September Mystique quickpage Gift (FREEBIE)

The newest creation I am offering to my blog readers today is my Mystique quickpage. It came about by accident, while I was busy creating something else, this background came up in the patterns as I was processing things along and I just fell in love with the look. I put it through a few more filters and thought I would make a quickpage out of it. Added to the Mystique paper are my own hand drawn leaf fronds. These I did in pastels. You'll be seeing more of these fronds in other creations as I have them in many colorations and I really loved the texture of them.

I love to hand draw things in my watercolor pencils, pastels and LaPlume Drawing markers. I even blend the three of these to get fabulous color, textures and depth.

I hope you enjoy the Mystique quick page, as it was really fun to create. Initally I thought to offer the flowers cut out as frames, but they looked so neat as they were, I thought, if the user wished to cut out the opening it would be more up to individual taste.

I have made Mystique available in all the popular formats.

First download is strictly pspimage

http://www.mediafire.com/?2bxg9taqkbm

Next download is jpeg, png and psd

http://www.mediafire.com/?7w9lbg9dzf1

As always, it is lovely to hear your commentary on my creations. Thanks in advance to all who take the time to leave their thoughts. It means a lot~

The Redhead~

Wings Available in new formats as per request~ (freebies)

First, Many thank yous to the kind comments about the angel wings. These angel wings come from photos I took from statues in my own memorial gardens, tributes to my own mother. I reworked the wings to give them more depth and feathers.

Due to the request I have had for other formats I decided to make those available to you all. I have created a new zip with these formats in it .png, .jpeg and .psd formats. I hope those of you who didnt get the chance to enjoy the wings will now do so.

I want to say, that in my creations, I never expect that each thing I create and offer will hit the taste palate of 'everyone'. I am not attempting to do that actually. My intentions are creating what would appeal to me personally, what I would be looking for from someone else and what I personally enjoy. In that, I hope that others will find appeal in that. But there will definately be the types who will have no use for what I create and might find it not to their liking at all. Hey its ok. Its not like there are not plenty of other designers out there with their own styles.
I am a big girl and can accept that there will be 'differences' of taste. :O)

Download the new formats of Redhead pixels Angel wings set here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0nimm8zehmo

Stay tuned today for more freebies announced. I am working on a new posting.
The Redhead~

September Angel Wings Gift (freebies)

What a beautiful day~ It is gorgeous outside. I love this cooled down weather and we have had a lovely weekend here. We have had a few crisp evenings to enjoy the hot tub and that has been so nice!

Today's offering for you is a project I have been working on for a few days. They are 'stone' angel wings in 2 styles. These are offered to you in 2 different sizes as well.

I hope you enjoy them. As always, it is wonderful to hear the comments from those of you who are enjoying my creations. I wish more would take a moment to leave their thoughts on them as it really helps me to decide what is worth creating and what is not. Mostly I am just 'winging it' and creating things that appeal to me personally.

On the 'down low' I am busy these days creating more in the Paisley line. I have been busy drawing these paisley designs and scanning them in. Keep your eyes peeled to the blog for future Paisley offerings as I am as I said before, a Paisley addict!

But for today here is your Angelic wings. I hope you have someone special in mind to dress up with these wings~ I'd love to see your LO creations~

Download Redhead Pixels Angel Wings here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?7x2ndd19xv4

Floral Celebration~ Textured Papers and a quickpage freebie

NOTE:
DOWNLOAD LINKS HAVE BEEN REPAIRED!! IF YOU TRIED TO DOWNLOAD THESE PREVIOUSLY AND HAD TROUBLE, PLEASE DO TRY AGAIN, AS I HAVE SWITCHED HOSTS, THE PREVIOUS ONE HAVING SOME KIND OF 'GROWING PAINS'!

New gift offering (aka Freebie!) for you all today: Floral Celebration textured papers and a quickpage made with the series. I just loved the texture and clarity of the pages so much. I created them a while back and they were for my own private use but I decided to share them.

The glow of the texture is lost again in jpeg above but the originals in zip for you are in glorious color of pspimage file. (again, if someone needs another format, let me know, I only tend to put the format up I use). These papers and quickpages are in 3600x3600. I am wondering if this size is a good size to continue to make my pages in. I think I will do a poll. I hope you let me know what you would like to see here.

Today I worked on angel wings with turned out rather well. I have a bit of spiffing up to do on them yet. Do you like angel wings too? I would love to create some 'fairie' wings some time and I think that may well be on the agenda on down the line.

On with todays goodies....

These are rather large and so are in individual zips. I chose to not put these in jpeg, but to leave them in psp image format because the textures and colors were changed so much that it effected the quality to do so.

You can download just the ones you wish or all of them.

DOWNLOAD LINKS HAVE BEEN REPAIRED (I had to put them on another file hosting service as Divshare is having some kind of growing pains and will not connect at all)

FLORAL CELEBRATION PAPER : GREEN

http://www.mediafire.com/?4s9tzl4stdg

FLORAL CELEBRATION PAPER: MIDNIGHT BLUE

http://www.mediafire.com/?bqsjxnfktud

FLORAL CELEBRATION PAPER: LITE AQUA BLUE

http://www.mediafire.com/?7ebjtgenob2

FLORAL CELEBRATION QUICKPAGE

http://www.mediafire.com/?6zmszddzzzb

On the Edge of Paisley (2 new freebies w/ more to come~)

I am hopelessly addicted to Paisley~ I love it in all its many forms and use it in decorating around the house, my own clothing and creating things. So it has been an ongoing challenge for me to create my own paisley patterns in digi-scrap.

Part of the challenge has been the hand drawing of my own patterns, then scanning them in and of course getting creative with them in PSP XI. I have been having a lot of fun with Paisley and the first offerings are in a set I call "On the Edge of Paisley".

There will be much more to come in this series but for now the first two parts are a quick page and a photo collage.

If I would get a response thats receptive I was thinking about offering a 'build your own' Paisley and having a little bit of fun challenge with it, seeing what everyone can come up with. But as it is, very few people respond at all, although the downloads are going very well.

Above the sample picture of the two Paisley freebies~, below will be the download links. Please note: I am no longer offering freebies without a download password. Make sure you write it down, it will just be for the initial download and you will not need it to open the zip. This is for security issues.

PASSWORD FOR DOWNLOAD: merci

DivShare File - RHP On the Edge of Paisley qp.zip

DivShare File - RHP Paisley photo collage.zip

In Memory of those who fell 9/11 and Since~

While I know that 9/11 has not fell from our memories for hardly a moment since it happened, today's anniversary of the horrific events that befell the United States on that date should give us special reflection on those who gave their lives that day and since.

I want to as well give special tribute to those special heroes whose lives have been effected by the cleanup of ground zero and their families who are forever changed by what they have endured.

Whatever your beliefs today...Light a candle, say a prayer, offer your thoughts for some moments of reflection.

Justin Timberlake / What Goes Around Live

Making you think~

A must read "The Law Required it" at MSNBC

Have you ever read the book 1984 by George Orwell? It was written in 1949. For it to be written so much in the past, it is our wake up call to be read NOW.

With more information coming out all the time about how the US Administration under the Bush Presidency has 'fumbled' the ball I found this article at MSNBC very enlightening. I'm sharing it here.
To quote from the MSNBC site : "Former Justice Department lawyer Jack Goldsmith explains why he fought the White House’s aggressive legal maneuvers in the fight against terror."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20659806/site/newsweek/

There is a lot of apathy in the United States about voting. Few do it. Responsibly if you don't vote, you don't really have a whole lot of excuse for griping about whats going wrong. Now I say that because before the past few elections, in my earlier years, I was as well apathetic about government and did not vote. I as well felt I didn't have a right to gripe since I did not do so, even though I did not like what was going on in previous administrations (like Iran/Contra).
I have learned as I have aged to step up to the bat and take an active role in keeping myself informed. We are doomed to repeat our mistakes if we do not remember our History. For that I am assured. That is on every level. Personal and Government.
I feel it is every Americans personal responsibility to be informed about what is going on in their government and not to 'just take for granted' that our government is going to 'do what is right' for us. When I was in school I well remember discussions in History classes on issues of 'propaganda' but it was NEVER discussed in any way that reflected that the US ever 'used it' itself. I have learned as an adult that propaganda is used by ALL GOVERNMENTS, media, lobbyists, etc. Government uses media to get its messages out to the masses. That does NOT assure TRUTH in its message! It reminds me of several movies that have came out over the years about people being led by propaganda virtually the 'walking asleep'. We have had the fine ability to open our mouths and question authority since this country was founded. We do NOT want to lose that unalienable right set forth in the Bill of Rights.
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My personal views on what has been happening in our Government and the upcoming elections in 2008.
Personally an Independent voter, as well as is my husband, we look to Candidates who possess the history of voting and ideology that as closely relates to our own core values as is possible. There is no 'perfect' candidate out there who agrees with what we value other than Dennis Kucinich which we feel sadly does not have much of a chance of being elected simply because he is not a 'media darling', tied to big corps or lobbyists like the others in various degrees.
One thing is for sure, Health care, Poverty levels in OUR own country, Food and product safety issues, The UNENDING War in Iraq (DESPITE THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO WANT OUR SOLDIERS HOME), Securing our Borders & immigration, Securing and protecting the Bill of Rights to not ERODE further under any other administration and so much more need refocus and positive attention in a New Administration and Congress.
It is important that we all take note of our local elections as well as State and National to get the final results we wish. We have to become United again in this country and stop allowing Big Media, Corporations and even RELIGION and POLITICAL parties to cause us to 'hate our neighbor'.

My point I guess today is, I wish more people would do research, not be spoon fed every detail of their news from television, mass media and would dig deeper to find the heart of the truth of these difficult matters before us before our Rights, Freedoms and our very lives are forever changed by Big Brother overstepping its bounds.

Do you want a United North America? Canada, Mexico and the United States government officials have been meeting to accomplish this goal for many years now. Are you aware of that?
See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_american_union

NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY: This idea was put into place without congressional approval and is taking place without Americans being asked or consenting. Read more about this here:
http://http//www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst103006.htm

September "This is Us" Freebie

This is us Freebie and Your Chance to Win another Freebie too! (details below)

*the photo above does not do justice to the quickpage, the vibrancy, 3 d effects of the lo etc are totally lost in jpeg and this page will look much better when you get it on your screen downloaded! It does not look 'muddy' or unclear like it does above.

It has been a really rough week grieving for Pedro and adjusting to life without his little trot across the scene of things. To keep my mind occupied and off my sorrows I have thrown myself into being creative.

One of my favorite creations a while back was my 'Tropicana' series papers. They are a series of papers I did with orange sherbert colors, very soft and reminded me a lot of the movie Moulin Rouge, just the 'era' and vibrancy of color. So since I love them so much, you'll be seeing me upon occasion offering digiscraps I have created with them. Today is one such day.

Out of this series came "This is Us" a quick page. This quick page was A lot of hard work..I mean it..there were a lot of hours put in to the individual creation of the elements and putting it all together. May not seem like it to you, but it was. One of the most frustrating things to me is JPEG does not show you the beauty of the colors that are really there in psp format. Once you convert, the lushness and clarity changes and you lose so much out of a creation. Just posting things here for you to preview is such a hard thing to do because I feel so disappointed that my hard work is lost in the translation. I guess you'll have to trust me that the preview is of much lesser quality than the actual final product you will download in zip format which is in great clarity and quality.
The bow used is real yarn, hand tied into the bow and scanned. I had a lot of issues trying to get it to 'look right' and finally got it to scan how I wanted, then just cleaning it up was a nightmare in and of itself. It was real learning experience, but I really wanted that look. For one, I have created both scanned and digitally created bows and I prefer the look of 'reality' to digitally created anything. There is more depth and shadow, more 3d look to anything that I scan in and then manipulate afterwards to get my own look. I can slice and dice and colorize. It's a lot of fun and I am really glad to have the scanner.

The green background paper is a digitally created 'vellum' layered over itself and is very textured in this way, almost like 'tissue paper' in effect. Again, you cannot even see it in this jpeg version, much less the subtle colorization of it, which is totally lost in the translation.

The other thing that I did that took the most time was the digitally created photograph frames. These were individual frames which I first created, then colorized and enhanced, hooked together and then laid on the tropicana paper background. Cutting out the background was not fun, even with the tools I had to use to make it 'easier'. But the final result is one I enjoyed. Looking at the picture above you just cannot even get a clue about the depth of the quickpage. It was very disappointing for me to have to see because I know how 'first impressions' are.

I hope you enjoy "This is Us" quick page ... If you download it, I doubt you will be disapointed.

To download "This is Us" quickpage Freebie Gift of the Day (time limited so please hurry and get this one!)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ebdbqedyndz WAIT THERES MORE!

SPECIAL CONTEST: SUBMIT YOUR LAYOUT TO ME WITH 'THIS IS US' USED AND GET MY NEW EXCLUSIVE QUICKPAGE 'IN MY MOTHERS GARDEN' AS A GIFT~

EXCLUSIVE ONLY AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO PARTICIPATE.

EMAIL your This is Us LO TO: viccid at gmail.com

(take out spaces I am avoiding spiderbots)

Please feel free to use other embellishments and whatever you wish in your lo of "This is us" when you submit it to me, just provide all information credits so that I can provide those for publishing here on the blog.

In my mothers garden preview: *my kitty Charlie and photo of me not included lol)

In My Mothers garden was created from photographs of flowers of my mothers 'Memorial' Garden in my yard. It has a special angel statue I have in her honor as well. I dont like going to the cemetery and so I created a special place in my yard to provide me solace, comfort and a special closeness to my Mom. I even have a limestone bench to sit on under a maple tree too. I thought I would create a special quick page of these things so you could create your own special place.