Happy Times

Happy Times

After lifting a number of these types of LOs I finally decided to try one on my own. There was tons of blending and using soft and hard light on layers, but the two things that are hard to see are that I put a sun burst underneath all the elements with only half of it on the page - radiating out to the middle of the page with opacity lowered to where it just brightened up the blue background. And then I put the bubble over the black and white photo to give it more of an ornament look. Both are elements in the kits that I used. They were SussieM's Happy Island and Take me to the Old World.

The quiet path...

The quiet path...

I took this photo a couple of years ago when we were lucky enough to all spend some time together. Finally I found a kit to use it with. After I extracted the photo I made four copies of it. Bottom copy was hard light and the top three are soft light. Then I played around with opacity to get the feeling I wanted with the background paper. The light for the lamp is several copies all soft light with again opacity played with. Several of the elements in the cluster are also soft lighted. I made the frame by taking another background and cutting it out. To make it darker I used the burn tool - set at 50% and burned until I liked the color. There are three kits used here, Take me to the Old World - one each by SussieM, Lily Designs and Lotta Designs as well as freebies found on their blogs.

Autumn

Autumn

This was just an assortment of elements and clusters. I did change the color of the word art by clicking on the lock transparency and then coloring with my brush. Also, made that layer soft light and lowered the opacity. Gave some of the single elements some soft drop shadows as well. Most of my time was spent trying to get the various parts of the LO to look the right depth through sizing. Kits used are Take me to the Old World by Lily Designs and Cozy Kit by Jofia Devoe.

By the Sea

By the Sea

This one is very simple. A groupie with a couple of element additions. Photo in background is blended using soft light and the erasing around the edges with a soft eraser set at about 35% opacity. Font is Water Street.

This Moment

This Moment

I just love the beach and I'm always looking for good beach kits. So when I saw Sea Side and the matching kit Playing with Overlays 5 by Natali Designs I just had to have them. I will be using these kits for other LOs and I may even scraplift something using this kit because I'm way behind on that resolution at the moment.

Age One

Age One

Another lift for practicing! I used Lullaby by Birgit Kerr. I lifted the first example LO with a couple of minor changes. Ran the photo through the PhotoBlast Midnight Color Pro and made the title with Atomic Cupcakes Acrylic Action. Links for both on left side of this blog.

Easter '05

Easter '05

This is a scraplift of an example given for this kit where it is for sale. (Click on the 9th page after the pop-up window appears.) The kit is The Grass is Green II by Jofia Designs. I'm trying to continue my scraplifting in order to add to my style...