Beautiful

Plunking a photo down in the middle of the page still seems a little odd to me, but it works for this LO. Once again, I tried at least 20 different things for this one. I loved this picture when I took it - the girls were outside running around and the evening colors with their dresses just seemed to pop.

I'm learning how to use more of the built in stuff in PSE - that and with Atomic Cupcake's actions are making me attempt a bunch of different stuff before I'm satisfied. On this one I used stroke (for the letters), dodge (to make the corner fold) & soft light blending mode on the photo. I have loved the Emma kit since I found it back in Nov, but mostly I just used little embellishments I've collected along the way. I guess eventually I'll have to get the scanner going to make some of my own.








Page Idea from Do You Love Me by Kate Nakajima at the digichick
Striped Paper from Emma by Amy W
Photo Frame by Manu
Swirls by Fryske
Stitches by Jasmin-Olya
Staple from Serenity by KSharonK
Date Brushes by Misty Cato Designs
Actions - inked edge & velvet by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts - Highland Perk, 2 Peas Evergreen

Bloom

I'm quite happy with this LO. I found this template a few days ago and it just seemed perfect for this theme. It was actually harder than I thought to find 5 different picture of the girls from this day, but it's nice to only have one of them together and lots of individual ones - its rare that I have that in photos.

I played around with some blending modes on this one with the title and I really like how that turned out - I ended up using soft light at 100%. I even used the eraser tool today for the 1st time to erase part of the letter B - it's supposed to look like it was there before the paper was sanded. I darkened the background paper just a tad using color variations instead of Hue/Saturation and got just the right color. The color of the glitter is supposed to bring out the color of the vinca.








Template from Template Challenge 2 by Fryske
Paper & stitching from Harvest Spice by Shabby Princess
Actions - glitter by Atomic Cupcake
Fonts - Jane Austen, Social Animal