I finished my course a month ago and don't plan on doing anymore study. I gained a Diploma in Digital Media Advanced and achieved it with Merit. I've had a pretty stressful year at times and almost couldn't wait for the course to end, I was desperate for a holiday haha. These are just a few of the things I designed this year.

Beauty Salon branding

Wedding stationery template for actual client

My personal logo

I haven't done much scrapbooking this year, only about 1 layout and I've competed a few months of Project life. Shortly I'll make a post with some of my recent Project Life pages, how I've changed it to suit me and how I've been trying to catch up. I'll also post up my first quilt that I've made and how I made it cheaply.

I've decided to continue Project Life in 2013. I find that it's a great way to document everyday photos that I take that would otherwise just be stored on a computer and never seen by future generations and stuff.  I'm pretty behind at the moment, with a few months of 2012 to catch up on, but I'm determined not to quit this project.

For my 2013 title page I used a mix of simple Stories, MissTina, and Becky Higgins.

Also, I'll be going back to study in a week. I thought I had till July to prepare, but I got a call a few days ago because a spot opened up in the earlier class and I was offered it. I accepted it and was excited, till I realised it was a week and a half away. Not the greatest amount of time to pay course fees, sort out student allowance, fix the broken zip on my bag, and mentally prepare myself. So I'm a tad stressed, and nervous because I've heard that Digital Media Advanced is really intense.

I had an awesome time last year studying Diploma of Computer Graphic Design.
It was interesting to see myself improving as the year went on, and how much I've improved since the short course I did in 2011.

This was my last project, where I was free to do whatever I wanted. I chose to design promotional products for a craft store I made up ages ago called Moore Crafts. It includes a shopping bag, brochure, business card, sticker sheet (made with my Silhouette), set of greeting cards, flyer and mini magazine.

The flyer and business card.

I made an ad campaign for Arnotts Tiny Teddy's.

This is the ad shel.

This was my first assignment for which I designed a craft event poster. It was printed on kraft paper.

And lastley, my magazine. I'm really proud of this one. It's also a huge improvement from the first one I made in 2011 here. And the insides of this embellished magazine can be found here.

I made this magazine in July for my contempory magazine assignment and I've finally got around to putting it on Issuu. My course finished on the 12th of this month. I celebrated by seeing Russell Brand Live on the 13th lol, and got his autograph.

 I didn't realise until now that the title is yellow with a white background. It has something to do with the gloss overlay layer that I put on it. I'll get round to fixing it eventually lol.

About 3 weeks ago my awesome new cameo arrived (in a huge package lol). I haven't had much time to use it because of course work and social life, so I've only mucked around with it a little. It arrived with an American plug but luckily my Dad happened to have an adapter so I was able to start playing around with it straight away.

I turned 22 2 weeks ago, and the cake picture above is what my boyfriend made. He made it to look like my cameo lol. He said it didn't quite turn out how he planned, but I still think it's amazing. The last time I had a cake like this was a swimming pool cake for my 16th haha.

I had photos of me blowing out the candles and from the zoo but when i was copying them to my mac, the card reader died and the card became corrupt, so I think I've lost those photos for good. Still hoping I can find a way to get them back, since a couple of programmes I downloaded didn't work :(. So that plus waking up on my birthday with a flu and raining when I went to the zoo made it a slighly horrible weekend lol.

I cut out this chandelier to see what the cameo can do. I'm pretty amazed that it can cut out really delicate shapes. 

And these are 2 of my current obsessions:
 Studio Calico wood veneer shapes

And washi tape

so it's been yet another month since i've blogged lol. i haven't really done much scrapbooking in the last 2 months because my room is a pig sty and it's winter, so i'd rather sit in the lounge each night infront of the fire place than sit in my cramped cold room lol. i'm getting the urge to do some more scrapping, so i guess it's time to clean my room, and since my brother's moved out, i can use his room for storage. i'm gonna have to do a huge hunt for photos that i haven't scrapped yet.

anyway's, here's pics of what i've been up to lately:

last week's assignment was a magazine assignment and i chose to do mine about scrapbooking. it was so much fun and it turned out awesome. my tutor is into scrapbooking too lol and took a copy for herself coz she loved it.

those are the first ever sketches i've made lol. just a quick 5 minute job in adobe illustrator, but i guess they look pretty good for a first time.

and this was for the me, myself and i assignment, which i did in the style of a scrapbook layout.

and lastly, a card i made for my brother.

tfl :)