Nice illustration

Yesterday was my little Dylans second birthday. He had such a nice day. We spent the morning with Frasers mum and husband, and took Dylan up to "the soft bear centre". Its an indoor adventure area for little ones. And in the evening we went over to my mums, and had a little party. I made his card but cant show you as I have left my camera at my mums.

I have found a fab set of tutorials for Illustrator at blog.spoongraphics . They show you how to make simple style monsters and are really good at getting to learn the basics.

Happy Ellie

I have started to try and learn the basics on Adobe Illustrator, my god it is confusing! There is so much to learn. I have used Photoshop in the past so I thought it would be pretty much the same as that. But alas it is going to take alot of practice, I cant seem to find a way to do simple things like fill in a background. Unfortunatly I am not the quickest person when it comes to computers and technology. But I am going to try and trawl through the many tutorials that are out there on the web, and hope they help my understanding of it.


I managed to create a nice little elephant whilst messing about doodling. I have made them into ACEO art cards, because I was so pleased with the way they turned out. I have them for sale in my Etsy shop.





not happy, not happy, not happy, HAPPY ELLIE!!



Lucie x

Ceramic Heart Mini cards

These are from a new collection that I have made. They are miniature cards, measuring approx 10cm x 6cm. Each card has a beautiful handpainted (unfortunatly, not by me), ceramic button, sewn onto a piece of felt.

This has then be placed on a printed card, and finished with a co-ordinating ribbon, tied in a bow.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated :)

Lucie x

That didn't work like it was meant to!

It is all a bit gappy, and the tuggle link is wrong WHOOPS!
It was meant to be http://www.tuggle.co.uk SORRY :)

Lucie x

Here goes...

Hi I am lucie, and this is my new blog. I don't know how well its going to work, but I will give it a shot.

First off, abit about myself. I am 25 and live in Aberdeenshire in Scotland. I live with my fiance, Fraser (lover/ best friend). We have been together just over 4 years.

We have a son (crazy little man), called Dylan, he will be 2 next thursday. He is just starting to speak, and seems to be really growing up fast.

I am also pregnant with number 2. 2o weeks today!! YAY. I had my detailed scan today. it is amazing, you can see the face, head on in one of the pics. Its really reasurring knowing everything is going ok.

SIDE VIEW

FACE (how crazy is that??)

My main reason for starting this blog is to try and promote my etsy store.

http://www.oddgirlinthecorner.etsy.com/ Take a look, please give me any feedback that you have.

I make hand drawn cards, paper jewellery and whatever else I fancy. It is so inspiring looking through the site, there are soooooooo many talented people out there, trying to sell their hand made goods.

I also have my stuff on site called Tuggle. http://www.tuggle.com/ . I made my first online sale through them a few weeks ago. I was so chuffed.

SOME THINGS THAT I LOVE AND CANT LIVE WITHOUT

• MY FAMILY




• EYELINER




• SALAMI, TOMATO AND MAYO SARNIES mmmm yummmy




• PIES OF THE SAVOURY VARIETY, chicken + mushroom r good




• CRAP TELLY you cant beat a bit of enders




• TUNES im either into really mellow folky type stuff, electro, or loud and angry women




• DRAWING, DOODLING, MAKING STUFF




• COOKING i love eating so anything that leads to that is good :)

So thats about it for my first post. Lets see how long it lasts ;)

Lucie x