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Grid masking: video tutorial

29 June 2008 by kristarella

Check it out! My first video tutorial. In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP. It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size […]

Filed Under: GIMP, Graphics, Tutorials Tagged With: free, Free Software, Inkscape

Friday visits and expressions

28 June 2008 by kristarella

I can’t believe Saturday is almost over! Nan update On Friday Gran, Mum and I visited Nan (the grandma I mentioned before, who has cancer). I think we were expecting her to be awake, not feeling so great, possibly in bed, but capable of getting up and around. It was quite a shock when we […]

Filed Under: Graphics, My life & thoughts Tagged With: free, Free Software, haiku

Square peg in a round hole

19 June 2008 by kristarella

We’ve been trained to change ourselves to make ourselves fit into the cars that drive us to the buildings where we work in the jobs that we study for so that we have the right skill sets. And we wonder every day if who we are is good enough to be there. It’s the dilemma […]

Filed Under: Design, My life & thoughts, Science

James Squire Brewhouse

8 June 2008 by kristarella

Went out to James Squire Brewhouse on Friday night. I had thought a quiet night at home would be in order since I’d gotten up at 5:30am (very out of character for me), but I was a bit buzzed after handing in my essay and wanted to do something different. So, I met hubby at […]

Filed Under: Design, My life & thoughts Tagged With: food

iLT Wallpaper

7 June 2008 by kristarella

The I Love Typography wallpaper that I made is up at iLT now. Hope ya like it! It was inspired by a phone theme that I made, Ampersand, which was inspired by Sunday Type. Note: there’s a bit of a dodgy artifact where I was masking, I’ve fixed it up and hopefully John will update […]

Filed Under: Design, Graphics

Wooshka T-shirts

3 June 2008 by kristarella

Wooshka! Lookee what came in the mail yesterday… Me doing some magnetic poetry in my new Wooshka shirt, and being silly with the merch. My new Wooshka t-shirt. Last week Wooshka had a $1 sale. So this t-shirt cost me $1+$5p&h. I’m pretty impressed with the quality, material feels nice and it’s a pretty good […]

Filed Under: Design, My life & thoughts Tagged With: websites

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A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying t A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying to paint ❤️💚💙

#watercolor #watercolour #christmas
I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! S I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! So glad my friend asked me to make some cards for our church helpers, because it set me on a roll!
#watercolor #watercolour #christmas #christmascards #watercolorcards
Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Title Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Titles! I was a sub for @jamesxuereb.me in the Blue Flame Dragons thanks to his sprained ankle; we won first round and came fourth overall!
I did a bunch of judging and officiating, which was really good.
I didn’t place in my individual events, but had a very fun final round of kumite (sparring).

#gkrkarate #karate
More stamping tonight. Even better than last night More stamping tonight. Even better than last night’s!
Did some stamping this evening. Love it! I wish I’d done some pages in other ink colours before I dismantled the stamps 😂
Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit the @legocertifiedstores_anz Wicked display!
#wicked #lego #afol #sydney
A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample ca A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample cards. It’s going to be for mini paintings and collages. Sometimes it’s nice to start with a colour rather than a blank white page!
A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel Smith and Schminke Horodam watercolours. So soothing! I love some of the granulating colours!
#watercolours
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