Christmas card 2012

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted! Not that I haven't done anything creative that long, it's just that all these projects are in various stages of completion. (I'm very good at starting something - finishing it is where it gets a bit hard...)

Anyways, for the 3rd consecutive year, I've had my own Christmas cards printed featuring a wintery photo I took myself. This year's photo was taken last winter, when we had a bunch of snow and I went to the local park to take photos. This heron was posing perfectly :-)

Here's the SOOC:

And here's the result after I applied some actions:

I know I've pimped them before, but I really love Pioneer Woman's free actions for Photoshop or PS Elements!

LOAD 512 Day 10

Today's challenge was another original one: take your inspiration from a cereal box!

I used this All Bran box as inspiration and mimicked the blue swirl (the colour of which matched perfectly with the blue sky in my photos), the white background, the red letters and yellow accents.

LOAD 512 Day 3 | PLOAW Week 18

Today's LOAD-challenge was to use holiday colours on a non-holiday themed page.
I had already edited and printed these photos, and since purple is my friend A's favourite colour, I decided to go with a somewhat Halloween-y colour scheme in her honour. The yellow photomat is actually a bit more orange in RL.

The PLOAW-challenge for week 18 was to use 'special' paper instead of just regular ol' patterned paper and cardstock. I used 2 colours of handmade paper for the photomat and a background paper that almost looks like salt-paper.

I used some of Pioneer Woman's Photoshop Actions on the main photo (Old West and Burned Edge to be exact), and used photo frame brushes from Designer Digitals.

Here are the SOOC* and edited version of the main photo:

SOOC

edited version

SOOC = Straight Out Of Camera

Christmas card

For the 2nd year in a row, I decided to have my own Christmas cards printed.

Can I just say that I absolutely love Photoshop actions??? They make me look really good with just a few mouse clicks! ☺

Here's the SOOC*:

And here is the end result:

Some actions that I turn to time and again for photo-editing are those of the Pioneer Woman.

And the best part? Not only are they completely awesome, they are free too! Woohoo!

You can get both sets here.

* SOOC = straight out of camera