The NSC SC Challenges

In honour of National Scrapbooking Day (2nd May), Studio Calico is hosting lots of challenges - each DT member has her own challenge in her blog.

Here's my entries for two of them.

Emily Pitts' self portrait challenge:



It looks like I overlaid two photos, but I didn't. It is my reflection on a window. I was standing on the balcony of our hotel room, looking into the room when I saw my reflection and thought it would make an interesting photo. The stripes over my face are the curtains, you can also see the sofa beside it, and above me, the reflection of a nearby building.

I added a fake cross-processing in PaintShopPro.

Here's the original photo:



You get to double your chances of winning by doing a layout:



Here's my take on Maggie Holmes design challenge. I loved doing this one. It did me good to try doing something so different from my usual style.