i've just be featured as in a treasury on Etsy- frankly ican't believe it. i often feel very invisible on Etsy. i'm in it for the long haul- it's an inexpensive way of having an online store front and it gets more traffic than if i had my own website. so there you are. it's kind cool- even if the curator titled the treasury "SOS"....
Also, i was featured on a new blog Craftella. Totally out of the blue.
i find it interesting that my work is found randomly by complete strangers and they connect with it. This is why i started the counter, i wanted to get an idea of how many people cruise my babbling....more than i could have imagined... but who are all you people peeking in. drop me a line and say hi- i'd love to know who's lurking out there...
3 comments:
Hey Lorraine-
I haven't stopped by this blog in a while. I love the banner, have you had it up there long?
Congrats on your features!
Laurie
Hi Lorraine-
Regarding journalling - I highly recommend joining the Green Pepper Press Street Team Art Crusade (that's a mouthful, huh?). It's Michelle Ward's Street Team. There is absolutely no obligation to participate. This month would totally help jumpstart your journal. Our assignment is to journal about our blog - using an actual blog post - and then blog about the journalling of the blog. You can do it as many times as you wish, too. See Michelle's post about it:
http://www.michelleward.typepad.com/how_cool_is_that/
I think you would enjoy it! Lots of people stop by from the site and comment, which I love. Every time you do the assignment you get another link on the link list, too. (that's what it means when it says "more" after someone's name - hmm, I guess that's obvious, huh? I love to state the obvious...)
As for my banner, I'm not sure exactly what you're asking me so I hope I answer the question. I did the whole thing in Photoshop Elements. I have a scan of an old victrola from a really old Sears catalog that I'm kind of using as a logo and I pasted that onto a blank jpg that I had filled with a color background. I typed in the words I wanted (get more fonts - for free - at tackorama.net or halloweenfonts.com) Then I started playing around with brushes. My new obsession. If you haven't used them yet, you're going to love it! There are some that come with your photoshop program, I practiced with those quite a bit first. Then I downloaded a bunch of free ones from a site I found on the Adobe site (so I figured it was safe):
http://www.brusheezy.com/brushes
There is also a tutorial for installing them here:
http://videos.easyelementsextra.com/install-photoshop-brushes/install-photoshop-brushes.html
This is probably a ten times longer reply than you expected, but my creedo seems to be "Well, to make a long story longer..."
Have a great day!
Laurie
Hi there! I came here by way of IndiePublic ... which you may already know if you're using some sort of analytic tool.
Love the banner! I'll be checking out your Etsy shop.
Hilary
aka hiljohn at Etsy
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