I Heart Faces ~ Sun Flare

One of my favorite sun flare photos I have taken! This was for her senior portraits. She is a cheerleader and could jump really high! Check out other great sun flare entries at:

I Heart Faces Best Face of February Contest

My daughter turned 7 and I took her for her birthday photo shoot! This is my favorite picture of her! Check out more pics at:

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I ♥ Faces Fix it Friday #88

Another Fix It Friday at I ♥ Faces! I love this picture taken by Angie Arthur.



Here's what I did:

Opened in CS5. Ran Slight Sharpen by Pioneer Woman, then ran Sharpen This! also by Pioneer Woman and brushed over the eyes.
Next I ran CoffeeShop's brand new Velvet Cream action. I masked and brushed over the face with a low opacity brush. Then I opened CoffeeShops Baking with Mom textures and used Vintage Valentine with the blending mode set at overlay and the opacity at 62%. I masked and brushed over the face again to take most of the texture off the skin! Then I ran CoffeeShop's AutoH Colorblock and saved for web!

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I ♥ Faces~ Cell Phone Challenge

Ok, ok, so I failed miserably at the project 365. What can I say? Life got in the way… I still love me some I ♥ Faces, and when I saw this week it was a cell phone challenge I knew I had to enter! I love this photo because of the angle and distortion! Check out more cell phone pics at:

Seven

My oldest child is turning seven.

7. Oh. My. Gosh.

Where has the time gone? I still remember the exact moment I first laid eyes on her. MY baby.

My red, hot, screaming bundle of joy.

The image is forever burned in my memory.

As it should be. And good thing too, since I don't have the digital copies to share with you ;)

I also remember 1. Those pink overalls, the gigantic lambie chair. She learned to walk a few days before and it was amazing!

2 was fun. So sweet and adventurous. She could make us laugh at the drop of a hat. All we wanted to do was squeeze her!

At 3 she really started to become her own little person. She knew what she wanted and she was going to get it !

And that mostly involved Dora the

Explorer anything and everything….

4 brought out the responsible qualities of a first child. The protective big sister, she fiercely defended her little brother at preschool and was sure to take good care of her baby sister at home. A nurturing little mother, she loved caring for her siblings.

And she still does.

Most of the time….

5 introduced us to the girly girl inside. She had ideas of how she wanted her hair cut and what kind of clothes she wanted. *Sigh*

6 was the year she seemed like a kid and not a baby anymore. It is going by fast and I just can't slow it down.

I remember the day she was born like it was yesterday. I can't even begin to explain where the years have gone. I look at her now and

still can't believe she was that red, hot, screaming baby.

Happy, happy birthday baby girl! I can't wait to see what 7 brings us!

****And PS I've been doing my Project 365, just haven't blogged them yet. Hopefully I will get them up soon… I am a little behind :) ****

I ♥ Faces Fix it Friday #82

I haven't done a Fix It Friday from I Heart Faces in awhile, but I couldn't resist today! Such a darling picture of a little girl taken by Rachael Durik. Here is the original:And here is my edit:I loved the composition already, but I just punched it up a bit by cropping it in a little tighter around her face.

Then I ran Pioneer Woman's "Slight Sharpen" action. Why? It's what I do with all my pics. I am a creature of habit! Next I used the healing brush and patch tools to diminish the dark spots under her eyes.

Then I used the Hue/Saturation layer to get rid of the blue color cast and brighten up her skin. There is a fabulous tutorial at The CoffeeShop Blog that will show you how to do that! Finally I ran Coffeeshop's Perfect Portrait 2 and adjusted the layers: I brightened and defined the eyes. I also painted "eye define" on her lips to bring them out a bit. I painted "Urban Grit" on her hair to define it a little and I used the "Get the Red out" layer on her skin. And, Voila! There you have it. Whew! View all the other fabulous edits over at I ♥ Faces !

Project 365 # 4

While I was at the Cal Expo Bridal Show all day on Sunday, my husband took all three of our kids to the Jelly Belly Factory! They had a great time and ate their weight in jelly beans.