Good morning all.

Today I'm a guest designer for the Digitally Made October challenge, the theme is Halloween.

My children went to a few Halloween parties when they were younger, so I've used some photos of them on my Halloween page.

I used Craft Artist and some digi kits to put the page together.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

Mans Best Friend

A digital page from me today made for the Digitally Made challenge Pets/Animals.

My page features my two lovely dogs Josh and Murphy.

I used my Craft Artist programme for the border, frame, butterflies, leaves and words, for everything else I used some of my photos.

Thank you for dropping by, have a lovely day. xxx Hazel.

SPA - Tropical Summer

Hi everyone, I hope you're enjoying the weekend.
This week I'm hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge and the theme that I've chosen is Tropical Summer.

I've gone digital this week, I found an image on the internet and used it for the background then I had fun using the Craft Artist to embellish it with flamingos, flowers, birds, palm tree etc.

Thank you for taking a look, have a lovely Sunday.

Hazel. x

SPA - Turquoise and Lime

Turquoise and Lime is the theme for this weeks Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

I started with some green card and used a stencil with some turquoise Glimmer Mist. I stencilled the Sweet Poppy elephants with some Dreamweaver black embossing paste then I photographed it and finished it digitally.

Thank you for visiting. 

xxx Hazel.

Fun In The Sun

My project today is a digital page.

I'm entering it in the Art Journal Journey challenge - Summertime Love
and the 
Digitally Made challenge - Summer Fun/Patriotic.

I used Serif Craft Artist with a couple of digi kits, the image is a Gecko Galz digital image.

Thank you for visiting, have a good day.

xxx Hazel.

Tiny Dancer

Good morning everyone, we had a lovely sunny day yesterday and it looks like it's going to be the same today.

Years ago when I was on the Gecko Galz design team I did a few digital pieces, the other day I was going through some things on my computer and I found a few projects that I never finished so I decided to finish one and share it with you.

I'm entering my piece in the Digitally Made challenge, the theme is Quote.

I used Serif Craft Artist and Gecko Galz digital images.

Thank you for dropping by to take a look, have a lovely day.

xxx Hazel.

Coffee Time

I've not been able to join in with the Sunday Postcard Art challenge since before Christmas but have found a little bit of time to play this week. The theme is Coffee Time.

I must admit that I'm not a coffee drinker - much prefer tea. I found all the images for my card on the Internet.

Rainy Days

This is my entry for the Sunday Postcard Arts Rainy Days Challenge.
I found the images and background on the Internet.

The Raven Postcard

I've been wanting to make a postcard for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge for a while but never had the time. Today I found a bit of time and have made a digital postcard. The theme this week is Ravens.

The background, ravens, skulls and ghostly face are by Gecko Galz and the spider, web and tombstone are off a digi kit called Spook Time.

Never More Digital Card

Another scheduled post.

This is a digital card for the Gecko Galz DT using some of the fabulous September products.

Dark Visions Gecko Galz Background Paper.

Harvest Moon Gecko Galz Background Paper.

Wicked Times Gecko Galz Background Paper.

Image and Bird from the Gecko Galz Poe 2 Collage Sheet.

Serif Craft/Artist Software.

Spook Time Craft/Artist Digi Kit.

 

The moon, bats, tree and branch are from the digi kit, I loaded them, the background papers and images into the software and played about with them until I liked the result.

Mirror Mirror

This is a digital layout that I've made for the Gecko Galz DT using some of the fabulous August papers and collage sheets.

Gecko Galz products that I've used

Glass Slipper and Mirror Mirror Background Papers.

The Queen and Castle from the Ever After Collage Sheet.

The Butterflies are from Tic Toc and Cameos Collage Sheet.

 

I've also used

Serif CraftArtist Digital Software.

Frame, Flowers and Ivy are from Digi Kits that work with the Serif CraftArtist.

 

I loaded the papers and images into the CraftArtist and played around with them until I was pleased with the result.

My First Digital Layout

A couple of Christmas's ago I was bought the Sefif CraftArtist programme so that I could have a go at digital crafting. I never played with it properly until about three weeks ago, this is the layout that I made.

I used different elements from a few of the digi kits that came with the programme and I'm really pleased with my first attempt. I found it very relaxing to do and can create on my laptop in the evening whilst watching TV. It wont ever take over from playing with paper and inks though.