Watching

Digital kits are just so fun to use but sometimes the designers colors just aren't quite right for your photo even though what they've created is perfect.  Don't pass them over, by adjusting the Hue/Saturation and/or the blending modes and opacity you can create just the solution to your problem.  To see my changes to the papers used here please check out my Gallery at Cottage Arts.  The primary kit used was Giving Thanks Page Pak.  The cuties in the photo are Colton and Acoya.

Dream Fisher

My great-nephew Colten with his prize catch!  I used the Cottage Arts Paint the Sea Page Pak with Alpha for this page.

On the Beach

My granddaughters and a friend exploring the beach.

Supplies from the Cottage Arts Painted Sea Page Pak and Add on Collection.

Peace...

a simple drive in the countryside with no destination in mind...  sometimes, when my mind is still and the beauty of nature is surrounding me peace comes...  I let my soul be still, listening to the everyday sounds around me...  wind whistling through the grasses, geese off in the distance, the neigh of one horse to another...  time to  simply enjoy the offerings that are there for me to take...  my mind wanders, my breathing becomes slow and steady and the stress that had been pressing downward suddenly lifts and removes itself from my shoulders...   life, if only I would allow myself the time to really look around me...

Supplies are all from the Autumn Fields digital collection at Cottage Arts 

Please see my gallery page here for links to all supplies

Faded Memories

Journaling reads:

Spring 1946

Billy came along when the house was still very small, water at a distance and modern day amenities like bathrooms, hot water and electric stoves, limited.  Love was in abundance and a big brother and sister to dote upon him without question.  Childhood was so simple in those days, you received love without question and gave with innocence.   

Supplies from Cottage Arts, please check my gallery there for a complete list.

Going Fishin'

Grandma Kathie and Grandpa Bud bought me my first fishin’ pole!  I’m so lucky to have so many ‘extra’ Grandma’s, Grandpa’s and Aunties! 


I wonder what I’m gonna catch?  Think Daddy will cook it on the BBQ for us for dinner???? 


Supplies from Cottage Arts, please check my gallery there for a complete list of supplies.

Catalina Island

In the early 60s I took a road trip to California with my Parents and went on a tour boat to Catalina Island (where this photo was snapped).  Daddy had told me for years about growing up in LA and going over to Catalina to ride horses, swim and fish.  I wanted to see a part of his childhood through my eyes.  I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with Avalon, nor for years having daydreams of living there, escaping the pitfalls of teenage life and the woes of the world around me.  Avalon was a setting out of a Romantic novel with the arc of the bay circling swirling around the town.  So many years ago and yet my heart feels like it was only yesterday.


Supplies are from Cottage Arts - Old School Page Pak and Naturals 9 Papers

Dad and Son

Here stand father and son so many many years ago.

Two fathers so very different in their beings but so very alike in their appearance.

We no longer can share their smiles and humor,

no more to see their similarities and differences,

we must instead rely on the impressions

they both made upon our hearts

Father and Son

Gene and Eddie

1952

Supplies from Cottage Arts, please check my gallery page here for a complete list.

Here's Lookin' at Ya

Font - Comic Sans

We took the Wildlife Loop Road through Custer State Park in South

Dakota.  How amazing was this?  To drive around a bend and have

Burros staring at you, walking to your car and looking in the window,

not afraid at all, very very curious.  Round another bend and see deer

feeding in the grassland nearby.  Looking but not alarmed because

visitors have stopped to stare yet again.  But the real heart stopper

were the Bison, many many Bison who knew they had the  right of

way down the roads, through the trees, wherever.  When you are the

size of a Bison you rule!

Supplies are from Cottage Arts please check my gallery page here for a complete list of supplies.

Creating a Canvas on Easel Collage

Be sure and check out Cottage Art's latest 'how-to' article on 'Creating a Canvas on Easel Collage' it's featuring my layout Dream to Live which you can see larger in the post below.

These how-to articles, written by Michelle Shefveland, will have you bumping up your digital creating skills in no time!