~ dancing under a paper moon~

dreamsofkate @ 2012-06-25T23:08:00

2012-06-25T13:09:05Z

regularamanda
Hope you have a Happy Birthday!!!

Gone Quiet

2011-09-07T06:13:30Z

Haven't posted on here for a while. Uni is getting me down and I have been sick. Have been reading everyone elses stuff though. Just wanting to say I am still alive and I hope all is well with you :)

Round #8 Crimintent20n20

2011-05-20T14:43:16Z

I have never entered a 20 in 20 before, and I have discovered I am too busy atm to do it justice. I was sucked in by the love of my favorite mod untapdtreasure when she advertised the comm i thought i would give it a go. i don't know this show as well as, say, stargate, I have watched all of seasons 1,2,3,5,6 and bits of others, but i don't have a great recall of specific episodes, so it was hard to pick for the themes. Also I always wrestle with caps from this show, and all of my icons turned out a lot grungier (thats so not a word) than i wanted. Especially the emotion catagory, so i made them black and white instead. Next time i will get onto it earlier so i have time to chuck the ones i don't like. anyway, here we are:

10 THEMES

anger	burn	dance	escape	free-for-all


half	lost	otp	required image	work

5 Category - Emotions

#1 worried	#2 disappointed	#3 happy	#4 pain	#5 annoyed

5 Artist's Choice

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

Two more texture sets

2011-04-23T17:48:57Z

two texture sets.

Nightlife texture set by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART
Started this set with a few screen caps of lighting from Aussie miniseries Carla Cametti (which deserves much much more love and recognition than it has recieved) and played with light textures that I wanted to be more than just a gaussian blur.

Mixed Media icon textures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART
idea comes from some amazing mixed media work I have seen lately, tried to work it into the texture. includes large texture made.

usual rules apply -
credits/comments are appreciated but not mandatory
please don't claim as your own

Also as some people have asked for winzip files (I prefer .rar) i have uploaded them too :nightlife zip mixed media zip zip

I am alive

2011-04-23T16:54:30Z

So much going on and I haven't updated my journal in forever, I a keeping track of most of the communities I am in, but it has been a while since I was really active. untapdtreasure has managed to get me excited about the return of Law and Order CI so i have a few icons from there as well as my ilt at turbo_lims to post sometime soon.

turbo_lims was an interesting experience, 12 icons in a month with quick voting, a bit disapointing as not too many people entered (so many of my fandoms and icontests seem to have ground to a halt) but the quality of the entries was amazing, and it was a new way of iconing (so often i have pics chosen for me) and i learnt a lot. And I came second, squee!

Life is crazy busy with final year of Uni and work and family and no time, but been doing well. Got myself into Studio 60 - Brad Whitford I love you- and finally FINALLY started watching X files that i sort of missed when i was younger, really really loving it, rocking the 90's! And Mulder and Scully are going to become love very quickly! Also had a best of West wing with a friend of mine, what a great show. Apparently Allison Janney is going to be in a comedy Mr Sunshine which i am so so stoked about, I love that woman and years later I am still miss CJ Cregg.

Also bought season 2 of Sanctuary even though i have seen the episodes, and will have a run through again when I have time. The Airing of Sanctuary (and all television) is a bit screwed in Australia so I dont know when we will be blessed with some more Amanda Tapping...

Got some textures I will upload soon, hope all is well and Happy easter everybody
xoxoxox

New Layout, New Graphics

2010-11-02T12:48:20Z

I HAVE A NEW JOURNAL LAYOUT.
dreamsofkate
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very excited, hoping it looks of and I haven't missed anything. I altered a version from ruemadame and i dont really know too much about it, so i may have some weird colors cropping up. who knows. Anyway its mainly to go with the new banner, also have a profile code to match by crimson_rakuna pretty stoked. Its sort of a continuation on my strong women role model thing I had going with my previous icon set.

Celebrating with two old mentalist wallpapers that i finished off, as well as some icons and a wallpaper from city homicide, my latest obsession. 23 hours until the next episode and there may just be a jen nick fangirl eplosion before then. So cute!!! (speaking of strong women - i may just be in lust with Nadine Garner)

MENTALIST

1280x800. Lyrics - Fall at your feet by Crowded House

1280x800 Lyrics - Amongst the Waves by Pearl Jam
For some reason this song just makes me think of Lisbon whenever I hear it

CITY HOMICIDE

1280x800 Lyrics (altered) from Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

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Save City Homicide

2010-10-29T07:17:00Z

Really annoyed that just as i get into a new show, its gonna get cut. Not completely cut, but they are only going to make 6 episodes next year. 6!

Just started to watch city homicide, a local cop drama based in melbourne (where i live) its pretty low budget and the actors are local but i have found myself to be enjoying it, and just watched the first two seasons.

Just my luck

The stargate experiment

2010-10-23T07:36:34Z

Experiementing with a new style, think it would work better for more graphic images, eg cartoons or styised pictures, but made some interesting stargate ones thought i would post. found that the dark background (004) didn't work so well. Anyway, these were really simple to make and lots of fun

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Table created with accio.nu's icon table(less) generator

Usual rules apply, credit if using

New Batch of Icons: Soft colouring

2010-10-01T04:50:18Z

Wow. Long time no icons. Been so busy with Uni i have neglected LJ shamefully but study is really taking up so much of my time. Done these icons over a month or so, playing around with soft textures and gradients as replacement backgrounds. Lots of soft light layers. Anyway, thought i would put them up (on the possibility that some of you remember who I am), most of them are Lisa Edelstein, Emily Dechanel and Kelli Williams. Got back into House and Lie to Me in a massive way, I have a weakness for strong leading ladies it seems. Haven't watched much Bones lately but Emily Deschanel is too pretty to resist.

Pretties

001 - 013 Lisa Edelstein/Lisa Cuddy
014 - 022 Emily Deschanel/Bones
023 - 029 Kelli Williams/Gillian Foster
030 - 039 Other including Castle and West Wing

Lisa Edelstein/Lisa Cuddy

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Table created with accio.nu's icon table(less) generator

Please credit if you use. Won't say no to comments

Birthday greetings

2010-08-18T08:01:43Z

Sorry its a bit late. hope you had an amazing birthday!!

dreamsofkate @ 2010-07-17T21:55:00

2010-07-17T11:55:42Z

Can't help myself
figure i can handle an icon a week right
pimping this out but i'm pretty sure anyone stargate on my f-list has already seen this
sanct4all_lims

Birthday birthday

2010-06-28T01:57:44Z

For coffee_nebula
Happy happy birthday
sorry this is a bit late, but i hope you have had a wonderful day
xoxo

House Cuddy love

2010-06-25T14:03:29Z

House cuddy Icons

Put the icons under the cut so reading this tangent is optional
New obsession. House M.D. I have watched the show sporadically and loved the banter but didn't have a huge interest the whole story, just House and the dialouge. Anyway i had a whole heap of vouchers so i bought the 4 seasons of House (yeah lots of vouchers). Anyway, found myself not really caring about Cameron, Chase, Kutner, Taub and Thirteen and disliking Foreman (poor Omar seems like a nice guy but his character annoys the shit out of me) and getting over Thirteen's whining pretty quickly. However House Cuddy and Wilson made it worthwhile viewing.

Back in the day I loved the Cuddy House bickering, and though i was the only one. The whole beatrice and benedick archetype with strong characters always struck a chord with me. I thought I was the only one. Tune in a few years later (and actually pay some attention) and there is a whole swarm of "Huddy" shippers. Bring it on. Spoilers say good things to come so I am happy on that front. Borrowing season 5 now. wish me luck. Go House Cuddy!!!

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Happy Birthday

2010-06-25T12:28:23Z

Happy Birthday
regularamanda

hope you have a great day!!!!

Random!

2010-06-01T13:57:21Z

Very random, just had to say I found this community:
goodtextures goodtextures goodtextures

all my favourite texture making people in one place. how great i that? now i wont need to look through all those annoying posts (who think that pictures of hills are actually textures or assume that i haven't found the gaussian blur effect too) to find good resources. Just thought i would share!

Stargate Icons

2010-05-30T07:05:52Z

Had some of these sitting around or a long time. thought i would do a big post of all the stargate icons i have made recently (and not recently). Most of these were for stargate_stills and carter_stills challenges. A couple of earlier ones from stargate_rumble
Love to know what you think, most of them are pretty texturey, when it comes to icon making i am definitely more comfortable with textures and text than crop or colour, but i have tried to branch out. anyone who can give me advice on how to colour or crop my way to a good icon would be much appreciated.

Anyway, enjoy the iconses, usual rules apply. Teasers first:

Rest under cut

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Happy Birthday mesmerising!!!

2010-05-19T13:35:43Z

happy birthday
hope you have a wonderful day!!!

First foray into the mentalist

2010-05-02T04:29:54Z

new obsession - the mentalist. i know i know, i really should be going for less fandoms not more but i find that its harder than it sounds. I hadn't really watched the mentalist even though its been on TV (as opposed to say Sanctuary which i had to purchase to actually watch) but was sitting down with my grandmother (yes) and thought i would have a look. More to indulge my curiousity as an Aussie and check out Simon Baker than anythin else. Good Australian talent needs to be treasured whereever we find it.

Anyway, got hooked. More on the character of Lisbon than Patrick Jane, but loving their relationship. Not sure if I am supporting anything romantic there or not but i love how the two of them interact. Robin Tunney is great and Simon Baker as Patrickjane is just adorable. anyway made some icons while i was watching the first season. They are a bit of an experiment, i have become a bit texture dependent (who doesn't love a good texture) so i made a bunch where i just cropped and recoloured. Lots of exclusion layers.

Samples:

putting under a cut so people without broadband can view my journal.

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Also made a wallpaper because Patrick Jane/Simon Baker i just so damn photogenic. Been a while since i have made anything bigger than 100x100 so it was a challenge but i enjoyed it. always find wallpapers a lot more difficult, probably because i lack a sense of space. anyway hope people like.

clicky clicky

Away so long : (

2010-04-29T08:58:25Z

Dear LJ
I apologise for abandoning you. I have been a bad friend. I still love you
<3 kate

yeah well i haven't really been active lately. As some of you know i am battling with some rather sucky depression at the moment and I have been finding it hard to keep up with everything in my life. Its been taking most of my willpower to keep up (sort of anyway) with Uni and deal with my overclingy family, so i haven't been doing much of the other stuff. My apologies to regularamanda and untapdtreasure for abandoning you wonderful icon communities without warning. I hope to be back there soon, although i have to limit my vising hours.

thought i would post some of my old icons. Most of them are from various challenges, though it was a while back. There is no way I am going to get these all in one post so i might save the stagate and sanctuary ones for another day. I can have an Amanda Tapping fest :)
Also made some new mentalist (yes another fandom, sigh) icons which i will try and get up today or tomorrow.

1st time i ever used a generator table, so this is exciting for me. I alwas made them myself and put each image in. yay for accio for general greatness.

001 - 006 Bones
007 - 009 Castle
010 - 022 Law and Order CI
023 - 041 West Wing
042 - 051 Random Icons

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A lot of these are from challanges - mainly bones_rumble castle_icontest alexeames_still goreneamesstill and tww_iconathon

Desert Storms Icon Texture Set

2010-03-16T08:28:50Z

Another Set of Icon Textures. Have been wanting to do some more sets for a while. Did it a little differently, ended up making my little textures from a large texture, which I included in the pack. Its not great but I included it because I know that large textures can be harder to find than 100x100. Usual rules apply, don't sell or claim as your own. Credit is polite, comments are nice but not compulsory.

Desert Storms icon textures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

also a few people asked about winzip files for some of my previous sets, so i make zip files of all my textures for anyone who isn't as in love with .rar as I am. Link is here

Enchanted Forest Icon Textures

2010-03-04T06:33:49Z

Haven't done one of these is a while. Icon texture set containing 30 icon textures and one large texture (700x500)
download at deviantart

enchanted forest icon textures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

for those who asked i have included a winzip file for people who aren't as in love with .rar as I am
comments/credits are love
please don't sell or claim as your own
enjoy!

sj_rumble pimp

2010-02-07T12:11:22Z

really late on this one, one day to go before round one starts. pimping, but im sure all stargate people have seen this already
i made the banner - pretties...

sj_rumble sj_rumble sj_rumble

dreamsofkate @ 2010-02-06T22:59:00

2010-02-06T11:59:46Z

To untapdtreasure
Wishing you much love and joy. Have a wonderful day! Happy birthday

Armageddon

2010-02-04T10:35:29Z

Once upon a time, my computer (named Newton, yes thats right I named my computer Newton) was my prized possession. Everyone in my family will tell you I spend too much time on it. Admittedly my family is an extremely disfunctional one and I am much safer on my laptop than having to spend large amounts of time with them. I loved my computer, I adored my computer. Notice the use of past tense. Four days ago my computer crashed and would not be fixed. When it was deleting a virus it deleted some other things that really shouldn't be deleted. No more computer. I was forced to do a full restore back to the day it was born. Annoying but no biggie, right??

MY COMPUTER FAILED TO BACK UP CORRECTLY AND I LOST HALF MY STUFF! It saved dumb things like my choice of screensaver but my Uni stuff (not a huge deal) and my graphics (Big Big deal!) all gone. And i sat through that whole boring backup progess. Grrr...

Anyway I have got most of my programs reinstalled and such, so the only real problem is my graphics. I have a previous backup from about 3 months ago for them so I got a few back. Damn Damn double damn! I HATE TECHNOLOGY

I'm back baby

2010-02-02T03:18:19Z

wow. I have had a busy two weeks. I have been working at the Australian Open and on my days off managed a couple of shifts at the supermarket. I had a great time, this is my second year working the Open and I love it. I love the tennis, and the staff, and the crazy fans and all of the great people I get to meet. Everyone is in such a great mood and the atmosphere is terrific. I got to see a Hewitt match on Rod Laver Arena (Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi) against Baghdatis, who retired which was a shame. Also saw Monflies (yum), Cilic, Gonzalez and Roddick (great match, the fans were amazing), Henin and got a peak at Pat Rafter, my true Aussie tennis love, in one of the exhibition matches. Missed out on seeing Federer (again) but my love remains true. I am so so glad he won the final.

anyway, i have to get back into my icontesting and such, I have some icons i am gonna post in a minute. My computer has had a virus in one of the drivers, and I had to do a full reset last night. I am just getting my shit back together and reloading programs. Backing up stuff is overrated because right now it won't put it back on the computer. But i have reinstalled my graphics program (Corel photopaint, yes i stand strong against the tide of photoshop, probably because i am too dumb to use it and too lazy to find out how) So in case you missed me, i am back.