Your appointment with Friday

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you had a good week : )  For the photo prompt today I thought it would be nice to get creative in a little different way.  And I think we will all really have fun seeing what everyone comes up with.....the prompt is:

Playing with toys

For my photos I decided to take pictures of my small tin bunnies in different locations, where I wouldn't normally have them out to enjoy.  It was a fun little experiment and mini adventure....trodding around to find three very different backgrounds.  And I honestly now can't decide which is my favorite.....

At first when I took the photo of the bunnies in the grass it bothered me that the grass was so yellow, especially coming from the Pacific Northwest where the ground is so green and lush right now.....but once I saw the photo on Pumpkin I though it was a very fresh looking color for Spring, so now I love it!  The brick photo is cute, kinda like they are crossing a pathway and have to hurry along before someone comes.  And the beach photos were really fun to shoot!  Boy, did my jeans get all sandy and wet from laying down to get them.....LOL!!!  I can just imagine these three little bunnies hopping along down the beach with people stopping to look at how out of place they are and they just keep going on their merry way.  I have special plans for my project with these photos, and I hope it all works out <3

See ya soon!  Have a lovely weekend!!!

Love, Carrie

Project Monday

Hi everyone : )  I am now home and slowly getting back into the swing on things here in San Diego.  The visit to see my family in Washington was so wonderful, and for my project this week here is a digital layout with some of my last photos with them.....

List of supplies:

• Ali Edwards - For The Love Of Chevron No. 1 Paper Pack
• Font - Efon
• Font - Courier
• Font - Goodbye Crewel World

And I think my two favorite things about this layout (other than the photos of course : ), is the lovely textured chevron paper and the cute cut out looking clouds.  It's a strange combination of elements, I know, but somehow I think it works <3

See ya tomorrow for a new photo prompt!

Love, Carrie

Your appointment with Friday

O.K.  So, I know that my prompt this weekend is a day late.  Sorry about that.  Right now I am sitting at the airport waiting for my flight back to San Diego, and honestly yesterday I just got so caught up in being with my family I totally forgot about it.  Yes, I am a major dork from time to time : )  Anyways, the prompt for this week is fun photo technique I have been wanting to try and thought it would be perfect for Spring:

Spring Reflections

The idea behind this photo prompt is to capture the reflection of an image on something else.  You can capture a reflection in water, glass, whatever works for you.

The photo above is from a walk at the Railroad Park Bridge in Sequim.  There are these large pools of water from a very calm stream that flows into the Dungeness River and when i saw the image of these tall bare tree branches in the water I thought it would be a lovely way to capture how fresh and beautiful Spring can be.  Below are two more photos also from my walk (with my baby brother and sister).....

As you can see the water is not as calm in these photos since we decided to venture off along a stream that was quickly moving towards the river.  And getting these photos was quite an adventure since the sun was casting my brother and sister's shadow behind them and the stream was in front of us.  In order for the kids to get onto the other side of the stream, they had to scoot across a fallen log since the walking path was flooded.  And boy did they love that!  I snapped the photo just above and then quickly scooted across too.  It was nerve racking.  Not because I was afraid of falling into stream, but I didn't want Clem to get wet ; )  Once across I took the other photo of the kids and my baby brother's refection in a small pool of water.  If you look closely you an see that there are streams on either side of us.  It was so beautiful and peaceful there.  The bare trees arched and met at their tips creating a giant canopy, and the rushing water was loud but calming.  Eventually we scooted back over the fallen log and went on with our day, but these images and how wonderful it felt to be there is still fresh in my mind.  What reflections of Spring do you see?

Have the best weekend!

Love, Carrie

P.S. Our special guest for this month is rescheduled to the week of the 22nd <3

Project Monday

Hello lovely people!  I hope you all had a good weekend : )  Mine was filled with three memorable days of spending time with my family and especially this little fella.....

He really is as sweet as he looks in this photo <3  And as you can see, for my project this week I decided to do another digital layout.  Partially because I love printing them out (which I will do once I return to San Diego), but also because I didn't make time to have any photos printed at the Costco down the street so I could add it to my Spring art journal.  Silly me : )  Anyways, most of the background in this layout is my photo, but for the rest I used another texture off my Crumble, Crackle, Burn CD.....which is layered over a solid yellow.  For the journaling I used three different fonts, and to add a bit more depth created two other layers in different colors at only partial opacity.  I've used this style of digital layout once before HERE, and I think I really like it for this project too.  And now I have my photo with some journaling love and a reminder of wonderful memories from this past weekend.  Perfect.

Make sure to stop by Wednesday and say hi to our special guest for April.....many of us know and love her!  And as for today I hope your week is grand!!!

Love, Carrie

Your appointment with Friday

Happy first day of April to you!  Today it is just little old me sharing my photo for today's photo prompt.....but it is a photo is that very special to me and also somewhat of a gift to you too : )  Today's photo prompt is:

Sharing Happy Thoughts

You are beautiful.  And yes, I am talking to you.  I wrote this sweet little note, so you could see it and believe it <3

The idea for this prompt is so write a sweet note onto a piece of paper, photograph it, and share your happy thoughts with others.

Yesterday, my brother, his girlfriend, and my nephew surprised us with an impromptu visit.....driving all the way from Salt Lake City up to us in the Pacific Northwest!  So, I thought to myself that my nephew would be the perfect helper with today's prompt.  I quickly grabbed him from away from playing with my baby brother and sister and asked if you wanted to help me with a photo.  Of course he said yes with a big smile.  And so that is him pictured above, holding our happy thoughts.  Perfect.

After I took this photo I thought of all sorts of ways this prompt could be more interactive.  Like I may have each of the kids write their happy though onto a piece of paper and then photograph what they want to share.  I hope you find this prompt as sweet and good for the soul as I do.  And as always if you decide to play along please share your photos with us by adding a link with a comment or adding to our Flickr Group.

Have a wonderful, beautiful weekend!

Love, Carrie