Hi Everyone
Hopefully your week has been going well and you have seen some sunshine .. .. nearly time for another weekend .. .. can you believe it?!?!?
Some of my week has involved sorting out dreaded computer problems I have experienced recently, which have thankfully now been rectified by a computer technician who actually knows what he is doing .. .. .. the only part we haven't been able to return to its former glory is the old beloved Serif Craft Artist download I purchased years ago. So the time has finally come for me to be "forced" into getting my head around the Affinity Designer programme. I know I will love it .. .. eventually .. .. but it is a serious step up for me from Serif Craft Artist and I feel like I am learning a whole new language.
But I am determined that I will master it and get there eventually.
It took me quite a while, but I have finally managed to create "something" worth looking at .. .. a new sketch for my rectangular collection. Yay!!!
I am now keeping my fingers crossed that I can remember how I did it, and also how I eventually managed to get it onto my blog (because that took me ages too LOL!!!).
There will be lots of fun to be had with the new programme, and thankfully there is lots of help on the old 'tinternet, so I am looking forward to delving in deeper once the pressures of life allow. My overactive brain is thinking I could perhaps even design some digital backing papers of my own!!
But for now this was my first successful creation, and I went to bed last night feeling quite chuffed that I had at last mastered something that I have tried to do so many times. Baby steps I know - but at least steps in the right direction.
As the saying goes "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" .. .. .. .. .. but it has taken a lot of trying for me to create something that looks as simple and basic as this .. .. .. LOL!!!
As the saying goes "if at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again" .. .. .. .. .. but it has taken a lot of trying for me to create something that looks as simple and basic as this .. .. .. LOL!!!
and this is how it looks when put into action:
Backing Papers: Isabelline from Pink Petticoat/The Lovely Studio (very sadly no longer trading)
Sizzix Die "664164" Wildflower Stems"
LOTV Digital "Stamp Block Sentiment"
Spellbinders: Circle and Scalloped Circle Die
X-Cut Corner Rounding Punch
X-Cut Corner Rounding Punch
Nail Heads
My Trusty Sewing Machine
My Trusty Sewing Machine
Hopefully it won't be so long before another sketch appears! Have fun if you decide to have a play with it and please let me know if you do, so that I can pop along and have a look at what you did with it.
Enjoy your weekend when it arrives.
