A month in photos {October 2015}

The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees | that burned with sweetness or maddened | the sting: the struggle continues, | the journeys go and come between honey and pain. -Pablo Neruda

This month favorite... classic October colors!

What was your month like? Join me and link up your month in photos below!

Please link back to Mona's Picturesque in order to help other people participate in this blog hop.
If you're looking for a template to use, please feel free to download this one or visit my template shop. If you need help with using templates, see this tutorial!

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December Memories & A Free Template for 2015

Here we go! It's about time to say goodbye to 2014! Such great year. I feel my life has finally settled and I've truly enjoyed the balance between family and work. Children have grown so too much and as it's making me a little sad it's also making my life easier and letting me enjoy life, notice the little things and allowing me to concentrate on life and love. There are no words to express my gratitude. So I'll just leave it here.

As promised here is your free Calendar Template for 2015. You can download it here!
I invite you to join me in my month in photos project next year! I'm having a linky party that takes place on  the last day of every month to share your monthly collage. Note that you don't have to use my template in order to join, any other way presenting your month in photos is perfectly fine as well. So please do join! It will be fun :)

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P.S. Also visit my Template Shop to find more templates and inspiration...

April Memories & Pure Picturesque - Free Printable Calendar {May 2014}

April ♡

And here is your free printable calendar sheet for May 2014.

Click here to download!

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Because I love Collages (Photoshop Templates Quick Guide Tutorial)

I love making collages. And I love looking at collages. Some of the finest and most inspiring ones I've started to collect to one my Pinterest boards. I could look at them forever... I also love doing my own ones and some of those I've collected to this board.

Collages are a wonderful way of showing my favorite pictures at the same time. And that's what I had in mind when I just recently created my Gallery! If you haven't been there yet - please visit :)

Happily internet if full of free collage templates for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
I love creating simple color specific collages with my favorite images. Here is an example of light blue beauties. Download this template here! And be sure to check all CoffeeShop Blog Templates as well as other freebies. This site is fantastic!

My Blog Header Template is from CoffeeShop Blog as well. Downloadable here!

Download my favorite templates here! I love simplicity and these templates of Live Explore Click (former Live And Love Out Loud) I've downloaded a long ago and I still use especially the 3x3 collage template continuously. 

I've been doing my monthly photo calendar collages for two years now. I was inspired by Rebecca @ Simple As That and I started out with her free templates you can check out and download here.

If you wish to see all my monthly collages - for 2012 click here and 2013 click here!

If you haven't been using Photoshop Templates yet, here is a quick guide for you!

After downloading a psd.file open it in Photoshop or Photoshop Element. I'll be using Elements here.
I've chosen six white toned favorite photos of mine which I open as well.

Copy the first picture you want to put to the collage and place it above the the layer you want it to be.

Then click control+G to create clipping mask. Now your image only appears within the frame.
Re-size your image to fit in the template frame as you wish.

Fill all the frames in your template by repeating what you just did.

Finally flatten the image and you're done!

Btw. If you happen to be a Lightroom user, just go ahead and Google. Plenty of free ones all over the net as well. And if you use Gimp I've discovered that there are ways to make Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Templates work in Gimp. I Googled and instantly found some tutorials. Go ahead and try!

Still with me? Thanks for reading ♡
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Pure Picturesque - Free Printable Calendar {January 2014}

I have a little gift for you... Use the link to download, save and print your copy of January 2014 calendar sheet. I'll be posting a new one every last day of the month throughout the year.

Click to download!


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