Paper Set

This is my first attempt at designing. 8 papers and 4 matching toppers. What do you think? Be honest 'cause I'm not going to waste my time if I'm rubbish. I know a lot of you wouldn't touch this with somebody else's bargepole (neither would I, lol) but do you think some people WOULD like it?

Wel I think they are lovely, nice colours and the swirly and dotty backings could be used for lots of other things besides christmas. The snowflakes are really pretty.

I agree with Di, they are better than some of the sets they give away with the mags in fact.

a lot of my ladies at craft club would love it lorraine and that is the gods honest truth ,as you say not for some of us ,me included but i just know most of them at club would love them. esp if you could 3d them .
They all allrerady do a lot of paper downloading and buying it from tinternet , also those cd's you can buy with papers and images on .
if you want anybody to do some sampling for you im sure they would love to or if and when you are ready i will give them the link to your place of purchase .

Very good Lorraine! As Scatty says, better than some of the freebies you get in mags!!

Helen will like the snowmen.
The snowflakes are some of the nicest I've seen and if we ever got any snow I might use them, the dotty one is very usable. I think I'd like to see a darker shade creeping in too, (or more of the brown) or you're in danger of being a bit papermaniary.
Yes, Most aceptable.

Thanks, girls.
Karelyn, I never even thought of putting more brown in, but I doubt I'll be doing too many cutesy one's like this anyway. It was just something easy to start with.

kimb wrote:most of them at club would love them. esp if you could 3d them .

Thanks, Kim. Good idea. People could actually cut the hat and scarf out from a couple of prints but I've been in and done it, so the set will come with a couple of decoupage pieces as well now.

Likey. Too pastelly for me, but as designs go they work really well, and I could see them being very popular. Now go sell!

Love the torquoise ones, can't see the pink very well and not very christmassy pink, like Karelyns idea off browny ones, the backround ones could be any colour.

i love them, i want them, i gotta have them.

Like the snowmen. I can see people using them.

whilst these are not for me, I think, like everything that you do they are beautifully done.

now if you do some nice arty ones..... well, that really would be fab.

If anybody IS interested, you can get them HERE.

It's lovely and I was just about to suggest the site you have them on

Awww these are so cute. Would be perfect for the younger crafter too. I can definately see Lily making these, I would too. Love all the papers and that snowman is just so cute.

Well done on a brilliant set.

gorgeous, i love them too. any goats in the offing?

and, can i be dumb and ask how the site works, is it yours..i cant get on it to see it as it says under maintenenance so i didnt linger.
must have missed reading something about it x

sp01goat wrote:
and, can i be dumb and ask how the site works, is it yours..

Nope not mine, Sue, lol.
If you like something, you just put it in your cart, pay and then download from the link that is given to you when you've paid. Easy peasy. Then you just print off what you want as many times as you want.
Maintenance is finished now too, hun.

Unfortunately, they don't link your name with other work, so if you go down the page to the Designer box on the left hand side and scroll down to my name, it will take you to anything else I've got. I've only done 4 sets so far, but am working on more.

If you like downloads though, there are hundreds or really good ones there.

oooo must go have a look at the others.

Gosh - you clever thing. How do you start designing papers ?
I knew Helen would like the snowmen ones.

That was a serious question BTW. How do you start ?

I lurrrvvvvveeee the tartan one. As soon as I have money in paypal I'm going straight back for that one

Steph wrote:Gosh - you clever thing. How do you start designing papers ?

I'm not really sure I know how to answer that, Steph. I just see a pattern or a royalty free for commercial use graphic and it goes from there.
I open photoshop and play around with colours and stuff. Then I create my own pattern tile which I can multiply to fill the sheet.
Once I get started, it doesn't take too long either. I uploaded a peachy coloured set yesterday and am working on something else now.
This link HERE is to my page and should have everything I've done or will do on it.

ohhh liking the peach very much.

dont suppose you can make the vector ladies or one of your altered photos into one can you?, Id buy them in a flash!

I could, Maria yes. But how could I make a set out of a plain black lady? If you come up with an idea, I'm sure I could and what altered photo are you meaning?

I've seen your other papers and they are great. Love the old fashioned type.
Something else I'll have to puton my list to have a go out. Very satisfying
to design your own.

well any of them, they were all fab - like the altered sauce bottles or something and the vector ladies would have to be in the vector to work and just sort of repeat.

I'll have a think and see what I can come up with.

love them, but talk of vector ladies has my head spinning? cant wait to see what you come up with