First photo with new camera!

Hello Friends! Are you having a good weekend? I know it's super cold in many areas, so hopefully you're snuggling up with a cup of hot cocoa and staying warm! My weekend has been great so far,  Paige and I met my friend for lunch yesterday and we also ran a few errands. She's such a good baby! I'll post her 3 month pic very soon, I can't believe she's already 3 months old!

I was able to get in the craft room and make a random birthday card just so I could take a pic with my new camera. Let me tell you, Sasha is amazing, I just set her on "intelligent auto" and she does all the work! She automatically went to the Macro setting and I think my first pic with her turned out pretty good.

What do you think? The photo is definitely sharper than what I was used to with my old camera. I'm thinking that I may rearrange my craft room and put my light box right next to the window because my room is pretty dim (not much natural light - see I'm learning!) so I'm going to try that and see if I can get even better quality pictures. It's a work in progress...

 

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

 

Supplies:

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper (Flea Market)

Stamps/Dies: Papertrey Ink - The Sweet Life, Boutique Borders - Birthday

Misc: embossing powder 

Goodbye Nikon, Hello Sony!

Hello Friends! I hope you are all doing well and settling into the new year. I'm slowly getting adjusted to being back to work. My husband will be taking care of Paige for the next 4 weeks, so it's good to know that she is in loving hands!

So, today's post is all about what Santa brought me for Christmas. I guess I was really a good girl last year because I've had a camera on my Christmas list for 3 years running (I've been using a crappy Nikon point and shoot) and finally figured that Santa was not going to bring me a new one. So, I omitted it from my list this year thinking why keep wishing for something that I'm obviously not going to get. Well, surprise, surprise when I opened this cute little box on Christmas morning and found a Sony DSC-HX300 camera!!!! Woohoo, talk about excited. I totally got off the couch and did the happy dance! LOL! Would you like to take a look at her?

Isn't she beautiful!! I've named her Sasha. I've been taking some practice shots so I can get comfortable using her, and I tell you the photos are unbelievable!! I'm hoping that my cards will start looking MUCH better on the blog and as they say, practice makes perfect!

 

Well enjoy the rest of your day, and thank you so much for stopping by!

Carol



Birthday cards

Happy Monday friends! Was your weekend fantastic? I sure hope it was! I know that at least one of my friends had a great weekend, she ran her first half marathon. Congratulations Chi, I'm so proud of you!

So today I have a couple of birthday cards to share. I would have to say the most requested cards are birthday cards and they are so much fun for me to make. This first card is just a floral free-for-all! There are flowers everywhere! The large flowers were made with the Rosie Posie stamp set from Papertrey Ink.

The second card uses a cute image from My Favorite Things. You know what I recently realized? I think I have an obsession with cameras! I totally gravitate to camera images, camera paper, cameras, cameras, cameras. Oh my goodness, I can't even stop typing the word camera! Is there a support group for this??

 

Well that's it for me today, I'll have a few more birthday cards to share later this week so stay tuned!

 

Carol

Snapshot

Hello! Today I have a quick post with a couple of cards to share. So, I completed the no sentiment cards I was working on, yay! What I decided to do was to make two of the same design and just tweek the colors a little instead of coming up with 24 unique designs.

 

 

If you've been following my blog, you know that I LOVE this stamp set by Papertrey Ink called Shutterbug Special. That vintage camera just speaks to me. :-) 

 

Well, I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend and I will see you back here again soon!

 

Carol