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__________________ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
This last question isn't trivia, but it's to create joy! Share your FAVORITE card from the Falliday Fest gallery - it can be a card you made that you loved or someone else's - there may be cards other people haven't seen yet, so share!
I'm sharing one of my own, a folded card that was tough to make, but such fun when I gave it to one of my fav. people. She was delighted with how intricate it was. I'll never make another, but this one was fun!! And, it was for Lydia's very last FF challenge!
I sent it to a treasured friend, my mother’s best friend. My mother took up residence in her mansion in heaven 3 years and nine months ago. She is dearly missed here on earth. Having the pleasure of maintaining a relationship with her best friend is a sweet blessing for us both.
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What what WHAT???!!! Am I seeing this right?! I can’t believe that 1), I was the closest guess with that number last week and 2), so many people have commented on my final Falliday Fest card all of the sudden, telling me I’ve won?! Really? Am I dreaming?! Omg - THANK YOU!!!
I just got home from an out of town appointment but will find and post my favorite FF card from this year’s gallery when I can… if choosing one favorite is even realistic! lol (SO MANY BEAUTIES this year!!!!)
Again - THANK YOU!!!!!
__________________ Hugs & blessings, ~Chrissy
Jeremiah 29:11 Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Alumni | Proud FanClub member since 2017
My Gallery | My Blog "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
This fabulous Wreath of Stars card by Jean (jkanack) is one of my favorites from the Falliday Fest gallery. It's hard to pick just one, there are so many awesome and creative cards!
__________________ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
I picked one of my own. Egotistical maybe, but since it's allowed.... ;) I gave this to the choir director at Mama's church & her husband, who is the music director there. They both loved it, but the choir director (who is also a good friend of mine) went crazy over it! I think mostly the dimension.
I liked Liz's wreath card. The colors are just a bit different from the traditional Christmas colors, and the wreath is full and bushy. Also the scripty sentiment caught my eye.
__________________ Jo AnnMy SCS gallery / my blogThe cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea~Isak Dinesen FS 776
So I admit I did a random sampling of the FF 22 gallery, and looked at roughly a third of the entries. Even narrowing it down that much left me with a terrible time of choosing only one - truly, so much talent, creativity, and beauty this year! (Thank you to each and every person who shared their creations with us all - it's so inspiring to see everyone's work!!!)
I settled on this one: FF22UNDERSTANDBLUEA Robin and Holly by susanbri at Splitcoaststampers
Susan created the epitome of Christmas season scenes here, in my opinion - the soft, white-gray cast of a snowy day, the stillness and quiet that one can find in those days, and the beauty of and delight that can be found in the simplest - and sometimes some of the smallest! - ways!
Have a happy Friday and a blessed weekend, all!
Chrissy
__________________ Hugs & blessings, ~Chrissy
Jeremiah 29:11 Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Alumni | Proud FanClub member since 2017
My Gallery | My Blog "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
So, being fashionably LATE, I just posted all my Falliday cards. So there, take that!!! Had 'em made, but didn't get around to entering them. Go look, some are really fun.
Ahhh, Lydia must be from my generation! Unless the kids have changed it you are correct - BRB = be right back.
Yay! Exciting to see who the big winners are - Yetis are superstars!
Blessings,
Chrissy
__________________ Hugs & blessings, ~Chrissy
Jeremiah 29:11 Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Alumni | Proud FanClub member since 2017
My Gallery | My Blog "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
Congrats to ozarkstamper and sunstamper!
I am beyond thrilled to see that I won! Thank you all so much for the fantastic projects and inspiration to stock up on some cards!
Congrats to ozarkstamper and sunstamper!
I am beyond thrilled to see that I won! Thank you all so much for the fantastic projects and inspiration to stock up on some cards!
Shari,
I think you'll find the white card belongs to papercrafter40. While sunstamper's card is very similar, hers is vertical, where Andrea's is horizontal.
Here's the winner of Lori's team prize! (Andrea - I'd like to know how you photographed this! My white on white photos are awful!)
Lydia (& anyone else who's interested), for my photography, I have a homemade "lightbox" that has 3 walls + a floor from white foamcore. (I followed a tutorial I found somewhere online some years ago - it isn't my original design.) I use 2 mini binder clips along the top edge to clip a piece of 12x12" scrapbook paper to the back wall for my backdrop. I have this set up on a bookcase under a wall-mounted lamp with a daylight bulb in it. (I never use natural daylight for photographing my paper projects.) I use my Nikon D7500 camera on a tripod (to avoid camera shake blur) for photographing. I set my card up in the lightbox, & take generally 2 photos at ISO 200, an aperture of f/5.6 - one at a shutter speed of 1/1.3 seconds & the other at 1/1.6 seconds. Not a huge difference in shutter speeds, but it's become a habit, & I rarely find I need anything much slower or faster. The f/5.6 aperture creates a shallow depth of field, which causes the slightly blurred background, since I have my camera set up maybe a couple of feet away from the bookcase. I import my photos into Adobe Bridge, choose the better exposure in comparison mode, & open that one in Photoshop. I crop & straighten there, & add a Contrast 1 Levels Adjustment Layer, then merge that with the photo/background layer. The Contrast 1 just kind of crispens the details & deepens darker colors a bit, without going hog-wild. I guess it helps with detail in white-on-white cards, too. And that's usually about it. I think the camera is set on Auto White Balance (it's been so long since I checked, I'm not totally sure), which works for cards. Anyway, I hope that helps. Consider it a brief lesson in product photography, at any rate! LOL
Andrea,,,you really go to a great deal of work to photograph your cards. Light boxes can make or break white cards....I had a set up much as you describe but broke down and purchased a collapsible light tent....then realized I didn't have a surface to place it on and use. so I use a watercolor paper pad for floor and background and my "baby" refurbished first ever digital camera with a whopping 3.2 mp for my card photos...have a desk lamp with daylight bulb above the shooting site(which is usually on top of my trimmer...and it works for me mostly. upside...I don't ever have to resize the image to post as it is under 4 mb
__________________ c-mouse-If you can't say nuttin nice--don't say nuttin at all. Thumper. Pansy
Card Sketch Challenge 1-227 done only 396+ to go to be caught up!!!!!
Andrea--wow, thank you for all the information! Your card photos are so professional-looking, and now I know why! I am going to rummage around in my storage room for some foam core board that I know is in there somewhere, and make myself a light box! And give that a try! I moved my craft room into a different room and 'lost' the area where I was taking pictures of my cards, and now they seem washed out no matter where I set up. But--I have a window now, so I've been trying to move things around depending on the amount of daylight coming in. I didn't have a window in the old craft room, so was using the "daylight" bulbs in two small adjustable desk lamps. That might be part of the problem! ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it," lol!) So, again, thank you so much for the information!
__________________ -----Liz "Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, ..." ~~1 Thess. 4:11 (NIV)
Andrea,,,you really go to a great deal of work to photograph your cards. Light boxes can make or break white cards....I had a set up much as you describe but broke down and purchased a collapsible light tent....then realized I didn't have a surface to place it on and use. so I use a watercolor paper pad for floor and background and my "baby" refurbished first ever digital camera with a whopping 3.2 mp for my card photos...have a desk lamp with daylight bulb above the shooting site(which is usually on top of my trimmer...and it works for me mostly. upside...I don't ever have to resize the image to post as it is under 4 mb
It may sound like a lot of work, but now that I have a system, it really isn't bad. I do try to wait until I have at least a few cards to photograph, as setting up the tripod & camera takes a bit of doing to get it lined up just right. Once that is done, it's like card making - photographing multiple cards doesn't take much longer than doing just one. I think the most I've done at once is maybe 10-12 cards, & even that took me just 30-40 minutes for the whole process, from setup to adding my watermark to each final card photo.
