Coiled - 356+1

Snickerdoodle Designs- Outside my Window and Granny Finch's Garden

I don't suppose most people have a reel of coiled barbed wire in their garage, but we do!  And I remembered the barbed wire fence from the Snickerdoodles kit, perfect match!

365+1 - Fence

Snickerdoodle  Designs - Outside my window

There was no way I could get a fence photo today as it was dark by the time I got home.  So I'm using one I took at the weekend, you can see the fence at the end of the burn.  The 'fences' at the front of the layout are purely digital!

365+1 - Liquid

Kit - Snickerdoodle Designs, Outside my Window

This was rather an opportune prompt as we have been having a bit of work done in one of our fields.  The bankings of this burn (stream) are getting washed away and previous attempts to make a bridge did not last through winter storms and the high volume of rain we have had in the last couple of years.  So we decided it was time to get serious!  The contractor came yesterday and placed these concrete pipes in the water and surrounded them by huge boulders and sub-base.  It's not quite finished yet, but hopefully this will mean better access to the rest of the field for the tractors which means that the field can be used for crops as well as grazing cattle.

Snickerdoodle Designs Tutorial

I've been doing a little bit of testing for Karen Schultz of Snickerdoodle Designs.  Karen has produced a great tutorial for loading Layer Styles to Photoshop Elements, available in the Digital Design Den Newsletter this week, and before posting it she asked for some volunteers to try it out.

I've looked at layer styles, I've even downloaded them, but when I got near the settings in PSE I always backed out.  This tutorial is super easy and there is a version for every operating system and many versions of PSE. 

Karen also has a freebie of some styles so you can try out the tutorial,  why not pop over to her blog and have a look?

Here is a tag I made using Karen's Outside my Window Styles: