Coming Soon to my Always List...

Just waiting for the new year to flip over

so I can send out some new tags for January!



Waitin' for Santa

This will be the last post til after Xmas...

I hope everyone that stops by has a wonderful holiday

& I'll catch up with you on the other side of the 25th.



Last of the Curly Toe Stockings for 2011

This will be my last tag creation made with the

CurlyToe Template.  Oddly enough. it's for my

Always List tag ho ho hos...lol



A SteamPunk Faery!

I may play a little more with this wonderful tube!

It's by Scarlet Gothica and she can be found

at Dreamscape Imaging!



These are a few of my favourite things...

This is a guide to  my holiday music on the blog...

A few of my favourite holiday songs.  I figured since

I was sharing this corner of my world with friends from

many different places, there's songs on here

that are reflections of those heart and souls that I love.

Feel free to skip around on it, the Mix Pod is at the bottom

of the blog.  press the right side arrows to advance the songs.

1. Pearl Bailey   5lb. Box of Money

2. Purple Snowflakes: a song by Marvin Gaye

3. U2  I Believe in Christmas(No Snow)

4. Mr. Mojo's Xmas... a Door's medley

5. Carol of the Bells  The Bird & The Bee

6. Robbie Williams  So This is Christmas

7. Diva Dance/The Nightmare Before Christmas

(a VERY impressive collaboration!)

8. Melissa Etheridge  Glorious

9. Kristin Chenoweth/Craig Ferguson  The Christmas Song

10. Mario Cantone: The Jim Morrison Christmas Special

11.The Pussycat Dolls  Santa Baby

Another Xmas template re-issue

I forgot that I'd offered this set of boxes last year.

They're called Short n Tall boxes.  They can be

used year round with the right scraps and ribbons!

Here's what I made with them this year, using a kit from

Blue Dream Designs, Xmas09.

Be sure to read the TOU's before requesting
Thanks!

Holiday re-issue 2

This is a re-issue of a frame I offered last year.

The sample of what I did with it is in my CateNip banner...

it's called
"My Lil Deer frame "

Holiday re-issue!

I'm bringing back my Silver n Ice Frame!

Available until New Years...

and here's what I made with it:

Be sure to read the TOU's before you request it.

Thanks!

Thanks to Everyone!

Thank you everyone for being patient

with the mail-in requests!  I know it's a little

different approach, I hope it's not too much of a pain on your end.

I'm working on bringing back a few of last years

xmas frames and elements so check back this week.

I used a few things in my banner...the deer frame

and clusters!  I know I need to break away

from the stockings...LOL

Now, can someone help me step away from this addicting tube?



Sad news today!

Yes, it made me very sad to read the news

of my muse, leaving CDO at the end of the year.

Olivia's artwork has inspired me for years...

and I mean YEARS!  I've collected her art since 1977.

I get a monthly dose in Playboy to this day.

When none of her beautiful monthly contributions

surfaced at CDO this year, I sort of had a feeling

this day was coming.  Didn't make it any easier, I only

hope her work re-appears in the next year.  I'm very meloncholy right now.



Just playing around

I drooled over this new tube til I couldn't

stand it anymore...LOL

click on tag to enlarge

 

Curly Toes Stocking Template 2

Here is a sample of the template,

please follow the instructions in the TOU

to request the template.  Samples of what

I've made are in a few previous posts.

Thanks



The Story Behind My Curly Toes Stocking Template

For many years I'd had a wonderful close friend named Vicki.  We started doing craft faires together around Xmas time,  Vicki made the most exquisite

Xmas stockings using velvets, satins, hounds tooth fabrics; vintage laces, buttons, vintage florals...things she'd saved thru the years from flea markets and thrift store rummaging.

Vick was diagnosed with breast cancer.  It was very aggressive; she managed to beat it and was cancer free for 7 years.  But it came back.  So while she went thru more chemo she'd sit in her chair and hand sew her beautiful stockings.  Many went to the chemo nurses, or she filled with yummie goodies for fellow patients.  Sadly, she passed away.  I treasure my Curly Toes stockings.  In a way, they are my Breast Cancer Awareness reminders.

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Last year I created a template set, designed after her paper patterns.  When I make tags in the season, I feel like I'm sharing part of my friend.

So, thank you on all the wonderful comments on my stocking tags...

You're really complimenting Vicki for what she taught me.

Reworked a template for the holidays!

I reworked my Curly Toes Stocking Template...

the new version is a bit chunkier, the heel more rounded.

I felt the first version was a little skinny...

The template will be posted some time this weekend.

Here's what I played with, using the beautiful

angel tube from Barbara Jensen:

Thank you PTE's Yahoo Group!

I entered the PspTube Emporium Yahoo Group

Christmas banner Contest and won!

I would usually post the banner (tag) on my blog

but due to it's size I can't.  I will post the link to

view it once they have it changed.  In the meantime

I made a tag using the stocking from the banner.

Thanks again for selecting my tag for the front of the

group announcements.



The NEW Rules

To request a copy of ANY template
from now on, please email me at
foxtrot.psp@gmail.com
Be sure to put "Template Request" in the subject line and in your email
include the number of the template you're wanting.
I check for requests once a day so please give me
24 hours to fill your request.
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This is due to finding out my templates have indeed been passed
around in a certain Yahoo share group. 
This is against my terms of use.  It's a shame to have to do this around the start of the holidays but TOU's are posted for a reason.  It places more work on me but to insure I know who's actually downloading my offerings for personal use as opposed to stealing this is how it will be.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience.
Cate



PTE Helloween Contest

Tis was my entry in the PTE Helloween Contest

a non winner



One more...then bedtime!

This tutorial is called

The Black Hat



I'm Obsessed!

I have a new favourite tutorial site!!!

Graphics Funhouse

I've learned sooo many amazing treatments

for plugins I've had for a couple of

years (and never knew what to do with them.)

Here's a few samples of what I've played with.

I know, my renditions are very different but hey...

that's what tutorials are for; to learn and apply the knowledge

right?
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First 2 tags are from the
Pink Lady

It all started with this tag as a challenge:

Sexy SunTan

and then I went to:

Crescent Moon

There are sooo many tutorials on this site,

and so little time...hehehe!

I've combined a few new tricks on my tags, sorta

like "Frankentuting"

(...okay, that was a bad Helloween joke!)

I hope you go check it out!

Ghouls Just Wanna ...

... be frilly and, well, you can see for yourself...

I miss you Lady Death!



Playing around

Trying out some of the PTE Yahoo Group

challenges: The tutorial is by Just Fi

Here's one with Scott Blair art:

and a version with Barbara Jensen art

NEW Template 09

This template will require some advanced skills.

It works well with the tutorial linked in the previous post
although my sizing is very different, my framing is different.
The framing has bauble beading added to it that are my original
creations.  I wish to thank Shirley's Web Works for her wonderful tutorial
and for the inspiration.

It's all set for making a tag like my sample below.

To request a copy of this template please email me at
foxtrot.psp@gmail.com
Be sure to put "Template Request" in the subject line and in your email
include the number of the template you're wanting.
I check for requests once a day so please give me
24 hours to fill your request.
Thanks for your interest!

...and here's what I created with it:

Putzin' again

You can find the tutorial I played with

HERE



Tut by Vix

I adore Vix's tutorials!

I've learned sooo many techniques

from her!

You can find this tutorial

HERE

I would also like to take a moment to thank Ismael Rac.

With all the recent uproar with MPT tubes, Ismael

is now allowing us to use our current Xeracx License #

with all tubes purchased thru MPT and AMI...

I, personally have 40+ tubes between the 2 companies that I wasn't using because I won half the tubes thru various contests or

had made promo tags for MPT and got to keep the tubes.

 There wasn't a receipt

for that huge block of tubes so they were sitting in limbo.

Thank you Ismael!!! 

 I plan on using your work much much more, again!



So Many Tubes, so little Time...

I could play with Robert Alvarado's tubes all day!

errr, maybe I should rephrase that...??

hehe!

This tag was done for his FTF Friday

last weekend in the PTE Yahoo Group.

I should get my arse in gear and pull together

a Helloween template, eh?  My template creativity

has been on vacation, so it seems.



Putzin' Around

I was playing around with a few of the

 weekly challenges in the PTE Yahoo group

First tag is the template challenge:
You can find the template HERE

Next is the non animated tag challenge:
find the tut HERE

PTE September Monthly Contest!

I can finally post this tag!

I got 2nd. place!!!

YAY!

I loved pulling this one together and wanted

to show it off a week or so ago...

Thanks PTE!



A couple more

Last 2 tags like this, I promise!

and the last...

click to view full size



Tags from a tutorial

I really enjoyed this tutorial

It's called "Dark Beauty"

HERE

I liked it so much I made 2 tags

from it in one night/morning...lol

I'll add the site to the sidebar after I sleeps a bit,
click on the tags to see full sized.



and this is the second tag; both are for MOTW

I'll be in trouble 4 sure

When my cats figure out I borrowed

from their food fund to get tubes this week,

my name will be shit with them...LOL

This is also a MOTW tag



One of a Kind

That groaning you here is me...

think my fence sitting has just begun...LOL

Time Bender



On the Fence

I'm not sure if I over did this one...

Sorta like it but something's missing?

Maybe it'll come to me as I play around

with the full tube, later.



CDO Fall/Spring Lucky Draw tag

This is my September entry.

I used a sweet mini kit

called Moments Like This

from Pam Lefors



For my dear friend

I'm having a terrible time this week.

I got a call from the son of a dear friend Tuesday morning.

He told me his mom had died the night before.

Just as we had hung up the phone it rang right away.

This call was from the manager of our storage

unit .  he regrets to inform me that we have gotten

broken into YET AGAIN...

Again...

my heart can bearly stand that I'm missing my friend

and my brain has to process, in a split second!,

 that there's some F**King

excrements walking around helping themselves

to parts of my life I keep locked in safe keeping...

Sorry...I'm hating life for a few days here.

It seems that's the only thing within my control anymore.

I don't have my Barbs to sound off with...sighhhhs

Playing around

I have trouble with the sweet stuff, I do...

Find a gorgeous scrap kit and I just

can't leave it alone...LOL



MOTW tag 2 for this week

My second MOTW tag was

loosely based on a tut

by x-clusively Christy

The Polish Princess strikes again!

As I was cleaning up some links that weren't working

in my tutorial site box, I somehow deleted it!

So now I get to go blog hunting this weekend

While I'm checking around, here's what I'd made for this weeks

MOTW in the CDO Yahoo group

Alice in Chains influenced

I find myself addicted to them lately

to be honest, I think my cats are ready to hide their cds on me

LOL!

This is from the pack of choice from Barbara Jensen's contest

Her beautiful works are HERE

click the tag to view fully animated



I AM a weiner!... so my brother used to tell me~

I haven't entered any contests in months.

Maybe none this year?  My eyes have been

giving me beaucoup problems.

Anyway...I entered one...

I came out as 1 of 4 winners!

MoJo builder!!!!!!

Thank you Mz. Barbara J for hosting a wicked contest!

...and with a one of a kind tag...

No blank saved!



Heavy Siggghhhh

    
     I sigh because I find myself in a WTF? place.

   3 times this week I went to try some of the new tutorials that I saw go thru my Yahoo groups.   3 times I can't try the tutorials because I can't open the supplies that are being saved as .rar files.  Not everyone's PC is willing to let it's user download a .rar opener...Sony Viaio's are one of them.   Sighhhhh

   Sooo, at least, if there was something to be learned of a new technique, I did that! That's what a well written tutorial is for... to teach.  I learned how some tutorial writers don't care to be bothered when asked if there was a way I could get the supplies in a different form...( asking went unnoticed/ignored...hmm.)  That's fine with me.  All I can think at this point is it's part of a certain clique and my planets don't align with their stars OR it promotes ones creativity to get into overdrive and make the best with one's abilities.

.....I'm good at that...hehe!
nuff said.

Just catching up with the rest of the tagging world

I'm really not sure what karma is going around MPT.  Better yet, I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna stay in my little corner of the tagging world, pull up my PSP program and play with tubes from companies that appreciate my patronage AND my cash.  I made a huge gaffe in trying to stick with MTP in the last war of words n witts and frankly felt like a fool. Yea, I said it. It's sort of an apology to those at PTE that got judged
before I knew what was really happening there.

I'm happy that my favourite artists are finding homes.

Without these "homes" I'd lose a hobby that's

kept my empty moments from strangling me.

A little cryptic, again... yea yea.

But I'm just gonna get to cleaning my "hobby corner"

and throw myself into making some new taggage.

Let the big kids sort out the damages, I guess?

Parting thought...it's out of our hands so all we can do is wait

and hope for the best.
*****

P.S ???

Someone pleassseeeee get Scott Blair hooked up with

a cool place to land?  I miss the man...

Hangin'...

Template_07

Here's something I put together this morning:

To request a copy of this template please email me at
foxtrot.psp@gmail.com
Be sure to put "Template Request" in the subject line and in your email
include the number of the template you're wanting.
I check for requests once a day so please give me
24 hours to fill your request.
Thanks for your interest!