Photo Shoot Fun

Before

After adding some contrast and color saturation and vignette feature.

Before

After removing some color saturation and vignette feature.

Before

After adding some brightness, contrast and vignette feature.

Harper and I took some new pictures yesterday. Living in Bakersfield, it's not too hard to find a farm field to use for background, LOL. I played around with them in my new favorite photo editing program, Picnik, which is available to use for free online. I am so in love with their "vignette" feature, which darkens the edges of the whole photo. I think I used it on all my photos, LOL. Harper was a good sport, climbing through the weeds for the sake of my 'art'!

Weeds

Well here it is, the day of my scrapbooking club and I still hadn't made the layout from the kit that I put together for the month. So I figured I'd better get my rear in gear and get something done. Our technique for the month was hand dyed paper. I made the yellow paper that is behind the title "weeds". And since these darned sunflowers are in bloom all over the back yard I figured I'd use a pic of them, as they go well with the yellow paper I made. So with just hours to go I put this layout together. I think it turned out ok. We'll see what the girls at scrapbook club think tonight. Wish me luck!

Layouts of the Week

Here's what I've been working on this week. On the Watchin' Birds layout I used chipboard painted brown/black and then brushed with two coats of platinum colored Stickles. The photo in the BFF layout is Harper and her new college best friend Lynzie. The flourish was created by cutting it out of a patterned paper with an exacto knife, and the center "F" was covered in paper that I printed with my computer printer. Enjoy & leave a nice commment, LOL.

Weeds in Bloom

Look what popped up in the backyard. We didn't plant them this year so I guess the sunflowers of years past had dropped their seeds. Isn't it funny that these babies have come up strong with no care and the hollyhocks that we have pampered aren't thriving at all. Hmmm metaphor for life?

Busy Week in Review

It's been a heck of a busy week. Lots of boring stuff, but I did teach my first class at Simply Scrapbooks on Wednesday. We did this "Sassy" page with the hidden jounal spot, and everything went well. Then on Saturday I taught the Sassafras Lass book. I had no idea how long it would take so we schedualed four hours. It actuall took SIX hours!!! I had four ladies in class and three of them left after four house but one faithful scrapper stayed on to complete her book and it turned out really cute.

In other news, I spent a day getting my financials all budgeted away so I can get saved up for Memory Trends this September! I am so excited. I've got the summer to get my business licenses all in place so that I can buy my supplies at the convention in September and be ready for business in October. I've already got the domain name http://www.scrapsdelight.com/ and am busily working on my business plan. Speaking of business plans, it's like writting up a never ending report on a math book you read 20 years ago, in other words.....torture!

More news on Scrap's Delight to come.

The Crop Fairy

The Crop Fairy has been at it again and has left me with these two cute layouts. The papers are all from the new Love, Elsie line. The bit of black scalloped cardstock is Bazzil. They were quick and easy layouts to make and I think they might make a good class project. What do you think?