I Stamped!! and a Brush Class Sample

It’s been days since I’ve made a card! I was behind on my CCEE challenge and the SCS challenges to boot! So this is a combo of “birds & bees”, color, sketch and today’s WT, pleats!

I stamped Our Daily Bread’s, Sing to the Lord, and colored with Copics, then airbrushed with the Spellbinder’s die in place.

I stamped the bees from Artful INKables, Thought I’d Bug You, on a strip of white cardstock and sponged it with Distress Dried Marigold and Peeled Paint, then scored it on my Scor-pal for the pleats.

My flower was close to the colors of my colored flowers, but it still needed a little something. I took the same Copic, Sardonyx, around the edges of the petals, then I spritzed it alcohol. Copics are alcohol based so this let the color bleed some. I kept up this process until I was happy with the color!
For the extra leaves, I swiped Peeled Paint on cardstock, spritzed it with water and scrunched it up good, flattened it out and hurried the drying process with my heat tool! Doing this gave the leaves the same texture as the flower.

*Designer tip…here’s another good tip! To get your layers to match your colored image, use one of the same markers you colored with to go around the edges of your layering piece. (bird layered this way)

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Another Jessica Sprague class, Brush*Abilities Day 4, using Photoshop brushes. Today we made our own grunge frame with a brush added. It was really easy to do! I just need more time to be able to play around with it…yeah, how many times have I said that!!

I added some WordArt from Elegant WordArt too.

Well, I’m off to start canning beans………ugh! Jared is heading out to pull all the yellow wax beans which means while the canner is going I’ll be picking off the yellows and the process starts all over again! Remind me that in Winter I’ll be thankful I did this!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Productive Garden and a Brushes Class

A picture says a 1000 words… so you can understand why I haven’t been very busy stamping and blogging! Yesterday I canned 14 qts of beans. This is my mission today…not that I wanted to accept it! I HAVE NO CHOICE!! 10 GALLONS! Lucky for me we had several huge thunderstorms pass through this morning so hopefully the garden will be too wet to pick the yellow wax beans!!

Sometimes the strangest things grow in the garden!

I just had to stick a couple googley eyes on this banana pepper! 

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Remember a few weeks back I was taking a photo editing course from Jessica Sprague? Yesterday I started another class of hers, Brush*Ablilities. Here’s today’s sample. I’m going to frame it and give to a friend going through a very hard time right now.

Busy for the next 2 weeks as our Champaign County Fair starts Friday and we’re there all week with the llamas!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

More Jessica Sprague Photo Editing!

We’re at the end of our classes, today was the last tutorial =(
I’ve really enjoyed learning all these cool techniques for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. All my pictures were taken with a Canon Rebel XTI and edited in PSE7

Let’s pick up where I left off…Day 10… creating your own clipping mask from a shape, then adding in your photo, two textures, a type overlay, some type in two fonts, and then finishing it off with the edge burning technique.

Day 11! Choosing a photo that has an object in clear view that you'd like to really highlight, while leaving the rest of the photo black and white. We used layer masks for this technique.

Day 12 One of the most popular professional techniques for framing up a set of photos is a storyboard. We learned how to create a three-panel storyboard of our own, including adding some text at the bottom. Again using those fun clipping masks!

And today, Day 13… creating a grid using clipping masks, and then really spicing it up with a brush.

And THEN…the BONUS! Sepia Tone on Multiple Photos, Selective Recolor and Type!!

How much fun is that!! Now I just need to find pics of each of the grandkids and make another one!!

I hope you’ve enjoyed looking as much as I’ve enjoyed making each one and sharing with you!!

This class came just at the right time…before our State Fair and County Fair llama shows AND before the garden gets too carried away! I canned 14 qts of green and yellow wax beans yesterday! The zucchini is producing like rabbits!! And it won’t be long till the tomatoes will be ready for …SALSA!!

Hope you’re having a fabulous day where you are!

Thanks for stopping!!

Dawn