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: