Dare to dream

Dare to dream

First thing I did was to filter the photo - I believe that I used Photoblast Color Wash Pro. But the idea was to tone down the bright colors in the photo to match the more muted colors in the LO. Then I cut the strip out of one of the background papers. Feed the star strip through the heart cutout by making two copies of the star element and putting the heart cutout inbetween. Then I erased the part I wanted on the top star element and added drop shadow to the bottom one.

Looking cool....

Looking cool...

This was such a fun template to play with. I cut the swirls out of one of the background papers. And the other things I did on this one was to lower the opacity on the "wish" button and put a dark blue stroke on the font to make the yellow pop a little better.

In front of the Spamalot sign

In front of the Spamalot sign

To make this LO I did a fair amount of lowering the opacity or blending. First of all the star background paper had its opacity lowered and then I cut a piece of the darker background and lowered the opacity of the photo on top of it. I also lowered the opacity on the brown paper in the blue circle. I used the create warped text font tool to make the journaling inside the circle. Other than that I just arranged the elements after making the squares to frame everything on.

Playing Monopoly

Playing Monopoly

Okay... this one was pretty much putting the elements into place. I wanted to do a LO with the large flowers and the photo smaller. I'd seen some like it in galleries. I also lowered the opacity on the shadow flowers in the background and the leaves and the smaller ladybug in order to make the yellow and white flowers stand out more.

Summer '95

Summer '95

This one is very straight forward. The only thing that I did other than arrange elements was to make the glitter frame a little larger so that the really heavy edge isn't seen on the page... then I also lowered the opacity of it just a smudge. I also picked the color for my journaling text from the green glitter too, making it just a touch darker.

So fun...

So fun...

Yikes! I hate falling behind! I decided to try to catch up on the challenges and now I'm behind on blogging and everything else!! Anyway.... I'll try to catch up over the next couple of days here! First off, I used two copies of the photo with the heart in between. Extracted the top of my son's head in front of the heart. There were some spots of the blue high chair still in his hair so I used the clone tool to make them the same color as his hair. Then I put a copy of the bling swirls on either side of the ribbon that I cut out of the pink paper and erased the ones on top that I wanted to look behind. Other than that I lowered the opacity on the little journaling tag.

Christmas '95

Christmas '95

First I used Photoblast Sun Kissed Pro effect on the photo and I applied the paint by light feature twice on Mason. I then rotated the swirly element, lowered the opacity on it and added the flowers. Then I cut the background papers, using the templates and added the star overlay just under the side circles. I added drop shadows to everything except the swirly element and the butterfly.