kimi kreations

Click on any image for a bigger view. Click on any image for a bigger view. The top image is my niece Sophia and the bottom image is my daughter Holly. Here is the link to kim's Kreative homework #22 . We are working with some fantastic free textures from ghostbones. All of the directions and links are there. My "Kreative" assignments are open to everyone. Please feel free to join us by posting your image. We would love to see it!! :) The first thing I did to my images was work the directions from kimi's Kreative homework #6 . The homeworks never end... if you find one that you like, please post your image. I have another in mind so watch for that one soon. Remember... you can have the image that comes out of your camera, or you can have ART!! I do hope you give this a try... Step outside of the box and lets see your kreativity shine! Happy kreating! ~kimi~

Click any image for a bigger view. "My Creative Soul" was Lesson #3. As you can see.... A very complex lesson indeed! That is me in the picture and my very own fingerprint. Click any image for a bigger view. Faces of 5 was my 4th and final lesson in the class. This is my 5 year old niece Sophia. If you are interested in taking any scrap classes, I would highly recommend the classes taught at JessicaSprague.com. Every lesson is in video format and the videos remain accessible to you forever. I found a wonderful new designer this week thanks to Jane over at digiscrapreview . Jane, scowers the net checking scrap sites and posting freebie sitings. One of her post sent me over to Gina Huff's designs at Weeds and Wildflowers Design . I fell in Love!! I have to say I have enjoyed my enlightenment of the whole "scrap" concept. I never really got it before? I also have to say... I will be happy to get back to my unique and kreative Photographic Art. For, I have learned,...

Click on any image for a bigger view. I should say... Kristen in a Chocolate filter. lol! I think we may have touched on this before but lets touch on it again. Chocolate filters are all the rage! You can make your own. new layer above your image. here is the hex code for the brown I like to use. 3f2co2 fill blank layer with brown. change your blend mode to soft light. reduce the opacity until you like the effect. Done! :) This can also be used on color images. Interesting results. I do hope you give it a try. Happy Weekend ~kimi~

Click on any image for a bigger view. Hi Everyone... A week or so I gave away a nice cream colored scrap paper. Today we will go over how to give the same paper a grungy feel without ever touching the paper. Above is the grungy copy I made. To compare with the freebie, scroll down below. You get a better feel, if you click on the larger image . Create a new blank layer above you paper. Go to Edit, Fill and choose 50% gray from the drop down menu. Change the blend mode on your gray layer to Overlay. Working on just your Gray layer. Select your burn tool. 24% opacity, set to midtones. Load a set of grunge brushes. Pick a few different ones. Make sure you run along the edges and corners and then try different ones in the middle. You can change the look, without every touching your paper. Now save your new grungy paper!! :) I do this all of the time. I do hope you give it a try on some of your scrap papers and let me know what you think? Here is a link to Brusheezy.com Free grunge brushes...

Click any image for a bigger view. This is my neighbor Grace. She came over this afternoon and played in my clover. Now this is one CUTE little girl!! I went texture crazy! :) As you can see, I am still heavy into my love affair with textures. What do you think??? Check out Jesh de Rox's site for what some of the cutting edge Photographers are up to. I used Nicole Van's Urban Action and some of her textures. ....now back to my taxes. (ark!) kimi~

Click on any image for a bigger view. Last weekend three of us girls from the Lafayette Photographic Society went down to Acadian Village and took pictures. I finally had some free time to sit down and experiment. Loved this old wagon wheel. Thanks for looking! ~kimi

Click any image for a bigger view. This is Lesson #2 from the Advanced Scrap class at JessicaSprague.com. Our theme for the lesson was... Then & Now. It was wonderful looking at how my girls have grown into lovely young ladies. What a fantastic lesson!! :) Seeing how I am stuck in the Scrapbooking mode. Here is a free paper and a sticker. Get them both here. Download Click on any image for a bigger view. Have a great day everyone!! {HUGS} ~kimi~

Click any image for a bigger view. We have a flower show here this weekend. They are doing something different this year and also judging flower images. I had 3 images to enter and was a day late contacting the correct person. (sigh) So... I thought I would show my favorite one here. I was interested in what they would think of my Art. :) What do you think? I am going to have this one printed on canvas and hang it in my home. I Love It!!! ~kimi~ Edit: This was done following the directions from an earlier post called Overlay Art.

Click on any image for a bigger view. I started the advanced Scrap class at JessicaSprague.com yesterday. She offers Beginner, Intermediate and now Advanced classes. :) If you are looking for a fun way to learn either PSE or CS this is truly a fun way to go!! This is Lesson #1. Expect to see quite a few Layouts for the next 4 weeks. Thanks for looking. ~kimi~