For the Future Mrs. Kruse

My friend Vanessa is having a baby! Yay! I just shot her wedding in July. She's very expectant! Here's some shots:







Anywho, so that lovely young couple is going to be having a boy! Only Nathan doesn't know it yet... so this was a covert operation. I sent this all to Vanessa tightly taped down and marked for her only. Nathan must be curious! Ha! Hopefully Vanessa is the one to get the package.

I made four things (plus an awesome quilt that took me a month to do, but forgot to get a picture of. Doh!).

There are two bibs...



And they each match a special item...





And because I'm just so gosh darn happy with that blankie, I'm gonna show a bunch of extra images showing the details. The dragon I traced and appliqued by zig-zagging all the way around it, which was a lot of stop and go. The quilting was free motion, and I put the word dragons in the corner! Click the wee ones to see big!

Craftster Challenge Entry - My Calotype

Hey everyone! Check out my entry to the Craftster Challenge #40: Picture This!

Click Me to See Entry!



If you like it, I'd be so grateful if you'd bookmark the page so you can vote when the entry period is finished. :oD

What I entered was my calotype (and a couple of cyanotypes) for the contest. The theme was to create a craft around your photography. I wanted to bring something that was very old into modern times. This particular entry was from a process that I learned back in college.

I created a digital negative in Photoshop to create a classical calotype on canvas!

I really hope people are as into the geeky side as I am, because it's quite thrilling to see your image appear before your eyes in development!


(Close up sample)