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Hi, just wanted to post a picture of my latest library poster. Honestly, I was a little lost about what to do for Poetry Month. So somewhere in my head I hit upon the idea of a victorian lady's desk. I had to make a lot of elements and I have decided to create a set from them. I haven't made the papers yet, or even finished extracting the elements, but it'll be a big set when it hits the So Digital Shop. I'll also post an add-on as a freebie on this blog.

Corel Painter X

My digital pen came last week and I've been dying to really give it a try. It came with a free trial of Corel Painter X. I LOVE this program. Our library had a book on learning to use the program, so I brought it home and tried a few tutorials. From what I learned, I was able to make these "paintings" of Lola (in watercolor) and Sis (in oils.)

The program has an autopaint function where you tell it the brush type and medium and then it reworks the whole picture. Then you can go back and put in the details. That's where the digital pen was really fun to use. I like this program so much it's going on my Christmas list!

Creating a design team

I am going to try to start a design team using So Digitally Me Designs. I know I had the worst time finding a place to sell my designs, I finally had to make my own store, and it wasn't easy to figure out. So my plan is to offer anyone who would like a page a chance to sell on SDMD. I figure every designer can have their own page with links to their blogs and if there are more of us together, the site might get more hits. Oh, and maybe there will be collaboration kits in the future! Here's hoping that it works.

http://sodigitalshop.web.officelive.com/callingalldesigners.aspx

E-mail me if you're interested: sodigitallyme@gmail.com

Old Cowboy Freebie

Today I made this scrapbook page for one of my friend's fabulous photos. I tried my hand at masking the picture to age it. I think I did pretty good. I definately want to learn more about making masks, my program's tutorials aren't always the most clearly written. Anyway, I couldn't find the right alpha in my downloaded files, so I created this one. I hope you all like it. I call it Old Cowboys because it is made with a rust background and a font called Bleeding Cowboys. I beveled it to give it some dimension, but the shadow is for display only. Enjoy!

I might be a caffeine junkie.

I think I might be a caffeine junkie. I sometimes have a cup of coffee & cocoa mixed at work on break. On days that I don't work, I rarely make a pot of coffee and I tend to drag. I read in National Geographic once that your brain developes a physiological need for the caffeine to enable it to function properly, thus it is addictive.

For me, I sometimes confuse days that are dragging for depression. I don't really think I'm depressed, I am just tired and a little bummed because no one made it to women's group. This week is spring break and I imagine everyone is super busy. It isn't a huge-big deal, it's just hard to remember why I started this group when very few people come regularly. But I must remind myself that summer will be better. Maybe we can find a new time when more moms can come.

I'm also slightly bummed because no one has bought my first kit yet. But, I did some addition last night and my freebies have been downloaded 586 times by people -- pretty good for just starting a couple of months ago.

On a bright note, I'm excitedly awaiting my digital pen that I ordered last week, my new laptop desk and the books on digital graphic design that the library ordered for me.