I ♥ Faces: Fix-it-Friday

So here's the original. What a cute little bug!


I decided to keep the bookcase and the baby doll. My mom has a picture of my brother with a "friend." It's definitely a keeper.

Here's a clean and simple edit. I did a little noiseware and took out quite a bit of red.


Just for fun a CoffeeShop Golden Vintage edit:


And a classic b/w:


Last but not least, a sketch using this tutorial: eSCRAPPERS Sketch Tutorial .


Head on over to I ♥ Faces to check out all the other edits!

I ♥ Faces: Silhouettes

Here's my absolute favorite silhouette shot. This was one occasion where my daughter ran into the house hollering "Mom! Get your camera!" I love that :).



Don't forget to head on over to I ♥ Faces and check out all the other great entries!

Natural Framing

This is one of my favorite pictures lately. I guess that's pretty obvious since it's my header :).



And here's another favorite to go with it. I have this one as my desktop right now.



I, too, love to play with my macro lens. Moss seems to be from another planet when you get right down on the ground and really close:



Thank you Shutter Sisters for inspiring me to post these favorites.

I ♥ Faces: Fix it Friday!

I seriously love playing with pictures. Especially when they are someone elses, LOL. It frees me from the emotional attachment I feel to pictures of my friends and family. Today I was inspired by this original found over at I ♥ Faces as part of their Fix it Friday feature.

Original:


I cloned out the dark edges on the bottom and tweaked the color a little. A very clean color edit.


I actually did this next edit last. I changed it to b/w, added some noise, and did a white vignette around the edges. I think it looks like an old timey photo :).


And last, but not least I went Warhol crazy. I used this tutorial: Andy-Warhol-Up your Photograph to make this cute little face into a Warhol piece. Not something I'd do every day, but definitely fun for a change of pace.



Thanks for stopping by to have a look at my edits :). Don't forget to head on over to I ♥ Faces to check out all the other great edits!

I finished up that folder of pictures.

So now the whole trip to N AL in April is scrapped. I need to see about printing these out :).



Template: Elizabeth at Lauren Grier Designs
Alpha: Baers Garten Designs via Daily Digi
Stitches: Shabby Princess
All other Digital supplies: Happy Christmas Kit by Mimilou
Font: AmandaHandwriting (mine)



Swirl: Snowflake Beach Designs AKA Chanin Mettey
Alpha and Patterned Papers: Digi Dares via Daily Digi
Font: AmandaHandwriting (mine)
Template: The Paper Iris



Template: Kaye Winiecki
Cream digital paper: Janine at Foxy Designs
Green, pink, & purple digital paper: Franziska Altmann
Blue digital paper: Shabby Princess
Alpha: Designs by Vicki
Green flower: Shabby Princess
Swirl: Creashens
Bead: Denise Germain at Escrappers
Sequin Action: Scrappin' Cop
Fonts: Amandahandwriting and LBTypewriter

And now I'm wondering ...

what was so hard about scrapbooking. I'm on a huge roll now. I finished four pages yesterday. And a bunch of house stuff, too :).



Template: Mandagirl
Brad: Jen Reed
Alpha: Franziska Altmann
All Digital patterned papers: Amanda Dykan of Paper Flowers Designs



Little word tag: Amanda Heimann Designs
Flower sequin, glitter circles, and butterfly: Franziska Altmann
All digital papers: Franziska Altmann
Font: Century Gothic
Template: Lena Brandenburg



Stitches: Anna Aspnes
Chipboard action: Atomic cupcake
Ladybug: Kaye Winiecki
Alpha: Sarah Bryan
All digi papers: Kaye Winiecki
Font: Century Gothic
Template: armina @ arminadesigns.com



Template: Mandagirl
Font: AmandaHandwriting (mine)
Tree, paper, button & cloud: Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Alpha: Misty Cato

I scrapbooked ... again!

I'm on a roll, LOL. I picked a folder of pictures and am slowly working my way through them. For no other reason than the pictures make me happy :).



Supplies:
Brown wooden button: Shabby Miss Jenn; Photo Corner: Miss Mint; Journaling Spot: Shabby Princess; Swirl (recolored): Amanda Heimann Designs; Cardboard Alpha: LiviaY Designs; Yellow flower w/ button: Christina Hutchings; Pink folded flower: Christina Hutchings ; Two leaves (recolored): Christina Hutchings; Yellow flower: Franziska Altmann; Butterfly: Franziska Altmann; Blue glitter swirl, gold swirl, pear/gold button, glass button, pink/green flower: Carjazi Designs; Green, cream & brown papers: Carjazi Designs;
Template: Charlie's Digiscraps.

I ♥ Faces: Blurb Book Contest - Amateurs

It's Monday and I'm HOME! I am going to see a friend today that is moving away. I'm going to miss her. While means I'll probably miss winning an e-bay auction, but that's o.k. too. There will be another one :).


So this week, I ♥ Faces is doing something a little different. The picture I'm entering today will be considered for a Blurb book they are putting together. How much fun is that? So here's my entry. My lovely daughter in a cold January from about 2 years ago. I love her eyes in this shot. Of course I'm only a little biased, LOL!

I selected the Amateur category because I do not get paid for my photography in any shape or form. I'm really just a Mom-With-A-Camera that loves to take pictures :).

Don't forget to head on over to the I ♥ Faces blog to check out all the other fabulous entries!

I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.

I scrapbooked!

Supplies:
Brown paper: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Cream flower paper: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Pink paper: Kristine Bents/Jessica Safty for computerscrapbook.com; Alpha: Rusty Dan by 4 Shades of Blue Designs; Orange flower and gingham ribbon: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Brown flower with raffia: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Journaling spot: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Wooden planks: Happy-Scrap via Daily Digi; Orange Stitches: creashens via Daily Digi; Cardboard Flower: Shabby Miss Jenn via Daily Digi; Torn & folded base: Kimb; Torn & folded overlay: Kimb; Layered twill tag with staple: Gunhild Storeide; Template (flipped): Danielle Fenning of Scrapoutsidethebox.com

I ♥ Faces: Fix it Friday

So this original was gorgeous. Underexposed, yes, but I really like the way the girl looks so relaxed and ethereal. That idea guided my edits.

Here is the original:


And my edits:
First I did my regular edits in PSE5. This includes color correction and exposure correction. Then I ran Coffeeshop's Golden Vintage. It turned out just like I had envisioned:


Then I duplicated the picture, changed the top layer to b/w and erased the tulips and their stems back a little. A very soft selective color if you will.


And last, I added some texture.


So head on over to I ♥ Faces to check out the other great edits! You can try it yourself, if you want to :).

I ♥ Faces: Hats!

So here I am, finally back in town on a Monday/Tuesday so I can enter the I ♥ Faces contest. Boy have I had fun this morning scrolling through my pictures looking for hats. I made these kitty cat hats for my DD (middle) and her cousins for Christmas last year. I got some cute ones of them together, then they did this:

Child Entry:


And my husband got a new motorcycle in March. I had fun playing with the clone tool and textures and CoffeeShop's Golden Vintage action.

Adult Entry:


Head on over to I ♥ Faces to check out the rest of the entries. There's some cool stuff over there!

I ♥ Faces: Fix it Friday (Sunday, LOL!)

So I've been out of town. Again. I'm tired of going out of town. I came home and instead of doing laundry, I played with the Fix it Friday photo from I ♥ Faces.

I took a page from the contributor's book and decided to edit the underexposure first. That made editing the light spot on his cheek much easier. I used PSE5.

Here's the original:


Here's a color version:


and a b/w: