Narrowboat reflections

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the unseasonal mildness, can't really say that I am, its not right. I prefer it when the seasons are defined by the weather!

I thought I would give you a brief break from the Christmas cards today, only today mind you :o)

Had a phone call from my cousin yesterday, she wants 40 Christmas cards so I had better get my skates on then. At least what she wants is a very simple design and all the same so I can set up a production line LOL.

How many of you knew that there were hands free can openers around. I didn't until I saw my daughter using one so I thought it would be ideal for Stephen as he is one handed since his stroke.

He is much more independent now, 2+ years after, but of course, tins defeat him. Anyhow, it arrived yesterday and it is the best invention ever, absolutely brilliant. You just put it on top of the tin, press the button and watch it do it's thing, amazing LOL.

Oooooops! I digress so on to my card for today :o)

My usual 5x7 card, folded and cut from an A4 sheet of white linencard.

My photograph,  taken at Trent Lock in June this year, feathered in PSP7 and printed onto the same white linencard, then cut with Grand Nestie, as is the blue layer.

Sentiment stamped and punched with SU.

This is my original photograph. The colour of the tarp on the boat seems to have changed with feathering :o)
Jackie xx

 

Pics from my new camera

Good morning everyone,  I hope all is well in your world...hugs

Despite the rainy start to yesterday it dried up later and I was able to get out to Trent Lock to play with my new camera,  a Fujifilm S9900W bridge camera, and oh boy was 

I impressed :o)

I took a few pics through my windows on Saturday and then the ones taken at 

Trent Lock follow. 

Warning! Picture heavy.

 Ths first one was taken through my dirty kitchen window and I am so impressed with the detail on the feathers.

 This one was taken through my living room window and is of the flower on my Australian false palm.

This one, also taken thorugh my living room window, is the top od a tree in my next door but one's garden, I thought these two might make nice background images.

This is what the day started out like yesterday, but it did clear later, thank goodness!

 The heron and the horses were way across the river and I took these photographs with the zoom only halfway. I am really impressed with the detail. Not looking for the content at this stage, just the quality of the main image.

You can see where the heron was in relation to the horses on the first horsey pic. I am so pleased with the feather detail.

I love the reflections in this one taken from just by the side of the lock.

I hope you have enjoyed my little outing, I did very much :o)

Jackie xx

One lily, two notecards

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well in your world...hugs

Oh dear, here was I just settling down to a more comfortable temperature and wham! It's going to be too hot again today. I know a lot of you will love it but it just wipes me out completely :o(

I've got an exciting morning ahead, going to get rid of some clutter at the tip LOL. The evening will be better though when I visit my daughter :o)

Anyhow, on to my cards for today. I hope I'm not boring you with my photographs!

This is a photograph that I took at Trent Lock a couple of weeks ago, the same day that I lost my little camera! This pot of beautiful lilies sits outside the Lock House Tea rooms.

 Photograph feathered in PSP as usual then printed onto Papermania textured card. I took the background colour for the second card from the lilies. This is something I always do when I want a coordinating background. For the sentiments I used Viner Hand and Dauphin fonts.

Once printed (both on the same A4 sheet) I folded and cut them to 4x4 :o)

Jackie xx

A few pics and an update on camera.

Good morning everyone, I hope all is as well as it can be in your world...hugs

Well I didn't get my camera back so I went out and spent my craft kitty + on a new one. That means no craft shopping for a while! I miss my baby Nikon but methinks I shall do okay with the new Fuji Finepix T500 once I get used to the feel of it. Got to play around with the settings until I hit on the right ones for me. 

In the meantime I went back to Trent Lock yesterday with my big Nikon to take pics that I had lost with my little camera! This is just a few of them. Get yourself a cuppa and settle down cuz it's very picture heavy :o)

 This old dovecote was there when I was a child, way back in the mists of time!

As you can see, I converted a few to grey scale 

No, that's not a ginormous swan, it is a rowing boat LOL.

This is the pub where I left my camera but don't let that put you off if you ever visit Trent Lock, I has a lovely meal there.

I love the reflections and just look at that blue sky, who needs to go to the Mediterranean :o)

Jackie xx

A few from my Castleton photographs

Good morning everyone on this very frosty start to the day!

At last, I have discovered a way to get true colours when taking pics of my cards in the bad winter light! I used my big camera - with the small lens - for these which is very good in poor light conditions and the colours are near perfect so you are seeing the cards as they really are :o)

All backings except the cow card are also own photographs, the first one being taken at Trent Lock on a beautful summer evening a couple of years ago, but the others taken at Castleton. 

As with the previous cards, I have played with the photographs in PSE5 and PSP 

Jackie xx