Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tangerine Dream
I love the bright bold colors of this kit that Karen and I designed together under our AnnKa label. It's February here and although it's been a remarkably easy winter to date (especially after the monster record-braking snows of last year), it's still winter. Dark early, often cloudy and grey. So it was a delight to design with these colors.
It contains 19 papers and 79 elements, a wealth of creative choices as you can see from the layouts done by our joint creative teams.
It's on sale for 25% off for its release at
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Photography by Clemens
My husband was up bright and early both mornings this weekend to catch the frost on the ground before it melted. I, on the other hand, was sitting at the kitchen table in my fuzzy old bathrobe and slippers watching him.
Dressed in heavy jacket, hat and scarf, he was kneeling on the ground to get these shots of ice crystals on weeds and scattered leaves. At one point, he hung the camera from the bottom of the tripod to get it closer to ground level. Wonderful patience, a new camera and lens and a life-time of photographic experience really paid off. I just love these photos and hope you will too.
Since I wasn't out there kneeling in the frost with Clemens I didn't have any recent photographs for my weekly Beyond Layers Homework in Kim Klassen's class. (Yes, we can use earlier photos but I just couldn't seem to find the right one. Our homework this week was to take a photo and using photoshop give it a "painterly" effect using adjustment layers and textures.
So it was off to the local arboretum with Clemens this morning to start shooting. In the end I chose a colorful floral shot. My aim was to give it an a painterly effect similar to those that I've seen on old cracked and crazed paintings that I've found in antique stores. Here's the results.
Dressed in heavy jacket, hat and scarf, he was kneeling on the ground to get these shots of ice crystals on weeds and scattered leaves. At one point, he hung the camera from the bottom of the tripod to get it closer to ground level. Wonderful patience, a new camera and lens and a life-time of photographic experience really paid off. I just love these photos and hope you will too.
Since I wasn't out there kneeling in the frost with Clemens I didn't have any recent photographs for my weekly Beyond Layers Homework in Kim Klassen's class. (Yes, we can use earlier photos but I just couldn't seem to find the right one. Our homework this week was to take a photo and using photoshop give it a "painterly" effect using adjustment layers and textures.
So it was off to the local arboretum with Clemens this morning to start shooting. In the end I chose a colorful floral shot. My aim was to give it an a painterly effect similar to those that I've seen on old cracked and crazed paintings that I've found in antique stores. Here's the results.
Monday, February 13, 2012
A Moment in Time
I am so excited to introduce this wedding personal use/scrapfor hire kit, a collaboration with Laurel Janette Scrap Designs, known to you here and throughout the digiworld as itsjanw. What a delight to work with Jan.
As always the CT team has outdone itself providing you inspiration and showing you the kit's versatility.
Dianne
Helene
itsjanw
Dodiegonzales
Dianne
Helene
Ariadne
Jean Ann
Taztang 68
Taztang68
Zanthia
Zanthia
itsjanw
itsjanw
And it's on sale for its release at 25% off in all of my stores.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Soft Snow Falling
We've had an amazingly warm and open winter, so this morning's soft snow was a delight. I woke to an inch of snow gently coating the trees and lawns. I enjoyed my morning coffee and then was out and about the yard trying to capture this elusive beauty. Thank heavens, that I was, as it was almost completely melted by mid-morning.
But I was able to capture some scenes in our back yard and an image that I used for my Beyond Layers Homework assignment.
My finished image was very close to the original that I shot. A little cropping, some very subtle texture (actually 4 different texture layers in overlay blend mode at very low opacity, just because I was playing and having fun), and a gradient map (part of this week's assignment) and a hue/saturation adjustment layer. After all of that you could hardly tell the original from this image except for the cropping!
And here is a melting snow dripping off a 1/2 inch long ice crystal that Clemens photographed. He was a little slower drinking his coffee but got out there in time for some beautiful snow shots and then for the melting. He was able to get a fantastic video of a super closeup of water dripping off a branch. Of course, he maintains that he was just waiting for the battery to be fully charged. And of course, the light changed to green just as he finished getting ready.
And a few more that he took:
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- I'm a scrapbook addict. I've been involved with digital scrapabooking since July 2009, when my daughter introduced me to her favorite hobby. When I'm not scrapbooking (hmm, when exactly is that?), I'm enjoying life with my family including my two daughters and two grandsons, my husband Clemens and my Cavalier Spaniel, Vinnie. My hobbies include photography, reading, biking, and hiking.
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