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Project 64

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Project 64 are looking for Salmon this week.

The colour looks much paler on the little card with my scribble on it.
I had the crayon with me at the garden centre this week and choose this geranium because it was such a good match.

This beautiful peony has so many shades of pink including, I think, Salmon.

I used this tissue paper in the glass to photograph some gold earrings and it was still on my desk when I saw the reveal. I wanted the beads for another challenge but changed my mind, I am sure the whole thing says salmon.

Look over here there are some really beautiful Salmon pictures to feast your eyes on.

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All my shots are SOOC this week.

Scavenger Hunt June 5th

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This week on Scavenger Hunt Sunday we are looking for:

HOT HOT HOT
Finding Form
Front Page of the News
Chore
Beads

Hot Hot Hot

I was steaming some beautiful young spinach leaves this week and noticed the steam rising and yes the spinach was fabulous!

Finding Form
I struggled with this one. I looked at a couple of websites which were fascinating and I think I have a better understanding of Form but I couldn’t get out to try so I almost had to pass until I came across this blog.
Food again! This time a cabbage, and yes I really love strong dark greens!

Any hints or tips on Form in photography would be greatly appreciated.

Front page of the news

I really couldn’t get my head around this one. My first thought was to post a pictures of my husband who had a birthday this week, that was pretty big news around here.
I couldn’t leave a blank space here and as it was Derby Day over here today I went to my archive and found this.
This old chap would never win a Derby! but he was very nice and let me take his picture. Well, it made me smile!

Chore

I couldn’t resist this, There is always washing to be done in our house, somedays I think someone is ‘bringing it in’.

Beads

Beads of rain on my beautiful Alchemilla Mollis

There will be wonderful interpretations over here at Ashley’s blog.

Scrapping the Moment

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A couple of pages inspired by Amy’s challenge to scrap the moment…

Time

This is Ben on his new Suzuki SX650 bike, May 2011. The earlier picture was taken in May 2004, a blue Suzuki too…how spooky is that? Mind you there was no-one more impressed than Ben to think his mother knew she had a picture of him on a big blue bike. OK I didn’t know what make it was… but!

The Lo is from Cathy Zielske. It was her LO in a kit I bought from Designer Digitals called ‘For Humanity’

With this ring

I posted this for Sian’s Story Telling Sunday on Sunday 1st May Amy said “you should scrap that” I have been playing with the LO for ages and I am still not sure about it but here it is, at least until I change it again.

The Lo is from Alexa

Project 64

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What a fabulous sunny colour this is, and today, at last we have sunshine and not a drop of rain. Have a look over here to see some beautiful sunny finds.

I was in the florist buying some cornflowers when I noticed the card with the colour scribble on in my purse
“Do you have anything this colour?” I asked the florist. She looked at me but didn’t say “of course we have we are a florist!” Off she went and brought me a yellow rose, an orange rose and said “If you mix these colours together you get this!” Ta da! Another purchase made.

This was on my desk when I saw this weeks colour reveal. No my desk isn’t in a field, I thought that although a good colour match a bottle of juice wasn’t very exciting so I found a lovely texture called ‘grasses’ and had a play.

I bought these poppies a couple of weeks ago because they were such sunny bright colours, they have had so many flowers on already.

The crisps were only purchased for photographic purposes mind!

Texture Tuesday

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My local florist had these beautiful cornflowers in this week. I bought a bunch of them and a plant so next year I might have my own.
Kim Klassen’s texture challenge is Garden, how lovely is that? There will be wonderful textures here this week that’s for sure!

Cornflowers

This has two layers of Kim’s Stained Linen texture. The first layer is at soft light blend mode, the second at normal blend mode with opacity set to fifty percent and the big round soft brush over the stems and flowers.

Philadelphus heavy with rain

This has one layer of Not Too Shabby texture at normal blend mode and opacity set to 50% and February Magic edges and the big round soft brush over the blossom.

Alchemilla Mollis looking wonderful in the rain this morning

This has two layers of Golden texture both set at soft light. I set the second layer slightly smaller than the first to give my picture a frame. I used the big soft round brush over the whole area.

Iris
This Iris is so pretty but it grows against a grey stone wall and never photographs well, but then I discovered textures!

This has February Magic edges, one layer of Plaster 2 at soft light blend mode. I brushed the big round soft brush over the flower. I used a tiny part of an overlay and reduced the opacity down to 75% but once again I don’t know where I got the overlay from, it was long before I really knew how to use them. If anyone knows let me know? I have a much better labelling system in place now!

So that’s a little look in my garden on a wet bank holiday Monday. And of course a link to the wonderful Kim Klassen and her Texture Tuesday