Whisper

A 'whisper' image for the  Beyond Layers course with Kim Klassen.  Taken in Scotland after a short holiday with lots of good weather when other parts of the UK were under water.  It's often the other way round!

Dandelion dance

Playing with colour

Another palette for Color me weekly. The extract from the letter is one written to my dad during WW2. I wonder what happened to the person who wrote it?

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New palette

Joining in with Color Me Weekly with this image, using a clipping mask and gradient adjustment layer.

New palette

Doesn't seem like a week since the last try at a palette! I'm joining in again with the
Color My Weekly challenge and learning a few new things on the way. This was taken in Scotland with an amazing variety of colours in the stone. Didn't look for spiders though!

In my garden

Trying out a new lens! Didn't see the cobweb until I saw it on the screen- the wind has made short work of it!

Anglesey honeysuckle

Real flowers!

Flower power

Playing with a flower and the magic wand - several layers and effects used. The pattern in the border was sampled from the image. The bugs will heave a sigh of relief ....

Old and new flowers

Two different uses of flowers - the first a macro image of a clematis with one of my textures, the second a small textile piece using dried, pressed hydrangeas, together with embellished cocoon strippings, stitches and beads added. But where has all the warm weather gone! Even the newly-planted sunflowers have taken a battering in the wind - and they are all part of a competition!

Cornflower

Trying out my macro lens!

Variations on a theme

Two altered images from the rose petal photo - one of these two will be printed onto fabric and stitched (at least that's the intention!). Don't know which I prefer. Hmm ...

Lilies

'Consider how the lilies grow ...'
Sometimes I miss the details - you don't have to go far to see things to enjoy! The first image is the original (sooc) the second has some textures added.
I bought a new tripod today, now I have to learn how to put it up!

Textures

A couple of photos using my textures. A reminder of sunny days!

Textured image 1

I always like to see the before and after images which folks put on their blogs and as I haven't mastered the mouseover , here is an image of tulips in the snow with two of my textures from the previous post. I should have given them names to make them easy to identify but they are easy to pick out I think.

The 'recipe' is -
Background image - tulips and snow
Copy of Background-Screen 90
Texture 1 - difference 69
Texture 2 - soft light 42
Soft light was applied then to the merged image.

Hope to show some more soon! Have a good weekend!

Paint box

We've watched in horror as the disaster unfolded in Japan and are holding the nation in our prayers. It puts problems into perspective and makes us realise we have a lot to be thankful for.

I've had the paints out this week to make some textures to use with photos - the last image is one of a Christmas decoration with one of my textures added. I'm playing about with some more. Hope you are all having a good weekend.

Swerving to orange and blue

A little experimenting with a nappy liner and Markal sticks fused onto brown paper - I'll use this as a background for something.



The embellisher got an airing with this one with some fme on top - again this will be incorporated into something else - to be decided!
I've also had a playing session with friends Kath and Mary making some fabric paper. Another little pile on the table!

Changing scenery

A change of scenery is sometimes a good idea, if only to see things from a different perspective!
Here's a part of a forest in Scotland which was taken on holiday last year and this is what I did with it (Background layer at bottom of stack) -

Copy 2 lighten 28
Sunset sky difference 100
red circular gradient difference 34
Copy 1 screen 92
Background photo

Increased saturation after merging

Hope you are all having a good weekend!