and colour.

Emma The Cat - Decoupage Sheet + extras - coloured decoupage sheet for 3d decoupage/tole.

P.S.*I know Halloween isn't celebrated in many countries but please spread the word to your crafting friends in North America. I'd also be interested to know if Halloween can be found in any other countries besides USA and Canada?*

Have a great day all!

The Plight of a Six Year Old

Our Emma, she does not stand a chance... as she tends to be the focus of my non-flower doodles lately! ( See Emma the Mermaid post and will be available soon ).

Poor Emma... is losing her teeth faster than they are coming in LOL! She has had a dangling tooth at the top for over a month and after it goes, she will be pretty much toothless on top except for the molars LOL. Now the story goes, a few weeks before Emma had the very prestigious honour of being our niece's flower girl at her wedding, I was affectionately joking with Emma that when she smiled, she looked like a jack-o-lantern. How cruel of a mother am I ?! Well, our dear Emma ( who looked so beautiful on the wedding day I will add ) took well over 3 hours of photos with the wedding party smiling but never showing a tooth! Our poor Emma now has a complex. I have tried to tell her that Mommy thinks her nearly toothless grin is gorgeous. Here is the sweet thing in her finery... beautiful!





See? LOL Well last week I started doodling reminiscing about Emma who has enjoyed grabbing our same niece's kitty ears and kitty mits and crawling around the house meowing. LOL! And I just had to add the one wiggling tooth at the top! Also, Emma has a touch of a lisp which is NOT being helped by her tooth situation. And now may I present, Emma the Cat:



Please give Emma soft candy this Halloween... or the ones that will melt in the mouth LOL!

Here is Emma after colouring Emma.... and the tooth for posterity.


Emma is not happy about mommy's one toothed mouth doodle - 'I have more teeth than that, Mom!'. But that is too bad ;) Cuz I love it.

Downloading, tutorial soon & Digi-Freebie

Happy Monday! Sorry no monster today and when I get a round tuit, I will tally up some more cards, verses and add some photos :)

But today was a tech support day!!!! LOL E-junkie DID have a hosting server issue yesterday so it was wonky for a bit but all is good now. PayPal... still wonky but won't bother you.... just ME. LOL I have email records of everything thank goodness. If you had issues with your download yesterday, please try again. If you have run out of tries, please email me and I'll fix you up.

I was asked how to colour the Doodledallion in PSP. So alas, a long overdue tutorial is in the works. I'll try to have it up this week. But here is a preview of what you can do by flood-filling with gradients in Paint Shop Pro. I expect you can do the same thing with other graphics editing software. Please feel free to use on your cards. I think you can get 4 to a sheet for printing.

Until we meet again..... :)

Emma The Mermaid

Fred says, I'm in the middle of making designs, but I "slacked off" a bit and worked on this.

Emma (5 yrs) while colouring....
Mummy: Emma, what would you like to be when you grow up?
Emma: hmmm, a teacher, an artist.... or A MERMAID.

I love you Emma :)



shh, don't tell her ;) it is a Birthday Present!

Some tiles from my dusty folders

Painted Tiles

Yes, I haven't posted in a while. Life is getting in the way LOL! I am organizing and attempting to get some stuff together. In the meantime, here are some tiles I painted that have been collecting dust on my computer. I painted most of them as a form of "stress relief and escapism" so I don't profess that they are works of art LOL! There are 59 tiles in there so far and I will add more when I find them - my hard drive is a MESS! Please click on the Painted Tiles link above to go to my webshots to download them.

As usual, if you use them, I'd love to see what you have made ;)

Stamp Designs - Preview

I have just received notice that my new stamp designs are up for preview at Stamp Attack ! These are unmounted rubber sheets of the finest quality. FYI, they are A5 sized sheets ( 148mm × 210 mm or 5.8" × 8.3" ) Thank you Wiki-pedia LOL! I have a hard time getting all those A4's A5's, etc. straight.

The stamp sheets will be available in March at Stamp Attack and possibly from me in the near future ;) The owner of Stamp Attack, Carol Clements is a wonderful lady; please check it out, there are many beautiful stamps to be had and you pay the same low price postage for multiple sheets, I have my eye on the leaves, and the flourishes!

TM DESIGN - DOODLES


TM DESIGN - FLORAL DOODLE DALLIONS

Digi-Freebie: Doodle-dallion - Snowflake Flower

I made a snowflake flower today. It went really quick. This could be addictive, I see more snowflakes on the horizon ;)

My dear friend Penny made this sheet for my snowflake flower. She makes awesome sheets and cards, and folding instructions and .. need I say more! Love the verses, Penny! Please give Penny some love, at her WEBSHOTS or PHOTOBUCKET

I should have a hi rez available later this week plus more hues. It's a worky day tomorrow.

DIGI-FREEBIES: 5000 HITS - We Did It!!!!

.... and then some! LOL. Wow, over 600 hits overnight??? Thank you all for your support :) As promised, I am providing a link to the "digital candy" for all. It is a little bit of everything. I hope they might be of use to someone :) Here's to another 5000 :) (holds up a glass)

Please click the yellow link below to get the download, it doesn't show up too well on my blog and it won't let me change the colour LOL!

ZIP of Digi-Freebies DOWNLOAD