Shot of the Day...

Yes, it has been a crazy long time since I posted ANYTHING. Life... Anyhow, here is a shot of my oldest daughter before a performance at our Convention Center. This shot was taken at 6pm in the shade. I used my 50mm lens on the D90, f-stop used was 4.5, exposure 1/100th sec, white balance set to cloudy, no flash, ISO was set to 200.

I also edited this a bit in photoshop, by adding the vingette and bumping up the hue/saturation to a 7.

Tiffany Tillman's 25 Days of Summer Templates...

Here is my layout from my first lesson from Tiffany Tillman's Summer Template class. I am already behind, however...I do have a pretty good reason. That darn pink eye was almost gone and I was putting my last drops in...duh da duhn...and I put the wrong drops in my eye and had a major reaction. Swollen shut eyes, goop, red, and the white of my eye was even swollen taller than the iris. How in the heck does that even happen? So, off to the doctor, yet again, to get MORE Drop and antibiotics for this lingering cold I have had for almost a month!

The class so far is very fun, but I can't figure out how to post my picture to the gallery and am too tired tonight to figure it out. So, I am going to link it here from Renee Pearson's website.

I did learn something new today. When working with a template you can go to your image header in to the tool bar and flip the template anyway you want to get more use to it. You can also select individual layers within the template and do the same thing. Very handy little tool. I did just leave the template as is though.

Tutorial...creating a postage stamp for scrapbooking

I saw this posted in the general forum at Jessica Sprague's website. I didn't want to forget about it, so I am posting it here to try it out later when I have time. Maybe you might give it a shot too!

www.scrappersguide.com/Tips/090420_postagestamp_el.html

Jessica Sprague's 1st Photoshop Friday Tutorial...

This is a layout that I did from Jessica Sprague's first Photoshop Friday Tutorial. She taught me how to use the levels adjustment layer along with clipping a stroked outline to create the orange lined box that goes around the focal photos and the title. I did already know how to do this a different way, but she showed a new way to me. Pretty cool for a buck, not to mention the template.
Supplies used:
Used Jessica Sprague's 1st Photoshop Friday Tutorial and template
Papers used Crystal's Sweet SummerTime stripe no. 1
Circle Lables by Crystal W's Mini Labels
Flowers by Kitschy Vintage Flowers
NRJ Acrylic Overlay
Fonts used: Flouxitine, Sweet Blur, and Trajan Pro

The weather is finally starting to look a little more promising, and I hope to get out there and takes some photos. Tomorrow we are going to take the girls to the Strawberry Festival, so I am sure there will be plenty of great opportunities for cute shots.

Template

This is a template designed by Erin's Dreams called Happy Days that I was able to download for free from
www.shutterfly.typepad.com/digiscrap/

I have spent a good part of this evening trying to organize my digi supplies on my laptop! Wow, this is taking forever!!! So, I thought I would try out a page that all I had to do was insert some text and a photo. SO EASY!!!!

Gotta go check out these cute little frames....

If you get a chance check out these cute frames and enter yourself to win a set at
http://paisleepress.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-gallery-frames-giveaway.html .
Not to mention, the scrapbook pages here from her creative team are super cute and filling me with inspiration to get back to some scrapping.

Shot of the Day...

Here is yet another of my oldest daughter Kya. Those teeth of hers crack me up, funny how we morph into big people...starting with teeth it seems. I had to use a picture from the other day since my memmory card all of a sudden wasn't working. Strange. So, I still haven't bought a new one. I might have to take a trip to the store tonight.

This Wednesday at that Flicker group I joined last week
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1165599@N25/
they will be showing pictures of skylines. If anybody is interested you should come check it out and show off some of your handy work. I figure that anything that gets me out there shooting is a good thing, as Martha would say.