'Tis the season to be sparkly! Whether it's glowing lights on a tree, flickering candles in a holder, glittery outfits, or the magic of snow or sparklers on New Year's Eve, this time of year often has both sparkle in photos and on the page! Here's some of the photo op's and methods of working with digital sparkle!Maybe all you need is minimal sparkle to be striking?Both soft and sharp photography works this time of year to focus on details and convey the ambience. You might want to add extra magic with bokeh? (The blurred light effect shown on the tree above). You can do this either in-camera while you are setting up the shot by using a shallow depth of field (either with a low f-stop value or if your phone has a 'portrait mode' that can help achieve the same effect), or you can add bokeh after the fact with a photoshop tool or overlay from the … [Read more...]
Hybrid Document Your December Album Update
Hello everyone! Today I want to share with you an update on the hybrid Document Your December album that I am currently working on.Some of you may have already seen some of my hybrid December album on the Gold edition of the HybridVariety Show earlier this month. I have enjoyed creating this album completely from scratch. Some of the papers and small embellishments were in my paper scrapbooking stash, but I simply could not resist using the amazing products in the 2o14 Document Your December Category.Below is a glimpse of the partially completed front cover and the inside pages.I used cut files from the 2o14 Document Your December Category to cut several embellishments. My favorites are definitely the shiny gold ones.I also created several digital pages using 2o14 Document Your December products. Then printed the completed pages to include in the … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays
We would like to wish all of you a safe and happy holiday season! … [Read more...]
Hybrid Variety Show – Gold
It's December folks! The year is almost gone. How did that happen? This is the final Hybrid Variety Show for 2014. Where does the time go?The gold alpha in the header image above was created using the Holiday Hangover Alpha by Allison Pennington. The gold stars are from Hello December Elements by Laurie Ann. You can purchase both of these and many other golden nuggets in the current Trend Watch category.You might have noticed that the current Trend Watch is gold - smooth, shimmery, gorgeous gold. Gold just has a way of making things look richer. A few of the hybrid gals here at the pad had an amazing time creating some beautiful holiday projects with gold.Sarah made some tags using the gilded Pocket Full of Joy cards from Stolen Moments Design. They are beautiful and will be a nice treat when adorned a gift.Karen created an absolutely stunning mini book using ForeverJoy's … [Read more...]