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Being Creative #7 - Writing Down Ideas

Hello! Hello! Thank you for stopping by! And thanks to all who participated last week.

NEWS - I received requests from folks to keep the party going. At the end of the 10 weeks I won't have anything more to say, so I will keep this blog party going but I won't be talking. I will just share images of something I made, I hope you join in with your creations.  

 

It's been another a busy week but this weekend was particularly exciting. I hail from India and this weekend India was playing in the cricket World Cup final and won!!! Indians are crazy about cricket, for all the diversity in India this sport is the great uniter. And the atmosphere in India at a time like this is unique. A billion people are glued to their TVs, the streets are empty when the game is on, the country comes to a complete stop!!! No work gets done. 

As soon as India won, there were fireworks and dancing in the streets. The atmosphere in India is electric and super festive. It's quite an experience!

 

Back in New England my creative activity this week came from Photoshop Elements. I have been learning this tool over the last year and have wanted to learn about it for longer than that. And I am loving it!

 

Before we move on to today's topic I want to shout out to Joyce. She works for a newspaper - does photography and more - and she will tell you she loves it, is a grandmother who devotes loads of her time to grandkids and is super-crafty (in the good way!). How she does it all, I don't know! She inspires me.

 

Today's topic - Writing down ideas!

This isn't a long topic but an important one! I used to think that writing/sketching ideas was not important. I will remember them. But I was wrong. After some time I forgot! And then I saw something that reminded me of the idea and once again it would slip away. So I did start writing ideas and in the case of jewelery I sketch my ideas. I also put down the date I jotted the idea.

 

And I noticed some things - the ideas that I really cared about appeared over and over. The ones that I was intrigued about but didn't care much about faded away. With the many interests I have this also helped me identify the top 3 or 4 things I cared about (jewelry, collage, photography and Photoshop). It helped me streamline through the zillion ideas buzzing around my head.

 

And another magical thing happened too. The ideas became intentions. Some of the things I wrote down 2 years are coming true now. When I look back at my entries from 2 years back I had written "want to learn Photoshop" and this entry appeared over and over. I didn't know where to begin and how. But since I cared about it enough, my subconscious was registering and percolating things that I didn't know. I paid attention to any information I got on photography and Photoshop. And when you care enough about something you try to find ways to make it happen.

 

That's the other fun thing about writing/sketching your ideas, you see your own evolution! It is fun to flip through your own ideas journal. And sometimes you even run into an entry where you go - "Oh yeah, I still want to do that".

 

And here's what I am sharing this week:

 

And if you had stopped by earlier this week, you would have seen this same image with yet another set of colors. I couldn't stop playing with the colors in my composition.

I bought the collage kit for this project from Cat Scrap.

And I can't leave you without some goodies. Here are other places to buy digital kits for collage/scrapbooking:

- Scrapbook Graphics

- Digiscrapkits

- Basic Grey

 

Do you have any digital scrapbooking sites to share? What creation will you share today? You can link up until Tuesday, April 5th, noon EST.

 

Next week's topic - Tools, Tips and Technology! What are you favorite tools? Do you ever feel like you are cheating because you are using some tool?

 

Keep Creating!

Amisha

Digital Collage

My first digital collage ever and loving it!

I bought the kit from Cat Scrap and played with it in Photoshop. Among other things, I changed the colors with the Hue/Saturation adjustments menu.

I am loving this - like I needed one more creative diversion :-).

A Hint of Pink

Here's a photo I manipulated it in Photoshop, I think the hint of pink gives it some mystery. This vignette is from a walking trail in New England.

And here is the original.....

I hope you will join me this Sunday for the Being Creative blog party!

Now to enjoy more pinks go on over to Beverly's.

Winter and Spring

I was thinking of  the end of winter. And the beginning of  spring. And Pink Saturday. So with all this brewing in my mind this is what I came up with in Photoshop. 

So how was your week? And what did you create - will you come by and share it in the Being Creative party this Sunday?

Feel free to grab this image and make it your desktop if you like! 

Except for one texture all other elements in this picture are my own. The paper collage texture is from Ms. Bailey on Flickr.

Go on over to Beverly's to enjoy more pink.

A Pink Hat

Beverly, from Pink Saturday is hosting a special event today. She is helping to raise money for design makeovers for people who are recovering from illnesses. Go on over to her blog to help. She also asked to share an inspiring story.

Mine is a story of daily inspirations - a small one. Last year, I took an online class that encouraged me to take pictures of all sorts of things and share them. Until then I think I only thought of photos as something you see in mags or you click at family events or on trips. But everyday things, really? At first, it was strange stopping at strange places to take snaps, feeling a little self conscious. But slowly I started enjoying it. And now I have my handy automatic camera almost all the time or wield my iPhone camera at all kinds of things. So much so that last week, while we were walking around town, my hubby exclaimed "Oh no, not again".

Taking photos has given me a fresh perspective to life. I stop and admire things that I would have walked (or run) past, I enjoy the beauty and celebrate all kinds of moments. Remember the pink sky from last week? Just over a year back I wouldn't have run home to get my camera to click that. I would have admired the sky and then had only a vague memory of it. But now I take every chance I get to take a snap, when I am waiting somewhere I compose pictures in my head - life is so much richer!

This week's picture is a pink hat that I clicked while waiting to meet up with friends.

Yikes, it is Pink Saturday already!

Taking part in Pink Saturday has encouraged me to pay more attention to colors. I notice colors in everyday things as I walk by. In fact, I have started walking more again, it does help that the weather is fantastic for walking. But I digress. So I've been paying more attention to colors. But some times I haven't encountered any pink. This week was one of those weeks. So I've set myself a challenge, if I haven't found anything pink in a given week I will play with pictures in Photoshop. This way I still participate and give myself a reason to learn more Photoshop. So here goes....

My first pinkish picture for this week:

My second pinkish picture this week:

Would you like to see the original?

So which one do you like the first pink or the second?

Go on over to Beverly's to enjoy more pink.

Pink!

If it's Saturday, it's time for pink! This is one of my experiments from the Susan Tuttle Digital Expressions book. Loving this book!

Go on over to Beverly's for more pink!