Miracles do happen... well some small ones

I was going to write today about sock monkeys and mermaids which I sketched this week, but I got an email this afternoon from my favourite internet bookshop - the Book Depository- telling me - taa-dumm- I had won in their book mark composition!!! Well I was one of the to be 10 winner which is now 20, but my little book mark illustration of with three birds will be printed in thousands, well at least hundred, and will grace the bedside tables, floors and garbage cans of thousands of folks :D
If you go here you can see not only my book mark but the other winners as well. Some of them of are really good. My favourite is the one next to mine with the girl and the tea cup and the sock puppet (?) photo - it is really weird but there is something about it that just tickles me.

In progress...

I will, I will, finish this set I started. I swear I will. It will not go the way to the alphabet (after a comment from my darling mum "is that an F"), nor the way of my cat of swirls with its tail problem, nor the intial older pealet creation. I will finish my flutterby designs. BUT, I got to finish a project tomorrow and then should pick another up on Wednesday, AND the car's accumulator died AND the kids have been home for a week again and are well and full of energy. But I will finish my flutterby designs. I am a third of the way and thinking of making it a blue work but not sure. I just need a day.. well a day and a half for I find I can't upload and do the net stuff the same day I finish the drawing - for some reason it really taxes the brain and I have to really struggle to get the set uploaded..ahh the joys of being an artist.

Here's a what the one of the designs looks like. I wish I could make up my mind as to colour or not. This would not be a problem if it was general but I am thinking of making it limited...hmm Oh well I am off to fold clothes and to try and figure out how to get the dog from shedding in the middle of winter. A massive amount of hairballs roam the floor even if I sweep the day before. Can't vacuum as lego pieces might get vacuummed up and that is definitely not worth the results

A card of note

I saw this card in the MyGrafico community and just had to put it up here even though it has none of my stuff in/on it lol. Isn't it just a fantastic card! The amount of time and effort the designer put into making it is amazing. The card's designer name is Leanne Garner and she has a wonderful blog which can be found here at www.createdbyLeanne.blogspot.com.
When making the card she used something called a SVG cutter or circuit cutter (I think the former is a generate name, but I stand for correction on it) - basically it cuts out shapes and allows you to make percise 3D cards. This is what she says is on the card, "

svg cutfile from Cocoa Studio Love Is In The Air
PinkPaislee Eternal Love Paper
Lindsay's sentiment from Winged Things
grass zooballou cartridge
clouds from A Southerbelles SVG's
fabric for dress, headband,stockings
stickles."
All I can really say is WOW!

A cat's meow

Hope every one has had a great Christmas and good start to the new year. After almost 3 glorious weeks of computerless bliss, I am feeling fresh and back at the pc. And if luck holds the kids will get the okay from the doc and will be back in play school this week after over a 2 months absence and not get sick for a while. So with a temperature of -15C outside and a little snow drifting down I was working on a set of bottle shaped cats called "a cat's meow". I have done the line art for the set and now just need to colour them, and with luck they will be up sometime this week. But in the meantime here is a preview of one them as a possible printable poster download- something that is being called "wall art". Yes if I still like it tomorrow I might post it too to the store in the painting section.

Another tiger cub freebie stamp :)

At mygrafico.com I have up another tiger cub free stamp. Here the cub cuddles the bear with a blankie :)
Please note free sample from mygrafico can only be used for personal use.
The stamp can be found here

Closed for the Holidays

New freebees in yahoo group

December is here and this month's freebee is a little boy who is thinking about a sail boat he wishes. I named it incorrectly and should have called it something like poster board thoughts. But that was not the name I was just thinking of when son dearest came in demanding how much longer I would be on "our" computer. Yup we are still coughing but much improved.

Bookmark compo

A couple of weeks of ago, my favourite internet bookshop announced that they were having a bookmark competition. Now being one who likes to doodle and likes to read (when the kids (and husband(and dogs)) allow), I could not resist the chance to get some free books - the prize is a 100 euro worth of books. After sitting down and doing my entry - see the birdies on the left, I read the rules - yes a bit backwards I know. Initially I thought the guys there will judged them but after reading the info it seems that maybe the lucky 10 winners will be drawn at random, so I guess my chances of getting some free books either way is still about 1 in a million. So anyway wish my entry luck miracles do happen"D
yup had to put the yucky copyright symbol. It sort of messes up the pic a bit though:/

Dancers sketch

At the moment I am working on these dancers for next week. I am not sure if they will be vector or not at the moment though :\

This is a thumb of one the finished line art and colour versions. I decided to colour them via photoshop so they were not vector in the end.

A little Pinny

Here's a preview of a set I am working on at the moment. She is called Pinny. Yes how original I know ... not "D
Any where here is her story. She came to life when a client asked me to create something that was fanstasy and well as sewing oriented. At the time dear little Pinny did not get further than my sketch book, but two days ago I was flipping through it as she popped out and said, " Now you 've got the right brushes - downloaded some rather cool pencil type illustrator brushes - and now you have to bring me to life. So here she is. She is to be one of 8 images. Not sure about the colours of her at the moment (or the wings) - I think I need to watch myself as I seem to be happily drifting back into the dark somber tones and mid-night blue skies in the day :)
If all goes well, barring sickness , crashing computers, and falling skies, she should make an appearance in the store next week sometime.

New collab stamp set

A new collab stamp set is now up at Mygrafico (MG) , it features a number of cool and some wacky digital stamps aka line art. So if you got a moment pop on by and have peek. The total set has 18 stamps ( I think) at an amazing price.

Sketch of November's freebie

2010 will be the year of the tiger. A tiger is truly awe inspiring. In honour of his coming year I have dedicated this month's yahoo group freebee for him. Here is the sketch I just did which I will hopefully (all members of the house are coughing and ill ( well minus me) and no fevers so no swine) complete today in line art /digital stamp and full colour format.








Decided I did not like the bear's arm sticking up lol








... as the day ends

Here are the finished versions which can be found in the group. The background of the colour version is not included.

SALE, SALE, SALE

Yes there is a blue moon tonight, and we are having a sale at clipartandscrap.com. When will the next be, not for a while so if you wish to snatch something up at a super good price click on by the store this week. Click here to get to the store