Piano makeover

After bringing our new couch home it was clear our very old (1890 something) upright piano needed to be spruced up a bit- no allot.
So I tried a great tip I found on Pinterest.com. I polished it with a mixture of oil and vinegar, ¾ cup vegetable oil and ¼ cup vinegar. No excessive rubbing I just rubbed it on as I would any furniture polish.
Halfway done, wow what a difference!

It put a great shine on it, darkened the dark in the wood and brought out gold highlights I didn’t even know were there. I was worried that it might dry sticky and all the dust would stick to it but it didn’t. It’s 4 days later and it is still all shiny and beautiful.

The blog I found it linked to on Pinterest.com is
http://missmustardseed.com/2010/06/oil-vinegar-not-just-for-salads/

New Sketch for Bird is the Word Challenge Blog - CHARM

I made this digital wallpaper for my computer desktop with this sketch.

To create circular text in Adobe Photoshop Elements like the “You’re my lucky charm” on this lo.
1.Open a new page, click file, click new then click blank file. In the pop up window select the size you want, I used 12 x 12 inches, then click OK
2. Select the Text tool from the tool menu. Select the Font and Size. Click about half way down on your page. Type the sentiment you want, space it so it so it goes all the way across your page.

3. Select the text layer in the layer pallet. Click Image; rotate then 180 to flip the text upside down.

4. Drag the handles to make your text about twice the height. Select the check to accept.

5. With the text layer selected in the layer pallet, click on Filter, click Distort then click Polar Coordinates. Be sure the circle next to Rectangular to polar is selected. Click OK. Select the check to accept.

St. Patrick's Day Computer Wallpaper

I made this Digital scrapbook page for Tim's computer desktop background.

Egg and Bird banner for Spring/Easter

Close up

Alexis helped me make this banner by painting my paper with a marble in a cake pan.

Our painted paper.

I cut the eggs out of the painted paper and the birds out of scrapbook paper and stapled them to a ribbon.

New Challenge Word Discover Sketch

Discover Sketch for February 26 Bird is the Word Challenge

For this sketch I wanted a torn paper look for one of my layers. To do this I used an action in my effects pallet.
First I opened my paper in a new layer and ctrl click on that layer (the layer now has the “running ants” around it).

For the action I chose, the tear color is the color of the foreground color, so I clicked on the foreground color used the eyedropper to pick a color from my paper and set the foreground color.
Then I just double clicked the “action” in the effects pallet and clicked continue. The action I used on this was from Atomic Cupcake called Torn Ink.

To install actions or styles I followed the how to I found at
https://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/html/installing-actions-in-photoshop-elements-5-windows-xp-vista/

New sketch for Bird is the Word Heart

Change a photo or element Black and White with Adobe Photoshop Elements.
The doily in the Heart sketch was a pink one and I wanted it to match my black and white sketch so I changed it by first selecting it in the pallet menu then going to enhance and click on convert to black and white, and clicked OK. Yes that simple. You can change any element or photo Black and White this way.

Change any element color to match your layout with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

If you want to use an element but it just don’t match the colors on your page you can simply change the color to match.
Open your paper; I am using a valentine paper from the Luv U 4ever line by Emily Powers. Place your frame (any element) on the paper; I am using a brown frame from the Just So Scrappy Fall Leaves Kit. I want the frame to be the blue that is in the background paper. So I-

Set the foreground color in the tools pallet, with the eyedropper I chose the blue in the background paper, click on it, and click OK.
In the layer pallet with the frame highlighted, Ctrl click the frame that put the “running ants” around the frame. Then I clicked the Half Moon in the layer pallet, it is the button to “create adjustment layer”, in the drop down menu I clicked Hue/Saturation. Then I put a check in the box next to “Colorize” by clicking in the box. Now I slid the Saturation and Lightness bars tell I got the look I wanted and clicked OK. Then I merged the layers by using the shortcut keys Ctrl E.
Now I have a blue frame that matches my background paper.

Pinterest Pantry

We finished our Pantry! I found the tutorial on Pinterest (my favorite place to be on the net) The link to the tutorial I used is http://onthebanksofsquawcreek.blogspot.com/2011/06/diy-pull-out-pantry-tutorial.html

A friend gave us this old glass door knob and plate for it.

All filled up!