Ethan's digital book

I finally made these for my inaanak Ethan, his 1st bday celeb. Btw, he's 3 1/2 yrs old now haha.

not sure if i already posted this

Save the date for Chris and Lhynne

I keep on putting off doing my digitals as I wanted to upgrade my Photoshop Elements to version6 (budget hindering haha!). But my teammate Aileen has asked for my help to do a sample'Save the date' for them, so I gladly obliged. Here they are...

This one below was their own idea. I just made the sunset more dramatic, loose the stray ships from afar, and tweaked here and there...


Just to show you what the original look like...

Another version, I made the picture into sepia and incorporated it into one of raspberry road designs paper. Just erased some parts of the picture, changed the fonts, and some tweaking.

Chichuy's digital LOs partII

I have finished these at around 9:30 last night.. the covers much later.. Then Lew and I rushed to the printing center.. good thing they are still open.

I wanted to print these into transparencies but the outcome didn't quite went well as I have expected. So I had these printed in photo paper instead.. 3x3 size each and attached at the center of the white chipboard album pages. I was going to stamp some swirls around it but I am afraid I'd mess them up so I let them be.

I have yet taken a pix of the front and back of the album, clouds are not cooperating.. they keep blocking my natural light hehe.. I'll try to post the cover later.

Credits: All digital elements are from the very talented Susan Darter of raspberryroaddesigns

Chichuy's LOs continued...this baby is sooooo cute!

Chichuy's digital LOs

I'm trying to finish the digital LOs that I am planning to print in transparencies/photo paper and attach to the guestbook I am giving as a gift tomorrow. Trina suggested that instead of buying a gift, I would make a guestbook for Kirstin. I saw this plain white chipboard book in Spotlight and I thought it would be perfect. I would make a traditional LO as cover and just attach the monthly digital LOs inside. I can't make paper LOs inside because it would make the book bulkier. I don't think the binding can handle it.

Anyway, below is what I made so far.. isn't she adorable?

Credits: All digital elements are from the very talented Susan Darter of raspberryroaddesigns

23rd birthday

Materials & Techniques:
- PSE5;
- brushes: obsidian dawn SS-swirlsII 632, SS-swirlsII 640, SS-swirl 700, SS-frames 1016, SS-playingcards 2ofhearts, SS-playingcards 3ofhearts; PSE Artwork Framework19;
- CS: blue textured canvas as background; purple red textured canvass with doodle; maroon matting; stamped pink textured canvass

beautiful

Materials used :
- Photoshop Elements 3.
- CS: blue blox texturized with canvass
- PP: Raspberry Road designs RR_MD 04, RR_MD 07, RR_MD 08, RR_MD 09
- Embellishments: Raspberry Road designs RR_Bookplate 02
- Font: Garamond

** Credit: Raspberry Road designs used are digi freebies from the works of talented Susan Darter

Techniques:
Using Photoshop Elements 3.0
1. paint background with blue then texturize with canvass (scaling:107%; relief:2; light:bottom left) and use as cs
2. drag and resize Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 09 and change opacity to 54% and use as background pp
3. drag and resize Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 07 and use for matting of picture
4. crop picture, drag, simple emboss and include drop shadow
5. select pattern of roses from Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 04 and drag onto layout, simple emboss and include soft edge shadow
6. resize Raspberry Road designs RR_Bookplate 02 and include text date
7. select Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 08, write text, crop and drag onto layout; simple emboss
8. write 'beautiful' text, use simple outer emboss and include soft edge shadow.
9. tweak and tweak until finally satisfied haha

groovy kind of love

Materials:
- Photoshop Elements;
- PP: SG_Refresh_EHI_12x12_PinkFlowers from scrapgirls (converted color to blue), shaped like a flower using artwork flower22 shape
- CS: box painted in blue and texturized with canvass
- 2 flower brads in letter 'O' of word 'groovy'
- 3 ribbons on top: 3 colors(blue,red,light blue) of boxes texturized with burlap, with simple emboss bevel and low drop shadow
- 4th ribbon behind words 'kind of'
- obsidian dawn brushes; SS-frame 1300; SS-office stuff stapler 28, SS-swirlII544, SS-hearts 208, SS-grunge scratches 206 , SG_Refresh_TDO_Stitches for the stitching