Today's Word - Grow

The prompt for today is grow.  Couldn't resist the paraphase - all you Star Trek fans will understand.  This tulip has grown for three years.  It started as one bloom two years ago, and this year there were three.  And of course it was not in the flower bed, but in a pile of dirt that DH uses for fill when needed.  We never did figure out where the bulb came from.  Note to self:  dig those bulbs up and replant them in the flower bed!

Heavy Metal - The Portage Path

I've been going through old photos for these assignments.  Now that I have more experience with PSE, hopefully I can make them better.  Today's words were Heavy Metal and I did a scrapbook page.

Multilayered - The Grand Canyon

The word for today is multilayered.  The Grand Canyon has many layers plus I added three texture layers.  The photo was taken last December just before sunset.  The colors were gorgeous as the sun went down.

Texture 1 by Skeletal Mess
Texture 2  by Skeletal Mess
Texture 3 by Pareeerica

Today's word is Picnic

The Teddy Bear Picnic

If you go out in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go out in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today's the day
The teddy bears have their picnic.

Background by rubyblossom
Texture by Pareeerica
Large teddy bear extracted from my photo.
Picnic teddy bears scanned from a book.
Remaining teddy bears by My Digital Things.

New computer!

After a frustrating couple of months, I've got a new computer.  I had problems starting in March and didn't have much use of it for three weeks.  After getting a new motherboard, power supply and hard drive, it worked - for about two weeks.  Then it died completely.  Fortunately it was still under warranty, so the company did a complete replacement.  Only problem - I had Windows XP on the old one, and now I have Windows 7 and PSE7 is not compatible.  Windows 7 does have a compatibility mode, but PSE 7 is still not functioning totally the way it should.  I'm holding out for the next version of PSE though, so I'll just grin and bear it until then!

Kimi's Creations pointed me to a new program called Creativity Boot Camp to help improve creativity.  I'm going to try it and see how it goes.  The prompt today was "ivory" and this is my interpretation.

 

New Kit

I just finished a small kit for Hummies April Design Challenge.  This was a bit of a challenge because the colors were a bit brighter than I usually use.  Hope you like it.  If you download, please leave a small thank you.  Your comments are very much appreciated. 


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Wow! It's been a long time since I posted anything. I've been busy working on photos from our December trip (still not done), then my computer crashed and one of the items replaced was my hard drive. It's been fun restoring everything. Thank goodness most of my files were backed up on Max, our external hard drive.

I took a break from the photos and did some playing and came up with two textures/overlays. Hope you like them. If you download, please leave a small thank you or a little smiley face. It means so much.

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