Owls and Digital Manipulations

Hi my blogging friends, how are you?
I know it's been a while since I posted or did my blog visits, life has been rather busy.

So what have I been up to lately? I have been having a little fun creating with some beautiful sheets of felt I purchased from Joggles.com, called National Non Woven Felt, I just love it, and I have been shopping there for some lovely threads too, I love the Oliver Twist packs, and was going to show you some, but this post may get too long.

I actually made these cute little owls two weeks ago. 

This blue one is my favourite.

I then designed a little needle book and I am really happy how it turned out.

You can see below the steps I took to make this little project, and I am trying to show you the finished inside but blogger is giving me fits here.
I wrote a full tutorial on my Cute Owl Crafts page, that is printable, and there is a link to the little owl pattern too,  which I drew very roughly, but just incase you don't want to draw your own :)
Also included on this page are lot's of links to some of the greatest Cute Owl Craft projects I have found online, all free instructions.
 If you love Owls as much as I do, you are going to love this page.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask. 

The tutorial is on an off blog page at Squidoo.com where I am thoroughly enjoying writing about Arts and Crafts mostly, I think I found my niche there :) 

I have also been playing in PSE9 , but not as much as I would like. I post my work on my Flickr but I will show you a couple right here that I really love.

I am also learning how to use my new camera, going to a DSLR after my little Coolpix point and shoot, is rather overwhelming. I just want to know how everything works, and right now LOL.

This is as you may guess, called "Authentic". A photo of some Grape Hyacinth from the grocery store processed with Kim Klassen textures. The link to her site is in my side bar if you have yet to see her beautiful textures.

A couple more to share, this one is "Tulip Love", and I love how it turned out.

I got to play with a beautiful, beautiful bunch of tulips a friend brought me.

You may noticed the name Ashleigh Lynn on my digital art now. That's the name I will be using on my photographs and on Flickr and I am also hoping to have a blog just for my photography when I get around to it.

Ashleigh Lynn is my daughter's full name, she is also into photography so you never know what may come of our adventures :)

This next one is called "Tea in Bed", it brought back memories of my childhood. My dad always brought mom a cup of tea in bed each morning. He did this throughout their marriage but now he has Parkinsons and it's too hard for him to carry a cup of hot steaming tea. 

I hope to be back sooner than last time, 

Until then,  keep living creatively  :)

Lynn