http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary Gilly's handmade card-making journal Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:12:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have recently got back from visiting Ireland. I stayed in Dublin. While I was there I took loads of photos. For the past couple of days I have been putting some of them together producing photomontages. Here are some that I have finished: http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/38/my-recent-trip-away/ At the moment the Christmas section is "under construction". I will be adding new cards to this section over the next couple of weeks. The card below is one of the new cards I have designed for this year. MC002 http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/36/new-christmas-cards-coming-soon/ Head over to the Birthday section to check out the latest Birthday cards I have just added. The image of the daisies was taken from my garden. I thought the image came out well, so I put it on a couple of Birthday cards. HB027 HB028 http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/35/some-new-birthday-cards/ Hey... Check out this new unique card just added. EHB007 http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/34/new-unique-birthday-card/ Over the past couple of days I've added some new Birthday cards. I wanted to point out that the new card below can have ANY age on the front. I chose 28 as an example. I really like this card. HB022 http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/33/check-out-some-new-birthday-cards-just-added/ Compared to the blue flower image on the previous post, the finished image has come out darker than what it was on the screen. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/32/here-is-how-blue-flower-image-worked-out/ As you can see I've layered certain parts of the image 2 or 3 times. This is usually refered to as decoupage. I'm really pleased with how the image looks, althought I thought it looked a little dark. These flowers are purple. Here is the original. Now I'm working on different colours. ... http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/31/here-is-how-my-flower-image-worked-out/ I had an idea from a card I've put in the Unique section. I want to do a decoupage card using this image, instead of colouring it in by hand I scanned it in to my computer. This makes editing and colouring really easy to do (although it's quite time consuming!!). Here ... http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/30/what-im-working-on-at-the-moment/ Today I have been adding some more new cards. There are three new cards in the Happy Birthday section. Also check out the Unique cards... At the moment I am adding to the Unique cards, so keep checking back as more cards will appear soon. http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/29/some-more-new-cards-added/ Check out the NEW Birthday cards!! HB017 HB018 HB019 HB020 http://www.cardsbygilly.com/diary/27/new-birthday-cards/