New Kit by Sunflowers Designs

Sunflowers Designs has a great new kit out just in time for Valentine's Day! Lots of fun and romantic elements to fit most any layout style!

Here are the two layouts I did with them!

Forever in Love
2 Love Is 2 Be by Sunflowers Designs

Full of Love

2 Love Is 2 Be by Sunflowers Designs

Hope your week is off to a great start.

Two New Bracket Albums at CVD

Two of my bracket albums were released yesterday at Creative Victorian Designs. The first one is from the Gallant Intentions kit and the second one is from Perpetual Mischief. I had a lot of fun working both of them, they have such a great selection of unique elements it made the pages so easy to put together.









I've been busy scrapping lots of layout for the After Five Designs January Challenges. I must say these two layouts were a lot of fun and turned out just how I hoped (wish that happened every time)! The colors in both designs are some of my favorites!

Dreams Come True

Light up the Night kit - January A5D Collab

Resolutions

Live, Laugh, Love by Createwings Designs

More layouts to come! Hope you had a great weekend!

Great New Kit from Sunflowers Designs

Sunflowers Designs is giving away a gorgeous new kit called Mellow for free for one week! I already downloaded it and finished a layout with. Here's a preview of it



Here's the layout I did with it.



She also has a great sale going on now until Jan 21st.



Enjoy your weekend!

Lighting Class

I just finished watching the first lesson on Lighting by Rosanne Olson at the Creative Techs live web classroom. This week she went over using natural lighting for portrait photography. She is a fantastic teacher and I learned alot in just this one class. She recommended getting a stryofoam mannequin head to use for practicing lighting techniques. They are relatively inexpensive and allow you to learn how light falls on the human face. She spent a fair amount of time going over the importance of learning to identify the direction of light in photos. Mainly through the placement of catch lights in the eye and shadows on the face, specificly the nose. I was very interested in her discussions on using reflected to fill in the dark areas on the face for the proper effect. I can't wait to practice using a fill card to reduce the shadows. Can't wait for our next class!

I recently was chosen to join A-liya's CT team. I've always loved her work and I already have quite a few of her kits. I worked with her latest kit and finished up two pretty layouts. The kit should be coming out soon. I also did another two layouts for Sunflowers Designs, plus a bracket album for Creative Victorian Designs! Busy, busy, busy!!!

Hope you are having a warm sunny week!

Contest

I got the most beautiful kit at After Five Designs as part of their On the House Challenge. It's called Vintage White by Lily Designs. WOW! Is it every gorgous. I couldn't get over the number of elements included in the kit. Here's my the layout for the challenge.

A Day Without Rain

Vintage White and White Chocolate by Lily Designs

I also did another layout using K Studio's Pomegranate Twist. I so love this kit as it has lilacs in it. I am so enamoured with lilacs. Plus the colors are to die for! :)

Curious

Pomegranate Twist by K Studios

I watched the John Greengo photography show today. He was talking with Rosanne Olson about her photography work. Talk about inspiring. Her black and white photographs were amazing. I was very impressed with her use of blur to add focus to her images. The effect was very powerful. It's funny how we are told again and again to get everything in focus and once we have that figured out, they go and change the rules! ;) I am really looking forward to the start of her four week class on lighting next week.

Hope today finds your full of happiness!

Busy Scrapping

Well today I decided to work a bit on some embroidery projects that had been building up while I've been so busy scrapping. I actually made some pretty good progress so I rewarded myself by doing another fantasy layout. I'm really happy with this one. It has a very similar feel to the one I just complete, but on this one I tried to incorporate a few more whimsy elements.

Wonders of the Forest

Flitting Fall Faeries, Drifting Snow and Flying Dreams by Lorie Davison

Today was the first day of the Creative Techs Photoshop CS4 Handbook. Looks like it going to be a great class with lots of details on working with Photoshop from a photographer's point of view! All these photoshop classes have really helped pumped up my skills and move my layouts to the next level. Now I just need to get an updated version on PS and I will be all set!

Hope you have a fabulous week!

New Layouts

I've been busy this weekend. I did three more new layouts. I've been trying to expand my style a bit. I have several kits by Lorie Davison and K Studios that are more outside my typical scrapping style and I've really wanted to push my boundaries a bit. Here they are!

Live the Life

Drifting Snow and Flitting Fall Faeries by Lorie Davison

Perfectly Imperfect

Pomegranate Twist by K Studio

My Happiness

One and Only by Mystique

Hope your staying warm on this very cold winter day!