I'm still slowly plugging away at Jessica Sprague's class.
The lesson for day 5...uhmmm.. today was actually day 14, but I'm on day 5... well, anyhoo, day 5's lesson was on adding texture. She gave us many options and recommended this combo of old tin type, crumpled brown paper, and grungy tea-stained-looking texture. I think it lovely.

This is a close-up of my lilacs last year. The lilac hedge was loaded last year. I think it must have been too dry this past winter because there was hardly a bloom this year. I missed them.

Ladybugs!

Check out this little video
Do you think referrals are headed our way?


I was able to finish lesson 4 today. Masks. grungy edges. Fun.



This little guy was very proud of his blueberry bounty.


Peace,
Beeb

Learning new tricks

I’ve taken on a little project of late – one of many actually, but this one is enjoyable ☺
I’ve started a free class with Jessica Sprague who is an amazing digital scrapbooker and as it turns out an amazing teacher as well. The class is called Photo Editing: Frame-Ups & Special Effects.
See, one of my goals during “the wait” is to learn to edit my photos by using my new Photoshop Elements 6– I came across this free class while perusing the web looking for some free tutorials on editing. If you know of other great resources, please let me know.

Here are examples from the first three lessons.



Lesson 1 taught us to use PNG files and word art




Lesson 2 – Brushes! Who knew?

This is sweet amazing Sophie who passed away last week after a long and happy life- she will be missed!

Lesson 3 – frames and hand-tint. Put 2 & 3 together and amazing things happen.




Now I need to get to work... She just sent day 6 lesson and I've only completed 3! Good thing I can work at my own pace.