One of the things that I have been anxiously waiting for has finally happened! It is so exciting... Enchantment Studio Scraps has finally fully opened its doors!!! The Shoppe, Forum, all of it! You are just one click away from pure magic! Of course because I am about useless in the techie department, I have no idea how to put a link to ESS on here. I've seen so many blogs and sites that you just click on the word "here" and it hooks you right up. If they had an adult ed class to learn that stuff in this tiny little village of my residence, I would so be enrolled! I am going to try to get the info and install it in my sidebar when I do.
Another thing I have been WAY excited about, is photo's from the past. My past!!! When I was a baby and toddler! They are sooo cute! I'm not being egotistical, when I look at them it isn't myself that I see. I see my kids, sisty's kids, both of our grandkids! It's a very exciting connection to the past and the present that I've really been missing! Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), there is a lot for me to scrap about! The coolest part about having Photoshop, whatever edition you may have, it gives you the ability to bring together people and places that in reality could never be. Now I'm being driven by my heart, fueled by my imagination.
The following are the tip of the iceberg on my journey to where the past meets the present. They aren't all remarkable in that way, I do like to participate in the occasional Speed Scrap or other challenge where the instructions just aren't suitable. I'm having a good time none the less!
This first layout was way fun to do! I started with a B&W photo of myself as a wee one standing in the large front yard of my childhood. It was necessary for this project to work, to tint everything sepia. I have a photo of my grandson Noah in which he is sitting just perfectly, and his outfit was near perfect! After a couple of misses, I finally got a nice extraction and sat him down in the grass next to me and tried to judge the size to be realistic.(we are both about the same age in the photo's) I was going to stop there, merge the two layers, crop it, and scrap it.....then an idea occurred to me. There was a lot of space left....what if I could find a similar picture of his momma (my daughter)! I found a good one. Her outfit wasn't summery but the rest was spot on. I went for it and this is the result!
This next one was just a bit of fun I was having. There is an extraction in it but it is very poorly done! I also don't use premade "alpha's" as a rule. They are very time consuming, so much to upload and if you want it nice and neat you have to use a grid....they are just a pain and for myself, not worth the trouble. This layout's title called out and begged me to use this cute apple alpha. At least it wasn't a Speed Scrap! LOL The whole idea for this layout came from looking at the picture on the right and seeing that my sisty looked exactly like her daughter Carolyn at the same relative age. So I put Carolyn and her twin sister up against sisty and me and I dare anyone to tell me there is no resemblance!
This one is kind of hard to explain because it's very personal. It's basically a look back to that time of innocence, still in the cocoon of my family's love and protection, before the real world found me.
This one was done for a Speed Scrap that I just lucked out in. My PhotoShop was already loaded up with a project that I had begun when I realized it was time for the Speed Scrap. Each one of the 7 instructions fell into place for me to go along with what I'd already begun. Just so I didn't feel guilty because I had sort of "started early" I went for 2 more extractions, leaving this layout with a total of 3 extractions and 2 photo blends.
The background photos are of myself (L) and my husband Jimmy (R). In the small photograph, from L-R are Donald Urquhart (b:11/20/48),Jimmy Urquhart (b:2/15/48),Janet (AJ) Urquhart (b:11/26/53). The photo was taken around, near Bakersfield CA. Donald and Jimmy were brothers, born 9 months, 5 days apart. I was born and raised in Michigan, but 3 of my kids were born in California.
I had other plans for this picture, but again, a Speed Scrap! Never got to load this on onto the site either. Aaarrrrgghhh! I just hate when that happens! My grandson was having his pizza party so I knew that I had less time than normal and the instructions called for something my computer doesn't like (7 different papers) and some thing I don't like (alpha's) especially during a SS! Plus this was a new site that I'd never worked on before. Well, somehow I managed to get it all finished, then came the techie stuff.....on a new site.....I accidentally copied the link code instead of the image code and just as I realized my error....knock, knock.....my time was up! Time to go celebrate with my grandson!
I had other plans for this picture, but again, a Speed Scrap! Never got to load this on onto the site either. Aaarrrrgghhh! I just hate when that happens! My grandson was having his pizza party so I knew that I had less time than normal and the instructions called for something my computer doesn't like (7 different papers) and some thing I don't like (alpha's) especially during a SS! Plus this was a new site that I'd never worked on before. Well, somehow I managed to get it all finished, then came the techie stuff.....on a new site.....I accidentally copied the link code instead of the image code and just as I realized my error....knock, knock.....my time was up! Time to go celebrate with my grandson!I do think that this is a Super Fantastic and Fun Family Foto! It's from March 1954, I'm the one in the blankie!
No comments:
Post a Comment