Fascinating read from the New York Times "What is Glitter" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html not hot-linked version of link: nytimes-dot-com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory-dot-html BTW polyethylene terephthalate is Dacron, per Wikipedia. And one of my printmaking...

Credits: Anna Aspnes I've been in love with this music ever since hearing Yo Yo Ma play it this fall. You can find stunning renditions by Ma, Casals and native Catalan vocal artists on YouTube. I drew the birds while listening to the music. Although this is my second version, it's more of...

Credits: Anna Aspnes Edit: someone asked which Anna products I used - a huge mish-mash of stuff, some pulled from her contributions to Oscraps collabs and a few dragged in as layers from various Artsy Layered Templates - and then often layered and altered. The big brush stroke in this LO is...

Credits: Anna Aspnes (her template was a perfect match for this LO), Mediterranka Book The Cultivation of Christmas Trees by TS Eliot Illustrated by Enrico Arno Excerpt from the poem The child wonders at the Christmas Tree: Let him continue in the spirit of wonder At the Feast as an...

I see stuff like this on Pinterest all the time - a blank square with some relevant text and the name of the website Example: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d8/c3/5b/d8c35be9cc57c9d96c7a07d3b522f4fc--civil-wars-lesson-plans.jpg It looks like there must be an extension to help you generate the...

for fun, google Dan Ariely Anchoring Effect - enlightening and alarming! Credits: Anna Aspnes, Crafty Button Designs, NBK Design, Maya de Groot

Credits: Joanne Brisebois, Anna Aspnes

Credits besides Anna: Maya de Groot, Angie Kovacs

I try to send projects to my nieces for birthdays and Christmas (I make a card and send them supplies and instructions for their own cards). This year it's a holiday seahorse pop-up. Digital supplies: Anna Aspnes, Val C Designs Seahorse nature print: Fred B. Mullett Popup Design: Robert...

Credits: Anna Aspnes, Jopke Designs Poem: "Among the Rocks" by Robert Browning Oh, good gigantic smile o the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet For the ripple to run over in its mirth; Listening the...

In making a recent LO, I wanted to have an image clipped to a black photo mask with edges tinted blue (bottom right). It took some fiddling to get what I wanted. This is what I learned...

In making a recent LO, I wanted to have an image clipped to a black photo mask with edges tinted blue (bottom right). It took some fiddling to get what I wanted. This is what I learned. Part 2 of the tutorial here...

Part 1 of tutorial here https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=404344&title=coloring-a-black-photo-mask-tutorial-2c-part-1&cat=all

Process notes for tinting the grey parts of the photomask. I took advantage of the fact that you can't color the solid black parts of a black mask because in Photoshop black is just the absence of color. (You can clip a solid color or use a color overlay effect on a black mask, but that doesn't...

Credits: Jopke Designs, NBK Designs, Anna Aspnes Process Notes for coloring the black mask: https://ozone.oscraps.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=404273&title=colorize-mask-process-notes&cat=500 Coloring photo masks tutorial Part 1...

My reaction to ads for junk no one needs that have been appearing in my pre-Christmas email. Credits: Anna Aspnes

Template by Timouette

Credits: Anna Aspnes, Merry & Bright Collab Photo Credit: Foomandoonian (Flickr)

Starting to get more of the hang of modifying Anna's templates (especially recoloring) - which is all I did before dropping my photos in. P.S. If you can find the movie Iqbal, it's worth seeing - you don't even have to know anything about cricket to appreciate it.

I dusted off one of Anna's old templates (and didn't do much else!)