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[simplyn2deep]

8/27 so I started these WEEKS ago and a series of crashes made me have to re-do SEVERAL of these SEVERAL times. YES I saved them but my external hard drive didn’t seem to care. It couldn’t find what I completed and even lost my notes for what was done and what I needed to do. Now I’m basically starting over from scratch. Fun times. NOT! GRRR!!!

TEASER:

THEME 1 - KEEP CALM AND ...
cook	eat	shop	buy a new swimsuit	travel
THEME 2 - EPISODE TITLES
Charmed 1x01	Doctor Who 2x07	Hawaii Five-0 1x03	NCIS 1x23	Torchwood 1x08
CATEGORY - POETRY
1	2	3	4	5
ARTIST'S CHOICE
1	2	3	4	5

Category – Poetry
A Woman Should Have… by Maya Angelou

Artist Choice
* Brown Chicken, Brown Cow by Trace Adkins
* Songs About Me by Trace Adkins
* Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
* Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

Alternates/Extras
The “alternate” is from the “Keep Calm and…” theme. The “extras” are the remaining lines of the poem.

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 10. 11. 12.

13. 14. 15.

If you want any, have at it.
credit to me would be nice.

resources

Comments

[jenmixelle.livejournal.com]

Aw, *hugs* Boo computer crashes :(

On a better note: LOL, Keep Calm & Travel could well go under "oxymoron". Not possible ;)
♥ the set!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

I used to save like every 5 minutes but now I'm saving after every step for each icon I make. and even in redoing them, my external hard drive crashed TWICE! It's 140 GB and I've barely used any space, so I don't know what is causing it to crash.

maybe I should have said "keep calm and take a vacation" lol the only thing about traveling that stresses me out is having to rely on others to get me to the airport/train/bus station on time

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

I really like the alternate Keep Calm and Eat! haha Nice job on them all.

I hate computer crashes. It seems like for me, whenever I come near technology I somehow end up frying them or making them crash. Or when I'm at a register and the cashier's trying to scan things, they don't work. It's weird.

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

when I was looking at those "dingbats" the fork/knife/spoon was the first one I can across and then as I was looking for something else, I came across the burger/drink one and then couldn't decide which one to keep.

computer issues are frustrating. my apartment is surrounded by buildings (we're the middle unit on the first floor) so reception suck balls and that seems to contribute to ALL electronic problems I have.

[jenmixelle.livejournal.com]

That is weird about the drive, could it be a bad cable or something? It must be annoying to have to save do often!! :/

LOL, I used to not mind travel so much, but going anywhere with a 4yo near hyperactive kid sort of kills the peace of sitting on a bus/train/plane for you ;) I'm just after a 12hr on the road day with her -_- still recovering ;)

[agsmith01.livejournal.com]

I really like your "Stay Calm" & "Poetry" sets. Great job!!

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

Nice set! I really like your take on the Keep Calm theme. I think it's my favorite so far. I didn't think about doing a different show for the episode titles. Great idea. The Torchwood icon is my favorite. Love the text in that one. :)

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

thank you

I figured to keep from being all Hawaii Five-0 (which is where my mind has been for nearly a year now) I should pick the different shows I like

eventually, I will do icons for every episode of Hawaii Five-0

[neaptidea.livejournal.com]

I like the Episode Titles set the best. Is the base for 'Reveille' a map of the American continent? It looks like that.

It's nice that you chose your own fonts for the 'Keep calm' icons :). Perhaps the font should have been a bit larger for nr.3 (shop), though.

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

The base for 'Reveille' is the partial opening screen logo for the show NCIS - which happens to be North/Central/South America map

I played around with the font for the shopping icon and I haven't figured out the spacing bc every time I increased the font, the spacing got larger. at that point, I should have picked another font, but I was frustrated

[neaptidea.livejournal.com]

Oh right, yes, some fonts have really large spacing between lines. What I often do in such cases is that I put each word in a separate layer. That way it's possible to move them closer to one another. Also then you can use different sizes of the same font, which can be an effect on its own.

But, I know you mentioned above that you really had trouble making these in the first place, so it's understandable if you weren't into experimenting a lot. Good job anyway :).