Design Team: Friday Bonus 6-12-09

This week’s three bonus projects come from Design Team members Lynn McAuley, Sparkle Smith, and Alma Olhava. Check the previous post for nine pillow boxes created by the rest of the team this week. Click the photos below to see larger photos and read all the details on the designers’ blogs.

Summer Wedding Card by Lynn [...]

Design Team: Pillow Boxes

This week the Digital Design Team has created nine pillow boxes. The PDF pillow box template comes free with the Angels Landing Pierced Backgrounds set. The no-glue box template has a flap with a tabbed closure, which can be placed either on the front or the back. Click the photos to see larger versions and [...]

Design Team: Friday Bonus 6-5-09

In addition to the main Digital Design Team features that will run on my blog on Wednesdays, some weeks we’ll have an extra project on Fridays. This week’s bonus comes from Lauri Ingram.

Kookaburra Bookmark by Lauri Ingram

Lauri made this bookmark with a kookaburra from the Aussie Animals set. She paired him with a wonderful quote [...]

Colored Pencils – Before and After

Jennifer commented yesterday that she was doing some research on how to color her Aussie Animals images. That reminded me that I hadn’t uploaded a colored version of the sugar glider yet. What a perfect opportunity to revisit a new-to-me technique, blending Prismacolor pencils with baby oil instead of Gamsol odorless mineral spirits.
There has been [...]

The Australian Outback Collection

With a whole animal kingdom to choose from, why did I start with Aussie animals for one of my first sets of digital stamps? Of course there is a good reason.
As stories go, this one began years ago. Back then, I had licensed a line of collectible figurines to a wonderful little company [...]