I'm back Home!

Well this has been quite a whirlwind week.  Since Sunday I've been out in California working with my favorite peoples of Hero Arts in meetings and planning for the up coming year.  We had a special treat as a team building exercise on Monday where we were set loose in a kitchen (the one used for season one of Top Chef) to cook a fantastic lunch meal for ourselves.
Here's a few shots....

Team Chicken Laura and Rick....

 Me cuttin apples.... now that's a knife!

The meal complete...yum!!!

The Apple Strudel

 

I'll have more to share soon, I've got to download my camera and unpack my suitcases.  Hope everyone is having a great week!

:o)

Shari

A little card share....

This is a card I did for the Hero Arts Holiday release.  These bats are so stinkin cute and spookeeeee, I love the belly button! Fun color scheme to work with for Halloween.  I used color pencils and Bo Bunny paper.

We have a winner!

Sorry it took me most of the day to get to this... I was installing a new sump pump in our basement... had to make a few trips to the hardware store, but I got it done and it's hummin like a real gem! Chalk one up for the girl team!!!

Okay so here we go.... I had several comments left here on my blog for a chance to win these latest book from Design Originals.

I put the numbers into Random dot org and it generated #31!!!! (It's kinda tiny to see on the screen-shot).

And here is the 31st comment.....

Rachel said...
Congrats on being published again! Well deserved, I must say. I'd love copies of the books, thanks for the chance to win!
~Rachel in Sacramento

Congrats Rachel!!! Email me your address (the button in the left column) so I can send them out to you.

I'm sure I'll have more soon, so check back for another chance to win!

Enjoy,
Shari

New look for the Fall and Winter

I went through some of my favorite digital kits to create some fun buttons, banners and strips for my blog.  I was over due for a change, feels good to rearrange and look at it all jazzed up.

This first set of Woodcut Owls are just too cute for words...they make me smile! These guys can be colored to capture any season.

And I love this Climbing Vine. I put two types of images in the kit, one that is colored in ready to plop on a card. The other image is just black line which I've colorized to white for my banner.

One of my all time favorite stamp collections is Real Flowers and am so thrilled to have them in digital format to play with once again.  I recolored the images to reflect the fall colors.  Yummy!

 

And this little strip of dots will be out next Tuesday on 2ps.  I just recolored each dot by using the paint bucket tool. 

 

Here's a link to a video I put together a while back explaining how to color your images in Photoshop.


I hope everyone has a fantastic week-end. Oh and by the way so far I've packed up 7 boxes of goodies from my studio purge. And they're not small! I can't wait to get to the give-away part.

Enjoy!

Published Again and GIVEAWAY!

I was recently asked to create some projects for a couple new Design Original books.  Both books are based around t!m's Idea-ology.  Love his stuff, so easy to work with and I had a blast!!! 

Edited to say: t!m does not have featured art in these editions, the books are based on his products.

Here's the first one...

 

And here's the other...

I have a few extra copies and am willing to part with a set to ONE lucky randomly picked winner.  Just post me a comment by 11:59 CST Sunday evening, Oct. 25.  I'll post the winner on Monday!

Good luck all!
:o)

Studio Purge!

I'm going through my studio.... filling up boxes! Wow do I have way tooooo much stuff! That's what happens when you go to trade shows and gather...and gather...and gather!

I expect to be done in two weeks, so stay tuned for the give-a-way!

Watching the Monty Python -A- Thon on IFC... Love them!!!