Template: Balloons Party Time

[OnieRN]

Anyone have party balloons & streamers? I have looked in every file I have and do not have anything........:( Or even New's Eve stuff!

[Moonbeam]

I couldn't help myself I had to throw something together .. I had a ballon background..so I added some ribbons and text and I used the "balloon shape" in SM to shape the photo's. There are so many shapes we can use in there we can make photo's fit any theme...The red text area is just "add a papaer scrap to page" ..select a colour and choose "custom shape" and you can make your own balloons..............
So I did this one just for you. http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Flowers.gif .hope you like it or can use it to adapt to your liking.

[Nicmaysy]

Hi Moonbeam, I have been lurking, but love this template so thought I'd pop out and say Hi!

[Moonbeam]

Wow .. Hi there My friend.. How are you?
( Nic and I know each other from another forum)
Great to hear from you on SM... How's your scrapbooking going .. and hey! what's wrong with you girl - It's not like you to Lurk!
Actually the next template I am about to upload is My weight Loss Journey which was made possible with Nicmaysy's help on the other site.. It's a "walking challenge site" ( Walking with Attitude)

[Corey]

My weight Loss Journey which was made possible with Nicmaysy's help on the other site...
Nice! Nothing but good can come from that Moonbeam. :)

[Moonbeam]

Thankyou Mr. Sexy Voice!

[kode]

Corey you have a new name!!! Mr. Sexy Voice
moonbeam, I love that name!

[Moonbeam]

Well Girl! Have you heard him? oooowee.....although the person may not match the voice... Who knows what he's really like in person maybe we're lucky to just hear his voice!!http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Bash.gif

[OnieRN]

Goodness we have a sexy bunch to guys here! I hope you can live with "Mr Sexy Voice" Corey!

Moonbean, thanks for the balloons and streamers. I plan to use them on a New's Eve party in Mexico Scrapbook.

[Nicmaysy]

Moonbeam, I am lurking...still figuring all this out.:confused: But I am slowly learning from all you guys and girls.

[Corey]

Hee! :D

Well in "real life" my main priorities are guitar, skateboarding, and my cat. So it's a pretty safe bet I probably wouldn't fit in too well with many folks. However I can honestly say that I've had nothing but a pleasure in this forum. You guys are all top notch. :)

I'm very impressed with how nice everyone is, it restores my faith. :D

[Moonbeam]

Can anyone make an embellishment of Corey playing his guitar while riding his skate board with his cat under the other arm.... Maybe the strings on the guitar are made of "catgut"???? No????

[Corey]

Hee har. :D

[Sandy]

I found this but it's not free: http://kathrynbalint.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=15

[Granny]

Oh, Moonbeam, you just had to throw out that challenge, ah? Now I won't have a moments rest trying to figure out how to do it! Blasted!!

Granny :rolleyes:

[Granny]

Ok, folks, here he is. He would not stand still long enough for me to do him justice, but is a pretty good likeness, so you can finally see what our beloved Corey is really like!

Corey, you're way cool! :cool:

Granny

[Marion]

He's very cute Granny!!!! (We knew he would be)

Marion

[Corey]

Hee har! Too funny. :D

That's actually the exact color of my guitar, good guess. :)

[Moonbeam]

Granny must be stalking you Corey ..How else would she have known the colour of your guitar and also your EXACT Haircut?
That is so good Granny.. I wish I could do my own embellishments...
Corey - I bet you never thought of yourself as an ambellishment!!! Hey - this could be your new avitar

[Corey]

Hee, actually I have long dark hair. But hey, no one's perfect. She definitely captured my spirit, that's pretty much the exact facial expression both my cat and I would have in that scenario. Hee. :D

Here's what BooBoo looks like, some random video clips I took of him last spring which I set to a keyboard tune I did.
http://media.putfile.com/BooBoo-Kitty

[Granny]

that's pretty much the exact facial expression both my cat and I would have in that scenario.

That's because I knew you would both be singing the blues!!! :p

The essense of your personality filters down through the pages of this inmortal forum, to reach us in a wave..... :confused: Where did all that come from. My doctor said this would be a side effect from the Frontal Labotomy. Hmmmm. :eek:

Glad you all like him.

Granny :D

[Jessica]

oh my god granny... Hilarious !!! Love it !

[Corey]

I'm lucky he tolerates me frankly. :D

[srussell]

I was just thinking earlier today that you mentioned your guitar a few times in the past... so I was going to post "Lets Here Something!!!" and now...

Is that you playing guitar on "a-grace" and "original reggae song"?

Not bad! ... for a Canadian... :D

I'm sure your saying to yourself ... "I don't need this.. I get enough abuse at work!"

Steve

[Granny]

Canadian? Canadian? Is the boy from up there? Hey, I grew up drinking Canada Dry! Not to mention British Columbia, Vancouver, Victoria, The Bushard Gardens, The Fabled Cottage... Need I go on...

Let's give the boy a brake... He's double cool!

But remember.... "Nobody leaves this place... without singing the blues!"

Granny :D

[kode]

Hee, actually I have long dark hair. But hey, no one's perfect. She definitely captured my spirit, that's pretty much the exact facial expression both my cat and I would have in that scenario. Hee. :D

Here's what BooBoo looks like, some random video clips I took of him last spring which I set to a keyboard tune I did.
http://media.putfile.com/BooBoo-Kitty

Corey I just don't picture you having long dark hair (I'm not sure what I picture you as but thats not it!!)

[Corey]

Yes that's me Steve. I don't mind being teased, 'tis all in good fun! You guys crack me up. :D

Kode, I know what you mean, that's forums for you... I'm definitely not typical of the scrapping scene. :)

Anyhow since some seem curious I'll tell it like it is. I'm basically an artsy type. A vegetarian. I play music, paint, write, etc. Mid 30's, into healthy living, spend most of my time working. In terms of physical appearance I basically look like a random guitar player from a random rock band in a random music magazine. Skinny, long hair, blue jeans, confused expression... Not by design, just the way nature panned it out. :)

[Moonbeam]

Yes that's me Steve. I don't mind being teased, 'tis all in good fun! You guys crack me up. :D

Kode, I know what you mean, that's forums for you... I'm definitely not typical of the scrapping scene. :)

Anyhow since some seem curious I'll tell it like it is. I'm basically an artsy type. A vegetarian. I play music, paint, write, etc. Mid 30's, into healthy living, spend most of my time working. In terms of physical appearance I basically look like a random guitar player from a random rock band in a random music magazine. Skinny, long hair, blue jeans, confused expression... Not by design, just the way nature panned it out. :)

When I first came here I was really surprised to find any men into scrapbooking..... So you being "artsy" explains it... What sort of painting do you do? I used to be an Art teacher... Mainly folk Art and I have done trompe L'Oeil ( which I love) I think the artsy streak in me finds expression in scrapbooking as I don't get much time to paint these days.... I have many phot's of my paintings ( murals) on walls and doors and cupboards etc that I must scrapbook one of these days....Is there no end to subjects to scrapbook ? No! looks like I'll have to do a painting template.
You're right the forum guys are great and it's nice to "meet" you Corey and get tp picture who we are dealing with....

[Corey]

Well to be clear it's my job to be here, I'm the creative director for the company who makes Scrapbook MAX! But that being said, all my posts here are generally done on my own time and I genuinely like everyone I've met here. :D

I love Trompe L'Oeil. I was just admiring some pieces by Heinrich Füssli today in a book. Stunning. Some of my favorite stuff ever. :)

My main thing was cubism but I sort of took it into an area I called epicentrism which is merely a crude style of cubism. Here's an example, a piece I did called "Cowboy with Guitar" (acrylic on illustration board 40" X 20"). You get the idea, one central point from which the entire piece emanates. Nothing special, just a thing which struck my fancy. I also did a little realism and some other stuff. Particularly contes, here's a still life I did years ago (B & W conte on white construction paper 9" X 12"). As you can see I was about average-ish. Some basic talent but crude and lacking proper detail. I have very limited potential. I haven't really been painting and drawing much since I moved to Calgary a few years ago, I'm more into audio stuff now although I plan to get back to the visual stuff at some point, particularly photography and video this year. :)

[Moonbeam]

You better not get paid to like us! You better like us for free!
and re your paintings..WOW! I think you have more than everage talent there.. I love the cowboy that is so clever and very different...
Painting is a way to "get lost" isn't it! The only time I ever truly turn off from everything else on this planet..I get lost in my work for hours..I miss doing it regularly

[Corey]

You better not get paid to like us! You better like us for free!
Consider it a done deal. :)

[Moonbeam]

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Corey
http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/You-Rock.gif

[Corey]

I think I speak for everyone here when I say that it would be cool to see some pics of your art sometime. :)

[Moonbeam]

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Your wish is my command Sir!http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Bow.gif

[srussell]

Corey, those paintings are most awesomely excellent! (Bill & Ted) I'm a little jealous, because I can't draw at all... The best I can do with a pencil is stick figures...

[srussell]

But remember.... "Nobody leaves this place... without singing the blues!"

Granny :D

Well, just to give Corey a shot back at me and Granny says we can't leave without sing the blues, here's a link to a couple of cover tunes MP3's I did a while back. I played all the instruments and sang all the vocals.

Smooth - In the style of Carlos Santana
http://www.iireproductions.com/phacets/audio/Steve_Russell_Smooth.mp3

Black Velvet - In the style of Alyanna Miles
http://www.iireproductions.com/phacets/audio/Steve_Russell_Black_Velvet.mp3

[Corey]

Very impressive. Sounds awesome. :)

[Cinderella]

Anyone have party balloons & streamers? I have looked in every file I have and do not have anything........:( Or even New's Eve stuff!
I might have a few things you might be interested in.
Are they for a birthday layout?
What colors do you need?

[Jessica]

corey: i like your paintings. You should continue painting, cause that's the only way you'll get even better at it, just like everything else in life...

steve: i didn't listen to your mp3s yet, don't really have the time today since my cousin's getting married. I look forward to listen to them !

[srussell]

Anyone have party balloons & streamers? I have looked in every file I have and do not have anything........:( Or even New's Eve stuff!

There is a free Birthday template I did a while back that has some embellishments you could probably use...
http://www.iireproductions.com/clients/indigorose/sbm_family.htm

[catseyes]

enjoyed it alot and my husband who like you knows lots about music, was impressed too, thanks for sharing that with us.
susannah

[Granny]

Great work, Corey, I like both of them. And I can tell what they are. I hate looking at a "Masterpiece" of some abstract art, and while every one is going "ohhhhhhhh" and "woooooooooo" , and going... "What in the world....."

So, I like your work! There!

Moonbeam, I have never heard of that stuff you do. Please, could you post some of it, so that we can see it. I'm sure it's wonderful. Thank you.

Granny ;)

[Granny]

Hey Steve.... Those are way cool!!!! I specially like Black Velvet. We used to dance to that in our line dancing.

You're very cool! Any way to save those, pretty please?

Granny :D

[srussell]

Hey Steve.... Those are way cool!!!! I specially like Black Velvet. We used to dance to that in our line dancing.

You're very cool! Any way to save those, pretty please?

Granny :D

You can right-click and do a "Save Target As"... :D If you want some other tunes (I don't know what genre you like), go to www.iireproductions.com and click on "Phacets Music".. There a whole ton of songs there

[Granny]

Thank you so much, Steve! You're so gracious!

I will visit your site and listen to the songs.

:) Granny

[Ladybug]

Steve,

I just listened to your recordings and they are just wonderful! How talented you are.

Have you ever taken the chance to ask a musician how artisitic he is or an artist how musically inclined he is? You'll be amazed. We ask people this all the time and I would say 95% of the time these people are talented both artistically as well as musically even though they may tend to be more so in one area.

Just a thought,
Ladybug

[Corey]

I agree Ladybug. The brains of artistic people operate within a certain general realm and there's lots of room for crossover with art, music, literature, etc. for sure. On the other hand, try and find a good artist/musician who also has a love for bookkeeping. Hee! :D It's aaaalways a trade off.

[Moonbeam]

so true Coery...hehehe
Steve I loved your singing... Boy! we have a multi talented lot here don't we... Any talent we have is truly God's gift to us..
I will visit your site again too and check out more of your music..thanks for sharing that.
Granny.. you said you have never heard of trompe L'Oeil It is a form of painting that produces a 3D effect on a flat surface and is life size... Trompe is french for "Trick" and L'Oeil is french for the eye.. so it literally means to trick the eye....A great Trompe L"oeil artist will blow your mind .. you have to scrutinize or touch it to see if it's really just a flat surface

Try typing John Pugh trompe L'Oeil into your search engine ...I reckon he's up there with the worlds best.......where reality leaves off and the painting begins is hard to tell... He's an Australian Artist who lives not that far from me and a very talented man....Compared to him my work is pathetic but I have enjoyed painting my own house.
I had never had any training in Trompes but used to sell my artwork in several shops ( stores) and one day it dawned on me I had NEVER kept any of my work for myself - even my favourites ( aussie spelling there) I would keep something for a while but someone would want to buy it and i would sell it... I had seen trompe L'oeil in magazines and was busting to try it and I thought "If I paint on my walls - I can't sell it" I will have something to keep so off I went... I had just come back from a year in the country on a farm and was inspired to paint a Barnyard theme all through the house.. So I have a wierd house full of animals everywhere ( no! Not my husband and kids)
I am presently compiling an album of my murals so will upload it to the gallery when I get it finished

[Granny]

Oh, yes, Moonbeam, I know what you mean now. Someone sent me some e-mails showing this guys work. Is awesome. Actually, two different guys that do it. It's totally mind boggling.

I would love to see your art. I'm sure it's terrific. And yes, isn't it amazing what a great lot we got here. :D

Thank you.

Granny :)

[Moonbeam]

I'll post it soon but PLEASE do not think it's going to be anything like "the masters"....it's just my little attempt at it...

[Corey]

Art is art and the more the merrier. So don't worry about it. Fact is that a lot of the masters didn't even paint like the masters. So...

They had legions of apprentices who did most of the work. Rembrandt is a great example, he apprenticed first for a guy who was mainly into Breugel and Hieronymus Bosch and really wasn't too hot of a painter. There's absolutely no sign of any influence from him in Rembrandt's subsequent work whatsoever. But Rembrandt worked for him for a few years solid anyhow... Of course credit for all that work went to the master, not Rembrandt.

And of course Rembrandt in turn had many brilliant apprentii who did much work for him and paid him fat lots of cash for the privilege of doing so which he spent on art collectibles that eventually got auctioned off at his bankruptcy. :)

So "the masters" were hardly bulletproof. I believe in time art experts will decode a lot of so called masterpieces and find that they were 85% painted by apprentice painters, etc. Of course there are exceptions, but... I think if you had a team of skilled students working for you, you could put out some amazing stuff too. I know I could. I'd be all like, "You call that a sunset?" :D

Anyhow that reminds me. One of the most interesting stories I ever read was about an apprentice of Rembrandt's. He was a young guy who they said was possibly going to be superior to Rembrandt and was fully poised to be one of the greatest painters in history. He'd only done a small amount of original pieces but they were amazing, and he was improving at a voracious rate under Rembrandt. Then he suddenly died in a freak accident in which a neighboring gunpowder shop exploded and burned down half the town. His paintings burned up also. I saw a portrait of him in a book he looked exactly like the character "Inigo Montoya" from the movie "The Princess Bride". Tragic story. Supposedly Rembrandt was behind him 100% and considered him to be one of the greatest young students he'd ever met.

Some believe that the fire was a cover up and that he had actually been killed by a rival because none of his paintings were ever recovered, etc...

[Moonbeam]

Interesting post there Corey.
I think too that with srt ... beaty is in the eye of the beholder..there is art and there is art!!! What someone thinks is wonderful another thinks is rather weak.. So It allows for individualism..
I have just finished my album and am going to try and upload all the pages..15 in all aaaggghh!

[Corey]

Yep, to be clear I have no problem with masterpieces being collaborative. If I like a piece then I couldn't care less how it was created. The only rub is when one guy takes credit for a team effort... That gets four thumbs down from my cat and I. :rolleyes:

[Granny]

I agree with every thing you two are saying. Variety in styles is wonderful. It would be a mighty dull world if every one had the same talent or did every thing the same way. But, really, some so call "masters" live you wondering what they had for lunch the day they decided to work on some painting. But I like the work you guys do. Moonbeam, your wall paintings are just magnificent. Some day when I grow up I would like to try that out. Except that I would probably be arrested for defacing public properties with graffity.

And Corey, I love your glass painting. I could go on for an hour telling you every thing it tells me. Hmmmmm, well, ok, 45 minutes. :D

Granny ;)

[Ladybug]

Ok, you have my curiousity peaked. I've seen Moonbeam's beautiful art but I haven't seen Corey's glass painting. Where can I see it?

Ladybug

[Granny]

http://www.scrapbookmax.com/forums/showthread.php?t=571&page=3

Halfway down the page. It's really good.

Granny

[Corey]

That's done in conte which is kind of like a chalk/crayon.

[Moonbeam]

I've never used anything but acrylic paint... Did you come up with the design yourself Corey?
I can picture that actually made into a stained glass window WOW!
It would Make a nice embellishment as a glass.png for a western page

[Corey]

Yes the whole epicentric thing was just an idea I had. My perspective on the universe. :)

I made up some rules to create a style out of it, i.e. it all comes from one central point and you have to make the entire piece using only rays from that point or perendicular intersections of those rays, etc. There's a couple exceptions to those rules but that was the general idea. Here's a couple more from my epicentric period attached, 'Vamp.jpg" being the first painting I ever sold. A serious private collector too. I was shocked. I think it was the primitive nature which appealed to him. :D

Here's a more traditional cubist piece which was more or less the direction I was headed in at the time:

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/892/schism1wj.jpg

At the time I was just trying to get a feel for the medium and get a feel for the brushes. These were just excercises. :)

[kode]

Wow Corey these are cool! Your artwork is wonderful! Thanks for letting us see some.

[Granny]

Oh, my word, I love them. Specially the big one. Stunning. I hope you have not given up on this!

Granny :eek:

[Ladybug]

Corey, what can I say? These are incredible! I Love them. Thanks for sharing.

Ladybug

[Corey]

Thanks for the kind words. :)

Naw I didn't give up Granny, for the past few years my life is all about my job, that's all. Although you'd never believe it to see my output. I know I'm capable of producing like double (or more) what I do but it's just a matter of conforming my life to a certain pattern - which will require me to turn up the self discipline knob a little. So that's the challenge right now, how to be better at my job. How to master the art of focus.

I'll go back to painting eventually, in particularly I plan to spend my golden years working on realism. Sculpting. And drawing. I figure skateboarding will be a bust by then, so... :D

[GrannyScraps]

This is a really fun layout!

[KristyAnn]

thank you will use it for sure.........