Andrew's Birthday Card

Now that the birthday is past, I thought I'd show you the card I made for Andrew. I had all kinds of ideas about what I would do, bought a new Stampotique stamp and then never used it!

In the end I decided to do a bit of Photoshopping on a photo of Andrew to make an Andy Warhol type image. The chippie piece is by Tando Creative at Bubbly Funk Shoppie painted with gesso then coloured with Sakura pens to match the images. I added a little key that I got in my Secret Santa swap from the lovely Di Oliver.

Here is the digital image.

Impressionist

Over on Digital Craft Cottage there was a link to an Impressionist Plug-in for Photoshop Elements. This is my first attempt at creating an Impressionist image. You can see the original photo further down my blog.

HS:MS -SPS I'm back!

Here is my Self-portrait in 'coloured pencil stylee'. I was struggling to take this as it was bitterly cold outside and my eyes kept watering. Decided to mess with the picture in PSE -mind you, I think the lines round my eyes look worse in coloured pencil than they do in the original photo!

Birthday Card

My MIL asked me to make a card for a friend's little girl. The paper is from Carol Ann Studio, Patchwork Petals CD which I stitched round the edge. I was very pleased with my letters as I created them by uploading the spotty paper from the same CD onto Photoshop Elements and then created a new layer on which I typed an 'open' font, so the paper showed through. I stuck them on cardboard and cut them out then inked the edges. I didn't do that with the '3' though, it is chipboard from Bubbly Funk Shoppie which I covered with the same paper.

No pictures today

I didn't take any pictures on Christmas Day, there were too many sorry souls with the cold - red noses, bleary eyes, I just couldn't do it to them. My sister took some pics on Boxing Day when we visited my family and she is going share them with me, so I might get some to post in a day or so.

I had a lovely Christmas, got my Crop-a-dile, but haven't played with it yet. The Organised Scrapbooker book - I live in hope! I also got two books on Adobe Photoshop Elements, so now I will have to get down to mastering this programme so I can start to digi-scrap (that should be less messy). I got a beautiful pink cardigan and a pink and grey striped jumper from my Mum, it is lovely and soft and pretty, DVDs of old musicals that I love and a CD of James Taylor's greatest hits. And lots of chocolate, my great aunt gave me some chocolate covered mango slices from Hotel Chocolat - OMG they are fantastic.

Made a big pot of 'left overs' soup today and just going to make the supper using left over ham. Even though we still have stuff left, I had to go to Tescos today for milk, and it was mobbed.