playing w/ textures

we have had such nice weather lately so it was great to get play out doors yesterday. T-man is so fascinated with Trains lately and every time we drive past this street he says - "Choo". Little guys knows exactly where it is.

I was so happy to get these pictures today, but really felt they needed a little something extra. So I went to my Flickr favorites gallery and played w/ some textures I had book marked. I was really pleased with the final outcome. (Texture opacity was set to 55%).

here is a link to the texture set that I was using.

found this picture today from Emmas Designblogg and just love how all the pictures are arranged

chasing butterflys

spending some time outdoors today, enjoying looking out the back door and seeing butterflys flitting around the flowers and luckily finally got some shots

cockroach clusters

saving this idea for halloween treats for my sons school -

banner stamp

stumbled across this yesterday and just love how quick and easy it looks and so versital -

most amazing Label Download

I love pretty labels especially when they have a scalloped for fun shape, and love these pretty labels for download that I found this morning. Definately have plans for using these in the future (and the best part - they are FREE). The fonts she used on them are so fun too - from dafont.com.

the blog is eatdrinkchic.com



and these vintage labels are available too from this post.

the road less traveled

I have been wanting to play w/ adding textures to my photos for a while and finally found the perfect photo. I just love this picture of our little boy walking out to the beach - he was determined not to walk on the little trail and wanted to forge his own path - I added a texture overlay that was a free download from Flickr and can be found here. I just found this one too and it looks like fun

if you want to add one to your picture in PSE just drag the texture layer over your picture - the select the overlay layer in your layers menu. Then you adjust the opacity to the level you want (b/t 25-50 %). You can use the eraser tool if you want to erase the layer over a subjects face.