October Color Challenge-DSO

I participated in Kim's color challenge on the DSO site again, this month. I look forward to this each month and find it such a fun challenge to create something from the 5 colors that Kim gives us. Please click on the preview image to download my mini kit and enjoy. If you create something with it, I'd love to see it.

October finds me quilting on a new baby quilt that I'm pretty excited about finishing. I'm working on the actual quilting part now and hope to have it finished this month. That's the goal anyway.

My goal to learn Photoshop, this year, is still progressing in a forward direction. YES!!! I no longer go back to Photo Impact because I'm frustrated with Photoshop. Another YES!!! Creating scrapbook pages from family pictures gives me such pleasure. Sure better than just viewing pictures in a photo album.

Kims Sept Color Challenge

What the heck causes a person to become so obsessed with Kim's Color Challenges that nothing else gets done until it's completed. HA! Well, at least I got the bills paid. WHEW! Otherwise, I'd be putting this kit together, with my laptop and sitting on the front sidewalk and hoping that a neighbor brings me a Starbucks Green Tea Soy Latte. ANYHOO....I'm done and, once again, had a wonderful time putting it together. Each month, I spend learning more and more about Photoshop and realizing that the kits, papers and elements are going together easier all the time.

Now I can begin a new baby quilt that I'm just "itching" to start.

I hope you enjoy my kit and I'll put on a happy face if I see a comment or two. Please click on the thumbnail to download my Sept kit.

Uppercase Living fun

OMG!! It's been a whirlwind of fun with girlfriends, Judy and Danna visiting. Eating, shopping, computer and photoshop practicing. We have all learned so much. And today we put up some Uppercase Living wording in a few places in my house. I LOVE IT!! They add so much to an area. This one is a picture of the entry into my living room. Above the entry it says "It's Good to Be Home".

We, actually started out in the kitchen with Bon Appetit on the back splash of my stove top. The surface is Silestone and it applied with no problem at all.

To add a warm feeling to the front door, I placed a "Welcome".

It sure was easy to apply these. I can't wait to put "CREATE" in my computer room next. Check out Uppercase Living at Danna's site listed on side of my blog.

A New QP for Kim's CC

I'm getting ready to have some girlfriends (Judy and Danna) come visit this coming weekend and am so excited. We will be eating, shopping and playing with Photo Shop. YIPPEE SKIPPEE!! We always come away with so many ideas and tips when we all get together. Not to mention the DSW shoes that will be added to our collections. hehehe Oh, and Danna, who is a demonstrator for Upper Case Living, will be helping me put up some quotes on my walls. I'm pretty excited about that. Check out her website link, on the side bar. I'll post pictures after they are done.

SO, in between DH's birthday and getting ready for my friends, I have made a QP using my kit. Help yourself to it and I hope you can use it.

Kims August Color Challenge

I'm back from a wonderful cruise to Alaska taken on a Stern Wheeler called the Empress of the North. This is our 2nd cruise on this small ship and we've loved doing it each time. The first was down the Columbia and Snake Rivers in Oregon. But this Alaska cruise was spectacular. I took a helicopter ride so that I could walk on a glacier one day. Then hiked with an armed guide through the forest to watch bears catching salmon another day. The bears were so close that it was scary. Fifteen whales played around our ship made for some great camera shots! And I've seen more eagles that I've ever seen in my life. So, if you get a chance, be sure to visit Alaska.

I jumped right into doing another Color Challenge for DSO and Kim. This is the kit I came up with after spending days and days in Photoshop as I continue to get through my learning curve. Hope you enjoy it and be sure to go to DSO to get other submissions. Kim even gives a free mini kit for layouts, kits or quick pages.
Click on the preview to download.

Lynn's July Color Challenge

Oh gosh, I'm having just too much fun with these color challenges this month. Lynn at DigitalArts-Cafe has a challenge with wonderful colors called Sunny Dance. I put together a QP for it, to share. Click on the preview to download.

More From Friends

I get luckier every day. Yesterday, another close friend and struggling PS user sent me a QP she put together using my July AND June CC kits. If this keeps up, we'll end up with a mini album. Remember though, these are 8x8's since that's the size that myself and my friends use. I'll have to retrain them to do 12 x 12's. HA! And you KNOW how hard it is to retrain friends. hehehe Click on the images to download.



I'm also sharing some papers that I put together yesterday while playing around with overlays and then adding color. As I've said before, PS is all new to me so I'm still in the learning curve. This exercise with overlays gave me some good practice.



Here comes the heat wave outside. Good day to stay inside & out of the bad air quality we're having because of the heat and the fires still burning our beautiful forests here in Calif. So Sad.