Look Book Challenge 4

For the Look book challenge #4: Journal sideways. I agree with Maria, journaling sideways is a fun, surprising twist - something I arrived at quite by accident and like to put into use every once in awhile.

For those of you commenting on my last post, I want to say how touched I am at your well wishes. Yes, I am facing something that has been a problem for months now, Yes, I will need surgery, yes, it is almost certainly benign. When faced with that dare, on that day, that was the first question that came to mind, outloud, in my head, that I was afraid to ask (just like the challenge, well, challenged me to do.) I won't know anything more for a couple weeks, but your good vibes are certainly more than welcome and SO appreciated!

tonya

Dare No. 60

Effer Dare No. 60: The question you are afraid to ask.

Wow, what timing, especially since I found out yesterday I have to have surgery.

Dare No. 59

For the Effer Dare No. 59: mixing black & white and color photos. Sort of a little cheat as I did this layout last night before I saw the challenge. But since I regularly mix B & W and color pics in the same layout, it wasn't surprising this layout already incorporated this technique. Also used a pretty amazing action from Shalae Tippets at scrapgirls.com that automatically adds stitching around ANY object. I've been doing this in PS for awhile, but never has it been so EASY. Play the action and you're done. Who doesn't like easy?

This LO is about Shade's vball tourney last weekend. They played for 3 straight days and came in 3rd out of 28 teams! Just rocked the weekend as the teams they played were really good.

Enjoy your 'fin de semana' everyone! (Can you tell I am taking Spanish classes?)

t

Look Book Challenge 3

For the latest Look Book Challenge. This one a little tougher, and while I had good intentions, don't know if I hit it. The challenge: Look at a room in your house... or your overall decorating style and use it for inspiration on your next layout.

How is this my overall decorating style? My walls are the ochre color, I'm known to draw on them (yep, whenever I want!), I collect stars and display them throughout and art is important to me. Does this look like my house? No, not really, but it was inspired by it, so I'll take it.

Great idea for a challenge - made me think and stretch. Always good.

Edited to answer a post:
I used a filter by Alien Skin called SnapArt that does this (as well as a lot of other cool stuff). You have many options to play with to get just the look you want. Photoshop also has a filter called Poster Edges that will get really close to this look, just less options to play with. I have used it in the past for similar looks before I had the SnapArt. Also, if you search for a "Scanner Darkly" effect, you should be able to find some tutorials (I know photojojo.com has one) for the drawing it all yourself method. It's named for the movie "A Scanner Darkly" where the whole movie was done this way. "Posterize" in Photoshop also does it, but it's very limited and the effects are much rougher. Lots of options to try!
Hope this helps!

More Lens Baby

Another photo, this time using the star aperture. Love this addition to the Lens Baby arsenal. Gonna' have fun getting to know the ins and outs and getting the results I can envision.