Any where near Heaton on Saturday 6th October?

BiographyThis will definitely be an evening worth attending. Holy Moly and the Crackers are a great band and you should make the time to go and see them. Be good to yourself! Holy Moly and the Cracker biography -
“I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers … they are a lawless set of rascals on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode”
A letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, 18th century

Day 3 - Freebie Wallpapers all Sizes. Is it A Crazy Alloy?

It's the third giveway making this Day 3. Today's wallpaper I have called Is It a Crazy Alloy? I didn't put any out yesterday as I discovered that the list of dimensions I have needed to be extended, tomorrow all the renders should be done and all wallpapers should then be available in over 30 different sizes to suit all devices.


Is It a Crazy Alloy? by Kay Patterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Day 2 - Freebie Wallpapers all Sizes. Tribute To Peacocks.

Yesterday I kicked off a batch of downloads of free wallpapers that are configured to work with a whole variety of screen size. Yesterday I started things off with something I like to call a Swirling Blue Nebula and today I am going to continue with another full screen pattern batch.


Tribute To Peacocks by Kay Patterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Day 1 - Freebie Wallpapers all Sizes. Swirling Blue Nebula

So yesterday I gave away a free follow me football, today I thought we should carry on with some more rampant generosity. I could say in deference to the follow me football that today I am going to kick off a  15 day spree of High Definition, good quality crafted wallpaper that is sized for many devices.
Today then would be day one of the wallpaper giveaway and this one I'd like to call Swirling Blue Nebula



Swirling Blue Nebula by Kay Patterson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Swirling Blue Nebula is a glossy, luscious image and should make any device look stunning.

Today I crafted a Follow Me Football–download it for free.

This is a Follow Me Football which I have created – if you want to use it then you can, feel free to copy the image and use it to link to your twitter account on your own blog or website.
Let me know where you have put it I’d love to see the Follow Me Football get out and about.

An update on artists – Holy Moly and The Crackers.

I have to admit it’s been great following the early career of Holy Moly and The Crackers and never have I been more grateful to social media and the internet for enabling me to keep up to date with what is going on.
Earlier this year Holy Moly and The Crackers were in a competition run by Supajam to play at the Hop Farm Festival. Anyway to cut a long story they won and they went and they played.
Supajam have now published their follow up interviews of the band after the festival and you can follow that below.
Hop Farm 2012-- How was it for you... Holy Moly & The Crackers | SupaJam / Blogs
Here is a little quote from the Supajam site to get you started

Hop Farm 2012-- How was it for you... Holy Moly & The Crackers

So another Hop Farm Festival is done and dusted, but a fleeting memory of sunshine, laughter, cider and the gleam off Peter Gabriel's shiny dome.
As ever SupaJam were proud to send a whole host of acts to the festival, where they delighted crowds with some sheer musical wizardry. We thought we'd catch up with the bands and see just how it was for them.. Here's what they had to say...
Holy Moly & The Crackers

Hop Farm 2012-- How was it for you... Holy Moly & The Crackers | SupaJam / Blogs
If you wish to follow what Holy Moly and the Crackers are up to you can
Like them on Facebook
Follow them on Twitter @HolyMolyHolyMol
Do what ever it is you do on MySpace
Buy their album here
Download tracks and album here
So what is my association with this lot then? Well I’m just proud of my niece Ruth (Conrad is fab too and our family think he’s the bees knees*!x) and I love the music that they are creating as a band. It’s been a joy to watch and listen to them developing their style and their musical career. Hoping they have a fabulous summer after the launch of their first album – First Avenue.
Good Work Holy Moly and the Crackers – keep it up and try and get some more gigs going in York. x
* Disclaimer – just felt like it was a good day to say Bees Knees!

Today I am going to be giving away Free artrage stencils.

And shall probably carry on doing so for quite some time.

For those of you who don't know artrage is a lovely focused painting software that is deliciously affordable. You can download a free version which has enough to use and enough not available without paying to entice you to part with some hard earned money and upgrade.

I love artrage and Blurt adores it we often sit side by side at our PCs merrily digital painting. Blue does real painting with her so she gets the best of both.

Stencils are fab and it does come with a great selection but it is always good to have more.

So here we start with some free trees right click on the trees and download - put them in the resource stencil area of your Ambient Design Program install and away you go.

Here is a tree I painted using this stencil.  Don't forget you can flip the tree to add a bit more variety. I might do some more of these.

Wax crayons - sweet and so simple.

Please leave a comment if you download and use.  Have Fun! 

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