Fabulous freebie site...

I found a wonderful freebie site -

it's Kubivet

When you find a kit that you like you click to download, then put the number you see into the box and enter and then wait for the clock to count down and your download will start. It's amazing how fast you can figure out a foreign language when there's a free kit that you want. And be sure to check out the fairies and the cat kit!!

Figgy 08

Figgy 08

The Bella Rouge kit was a very dark red one and I thought about using a white background with the dark red strips of paper, but then I went looking through Kerr's kits for something else that might match and came up with this one and I really like the way the diamond background paper worked. I cut the strips of paper - using an odd number. Then I cut a mat out of another one of the papers and used it behind the photo. Then I just added the elements and lastly pulled the diamond background paper down and to the left! And this was the first time that I scrapped a photo that I took as RAW format.

Added Tools link

I have added links to the tools that I refer to when I make the LOs on the left hand side of the blog. The Wow styles (drop shadows and others) are in the edition of the book that I linked to on Amazon. The other sites all have fun tools to play with if you're interested in browsing...

Cat with no name...

Cat with no name...

Got to use the new magic selection tool in PSE 6 on this one. Surprisingly it works really well and I only had to round off a couple of jaggies when I was finished. Other than that I didn't put any drop shadow on the strips of paper behind the photo because I sort of wanted them to blend in and I even lowered the opacity on the flowered paper to get the look. I did add Wow drop shadows to the frame, lace, flower and bird however. I did use the healing tool to get rid of some of the lint that showed up in the cat's black fur!

Nifty new toy...

I recently found a fun action/effect that makes your LO ready for uploading to the web. It's Paint the Moon's Resize/Perfect for Web action for PS or PSE and can be found at Oscraps. I found for PSE that I only use a sharpeness of 20 and no extra saturation, but it saves me many clicks everytime I need to get something ready for the web!

Blackie

Blackie

I was off looking for a seamless tile filter (for free, of course) and I went to download the Redfield filter again because I wanted to make sure that it was compatible with Vista and what do I stumble across? This ultra cool Fractalius filter. And once I saw what people were doing with it I just had to have it! lol... One cool feature it has is a "dice" button that magically gives random settings that work better than my fooling around with it as this was one of the images it produced. As far as the LO goes I used the green background paper on the bottom and lowered the opacity a bit to let the sunflower paper show through. And I doubled the little sunflower by putting one on top of the other.

Beautiful Garden

Beautiful Garden

This was fun and easy to put together. Picked the QC and the photos. The rich brown colors in the kit seemed to work with natural types of photos. In order to cut the photos into the squares I used the magic wand with contiguous checked and then selected the "add selections" button and clicked on the additional squares in the template that I wanted to include in the photo. Then I Control J to pull the photo into the squares and moved the photo squares to the top of the template. I also used Wow Metal styles for the garden and Belligio Hotel journaling and looked for one that sort of matched the Beautiful word art.