Note:  For the Bridal Shower Cookies seen on Classic Casual Home click HERE. 

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine’s Day.  It’s hard for me to put away the pink and red hearts.  I just love everything leading up to the day.  One thing I missed this Valentine’s Day were the green hills that would normally be here in February.  Is anyone’s weather what they expected this year?

I’m working on my next project – wedding dress cookies for a bridal shower. I’ve been sketching to try out different skirts and bodices.  I’m far from being a pencil to paper artist so I decided to have some fun playing around with an app called Waterlogue.  People have been using it like crazy on Instagram so I decided to give it a try because it’s so cool.  I love it.  It’s amazing how it transforms a photo into a water color ‘painting’ as you watch.

Here’s the photo with the app.  I’m showing it first so if the photo shows up as a thumb nail on your blog, you’ll have the prettier of the two photos.

Below is the original photo.  I feel like I’m showing you what I look like without make-up.  Look quickly then avert your eyes!  I told you I’m not a sketch artist.  My sketches look a LOT better and artsy with the app.

Pets get the Waterlogue treatment quite often on IG.  Here’s my sweet girl.  This was taken at 3 AM when I couldn’t sleep one night.  She was sitting next to me on the sofa on a tan blanket with a blue towel from the clean laundry heap yet to be folded (did I say that outloud?) so I just snapped a photo of her and applied the app to it.  So you can see the photo doesn’t need to be stellar to begin with for it to come out terrific.

I also played around with Photoshop (PS) while vegging with a relapse this weekend of whatever I had after New Year’s and never quite got over.  A couple weeks ago I took an online PS class by Blogshop specially for bloggers.  It was more graphic oriented than photo editing which is exactly what I had been looking for.

Even though I’ve learned the technique of dropping a photo into a shape in other PS classes I’ve taken at my community college, for some reason it clicked listening the the Blogshop girls.  I highly recommend the online class if you’ve got a few bills designated to further your education.

Here I’ve taken a photo of flowers from my Valentine and dropped it into the heart shape.  They’re the most beautiful purple tulips.  The chocolates are gone but the flowers remain.  🙂

What’s coming up next for you?  Are you already onto spring?  St. Patrick’s Day and Easter?  Suddenly I feel behind!

Have a good week!  When the cookies are finished I’ll post photos.  🙂