Guilty Pleasures

Another challenge has been posted by the Two Photogs, Brandy Anderson and Danna Bowes. This time the challenge is to create a self portrait that incorporates your favourite guilty pleasure. Well, one of my pleasures in life is scrapbooking as this is often where my creative juices get flowing. Having said that my favourite guilty pleasure is all those little scrapbooking embellishments from brads to eyelets to ribbon to paper to...well you get the idea...all sorts of embellishments. I can't go anywhere without picking up something to scrap with! When I read about this challenge I knew right away what I wanted to do. I knew my picture had to be about scrapbooking embellishments and what would be better than to display that on a scrapbooking page! Now, I have never scrapbooked digitally so this was a totally new experience for me and I have only recently been dabbling into the inner working of Photoshop so this exercise stretched my skills and I learnt a ton! How fun! Oh and thank goodness for tripods!

Brandy Anderson and Danna Bowes are generously giving away, to the winner of this challenge, one spot in their upcoming mentoring program. I dream of one day starting up my own lifestyle photography business and I am certainly ready to learn and take my photography to a whole new level so that I can begin to build my portfolio and business (hopefully)! Those introductory courses are just not cutting it anymore and I would be so very grateful to win an opportunity to be mentored by these ladies. As a stay at home mom the finances are always a bit tight.

Okay...before I post my creation I want to add that everything, except for the typed fonts and artistic brushed elements (stitches), was photographed...yes, I even photographed the paper I used and taped flower to my hair...which my daughter thought was hilarious!

So here is hoping...