Happy Fall Y'all... and some photos from our Photo Class (night) field trip

Here's a card I made using my Copics Coloring skills.... LOL.
It's my Fall Card!  (Probably my only one this season...).
I used my La-La Land stamps and Copics markers.... I'm trying to get this coloring technique down. AGH.
"Harvest Blessing" came from CardzTV's Stamp Set.

This card was sent to my dear friend Tammy, of Tammy's Spot... who I've never met but who I consider a wonderful friend here in this blogging community. Besides being an avid dog lover, she makes the most amazing cards- she uses so many techniques and infuses humor in her posts and cards.
She's an inspiration!

Sentiment is from Hero Arts.  Die cut is from Paper Trey Ink

Isn't this sweet?  I picked it up at a dog bakery on Bainbridge Island when I was up in Seattle.

Amuse-Bouche:

Tonight was our night field trip for my photo class.  It was a lot of fun.  I'll share some of the photos and techniques below however you may already know how to do this stuff....   For those of you who didn't know your cameras do these things... check out below.

I used 2 cameras tonight:  a SLR Canon camera as well as a fabulous little 'point and click' Panasonic that I bought at Costco.  If you have a SLR or you have a Point and Click--- you CAN do this.

Photo 1:

Here was are, in Newport Beach, looking at the Balboa Pavilion.  No flash.... 

Exercise #1

Now I am taking a photo of the same area (USING A TRIPOD)  but I put the camera setting on  F/stop 8, ISO 200 and taking a shutter speed of 4 seconds ( The next few photos are the same settings but the photos are taken at 8 seconds, 10 seconds, and 15 seconds). The captions will explain what the photo was taken at...

 Same settings, except now a shutter speed of 4 seconds (notice, more light in the photo)

 Same settings, except now a shutter speed of 8 seconds (much more light in photo, lighting up the scene)
*Sorry, despite using tripod, a little blurry.

 Same settings, except now a shutter speed of 10 seconds (much more light)... Still no flash.

 Same settings, except now a shutter speed of 15 seconds (look at all the light!)-- still no flash.



Exercise #2

 Using the same area, and no flash, we set our cameras on F/stop : 8 and 8 second exposure.  This means that the camera is taking the photo over 8 seconds. During this time period, my teacher was standing near the boat and flashed a strobe at the boat. He immediately then started shining a flashlight on the boat and the surrounding areas.  The strobe/flashlight lit up the boat and area.  Because the 8 second exposure took in all this, you never see my teacher (as he was moving around, shining the light on the boat and surrounding areas) but you can see the area that he lit up.
Again, no flash on this photo.  The actual scene looks like just photo #1 at the top (darkness) but because he is putting light on the boat, etc... it looks lit up)



In this technique, our teacher, had a fellow student walk across the dark sand (again, no flash used in this photo).  He walked in front of her, shining the flashlight on her-- this lit her up in the photo. (The flashlight wasn't anything big. Just a normal flashlight).  In the meantime, our camera was set on F/stop 8 and a 15 second exposure.  This means the camera was taking the photo over 15 seconds (the camera was on a tripod to keep it steady).  This is the result.
SUPER NEATO!
Again, there was no additional lighting.  The actual beach area was dark, just like photo #1 above.

OK, this is my 8 second exposure that I took on my little Panasonic point and click. I took this photo on an ISO 200, F/stop 8, with a 8 second exposure.  Because my camera wasn't on a tripod for this photo, this is what I got.  Obviously my hand was not steady during the 8 seconds...
I call this my "Electric Light Parade photo." (here comes the Disneyland music). LOL

On this photo, I had the camera on a F/stop 8, ISO 200, and an 8 second exposure (or perhaps it was 15 seconds),.... I was using the SLR and I zoomed the lens in as the 8 seconds passed.
Because the camera lens is open for 8 seconds and the lens is zooming in-- this is the STAR WARS effect we get.

And so concludes my night field trip....

Thank you and Come again....  :)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.... A GIFT FOR YOU...

Happy Thanksgiving to all my bloggy friends. Here is a gift I am sending to you, visually speaking.  I want to say thanks to all of you who comment and look at my blog.  I know you're all busy with all the blogs you subscribe to and friends you have and I do appreciate your comments. (I'm horrible on reciprocating... I'm sorry).

The tutorial on this backpack was on a prior posting however I was thrilled with the paper I created using Hero Arts Thankful (clear) stamps that I got at Simon Says Stamp.  I used various Jenni Bowlin Inks.  The 1/4" ribbon is from Michaels.  The sentiment was on clearance at Michaels.  

I hope you all are having a fabulous Thanksgiving filled with lots of good eats!

Filled with M&M's

The acorn is from Lawn Fawn stamps.  I used Stickles on the acorn.  Twine from Paper Trey Ink

Another Thanksgiving card, courtesy of Hero Arts

I don't have many Thanksgiving stamps so I ordered this one from Hero Arts (via Simon Says Stamp).  The leaves were made with Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade).  The sentiment was from Recollections (Michael's) and on clearance. I used Quick Dry (Scotch)  glue to adhere it to the cardstock.  The shoes were painted with Glossy Accents.  The buttons on the boy's shirt were with Liquid Pearl. 

Amuse-bouche:
Guess what I saw at Target??? How is it that I was unaware it came out 10/4/11??? 

Happy Veterans Day

I hope you all had a happy Veterans Day and had the opportunity to thank a veteran or someone currently serving in the military.

I made this Thanksgiving card with a Pink Cat Studios Digi-image.  I used a lot of Glossy Accents, Stickles, and Sakura Glitter pen.  This image was cut out and is on an Action Wobble.  

The sentiment on the inside is from Mary at Cardztv with a watermark of "happy bird day" that came from Paper Trey Ink's stamp set. 

Gobble Gobble!

Happy Turkey Day!   This is the sentiment stamp from Mary at Cardztv.  I wanted to pull out my dusty Cricut (I'm having problem with the blade cutting cleanly so I haven't been using it.  It's hardly been used since I got it...  I guess I should read the instructions...) and Voila- here is my turkey.  The background pumpkins are actually cut out from a thin scrapbooking paper (paper piecing).  The sentiment is Mary's and was stamped with Jenni Bowlin's Brown Sugar ink.  The banner is Lawn Fawn's.

The actual size of the card is 4.25" x 4.25."

Amuse-bouche: 

Rain is due in So Cal this weekend. :(

Thanksgiving card with Mary's Stamps at CARDZTV!

I saw this "pumpkin pickin'" sentiment stamp on Mary's Thanksgiving stamp set... and wanted to create a card for it.  I created the pumpkins out of the Simply Charmed cartridge (with embossed dots on the Cuttlebug).  The orange background was made with Distress Ink (pads), Spiced Marmalade on orange cardstock.  The "pumpkin pickin'" sentiment and "Happy Turkey Day" came from Mary's stamp set.   Mary has a line of stamps that you can buy (click HERE).  I got her Thanksgiving set.  Cute little stamps!!!  I couldn't find Thanksgiving ribbon at Michael's so I found this in the Christmas section for 50% off.  

Martha Stewart punch-around-the-page.

Amuse-bouche
Amazing video of a man with his 16 dogs.... It's 9 minutes but just start watching the first 2 minutes.  You'll see what I mean....  Thank you, P for the link!!! Amazing

Click on this link  http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=qFP28ANXLLA&vq=medium

Thanksgiving Bird

Happy Weekend-Before-Thanksgiving:

This was made with 3 Birds on Parade.  I really like this cartridge.  I used stickers that I got on the clearance aisle at Target (I think).  The ribbon is from Michaels.  The leaves are from Create A Critter and I just used the white gel pen.  The paper was from Recollections (at Michaels) however the little gingham paper was from a thick paper set from DCWV "Flower Shop."

A balanced diet... a Cookie in each hand

Count Blessings, Not Calories !!!!

Howl-o-ween Party

Today was our annual Howl-o-ween Dog Party. There was great food, costumes, and music for dancing. I made a packet of cards to donate for a raffle gift. We were so busy with all the food and dancing that we never did a raffle. Nonetheless, here is the gift bag and the 3 enclosed cards. Here are some of the dogs in costume:
From left to right: Fred, Colt, SamUL,and their friend Tobey

Tobey the tourist won first place!!!


Fred, the submarine (costume bought at Target)

Colt, the flower

SamUL, the cow- with udders... costume bought at PetsMart


Daisy, the cow girl

Barney, the punker

Whylie the bee

Hammer, the chicken