Friday, March 27, 2026

Best laid plans .... gone awry

 Sometimes the best plans don't reach the end result that was planned at all.  Connie had a new collection ready to go and then ran into some computer issues that has delayed the release of that collection.  It's worth waiting for though and as soon as Connie can get it into her stores we'll do a full reveal.

I was lucky that we had Spring Break recently because that gave me time to explore my creativity with some of Connie's kits that I had been stockpiling on my EHD.  Here are a few for your weekend inspiration with links to the kits that I used.

Created with Outside the Lines.  The watercolor flower card is one that I created using one of my recent photos of the flowers we have in our front planters. Everything else came from the kit.


I may be slightly obsessed with turning some of my flower photos into watercolor cards.  This layout was also created with Outside the Lines.

Created with #2026 March.  I love this time of year.  We had some really pretty days to go hiking/exploring either at State Parks or Nature Preserves within driving distance of home so we could take part of the day to get out and enjoy the outdoors.  The dogwoods were at their peak and so pretty!


Created with #2025 March.  I also love trying out different filters on my photos.  This one of my husband on one of our hikes fit perfectly with one of my favorite Irish Blessings.


The Spring Scrap-A-Thon at Ginger Scraps is running close to the end.  I didn't make the top level this year but I did manage to finish 10 challenges.  Did you take part in the challenges?  Which one was your favorite?  I loved the ones I was able to complete and stretched my creativity wings a bit.  

I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead of you!  I'm going to leave you with this Quick Page Freebie that Theresa made with Outside the Lines.  Enjoy!


~Susan~

3 comments:

Connie Ideker said...

How do you change your photos into watercolor?

Susan said...

Back in 2021 I purchased the Ultimate Watercolor Creator off of Creative Market. I've used some brushes from that over the past 5 years but the rest of the collection sat gathering dust on my EHD until Spring Break this year. I was feeling the urge to test out something new and stumbled over the files on my EHD and now I'm obsessed. LOL

I just checked and that bundle is still available on www.creativemarket.com. What I saw was it was originally $24 but is on sale for $15 at the moment.

*NOTE - this is Susan aka IvoryKeys - not Connie. Connie is not affiliated with this product in anyway and is not endorsing the product. I am only giving the information in answer to Connie Ideker's question.**

Susan said...

Connie, if you have a membership with Creative Fabrica, there are some watercolor actions for Photoshop that may do something similar. I'm looking at some now as well. Quite the rabbit hole I'm falling down.