butterflies

My lovely blogfriend Deb Turtle is collecting butterflies for the Houston Holocaust museum for a planned exhibit of butterflies to represent the 1 500 000 children who died during the holocaust.  Read all the details in her post here.

Deb asked her friends to contribute using their medium of choice.  So I opened up PSE and set to playing with some digital art

I’m going to print them out at 5 x 7, back them with plain coloured paper and cut each out.

As Rinda said in her butterfly post – this is set to become a blog event.  Looking forward to seeing butterflies all over the blogasphere in coming months.  Thanks Deb for the prompt.

Storytelling Sunday – the chocolate fountain

A kilo of chocolate in the chocolate fountain seemed like an awful lot of chocolate but with 15 people and bowls of marshmallows, plum, apricot and orange it soon disappeared. 

Joining up with Sian’s Storytelling Sunday – the photo and a few words version. 

how to summarise a fabulous month in NZ

a quiet day for the last day of my holiday and some time to play in PSE to create some summaries

I entered the names of all the people I saw, places I went and things I did into wordle then copied into PSE to create an image I can print like a photo.  (and yes I spotted mis spellings as soon as I deleted the text document!!).

Then I listed some numbers – I like to count things.  I used the colour picker in PSE to make the font the same colours as in the wordle.

These will go into my Project Life pockets (when they are available in the UK) along with lots of photos of collected ephemera.

time for play

I have been taking some photos of strong plant shapes with the thought they would be good for photoart and textures.  When I read Bonnie’s suggestion for Friday PhotoArt of an abstract piece containing 3 photos and one of her textures I decided to spend an hour playing – I have PSE on the notebook that I take on my travels.

The textures I used were Yesteryear on darken and Life is Good on Pin light.  I enjoyed the mix of curves and strong shapes.  I still find the idea of making abstract art from photos a stretch but am enjoying the process and look forward to seeing what others have done.

While I was playing with textures in PSE I also worked on a photo I took at the Farmer’s Market because the composition grabbed me as a strong still life.  I used the backlit texture on vivid light