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    A Message From The Cat

    Very nice use of white space. Artsy and fun.
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    Our First Home

    I love how you've placed the B&W background photo above the photos of your home. Very nice.
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    Sweet Girl

    Definitely a sweet expression. I love the B&W choices you've made.
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    Entry to the Catacombs

    Very nice. Simple elegance. What a fabulous trip you had.
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    Look Mom!

    Very cute LO. I'll bet the little one slept well that night.
  6. Thanks to Valerie Randall's "Fish Digital Stickers" and "Beachin", here's my rendition of the ocean. Technique: "Water Color & Oils" 1. Background paper recolored slightly. 2. Picture of my daughter standing on the beach extracted. Her image then had a "cutout" filter applied. 3. The mermaid fin is just made by creating my own shape. I then filled it with a transitional green from light green to bright green. Finally, a chalk filter and then a sparkle filter is applied. 4. The sea grass is made with a watercolor paintbrush and my new Waco tablet. Actually only one blade was made. It was then just duplicated multiple times. Each blade was then distorted in different ways as well as different hues given. About 8 blades were then connected as one layer. This layer was then duplicated, reversed, lowered downward, and distorted again slightly so that it looks like all blades of grass are different. The bottom line effect is two separate layers of about 8 blades of grass each. 5. One layer of grass is placed behind the photo of my daughter and one in front of it so that there's the illusion she's walking through a field of sea grass. 6. A colored pencil filter was applied to each layer of grass. 7. The digital fish stickers were placed between the two layers of grass. Some were duplicated and recolored to match my color scheme. 8. The treasure chest and final overlay came from another site. Program: Microsoft Digital Image Font: None
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    Letters

    I'm laughing hysterically. Very cute photo.
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    Glasses

    Very elegant LO. I love the artistically placed elements.
  9. Very artsy. I love the colors on the aged black and white.
  10. Very cute! I think all of us have been there with a child who didn't want a picture taken with a character. Your LO gave me a chuckle.
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    Love

    Very sweet smile. Great LO with lots of artistic complexity.
  12. I am so excited to try "painting" on my digital layouts. My husband bought me this huge Wacom Intuos pad for Christmas and I'm just now trying it out. It's fabulous! The LO is a lift from Ashley Calder's "Today" as published in Somerset Memories, Feb/Mar 2008, page 77. Unfortunately, I can't give proper credit on the papers because I changed computers and upgraded to Vista. When I did, the file folders got screwed up and I don't know where anything came from. Technique: 1. Use wide sweeping brush strokes in white over the background paper. Choose a brush which looks like a white-washed fence. Afterwards apply a "glow" filter. 2. Use various colors of green for the grass in narrow stokes. Then apply a wide watercolor brush to paint in the peaks. Afterwards apply a color pencil filter. 3. For the car and plane, use a narrow brush for the outline and then color in with a wider water color brush in a lighter color. 4. Use a water color brush in brown for the road. 5. The house is merely a long rectangle with the door and windows cut out and then filled with a background paper. There is an art stroke edge applied to it next. 6. The windows and doors are then separate shapes filled in and then layered behind the house. 7. The triangle roof is made from the same elements around the photo. I believe these came from another website. 8. The awning has a skewed shadow to give it a pointing outward appearance. Its shape is derived by making a rectangle and then giving it a stamped border. The shape that I need is then cutout and filled in with the paper. 9. For the swirls, a watercolor filter is applied and then tiny bits of color are cutout by using the color wand. Then the entire swirl is filled with black and then a final charcoal filter is applies to give it a more stamped look. Program: Microsoft Digital Image
  13. I like this two-pager. Adding a photograph of a baseball is a great embellishment here.
  14. Hum, that reminds me. It's 5:00 o'clock! Great colors and lots of fun in this LO.
  15. I love the beauty of this LO. Very nice. I'd guess your mother's age to be about 12 though. Girls didn't mature as fast in the 1920's. But perhaps each generation says that just because the older we get, the younger everyone else looks.
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