The Pictures of the pinkish rainbow sky...

Hope  your weekend went well... My weekend went well not too bad. Just been relaxing and chilling around the house. I just order the Silhouette Cameo on amazon.com so it should be here sometime next week. Can't wait to play with it and see what I can come up with it. I download the Silhouette software yesterday and played around with it. I think I'll enjoy the machine when it arrives.
 
The other day I took a few pictures of the sky over our house. Well, my dad said, Hey Justie! grab your camera come out and take a few pictures of the sky. I did that only took three but I like the two photos. That you'll see I guess it rained out near the bay.  The sky was a pinkish color and you could see a bit of the rainbow. Trying to creep in the sky it was cool looking.
 
I took these two photos you see here with my Canon Rebel T2i DSLR. I then imported them into photoshop CS5 and fit them up a bit and put some gradient filter in both photos. The first one I put a bit of blue and green gradient filter and light it up bit. Then put a border around it. The second photo I put a bit of purple gradient in and then made the bit softer and darker with some hard and soft lighting. I also put another border of back around the second photo. I usually just go along with what I like and see fit well in the picture. I enjoy playing around with my photos. Because most are just photos I take for myself. Also, before I forget I did turn off the verification but I turned on where comments are sent to my email. For approval before your comments can be posted on my blog.
Have a good rest of your week!

My Little distress Ink projects

Happy Wednesday!

Hope everyone having a great day... Last night I tried out my new Tim Holtz Distress Ink. I think I'll be using for alot of my projects mainly my paper projects even paintings. I like the affect if you spray water on to it. I even use my fingers to get the affect I wanted out of them. I use a sheet of white paper the one that came with the page protectors. I cut it into four squares and then use my decorative scissors to cut the edges. Then I just went to town with creating different looks. One I mix one color each on the paper. Yes, I did use different foam for each color...
I like how it came out and use a little bit of color. The other three I just use the one color each. I liked how each has turned out. I am probably going to use them in my heritage albums. Maybe for matting photos but I think it will be for journal information for my pages.

Justie

Here what I came up with the Distress Ink




Front Mixture of (Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain)

 

Back Mixture of (Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain)

 

Front of Peeled Paint

 

Back of Peeled Paint

 

Front of Vintage Photo

 

Back of Vintage Photo

 

Front of Walnut Stain

 

Back of Walnut Stain








Got some things!

Hey everyone got some stuff from Michaels today since I got a coupon for 50% off sale items. I got some Tim Holtz Distress ink vintage photo, walnut stain and peeled paint. Also two ink applicateurs along with Tim Holtz collection stampers anonymous "visual artistry" stamps. Including two decorative scissors for some of my photos and papers. I saw a advanced tape glider on sale for 19.99 it regular price was 44.99. I decided to get it since it might help save on tape and help gluing bigger pieces to my projects. Overall got what I needed and went and paid my stuff and left.

I guess when there is a sale of 50% off everyone comes out to grab what they can, lol. I even saw a few guys in Michaels today. I guess I am going to go watch switch at birth on Hulu and a few other shows. While playing with my distress inks. Have a good Tuesday evening folks.

Justie

The start of my Heritage album...

Hi

Everyone hope you had a good weekend? It 2:39 in the morning I am a night owl what can I say, lol. I have started my heritage album pages for one of the books I am doing. It the album of my Grandma Stilwell's side of the family. The Currie - Thomas family. I now know I am going to get the Silhouette Cameo to finish off the book. I still have ways to go with the book. But if I keep at it I could probably be done with it by the end of this week.

I am probably going out tomorrow to Michaels to pick up some Tim Holtz distress inks. I saw a coupon in the paper for 50% off any regular price item at Michaels. Going to use that to buy somethings. Well, I guess I should end this blog and try to get some sleep! At least I hope I can sleep. Here are few layouts. Please let me know what you all think. Leave comments like to read your opinions maybe give me some ideas for my next layout.

Justie




My grandmother's parents
 

 

My grandmother is one of 8 children...

 

 

                                                      My grandmother's grandparents
                                                
      

My grandmother's great- grandmothers and grand Uncles and Aunts

 








Happy Thursday!

Hi everyone,

Hope you all are having a good day! I finally did a couple of layouts to my heritage album. It nothing fancy just simply ones as can be. I'm still getting use to this site. So, hope you all can just bare with me while I am still learning everything on here. Hope you all enjoy the new layout and let me know what I could improve on here. Or, give me some pointers to make it a better blog...

I'll put some of the heritage layouts on here maybe later today if I am not in the middle of doing another one, lol. Nothing much going on here just trying to find work again. But I realize I need to get my drivers license if I want to work. Well, a good job that pays well and maybe I can finally move out of my parents house. I know how to drive get my driver permit renew every 6 months. But it a pain in the neck to have to pay $25.00 to renew it. I guess I should stop being a BIG chicken of others on the road and just take the road test. I just might surprise myself. Well better get going see you all around. Look out for some artwork and layouts on the site soon!

Justie

Bought some goodies!

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone having a great day... It a beautiful day here in Bay City. It been chilly for the last few days. My dad said it was chilly early this morning. But it did warm up when we went out and about. I had to pay some bills. I decided to go to Jo Ann's and pick up some stuff like stamps and extra ink pad. I pick up some bird stamps and some Memento black ink and one other thing that got my eye. It's called a "Rubber Stamp Pad" I guess it suppose to leave good ink impressions. I'm going to try that out and see how it works. I didn't pick a lot of things since I knew my order form scrapbook.com was coming today!

I went to look for some Pioneer page protectors but they didn't have them. So, I decided to go to Meijer and look around it been while since I been in Meijer. I found some page protectors and even bought a Pioneer photo album that you can put about 300 photos in. Because I got most of our photos including some of both of my grandmother photos. So I have enough to put in I even pick up a photo box (plastic) that had little photo cases inside where you can keep your photos in. Also, pick up some smaller clear blocks for my stamps. Can't have too many now can you!? I guess only thing I need is Tim Holtz distress ink guess I have to go to Michael's in Saginaw to get those...
When I got home my package was waiting for me! I was excited to open it I love the Tom Holtz stamp called Road Trip, I order with the Bo Bunny Et Cetera Collection 12x12 paper and 36 pages of the same paper but smaller the 6x6 pad. I can use that for journaling information or for photos. I also got Rangers Archival Ink- Jet Black and last but not least I didn't know that the clear block would be big 6x6 but I should have realize but it'll work will with my larger stamps.

Now, I guess I'm going to play around with my stamps for bit. But going to watch some youtube clips before I start. Then after that do some stamping artwork and put on some Hulu or Netflix don't know which one yet. While I do my artwork. Have a good one guys. Here are some photos of the items I bought and my order that came in the mail.

Order from Scrapbook.com, Clear 6x6 block, Bo Bunny Et Cetera Collection 6x6 pad,

Ranger Archival Black Ink- Jet Black, Tim Holtz Collections- Road Trip and Bo Bunny Et Cetera Collection Pack 18 12x12 paper, stickers and Journaling cards.

Jo Ann: Rubber Stamp Pad, Fiskars Stamps- "For the Birds" and Memento Tuxedo Black

Meijer: Pioneer page protectors, Pioneer photo pockets, Photo Keeper holds (600) photos 4x6. Small and Medium clear block, Pioneer photo album

I'm Back!!!

Hi,

I'm back at trying to blog again. I decided to redesign this site give it a little bit of an updated look, lol. I don't know where this blog will go but for now decided to put to good use by displaying some of my artwork on here. For some of you to look at if you want to. Nothing much going on in my life at the moment still trying to look for a new job. I didn't think looking for work would be hard but it is. But not trying to think of it too much just trying to live everyday to the fullest and keep myself busy with my artwork. Even keeping up with what going on in the world.

I have started to scrapbook now and getting into it more it helping me be more creative in new ways. I'm in the process of making three scrapbooks one for each of my three grandparents. I'm also going to try and do a scrapbook of all the animals. We had over the years and we had few interesting and funny animals. I just started to write the stories for the animals. Now, now have to wait for my stuff to arrive! I order some scrapbook supplies more paper!!! Yeah more paper then what I know what to do with. But it good to have some extra paper on hand. It'll work with my heritage family albums. I even bought some stampes and ink to try out. The stampes I bought it called "Road Trip" from Tim Holtz. I really enjoy Tim Holtz work he is one of the few creative guys out there. Whom, stuff I really enjoy. Hope you all have a great Friday evening and a great weekend!

Justie