A new sketch/templet!

So my only follower/friend has been so kind to let me scrap her son. Her son's name is also Xander :)

I made this layout titled Come fly with me from SAS Designs new kit named New Day should be released Oct 16- here.

From this layout I made a sketch for the paper girls and templet for the digi girls.

Sketch-

Download the templet here.

photo editing

Okay so just to share....

I love to photo edit. I wanted to help out some of those that don't do this often and wonder what is done to the picture to make it look like that. I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS3 if ya want to follow along.

Orginal picture-

my first step is always adjusting my levels-

From there I have selected the couch as it's my biggest distraction point, using quick selection tool. After its completely selected, I click select at the top, scroll down to inverse.

I click on Image at the top and scroll to adjust. Moving my curse over I chose Black & White and say okay to the default settings.

Although that makes it a little less distracting, its not enough for me. So with it still selected I chose Filters at the top and scroll down to Blur. Sliding my cursor over to surface blur. I chose to keep my blur fairly light as I'm not trying to cover the couch, just make it less distracting.

And last but not least I click on Image one last time and scroll to adjust-Hue/Saturation. I pull my saturation some to really give it the full color I'm looking for.

With out further ado-

Credits: Antique Film Frames by Julie Mead
Painted Wings by Julie Mead
Little Pretties Kit Designs by Laura Burger & Simply Scrap Designs

His birthday was last week....

I try to forget the sad days. Try to push them from my mind like a bad dream. I know a part of me will never forget. I relish the good memories but hate that its all so bittersweet.

My father is now 53, not much special about that to most I'm sure... just another year. For me its another year that he missed in my life, my kids life, his own life. I know he lived life to the fullest, but a part of me is still greedy. Still wishes for him to have more. For me to have more.

I know he lives on in me and in my children.......

Created using Punkified, Designs by Sassy.

New newsss

I got new newssss..... but ya gotta wait for it :P

I know

I've been a bad girl and haven't been blogging much... Sorry.

I don't have any really good excuses. The weather has been changing to fall here. I've been out walking around quiet a bit. Its helping my mood I think. Its a pretty country when you look threw the cracks. My neck has been killing me a lot so I finally sucked it up and got some BioFreeze. Anything that may help right?

Well, hubby's been teaching me to play Mass Effect on the Xbox 360. Its not bad, but I feel I am slow and suck. I feel bad like I'm wasting his time, no matter how hard I try. Oh well. He did help me with a scrappy layout :)