I've Been Invaded!!

 

 

I've been invaded...not aliens, worse, much worse!! I know, I sound hysterical...I am!!! Ok, I'll explain so read on, all will eventually become clear. But first the freebie!!

Today's freebie is called a Little Dutch paper Pack. I named it that as it reminds me of some tiles I saw in Holland. I was playing around with brushes and this is the result. I hope some one likes them...I do!

You can download the Little Dutch Paper Pack here

I didn't post this yesterday as 4shared was being a pain again. What has been wrong with it these past couple of days? Monday I just posted my blog and after that I couldn't use 4shared until Tuesday morning and then by evening it was no joy again,  I couldn't get the download link as it was on the blink again. Also if you didn't manage to download Mondays linked frame, it wasn't the link it was 4shared!!

And now..my the invasion!

I have a beautiful wisteria over the back of the house, covering the back wall and over my the double doors from my dinning room, it also goes under my son's bedroom...in fact it's...big! The wisteria is no problem...it's the visitors in it that are!! Eeek!!

They are nasty little and not so little caterpillars, not only are they creepy but they're hairy!! Take a look! These two are little ones! Any ideas?

 

These little monsters have been hiding in the wisteria where their lovely mum left them and now they have all hatched or what ever they do and are crawling everywhere..not to mention eating my wisteria!!

They're energetic little chaps too.....there I was having one of my rare deep clean sessions and I looked up and there it was...crawling across my son's bedroom ceiling...the cheek! Luckily he was out or he would have thought I had planted it for revenge over the moth thing. Not content with that..I nearly died when I flopped down in a garden chair this afternoon to take a well earned rest for five minutes and felt my hand itch, or was it twitch? Well anyway...there he was...or she, not too sure on that one, crawling from the chair onto me. and proceeding up my arm.....double Eeek!! It's a good job that the neighbours already know I'm insane!! So now the first person who opens a window is in serious trouble!!

So tomorrow I need to ring Charlotte..she'll know what to do with them. Anything creepy crawly and natural that girl has stored somewhere in her head. I just hope that she knows how to get rid of them as some are starting to go on to the next stage and pupate!! My god..what are they going to change into next..it just doesn't bear thinking about!!! Yuck...help!! I swear to you there are hundreds of the things, they pear out of the foliage and almost stick their little tongues out saying "ha ha you can't reach me!" and it's true they are way above me...so this is war!!

Now, I'll concentrate...promise, unless one climbs onto me..I'm getting paranoid!! Every tickle and I am convinced it's them.

Well, I'm off to work!!

See you all tomorrow and take care and I hope the sun shines for you!

 

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Linked and Stylish!

 

No it's not me that's linked and stylish...I'm more like disjointed and frazzled!! It's today little freebie frame.

But first...............

Today's  trivia is based on things I came across during my work. I often run across some amusing and not so amusing laws that were in force at some time in the past, thank goodness that most of them have gone. Some make me smile and others make me shiver!!

This is one that makes me smile.....almost all the female population would be found guilty of this one now - Elizabeth I passed a law banning women from wearing make-up, false hair, false hips (what are they implants?),high heeled shoes or "other devices" (I wonder iwhat these were?). The punishment was not pleasant as it carried the same penalty as being found guilty of witchcraft!!

Obesity we think of as a modern curse but if you believe that...your wrong. In1336 it was a problem too and so Edward III passed an Act that prohibited anyone from having more than two course at a meal, only on feast days were three courses permitted...and no, soup did not count as a sauce!! Some people tried this dodge to get in an extra course! But I must admit I would have thought it unenforceable unless they employed people to run around at dinner time peering through windows. Lol!

OK, enough..I know..but fact is often stranger than fiction!!

Guess what I've made my first styles for the shop and I have to admit that I had great fun making them. My CT girls tested them for me in CS2, CS3, PE6 and PE5 and they worked!! You have to know where to load styles in PE5/6 but I have included instructions on loading them in with the styles sets. It's been a learning curve for me finding out how to make them and then how to load them in different in software. The CT girls have been great!! Thank you ladies!

So I decided to try some of the styles out on some thing big!! I made a frame and then two...linking them seemed a good idea and so your little freebie was born! It's a bit of fun that I hope you can use. Take a look.

So if you like the my trial run with the styles:

You can download the Freebie Linked Frame here

 

Here's my new styles, they are in the shop at Scrappin Digi Kreations from today.

 

 

Personal and Commercial Use and they are 40% off, that's $1.50 each set until next Sunday!! So drop by Scrappin Digi Kreations and have a look

Well, it's that time again. Before I go I would like to thank all you lovely people who leave comments. I really do appreciate them and they brighten my day. I feel that I know some of you well now and it is a pleasure! to have made such lovely friends! See you tomorrow and have a great evening.

 

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Stamped and Borderline!

Well today it's a Personal and Commercial Use OK Freebie. I love that stamped look but stamps can be quite pricey, especially for the large ones. They work great for hybrid but we digi scrappers then have to scan in the stamped item and work from there...so I have made you some borders that will work and give you a variety of looks. There are two borders and also two border sections that you can use how you like in your designs.

They are not just for vintage they work well with grungy too. Experiment, that's what it's all about, having fun and learning.

For a layout try opening you paper and then on a new layer add the border. Play with the blending mode, try colour burn, multiply etc, it depends on the colour of your background really. Don't forget to play with lowering the opacity too..that can really make a great stamped look by just lowering it to fade it out slightly. Or, you could just pop it on the paper and add a small drop shadow and use it as a border like that.

I've got some examples below using the two borders with different blending modes. I've kept them neutral colours to try to show the effect better, you can get even more interesting effects with colour!!

Using Colour Burn with Border 2

Using Multiply

With a small Drop Shadow and Normal

Using Colour Burn with Border 2

So you can see what fun you can have playing with these. Enjoy...I hope!!

You can download the Stamped Borders here.

You'll be pleased with me, I've managed to stay out of trouble this week!! Yep, this weeks record is quite good..well for me it is! Of course I did have a little run in with a stray dog (the dog won) and there was the small incident with the train, don't think I'll talk about that one, lol! OK, as my post title says..I'm "Borderline!". Perhaps I haven't managed that well...but it's an improvement!! I only upset my son once this week and that was a giant moth..you can imagine, he hasn't recovered from the spider thing yet and when I mentioned moth..and then he took a look..well, it was "Dad!!"

And now it's the weekend again and that's fine by me..we ought to have more of them!! My DH is working this weekend and the lovely Lilly's social diary is full..so I think I'll either catchup on some work or if I am lucky and the sun shines, perhaps some gardening. I know not very exciting..but I don't do exciting at the weekend. Peace...I do peace, given half a chance!!

So have a peaceful time and relax! See you soon!

 

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