Creature Filled Country Life of a Hippie-Nerd Digital Designer

Posts made in June, 2010

Chair Dancing Challenge

Posted on Jun 30, 2010

Chair Dancing Challenge

  Kristine laid down the Chair Dancing Gauntlet. Can your bootie stay...

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Groove? Really?

Posted on Jun 22, 2010

Groove? Really?

    Got an email from Patrice P. saying I was back in the groove!  Which made me think… GROOVY! Like this… Thank you Patrice, you are a sweet peach! I will take that even though I feel like I have been bouncing around for the last 3 weeks! Hubby’s Giant Vacation adventure is done, he tucked back into work yesterday and though we were all ready to for it to end we really had a lovely time having him home. I vow next time to take the time off my work as well, just as we took off...

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Got My Green Fix!

Posted on Jun 20, 2010

Got My Green Fix!

Kristine from Kristine’s Place has got my Green Fix covered with this new kit of hers! Spring Fling! It was so great I dropped everything the moment I saw it and scrapped a page! Don’t you love when that happens? SPECTACULAR RIGHT?  On Sale 25% off for a limited time only…  A quick heads up, check your email if you subscribe to Kristine’s Email Newsletter for an additional percentage off on this kit! Don’t get Kristine’s Newsletter? Maybe you should? Cha-Ching! This is...

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Sugar Styles

Posted on Jun 18, 2010

Sugar Styles

  I had a blast building these. I love glitters, but I wanted something more subtle. These Sugars fit the bill!  Sugars at DigiScrap Warehouse 16 Sugar Textured Styles in Bold Summer Colors.   Match my Bold Summer Chalkies too! A little close-up… Happy Friday, Summer...

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Black Styles

Posted on Jun 11, 2010

Black Styles

Top 20 Black Styles at Kristine’s Place Top 20 Black Styles at Digiscrap Warehouse Top 20 Black Styles at DigitalScrapDesigns The Top 20 Black Styles counted down by yours truely! When my friend Kristine ( Yep! Owner of Kristine’s Place) said, ” Hey how about making some black styles?”  She got me thinking. I looked through my style sets with new eyes. I had a few black styles I had made for myself but for the most part each time I wanted a tinted black solid color I...

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Nadine

Posted on Jun 9, 2010

Nadine

Sadly our Barn Swallows have left us, guessing its too hard to rebuild in the middle of the birthing season or they found abandon nests somewhere else. What’s This About?   I want to tell you about our Nectarine Tree, Nadine. But first a little background on our quest for a nectarine tree. 10 years ago I bought a little dwarf Nectarine and planted out by the front fence. We had to have a big machine come and dig a 2 foot by 4 foot trench all along the front fence to get through the...

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Snake On The House

Posted on Jun 8, 2010

Snake On The House

What a preposition! Stepping out on porch to check out the world this morning, what did I find?  Bits of mud and nesting material all over.  I looked up and the Barn Swallow’s nest in the corner looked like this…   When Yesterday it looked like this… I noticed they were about the age to fly so I took some quick shots of them yesterday looking muppet-mouthed and full of teenage-angst. Nest intact… I guess they learned to fly the hard way! With the mess on the...

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Bang!

Posted on Jun 7, 2010

Bang!

    Jack is taking Nathan up to Oklahoma on Friday to meet up with Papa Roy and I think the plans are to shoot guns, talk about guns, and make plans to build guns! WHOOOT! Just to be clear, there will be no hunting. Nathan clears bugs out of the way when we dig holes for plants. He will never kill anything or stand by while something is killed. I would not want to be in his Papa’s shoes if the Hunting Talk starts! Nathan is very adamant about the lives of creatures remaining “lives”....

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Who Knows What Blooms Our Future Garden May Hold?

Posted on Jun 5, 2010

Who Knows What Blooms Our Future Garden May Hold?

Lookie Here! Rosemary H. made this pretty with some of the Morning Glory Photos posted to Photobucket! De-LISH!  …and what beautiful words! Thank you Rosie! Super Digital Hug Zooming right to your doorstep! WHOOT! FREEBIE Download ALERT!! Blanket permission granted to anyone who wishes to use these Morning Glory Photos. Download Only Please. No Hot-Linking. No restrictions on downloaded photo use. Enjoy! Happy Saturday!...

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Bokeh Styles + Tutorial

Posted on Jun 4, 2010

Bokeh Styles + Tutorial

  BUY 12 Bokeh Styles ( boke = blur in Japanese)  These simulate a blurred reflection when a camera looks into a light source. Use these Transparent Styles behind a photo mat, extracted photo, to fill in an element, to create papers, to make photo mats, as an overlay right on your photos. Duplicate the layer you wish to see then add this bokeh style, since it is built to replace whatever is on the layer its applied to. All of these styles can easily be re-colored, but the light whites with...

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