Miss Pinks Craft Spot

Welcome to Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Shannon Lane all the way over in Canada, you may be familiar with her blog - Crush On Colour Shannon is a member of the Stampin Up! Artisan team, and we have the task to CASE - Copy and Selectively Edit one of her creations - how exciting!  As soon as I saw her below project I knew that this is what I wanted to CASE I have had a really tough week, our family has said goodbye to our 16yr old Border Collie, she is now in doggy heaven playing with her friend Sasha.  At first I was going to use the Sending Love DSP to make a frame for one of her photos; then I found a photo of her with a ball..... she loved playing ball, she didn't know when to stop, would just keep playing and playing, it was us they would get tired of throwing the ball! That memory led me to my project, here it is: The photo is from a few years ago when Cleo was full of energy, happy days :)  The spotted Party Animal DSP is s...

I've made a mini card with Botanical Blooms today to incorporate into my Project Life layout. The idea for this came about when I saw the Global Design CASE the designer challenge this week, as t he design reminded me of my wedding, Pink (no surprises there) and Silver were my theme colours for our Garden Wedding.   I embossed the sentiment from Suite Sayings  in Silver, and then die cut and stamped/aqua painted/sponged flowers in Blushing Bride and leaves from the  Botanical Blooms Bundle  to create my arrangement. I swapped Mint Macaron for Wild Wasabi so as to better blend with the photo layout. A touch of Wink of Stella, and I was done. The other card is from the Love Story Project Life Accessory Pack , I also stamped that with Blushing Bride, here is the finished layout: Hope you enjoyed viewing my Project Life layout,  I would love to update you when I create a post! If you would like to receive an email from me when I do  Cl...

I love big photos, but they are so expensive to print I find it hard to justify at times.  So I had a play in Photoshop and found a fab alternative to get the same impact, but for a fraction of the cost. I am lucky to have all the digital images from our Wedding, and they quite large files so I had a fairly high quality image to work with in Photoshop, I used Photoshop Elements 11 as follows: Turn the ruler function on so you have a guide when using your selection tool Crop you image to a square - it doesn't have to be 12 x 12 in size, I found it helped to have the size where I could calculate the image sizes down to 6 x 4, eg 24 x 24 Then using the Rectangularl Marquee tool, set the aspect Fixed Ratio as 6 wide by 4 high for this Project Life layout Then select segments of the square image, and copy into a new image as you go, ending up with 6 separate images,  Print the 6 images - I printed at Harvey Norman for 15 cents each (would be 10 cents if I could have ...