last week nancy donaldson provided an encaustic looking texture for use in photo editing. i instantly fell in love with this and finally found the time to play on some of my pics… it is so addicting!!
thank you so much, nancy – and i hope you enjoy these altered photos…
(sorry, i forgot to record all the steps and only saved it as jpgs…)
there are still raspberries in the forest… i layered this picture with 2x kk_word and one layer of kim´s canvasblackmagic texture. the textures over the berries were erased via layer masks. please check out the other contributions of texture tuesday here.
the upcoming theme for take-a-word is blackbirds… so i made this storyboard with photos of the magpie my cat killed recently. positioned some bodyparts on spray painted backgrouds and arranged the squares digitally.
(the biologist in me knows that magpies belong to the bird-family of corvidae, but the “real” blackbirds are turdidae. but both are in the order of passeriformes… so far about things you did not want to know *g*)
diese bildersammlung habe ich gemacht mit fotos der toten elster (als model auf gesprayten hintergründen), die mein kater letztens gefangen hatte. die kommende woche geht es bei take-a-word zwar um “blackbirds”, genaugenommen also amseln… aber das schert ja wohl keinen. nur die biologin in mir muss hier ein bisschen korinthenkacken, denn während amseln zur familie der drosseln gehören, sind elstern rabenvögel – allerdings gehören beide zur ordnung der sperlingsvögel. was ihr noch nie wissen wolltet *g*…
i´m linking these snail photos to PAF showcase this week oct 7th – oct 9th — take your time to visit the other contributions, great photo art there!
the first snail pic is edited with a halftone frame
on the second one i used bonnie´s medieval magic texture. i decided to turn it into a faux postage stamp (which i often do with my pictures), adding the stencil std font.
das schneckenpost-bild ist ein freebie: einfach im kleinformat ausdrucken, mit briefmarkenschere ausschneiden und als “falsche zusatzbriefmarke” verwenden 
when i was young, caipirinha was not a theme… bacardi-cola was our drink;)
laden with fruit…
for mankind, birds… plenty of it for everybody…
so “gratitude” is a perfect word for this week´s TT challenge:
on the second one i used kim klassen´s scribblecircle brush, tried out halftone frames (thanks for the links, kaylene!); font is artistamp medium, ttv frame from flickr
seed (of a thistle, i think) caught in a spiderweb
frame is a freebie from free digital scrapbooking.com
even walls are not forever…