And along with us, Angella's photo is coming too. When Angella went to visit her family in Chile earlier this year, she brought a picture of me with her(since I've always wanted to go to Chile). So since Angella wants to go to Miami, I'll bring a photo of her, so she'll have an imaginary trip to Miami with me. The photo of Angella is borrowed from her Facebook site, and I've edited and made a frame around it in Photoshop;)
And after Miami we'll be going to New Orleans for 5 days, visiting our friends, Linda and Erlend!
Yes!!! Vacation is so much fun!
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Booo Hooooo.....! It's time to show some Halloween candies I made with the Club Anya Spooktacular Stamp Set from the July release. All sentiments and images are from this stamp set.
Here you see the three lollies before I decorated them.
All images are coloured with Distress Ink. This image is cut out with a vintage tag die from BossKut. The swirl stamps are from Prima.
On this lolly I used a cool black paper that was dry embossed and it looks like raindrops.I used a Spellbinder die to cut the image and a Martha Stewart punch for the bat.
This image is also cut by using a Spellbinder die(Label 1). To cover this lolly I first wrapped am old book page around it. I then inked the edges with Distress Ink Vintage Photo. To finish it, I wrapped some cellofane around it and used some red scrappers floss and linen thread.
The frame around the images is a clipping mask frame I made in Photoshop. I added a black layer behind it so it looked a litte bit more spooktacular;) You can download the frame HERE and use it on your own images. My free clipping mask frames can be viewed in this album. If you want to learn how to add a frame like this to your photos, please see my TUTORIAL. And please link back to my blog if you use my frames;) 
This is how you can do it in Photoshop 6.0 and newer versions. For Elements I don't know if it works like this.
You open your photo in Photoshop(Ctrl+O). Duplicate your layer(Ctrl+J) to make an identical layer of the photo. This is now called Layer 1.
First I want to make Layer 1 black&white. Make sure Layer 1 is highlighted on the Layers Palette and then you desaturate the photo (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+U). Layer 1 is now in BW.
I think the contrast in this BW photo don't look good so I want to adjust it. I add an Adjustment Layer to Layer 1 by clicking the black&white circle at the bottom of the Layers Palette and choose Brightness/Contrast. I adjust the contrast until I think the BW layer looks nice.
I then want the butterfly to have some brighter colours. I click off the BW Layer for a while and I make sure the Background Layer is highlighted. Then I add an Adjustment Layer to the Background Layer by clicking the black&white circle at the bottom of the Layers Palette and choose Hue/Saturation. I move the arrow at the Saturation bar to +36(depends on how bright you want it to be) and get some nice bright colours to the butterfly.
Now I've adjusted the BW and the colour layer the way I want them and it's time to make some magic happen! First make sure you've clicked on the BW layer again. The Layers Palette should now look like on the print screen above. You should now have two Layers(Background and Layer 1) and two adjustment layers(Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation).
Now you make sure Layer 1 is highlighted on the Layers Palette. Then you go down to the bottom of the Layers Palette and add a Layer Mask(a square with a circle in it) to Layer 1.
Now you go to the Tools Palette on the left side and the Colour Palette. Make sure you have white selected as the foreground colour and black selected as the background colour.
You can now choose the Eraser Tool on the Tools palette.
You decide the size and softness of the brush up on the Menu line. I use a quite large brush to start with and later I will go over with a smaller brush on the small details and edges.
Press down the left mouse button and start erasing over the object you want to be in colour. You will now see the colour start to appear in your BW photo.
Don't worry if you erase outside the lines of your object. As you see on my image I have some orangecolour from the flower which is visible. I don't want it to be like that and want to add back black/white to the things outside my object(butterfly).
The cool thing I can do now is to go to the Colour Palette, use the arrow in the corner and switch to Black as Foreground colour. If you now try to erase over the object, you'll see that you reverse the erasing from earlier and add back the B/W.
I also zoom in on the image, and use a smaller brush on the Erase Tool to go over the edges of the object. This can take some time, depending on the details of the object. So by working like this, changing between black and white as foreground colour, and chaning the size of the brush, you 'll get a nice result in the end.
Here you see the finished result again. Remember to save it as a copy so you don't overwrite your original photo. If you save it as a photoshop file(.psd) you can also open it again later and continue your work.
