RE: [lace] Alan and Barry's lace CD raffle

2006-09-14 Thread Jackie
Wow Wow! How exciting! I have had the world's worst cold in the head and chest and haven't looked at my email for well over a week. Spent most of the days (and nights) sniffing and coughing. In fact, the last time I looked at the email was the day I entered the raffle. Never dreamed I

[lace] Alan and Barry's lace CD raffle

2006-09-07 Thread Jean Nathan
Reminder to enter the raffle by midnight tomorrow - so far there have been 8 entries - obviously I didn't tell you how wonderful it is:-) I've been in touch with the Lace Guild. They were not aware that Alan and Barry were selling their products as Lace Guild CD and Lace Guild foils, and will

[lace] Alan and Barry's lace CD raffle

2006-09-04 Thread Jean Nathan
Having told you all what rubbish I think this CD is, I thought I'd unload it on one of you!! :-) So I'm raffling it. Any card makers or scrap bookers (I hate that term!) who think they'd like it, email me with the subject heading Alan and Barry's lace CD raffle, by midnight GMT Friday

Re: [lace] Alan and Barry's lace CD raffle

2006-09-04 Thread spindexr
Ew. You weren't kidding! I'll probably have butterfly nightmares tonight. Avital - Original Message - kindly given us permission to use. If anyone wants to see just how awful the lace images are before deciding whether or not to enter the raffle, let me know and I'll send a

[lace] Alan and Barry's Lace CD

2006-09-03 Thread Jean Nathan
I've been playing with my CD this morning. I have just the first CD without the techniques one, but that wouldn't make any difference to my opinion. The instruction and projects videos seem to be made with a handheld camcorder in their living room - very amateurish. The quality of the actual

[lace] Alan and Barry's Lace CD (2)

2006-09-03 Thread Jean Nathan
Just got the program to accept my own images. They have to be monochrome (black and white) images, not grey scale, but can have dithering. So all the detail of scans or pictures is lost, which is why the lace images supplied on the CD are so poor. It dies mean that black and white line drawings