Tuesday, September 27, 2016

CS Blog Hop September 2016 Garden Shed

Well who could resist playing with such a delightful kit immediately.  Well not quite immediately for me as I got very busy and spent most of Thursday 1st September in the dentist chair.

Anyway, I downloaded and installed this fabulous kit and started off by making my own overlay.

























To do this, I made a transparent blank background 12" x 12" at 300ppi.  Then cut and copied part of one of the 4 way prints and played with the opacity and flow.  Added a couple of the cute semi transparent images and then on the 4 way print layer erased a very large circle using a very fuzzy and very large brush and ended up with what you see above.

Then I opened up a new transparent background, 12" x 12" at 300ppi and dragged in this overlay.  Added a white fill layer beneath the overlay and now I am ready to start.

























Create a new layer above the overlay and set the blend mode to overlay.  Select your brush and color and start painting.  I make my opacity around 11 or 12%.

























I hope you can see this, but the shading around the plant and the butterflies has become much brighter.

Now we can start to build the page.

























I have brought in a stamp, frame and mask from my stash and I will be playing around with all these momentarily.  First I have to find a good photo to use here.

Found the photo and have come up with this.

























I hope you like what I have made here.

14 comments:

  1. Great layout Annette. Love all the little touches.

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  2. Lovely page, thanks for playing along!

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  3. Hi Annette! Great page. Love how you filled in the dark lettering with white - much more effective! Have a great day.

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  4. Fun tutorial Annette, love the look.

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  5. You always give such a nice tutorial, thank you, and your page is really lovely, beautiful of course!!!

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  6. Bless your heart Kay - it means so much to me when you comment. thank you very much.

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  7. I like how. You "cut and pasted" the parts you wanted. Thanks for sharing!

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  8. Beautiful layout, Annette! Thanks for the easy to understand tutorials!

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