Milk and Biscuits

This week's contribution to Kim Klassen's class.
At least the shortbread was home baked.

White Box

I made myself a white box with translucent sides- the aim is to put small objects in it and use different light angles for photos. Here is one attempt done for Kim Klassen's class:

Garden Fresh

So much spinach in the garden. The leave look so healthy.

A few more pages

The winter was very wet and stormy so I didn't add much to the nature journal until spring.
The toad vanished over winter, but came back recently.

It's a long time since I added to my blog. A couple of weeks ago, I came across some digital journal backgrounds at http://www.cottagearts.net
They inspired me to create some extra backgrounds of my own as well as to use the pre-made ones. Here are a few pages I've made so far.

Wild Flowers

Wild flowers from Jersey CI
I used two textures by Kim Klassen: Aurora and Dusty Rose.

Getting Ahead

For Texture Tuesday 28th June. I'm getting ahead of myself, but as I have a few spare moments, I'll post this now. I used Kim's texture "Golden" set at "Colour" 48%,  and then "Stained Linen" set at "Darken" 71% and erased "Stained Linen" from the flower heads.

Texture Tuesday

In advance for next Tuesday. I took this photo at a local folk festival and this couple seemed mesmerised by the clog dancing. I thought they looked so sweet and relaxed in each other's company.
For this image, I used Kim Klassen's textures:
In The Pink set at Colour,
Grey Day Stone set at 22% and luminance,
Grey Day Stone set at 40% and luminance with centre erased to fade the background/ see more of the couple

Ham Hill

Time for Texture Tuesday at Kim Klassen's place. Two of her textures were used here; first "Golden" set at luminance to lighten the area under the word art, then two layers of "Stained Linen" again at luminance. The word art is by Tina Chambers from Digital Scrapbook Place. To finish it off, I added a frame.

Have You Seen My Goldfish? Freebie

It's a new little scrapping kit for you at 300ppi.

Here is the download LINK

Tools of the Trade

For Texture Tuesday 31/5 on Kim Klassen's site.
A photo from my greenhouse.
Using the texture "Breakfree", which already had the gardening-friendly word "soak", I added a couple of other words and used the texture first set at "colour" 79%, then again as a grunge border. I reduced the photo opacity on the right,layering it over a third copy of the texture.

Below is the original

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Chelsea Potter

For Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday. Yes, I know today is Wednesday, but if Barack Obama thinks it is 3 years ago, one day is nothing.
Here is a photo of a London pub. I used Kim's texture "Yesteryear", twice in fact and used sketch filters.

Wheels

I like to see wicker baskets on bikes. This is what I did with this one for Kim Klassen's challenge.
Photo A, Duplicate photo A then "Filter Forge photo effects Grunge, Nelly Nero action "Shabby Suicase" Kim Klassen texture "Breakfree at soft light and duplicate layer, inverting the texture the second time. Duplicate photo A then filter, coloured pencil 20% (this will become the top layer). I also blurred some of the outer parts of the photo.

Original photo

Hello

Just a quick post to say "welcome" to Linda and thanks for following my blog.

Time for Tea

Another "Texture Tuesday" at Kim's. This was a photo taken with my phone, so not the greatest quality, but using Kim Klassen's texture: "Golden" made it a more interesting. The main part of the process was to use the texture over the photo, set at hard light 87%. I added another photo layer emphasising the edges of the cup. A copy of the original, shows difference.

Cape Goosberry

I was concentrating so hard playing with this photo that I forgot to note down the method I was using. I used Kim Klassen's textures.

Seeds already!

A photo taken today in my garden (yes it has some weeds). Some of the dandelions are in seed already. I used Kim Klassen's latest freebie texture: "Serendipity". In case you are interested, this is what I did with the layers:
Photo, Serendipity using soft light at 65%, Serendipity using hard light at 22% with some deletion over seedhead.

Moth Orchid

More playing with adding textures by Kim Klassen to a photo.
Layer details: 1) Photo, 2) "Silence" Soft Light @100%, 3) "Silence" Multiply @ 90%, 4)"Sweettreat" multiply @100% with soft erasing over parts of flower.

Hellebore

Various hellebores are blooming in the garden now. One in particular has beautiful markings. I used Kim Klassen's texture: "Warmsun" in this.

Kim Klassen's blog party.

Kim Klassen produces wonderful textures and is generous in offering some of them free. I used "Camomile" to take part in her blog party.   http://www.kimklassencafe.com/
Here it is: