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(cricut love will resume next week)


we are talking today about posing a picture.

 

that sounded really formal...

 let's take two.

we are going to make your pictures rock today!

yeah.much more me.

(disclaimer. i am not a photographer.  I would never call myself one. I'm simply a girl with a glue gun that has to take pictures with her camera to show off her glue gun crap.)

When making something fantabolous.....you want everyone to see the awesomeness right? (remember in my blog tips I talked about it twice...GREAT PICTURES and then all the things you can do with picnik? so OBVIOUSLY it's super important...as is most of the stuff I write. (barely kept a straight face typing that)

so you have a pretty craft...and want to take that awesome finale picture

which picture do you like better?

let's say it's the necklace.

I love my carpet..but it's not the most ideal place for photos! (you can always tell when my posts where done...cause if there is carpet in the finale picture...it's done in the first few months of blogging!!!!) 

I have some places I love when I take pictures..

my deck

my sidewalk

my outdoor table...

all outside. NATURAL LIGHT ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!!

so when it's winter (8 of the 12 months it seems)

it's hard to get some good pictures!

ENTER PHOTO BOARDS!

I posted about these two already

photo board--

remember these?

cardboard..paint and a doily...

book pages

 If these don't look familiar..

how about now...

 

 {I hate that cake...will forever be the bain of my blogging excistence.....}
I use these boards a TON! They are cheap and easy and they are small and are easy to tuck away!  I'm going to be making a few more today....

USING TISSUE PAPER:

I actually had a whole pack of these fake tiles I got for a screaming deal...and I have had them for oh, 7 years...so I figured I had better start using them.

 

spray paint (cause the tissue paper is see through...so if you just have a plain white board..skip the spray paint)

found some cute tissue paper

started mod podging on

Let it overlap and after it dries I go back and trim it up

 USING AN OLD PATTERN I scored for

covered a piece of carboard with some spray adhesive

just overlapped until it was all covered and trimmed off the excess

mod podge. (don't you just love that stuff?)

AND USING COMIC STRIPS:

and of course..made another. cause why stop at four....I at least just covered the back of the book page one...so it was double sided

 

first covered the board in a newspaper.

and do the same as above..

In action:

I also made a "jackson pollock" one (I watched the show about him...and couldn't help myself..It actually was on my wall for about a year)

you can get REAL creative and paint giant ones if you are known to do BIG products and

for other extremely awesome ideas...go here:

a lemon squeezy home

I am going to use her idea

to make me one saying a girl and a glue gun....using my hot glue gun of course!

OTHER GREAT WAYS TO TAKE A PICTURE

for jewelry....it always looks so pretty against an old book

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or use nature! nobody can resist (fyi..most of the pictures are etsy shops!)

found here (for sale I might add!)

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I love taking my pictures outside...weather permitting of course!

just makes for such a pretty shot!

and you just can't beat the outdoors...all of my pictures turn out so much better outside (in the shade or overcast days are the best)

and it's great for the BIG projects....cause that would be one giant photo board if you were trying to take a picture of a long dress!

pops of color are always awesome:

a blue chair! found here

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 made is fantastic at having beautiful textured backgrounds...i imagine her walking around finding weird alleys and walls to go pin up some diapers on..

that or every section of her backyard is painted a different color.

and the bright white is always classic. makes it look so clean and crisp.

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some other great things to photograph with

shutters

old wood

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shells

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clotheslines

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she just used clothespins on a branch! so cool!!!!

fabric is an  awesome backdrop..

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(I only know this is fabric cause i ALMOST bought it from Joanns.......actually...I might have bought it. You know you have too much fabric if you can't remember what the crap you have!)

these are all fabric...the gray polka dot one is actually on the wrong side..I just wanted it a little bit softer!

vintage stuff makes such cool backgrounds...if you can find a big sheet....

that would be a plus one score in your corner. you could get some mileage with that!

these top 4 are tom design

burlap

scrapbook paper..super easy and you can just grab one and go for it

(scrapbook paper)

(dish towel)

(rug)

One of my favoritest pictures:

this was an honest accident...just a mess on the desk. but I love it!

I also like this one:

so think of maybe staging it!

now. in all reality.....This invictus frame is downstairs...in my husband's hole. dark. it's not on this wall with a flowers or a pear...but it sure looks better than if I took the picture where I ACTUALLY hung it.

when I first started blogging...I thought...you make something....you put it where you want it. and then you take a picture.  silly me. I made these cookie jar hair crap holders....

and they they are...by the sink....in my dark unwindowed bathroom.

not the best picture....

but if I would have put them in natural sunlight..it would have turned out much better

 

wow. this is getting pretty long. how about a game brought to you by vintage revivals.

it's called...spot the owl..

another game...one thing  is the same in these pictures...can you spot it?

(for any of these tutorials...go HERE...they are links along her sidebar)

you see. mandi doesn't have 45 owls...it's called posing...and she does a beautiful job. Wouldn't it be a shame to wait until a room was 100% done before showing it off...probably never going to happen....so just borrow from other places to make the picture awesome.

another way that I think makes a photo unique is to not take the picture straight on:

make it and love it is super awesome at this:

off to the side to add words...and just a different perspective.

love made too...she has the brightest fun colors:

(please note that the majority of all of these look like they are outside!)

think outside the box!

there are sooo many options to really make your photographs POP!

BEHIND THE SCENES:

 

(okay...this is the necklace I was wearing and the fruit from my counter...I just grabbed what was near!)

see this picture....

it's idaho. it's cold. and i'm too chicken to go stand outside to try to get some pictures done....so

I just stand right by the window and snap away!

and some more behind the scenes:

taped up fabric......i just love this chevron and wanted to use it!

and this is my most favorite spot...it's on the side of my house that never gets sun...and i just tape up some fabric to my garage....

you know...you could IRON the fabric beforehand..but that just wouldn't be me....

remember my painted shower curtain?

It was large...and very windy outside.

so I took down all my kitchen wall decor and shoved everything out of the way and pinned it up on the wall

same with the hopscotch mat

 

and let's play a little game called don't judge me..i know I'm not the fanciest with my pictures....most of the time I run out of time/patience/sun

(these are all double sided....)

now. I know I have mentioned making a light box before....but I found this great way to make one:

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and this totally awesome one using tin foil

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and AS ALWAYS  PICNIK

you can take a great picture

and then you can take it over the top with picnik (or any photo editing)

let's see some befores and afters

and I love using picnik to put on some words. it adds so much!!!!

it always nice to get rid of the culligan...also..this growth chart is on the wall between my kids room....not in the kitchen! but it's bright on this wall....it's the same place the shirt was taken...

and the majority of pictures are taken when it's cold outside!!!! I have to take down a picture and scoot my table over..but it works!

now. can you have to much of a good thing? I don't know about you...but when I see a  link to a cute craft...and I click over there....and there is ONE picture of it.

I'm disappointed.

I would rather have 35 pictures to flip through than one.

if you have any photo taking trick up your sleeve....I would love to here it!

and i will leave you with this thought:

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