Sure starting to feel like Spring! A March Mini Miniature Show! New Digital Downloads and Laser Cut Kits!

 We are so lucky to live in Victoria B.C., our Spring flowers ae out and so beautiful and blossoms are sprouting. 

A Mini Miniature Show starts today! I have a few new book and postcard digital downloads and 4 new French Country curtains and doily, trims kits, laser cut on translucent paper for strength. 2 are swan designs that coordinate with my Swan laser cut kits and 1 cherub and floral. Here is a link to the free online show.

http://aminiminiatureshow.weebly.com/

Mini Hugs,Jean

Wonders in Miniature Show, New Kits for Autumn

https://thenovembershow.weebly.com/

I'm sorry I didn't have this blog sooner to mention Shelly's Wonders in Miniature Show sooner. https://thenovembershow.weebly.com/
It started free online today and will last until Nov.5. I'm offering 5 roundtables at introductory prices at the show. The Quarter Scale Autumn Wreaths kit (there is a tutorial about painting it in my tutorial blog http://jdayministutorials.blogspot.com/ ), French Dahlia kits in 2 scales and Pumpkin Patch paper doily kit in 2 scales. The other 2 projects are available in my Etsy shop and are digital downloads for you to make the projects shown either with the elements or without. The first is a Recipe Scrapbook from my antique recipe book and the other I've designed using wonderful autumn images and elements.

Mini Hugs, Jean
 https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/jdayminis

Happy Holidays! Joyous Noel White Christmas Digital Download Project

Such a busy time but I just wanted to share a digital download photo album project I have just put up in my Etsy shop. Here is a link if you would like to read more. I designed this photo album to accompany the my Joyous Noel White Christmas kit. The download contains 16 mini photos from my antique French postcards to place behind the cut out windows. Still time to make it as a gift for Christmas. Thanks for looking.

Happy Valentines Free Printables and New Years Resolution

A lovely friend of mine gave me the sweet Valentine card this year that is the first image and I just had to share it with everyone. She knows I love vintage cards. I am also offering a larger version of thee Valentine Gift card that I offered in 1910 that you can also find on one of my blogs smaller as a previous free image. You can right click on the images to same them for printing.
If you do a search on my blog for Valentines, you will see other freebies I have offered for Valentines in the past.I also put a larger version of the first Valentine gift card if you prefer to right click and save.

My New Years resolution this was to learn something new in Photoshop and my other programs everyday. I would say that this resolution has had the largest impact on my life of any I have made.  I usually use the same painting techniques and creating techniques in the programs. Corel Draw, Photoshop, Painter and Corel PSP are my favorite programs and each has so much to offer. To learn some of the techniques, I creating photomontages and collages from stock photos in Photoshop recently. It has been very exciting and so creative. I use Photoshop all the time for my digital downloads but like any computer program there is always so much more to learn. Here are a  few I have been working on, the last is a freebie Valentines card too.

Happy Halloween, Scrapbooking for Halloween too!

 

I've been having so much fun creating scrapbooking pages using commercial papers and my digital downloads of altered art I have been making that I enjoy selling on Etsy. I've been doing digital scrapbooking for a number of years but I hadn't tried real scrapbooking very much until a dear friend of mine invited me over with a small group to do scrapbooking at her house. The first week we made a gift card. This time we did Halloween themed scrapbooking so I bought these small backing papers. It was a wonderful time and she showed us many of the techniques she had learned on line and through experimenting. It is really nice to use old lace I've had for a long time and bits of odds and ends to make these pages. Everyone in the group supplied things. The pages are not the traditional size but just 6" x 6". I really like working in this size (closer to miniature) and hope to attach the pages together, probably with a hole punch and ring or I could make covers from the heavy board which might be more interesting.

The background papers were from a company called Authentique  http://www.authentiquepaper.com

The pad of 48 papers was called "Glowing".  The diamond paper went with my diamonds I added to the background of my altered art witch. Also found the damask paper went perfectly with the damask table cloth of my Mad Hatter altered art. The Mad Hatter was from an antique 1863 photo. I did not change the table cloth but just lightened it up a bit. I thought the table cloth was an amazing design for 1863. The music background also was funl with the haunted houses, I can just hear the music that would be coming from them...

For some of the small signs I used a paper from a Martha Stewart Halloween collection. The wonderful ribbons were supplied by my friend who had so many things for us to use. All of the papers are printed on the backside as well so it means I could add more scraps to the back of the papers too.

I reduced the sizes of my digital downloads for this project from over 5" to about 3" in height and printed them on glossy inkjet photo paper. I first tried the watercolor paper on the laser printer but because of all the dark colours I found that the colour was rubbing off and white was starting to show through. The photo paper worked fabulously.

Have a wonderful Halloween, Hugs, Jean

A Mini Miniature Show on line this Weekend! Awesome!!

I wanted to make sure you have all heard about Shelly Norris' Miniature show on line that ends today.

Shelly is well know for her MOA Miniatures Only Auction Site.

The show is so amazing, there are so many artisans represented and selling their miniatures that I still haven't seen them all. I saw many dealers with quarter scale as well as twelfth scale represented.

Please go have a look.....at the show today....here is the link.
A Mini Miniature Show

I'm offering all of my kits at 25% discount through the show as well as my digital downloads for miniatures are on sale.

Above is a photo of a new digital download I'm offering for sale at the show. It is an altered art miniature Paris themed Album. I also sell it through my Etsy. I tried to make it creative for customers so each album can be very personal and you can add your own mini embellishments and you can make as many copies as you like.

Hugs, Jean