Days Gone By

I want to share another restored photograph with you but before I do I have a card to show you.

The image used is a digi stamp called Petticoats Three by Just Inklined it is more of a pencil line that a thick solid line and it gives a softer finish. Don't you just love the vintage images?

I also used the most scrumptious ribbon from Ribbon Carousel this one is a two sided satin in silver and black. I pushed one of the prima pins through the ribbon knot.

So now on to the restored photograph.

This is the original photo.

And this is the restored and coloured Photo.

I know a few of you have asked what software I used, I used a combination of Coral Paint Shop pro and also Coral Draw graphic Suit. I don’t want any of you to rush out and buy it as you do need to know what you are doing as you need to use lots of different tools settings and shadings to get to this stage, it isn’t just a push of a button you have to colour each section individually.

Just to showcase the finished image I had to play and do a scrapbook layout.

Made using My Memories Suite  You can use my code for a discount of $10 if you wish to get the software for it. My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page at My Memories Suite

 

Restoring Photographs

I think most of you will remember me telling you about my Dads Father and the photograph that I restored as they had very few photographs left as their home was bombed during the war.

Well yesterday A friend was trying to restore one of her families pictures and I couldn’t help myself in playing with it to help her out. I did get it looking better and then I recalled her saying that she would have loved to see it coloured so I gave it a go, I’d never attempted to colour an old black and white photograph but I figure if you don’t try you will never achieve.

The result was really good, obviously I couldn’t show her photographs as I haven’t asked permission so I then set to and did one of my own families.

I’ll show you the before and after so you can see the difference.

My Mam with my eldest brother Alan the Original Photograph.

The restored and coloured Photograph

I didn’t remove all of the blemishes purely because I wanted to leave some of the old character intact.

Monochrome–Lala Saturated Canary

At times I like to run with colour and do something unexpected when colouring an image, this one, Lala from Saturated Canary Digi’s was perfect for this.

I’m not sure if I ever told you but I was a punk rocker in my younger days, my boyfriend had blue tipped hair and mine was pillow box red.

Lala is a real beauty so I coloured her eyes green and used the most gorgeous wine to pink in her hair with a complimentary muted pink in her dress.

The little butterflies were punched from a Tonic Studios border punch from the backing paper.

Blanche–Saturated Canary

You know how it is, you sit down to craft and a card just seems to take forever, your creative mojo seems to have taken a hike to a different part of the universe, you try this and that to make the card sing but you still aren’t happy with the end result. Everyone says that it’s lovely but you still aren’t happy with it.

Well that is how I have felt for weeks now. I can sit and colour for hours and hours but the making of the card has been a pain. That is until today…….

I coloured up my image, Blanche from Saturated Canary Digi’s  sat at my craft desk and everything just fell into place. I think this image has a striking resemblance to Sophia Loren with the Italian Chić don’t you?

Coloured with Copic Markers and Prisma pencils

Memory Box border dies and gems from Mei Flower (love their gems and pearls)

And Sophia Loren

Picture Credit – All Posters

Accident Prone Jack

I know boys will be boys and I’m sure he will have his fair share of bumps as he is growing.

Thursday whilst playing with his cousin Alfie, and of course running around without a care in the world Jack tripped over the dog who was also running around with them and this was the result of the trip.

He went head first into the door stencil at his Great Nanna’s house and had to be took to the medical walk in centre.

They patched him up by gluing the wound together and applying sterri strips to hold it in place. So all sounds good yes?

Nope, they ended back again to the walk in centre as he banged it again and it opened right back up, This time he banged it on his Granda’s (Stuarts Dad) nose whilst kissing him goodbye. This time unable to glue it and floods of tears, Once again Sterri Strips applied but boy it looks nasty, very swollen still and the bruising is now coming out.

Two New Great Nieces

Well as promised I have a photo of our new great niece Amelia Grace but as our Family has been blessed another Great niece came along 9 days later (Layla Ann) both sitting on Great Nana’s lap.

Layla is asleep and Amelia is the one letting us know she is not amused. My Mother in Law (Nellie) sitting proud in the centre.

I made the above layout in My Memories Suite now for the exciting bit you can also make your blog headers in it not only that but I even made my timeline header for facebook, I’ve added some Timeline sample below to show you what you can do with the software.

This one is what I’m using on facebook at the moment

I had another play and come up with this one.

Then continued playing and made this one.

So versatile as you can custom the size you need so making blog headers or timeline headers is easy.

You can still use my code to get a discount on the Software.

I have a discount code to get $10 off the software

My code is STMMMS48868 Enter the code on the shopping cart page At My Memories Suite

 

My Memories Suite Blog Candy Winner

Sorry that this is a weeny bit late but as I had a blog hop yesterday I had to hold this off until today.

most of you that follow my blog will know how much I love the My Memories Suite software, I do have other digital scrapbooking software but to be honest it is this one that I reach for every time.

The winner of the My Memories Suite V3 is.

30.
Sheika Linda

Congratulations Linda if you can send me an email headed My Memories Suit winner I will get your prize sorted out for you.

Big thank you to all that entered into the blog candy.

Dream Team Blog Hop–Shaker Card

It’s that time again and this Months theme for the Blog Hop is Shaker Cards and Heidy is our host and that is where the blog hop begins.

 

You should have landed on my blog from Pops so if not head back over there first. We will hold this every third Thursday of the month , we aim to give you a little inspiration and hopefully a few Oooo's and Awes along the way. The Dream Team is made up with some of the most talented ladies so be sure to give them all a visit and leave us all a comment as there is a couple of spot prizes up for grabs.

Mistress Mary available from Mo’s Digital Pencil 

I used the long rectangle nestabilities to cut our an aperture for my shaker card and added acetate to the back I surrounded the aperture with foam tape on the back and filled it with tiny flowers and seed beads I coloured my image with Copic Markers.

Next up is the super talented Gretha so that's where you should hop to next.

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there is 2 spot prizes to be won from the comments left on the blog hop.