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I have done a little Happy Easter project using Casole's Easter Egg Tube. Thanks to Carole's Tube.

I've been playing with that reflection effect. I'll post the dark blue sample that was posted by Donna and for the comparison the one Ive been playing with. Many different layers but really using a glitter by Cassel and using different blend modes (mostly soft light) and then playing with effects>texture effects>mosaic glass several times, and then sharpness several times, this is what I came up with. Oh, yeah, also effects>distortion effects> fine weave also. While I was playing, I had Donna's image up for comparison with what I was doing.

An Easter card. The daffodils and leaves were extracted from photos of daffodils in my yard. Bow is a Cassel bow. I made the plaid and the letters are from my kit altered to change stroke and fill.

My Betta 101 group on Facebook requested Easter themed photos. So here's Comanche with bunny ears and the text decorated with the cass-easter-egg picture tube and one of Carole's decorated eggs. The font is Snap ITC.

I downloaded some freebies from Di Hiller Productiions. The only thing I did was the text (modelled on hers). I just love the colours in this for Spring. Easter greetings to all, and Passover too.

I've just discovered what CF Spark can do. So I will show what I have been playing with today. The last 5 are something I just asked it to create with a description. The others are from a beginning picture.

Looks like Julie and I both enjoyed Di Hiller's freebies this month!

That does sound like fun! I remember when we moved from one house to another house and during the move found a forgotten Easter egg - thank goodness it never rotted!

I'll go back and look at the steps I took in several different pspimages. However, there has got to be a way of doing it without all the playing around I did. What finally helped was having your image up alongside the one I was working on. But, now I have to get dressed and get real and get ready for the 3pm service at Resurrection Church.

I found these elements in the net, eggs are from my picture tube /thanks Carole/

The main pic is from CF. The next layer is from PS (DS) by Gina Jones. I picked up one of the colors from the pic for a background and used one of Cassel's edge punches to decorate. To anyone celebrating, have a sweet Passover.

It usually takes a couple of weeks to get the guidebook transcribed and formated.

Michele: I just looked at it and the handout is not a hot link for download... yet. Sometimes there's a lag getting it transcribed. I just sent the question to Carole via the gold tab on the lower right "Need Help?"

That was my favorite too. The picture I started with was one I took in Louisiana some years ago of some camillia flowers that had fallen on the ground. There was some green leaves in the picture too and I had taken it and put it through pic to painting before I put it through CF Spark. The last 5 I was just playing around with thoughts and spelled them out and they were the results. The abstract pics were the result of taking a presented pic of a bouquet that I asked for enameled lines. Just fun and I'll see what I do with it all later.

Thank you, Susan. I never really cared for plaids, but, all of a sudden, I am loving making them and using them.

Those are very neat. I tried it but didnt get good results and it kept saying I was in line and it took more than 5 minutes. I am not that patient, the results were not great. For me I find it a dilemma. If i think it but dont have the skills to execute it, and I have someone/something else design it, who is the artist? I do understand it is a tool in our toolbox and we should use all the tools at our disposal. I will come around as it has very pleasing results for you. I think I'm not creative enough or perhaps descriptive enough to get those needed results. That 3rd from the left top row flower grouping is really pretty and would make a great paper. Maybe I should re-think my logic.

So basically, the tutorial is "use this texture and sharpen it a bit". I'll dig deeper to see how to CREATE that texture in the first place.

Here is the tutorial. It is rather simple in Photoshop. You can also download the textures, but I didn't like the downloaded textures.

How is it done in Photoshop? What I see is that instead of dark "grunge", it might be using "light" random brush imprints. It also seems to have a texture. Not sure if it is part of it or not. Do you have a tutorial for Photoshop I can look at and see what, in PSP, can be used?

yes, this is how mom did it. thank you.

Thank you Rene for I didn't recollect how it was done. For me as a child it was in the 50's and with my own children we always painted boiled eggs with special paint for food.

Vinegar was used to color eggs when I was a kid. Found this with a quick google: I colored eggs as a child in the late 50's/early 60's but very rarely since. I might have helped cousins once in awhile when their kids were young but those kids are all in the 30's/early 40's now!

Yes I remember that vinegar smell too now you mentioned it, and the vinegar was put in the water. I think that it was used when the color was good to stop the process. But I'm not sure, I cann't ask that anymore either. Vinegar was and maybe is still used to protect the color of clothing, for instance yeans when you wash them. Of course nowadays there are so many washing detergents that it is not done that way any longer, but I remember using vinegar that way many , many years ago.

what a wonderful memory (except the war part of course). You reminded me that we also colored eggs too, under my moms supervision. I remember a vinegar smell, is that something that is used or put in the water I wonder. These are things I cant ask my mom anymore. Our birthdays are two months apart, less a day.

I grew up in the 50th and that time in the Netherlands it still was a period of rebuilding after the WWII. I remember we always were "coloring" real eggs in boiling red water. The red water saving from cooking red cabbage. When I was lucky my grandparents brought a chocolate eggs when coming to dinner. For my children we always have hidden the eggs and of course the places where to search were adapted to their ages. Mostly in the house because the weather for an outside hunt wasn't good enough, especially when Easter was early in the year. At some point they outgrew it and we stopped. My grandchildren don't live in the Netherlands, but my daughter has kept the tradition. My birthday is on April 8 and it is mostly around Easter and then I always have all kinds of chocolate eggs as sweets.

I remember participating in Easter Egg hunts when I was a child. And I remember hiding eggs, but I dont remember for who as I dont have kids. Must have been my nieces and nephews.

At the Passover Seder at my grandparent's home, we would have to find the hidden matzo (the afikoman). No matter who found it, my grandpa would give us each a quarter.

Springtime in the MidWest USA. From a beautiful clear spring day to hail in two days. Photos are mine, background is a modified gradient, font is Lucida Calligraphy. Frame was modified from on of Cass's freebies.

I forgot the theme was Easter so I'm sure my layout with my great grand, Logan, meeting the Easter Bunny would qualify!

This project was originally meant for the song challenge, but it isn't a song? But what a struggle it was! I always "save as" when I'm working on a project and add a number to every version. This time it was 28 versions!? (Normally about 10/12) Font ChaseCallas and Beauty night butterfly with a bevel. The instruments are picture tubes on a seperate layer and later on merged. The musical notes on the Staves(?) are from Janet Kemp (Pixelscrapper) Trees and background also from Pixelscrapper I think. Costume I had on my computer.