are you ready for another challenge?  i am!

first… last’s weeks challenge participants… click to leave them some lovin!

you’ve each earned a rainbow point & will have a PM in your inboxes today   awesome pages ladies – thanks for participating!

it always takes me a couple of hours to put this post together – there are so many new yummy pages in our gallery every week which makes it SO hard to choose just one standout page to feature here on the blog.

this morning, one page in particular immediately snagged my attention…  “I Love My Dog” by Rhondasunflower:

the look on the dog’s face and the sitting position is just priceless, lol!  i love how she emphasized the dog’s face with the extra 2 smaller photos on each side   great job hun!   you’ve earned yourself a rainbow point

so into PS i went….  it took me a while to get the photo right – it was a little on the dark side of life, so it need to be brightened up a bit before i could use it.  to do this i used some of my favorite photo actions from coffeeshop:  Little Perk, Barista No Wait, & Creamy Chocolate B&W (and left out the Creamy and the Chocolate).  and of course i also took liberties with the lift and ended up with this page:

with this page i kind of broadened my horizons a bit and used stitching AND i journaled!  which i don’t often do.  the page seemed to call for it tho, so there ya go

the shadowing that some of you have been commenting on (thank you!) is really quite easy to do in Photoshop – a long time ago (in a galaxy far far away) when i first started digital scrapping, i stumbled upon a set of tutorials written by Misty Cato, and found a tut on realistic drop shadows.  She is in the process of moving over to WordPress and hasn’t gotten all of them listed yet on the new blog, but you can hit that link for now and check it out.  easy peasy stuff i tell ya.  i make it so time consuming tho – trying to get the lifted look just right.

ok, so.  gather up whatever inspiration you gain from the LOTW and scrap your own pages – and don’t forget to leave me a link here in the comments to earn your rainbow point!

here’s today’s template for you too!

download it here

have fun!

::much love::

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