Visa Claus was good to me

For Christmas I bought myself a nicer camera for taking pictures of cards, 3-dimensional projects, my 5-year-old son, etc. I NEEDED this camera to make the Katemade Designs shop on Etsy.com worth going to. I will be opening the doors, so to speak, in January and am trying desperately to get things in shape for that [along with fighting illness, the messy house and prepping for Christmas].

I've been sick for 2 weeks - though my entire week of holiday vacation even - and haven't done much in the studioffice. At least not much worth showing the blogosphere. I will be taking pics of those that are worthy and some pics of the Grace Book vol 3 ©2007. I'll post those within the week.

Craft Safe, Use Rubber
k

Catbird

OLcatbird
Originally uploaded by Kalyber

I love posting from Flickr - so easy.
Anywho this is an image I created using images provided on a disc in the back of Photoshop Creative Magazine that I picked up at Costco of all places.
The magazine is an English import and they have regular Reader's Challenges. I chose to give it a go this time and this is what I came up with. The non-edited images can be found at www.pshopcreative.co.uk. I like the image but don't have the time to burn it to CD and send it in for submission.
Hope you like it. K

Gentle Desert

GentleDesert
Originally uploaded by Kalyber

Another card, nothing super special but fun none the less. The image is from Meer Images and it's colored with Prismacolor Pencils and blended with Gamsol. The stars have a bit of Crystal Effects on them for shine but I'm not sure it shows well enough on the screen.

PortugueseFlowers

PortugueseFlowers
Originally uploaded by Kalyber

I've started going through my old postcards and photos and making them into cards. I love aging things and the combo of the flowers on the card and the flowers on the postage stamp worked so well.

I do ACTUALLY make stuff

tags
Originally uploaded by Kalyber

I have been so busy with a class, a kid, a house and Christmas preparations that I haven't had time to post. So here is a peek at some tags I made for gifts. Not Tim Holtz worthy but it's a step above a post-it or a corner of the wrapping paper folded over with your name scrawled on it.

Enjoy.