Join the Photo-a-Day Monthly Challenges | The New Home Ec. If you’re on Instagram, or I’ve seen it all over Facebook, chances are you’ve come across the hashtag #photoaday. This craze for photo fiends was created by Chantelle of Fat Mum Slim. It began as something fun to post for 30 days in January. Then she was asked to come up with one for February… and so on. Well, it grew and grew and now just about everyone I know is participating. Seems as though it has caught on like Chevron!! So of course, now that it’s all hot and awesome, I must jump on the wagon too, right?! Are you part of the photo craze? Do it, join with me!! Make sure to follow Chantelle on Instagram, username is @fatmumslim. Elise Blaha :: enJOY it.: reader question : going from idea to reality. Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in questions. It's the nature of the blogging/social media beast, I think. While some are simple to answer ("Those blue plates are from Target five years ago.
" or "I make the photo grids with PSE. "), some are more detailed and really make me stop and reflect a bit. These are often the type of questions deserve long 1000 word answers instead of a few sentences in response and so I am going to start addressing them in blog post format. I have seen lots of reader Q&A happening on blogs (check out A Beautiful Mess, marta writes, Here's looking at me kid & DesignLoveFest) and I find the answers fascinating. So here's the first question - and I am paraphrasing a bit here - "How did you get the stamp shop idea from concept to reality in such a short time? I can't really get into how I made the stamp shop happen without first explaining the three levels of my job. The first level is the blog. The second level is assignments & shop upkeep.
Why is this? Silhouette Blog: Mini album series chapter 1- welding titles and the subtract tool... It wasn’t until I was finished putting together this little mini album that I realized just how fitting the title was for what’s inside. It’s full of fun little instagram photos of things that I love, and some of my favorite techniques using the CAMEO! Over the next few days we’ll take a closer look inside and I’ll give you some helpful hints to re-create the techniques at home. :) Let’s start with the title and cover… Most of the title is pretty much straight forward cutting so I’m going to focus on the word “favorite”.
You’ll notice that it is all cut out in one piece, or welded as we call it. To do that I selected my text tool and my font. {love, love, love that I can cut all the fonts I have on my computer!} Next I opened the modify window and selected weld. I didn’t want the dot to my i to be left out, so I moved it to slightly overlap the t and repeated the previous steps. It’s all ready to be cut out, and in one piece! Voila…a cute little heart window! Have a great Thursday! Homemade Blog Planner | Wendolonia. For a long time now I have been searching for a good planner to use to organize my blogging. Since there is nothing on the market designed specifically to meet the needs of bloggers, I’ve tried all sorts of things.
First I attempted to cobble together different combinations of pre-printed planner pages, but I found I had to purchase a bunch of stuff I’d never use to get the pages I wanted. Then I tried using an online calendar but that didn’t work very well for capturing ideas and taking notes. I even modified a notebook by adding calendar print-outs, but it was too small and I did a kind of sloppy job so I hated using it. Then one night last week, I was cruising around Pinterest after the kids went to bed when I stumbled upon an absolutely brilliant blog calendar from Beckie at Infarrantly Creative. I was so excited to solve my planner problem that I immediately downloaded Beckie’s printables and got to work on a calendar of my own. And started goofing around with it.
Mystery. Mystery. How do you capture mystery? Not all images need this to be part of their story but some do. I have found that discarding colour can help focus the attention on what might be there, by way of lines and textures seen more prominently in black and white. Less is more. Leaving out faces is a powerful way of conveying mystery. It leaves room to imagine and it also leaves room for the story to become part of the viewer's. Here are two examples where I think mystery is found. Allowing the viewer to search for clues within the image and then piece the story together in their minds, colored by their own experiences makes room for a larger, ever expanding composition. In writing, there is a saying that I think of often - Show, don't tell. Assume Love: We Just Grew Apart. The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog.
Has everyone been Instagraming away with February's topics from Fat Mum Slim!? Well the month is almost over, so you know what's coming up! Whoo hoo!!! I just thought I'd drop a little reminder to those of you who wanted to participate this month in our Photo-a-day Linky party for February! I LOVED looking over everyone's entries for January, so fun! Our February linky party will be taking place on Monday the 5th of March! Remember, you don't have to link up EVERY photo that you took this month if you don't want to. The point of our photo linky party's are to basically encourage everyone to reflect back on their month and remember the great moments, so you don't forget them. Also, since it's the beginning of a new month tomorrow, here is the list of March's photo-a-day challenge topics!... Hope to see you back here on Monday! Happy Photographing!
The House of Smiths - Home DIY Blog - Interior Decorating Blog - Decorating on a Budget Blog. Happy Monday! How was everyone's weekend!? I had the most amazing time at Alt Summit and shared some of my adventures through Facebook, twitter and Instagram (via 'houseofsmiths')... but have LOTS more to tell all of you about the amazing speakers I heard and classes I attended! So much learned and so many great people met!...
But that's for another post. Today I just wanted to drop in quickly to see how everyone is doing with their January photoaday challenge!? Even if you didn't participate in the January photoaday, think about starting in February! So what do ya say... are you in!? I'm also excited this week to share some more fun posts! Here's a little sneak peek! Lots of tools, dust and trial & error...Welcome to almost EVERY home improvement project here at The House of Smiths. ha! Oh! It's really changed the whole way I edit and blog my photos. Does anyone else know more on this subject then I do?
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