Day 4 dealt with clipping mask. I brightened the colors in this pic by playing with the hues and saturation, then added the clipping mask. Original pic on top/edited pic below
Day 5 brought textures to the mix. I chose a picture that I've been wanting to scrap but didn't think the quality was good enough. Changed the pic to b/w, added some texture layers and came up with this. 
original pic above/edited pic below
It was the Day 5 bonus project. I took my original Day 5 picture added a clipping mask and some brushes and this is was the end result. I was pretty pleased with how it turned out.
Day 6 was TTV. What's a TTV, I can't explain it as it's a photography tech but the fake TTV textures and overlays are awesome. The project today was to take picture, used a combination of effects learned and add the TTV texture. I took a picture faded out the color by playing with the hue and saturation until I got the look I wanted. I hand painted my DD lips and the flower in a soft light blend mode. I then added the TTV which created a rounded corner frame look. Popped in some wordart and this was the end result.
original pic above/ edited pic below
original pic above/edited pic below
haven't heard the south has been in the midst of terrible storms. It started the last weekend of March with 6 inches of rain over Saturday and Sunday, then stopped only to come back with a vengeance on Tues of last week. It started raining Tuesday night around 7PM and continued on throughout Wednesday and Thursday, with rains of 8-10 inches, hail, lightening, winds 50+ mph and even one tornado near my home. I live in a subdivision on a lake and it rained so much that several of my neighbors houses were flooded. We had to sandbag our garage because of the run off from the road but we're high enough up the lake didn't come in the house, just my back yard. I had to sand bag my office too but luckily, the 
morning a decision was made to break the dam of the main lake (which I'm on) in the back as the spill way couldn't handle the amount of water and in hopes of saving the rest of the homes. So around 6AM they broke the dam. The rain stopped Friday morning and by lunch they had the roads back open so we could get out. It dried out Friday afternoon and Saturday but the storms came back Sunday. These only dropped about 1/2 inch of rain but it was alot stronger than the other two storms. This is the storm with the tornado in it. And now instead of my beautiful view of the lake out my back window, I have a huge mud bog. I know this is nothing compared to the floods in the midwest but it's big here. During the storm more than 80% of the roads were close because they were inpassible.
