I've discovered Photo Montage and Textures and I'm having a lot of fun!

These are my my first three efforts at photo montage and textures, let me know what you think! I use Photoplus X2 to do the photo manipulation and texturing and then finish off using Picnik.

 Photo Montage of Scotland's Eilean Donan Castle in a new setting with textures and created with 3 photos I took in Scotland this year.

Eilean Donan Castle: www.flickr.com/photos/charmainezoe/5037563806/

Rocky shore: www.flickr.com/photos/charmainezoe/5036697115/

Sky: www.flickr.com/photos/charmainezoe/5036797555/

Texture by ground*floor: www.flickr.com/photos/chromaticaberrations/2278536117/

Textured frame by rubyblossom: www.flickr.com/photos/rubyblossom/4954128101/in/pool-1024...

 Photo Montage using these great Creative Commons images:-

Thanks to JordanHill School D&T Dept for their great Abbey pic: www.flickr.com/photos/designandtechnologydepartment/40075...

Thanks to pixiepic for her lovely swan: www.flickr.com/photos/pixiepics2008/3502210286/in/photost...

Thanks to flickrohit for his great clouds: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrohit/2934554922/

Thanks to pareerica for the lovely frame texture: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3137643630/

Original image supplied by skagitrenee at www.flickr.com/photos/14678598@N07/3786362162/

The Textures I added using a combination of PhotoPlus X2 and Picnik

My lovely Roses for Mothers's Day

These are the lovely roses I got from Pepsi and Max for Mother's Day, or Mothering Sunday as we call it here in the UK. Hubby had bought them on the boys behalf when he'd done the shopping yesterday, and hidden them in the garage overnight so I wouldn't see them. He had them all arranged in one of my Waterford crystal vases for when I came downstairs this morning. I love the peach colour and globular shape, but sadly they have no scent and probably wont last long, which I find with most supermarket flowers these days. So I've taken loads of photos of them to keep as mementos, including this great close up which really shows off the colour nicely.


I also got got a huge bar of Cadburys fruit and nut milk chocolate, my favourite, and Hubby cooked the most delicious roast pork Sunday lunch, so I've really been spoilt today.

Oh well, back to work and real life tomorrow!

Scrapbook Saturday 6/9: A peek into yesterday

This week I have another heritage scrap for Scrapbook Saturday. This time it is a photo of my Mum's wedding in 1952, with two of her cousins as bridesmaids, and her mother in the background. They were two of the people in last weeks scrap, and as I had such a lovely response to that, I thought I'd do another one for this week.

Don't forget to hop on over to MammaDawg.com and add yourself to the SS blogroll.

(Not) Wordless Wednesday

OK, so it's not Wednesday - and it's not exactly wordless!, but having missed it I thought what the heck! Here's a lovely picture of Hubby together with the Step Daughter & new Grandson aged 12 weeks - all together now, Aaaaaaw. The pic below is of my daughter and grandson - so that's the whole family covered!