Still Moments Photography: My Lilacs

I L-O-V-E my lilac bushes!! Every year I can count on them to be full of beautiful/ fragrant flowers just in time for Easter! We have 2 bushes that we planted in our back yard over 7 years ago and I have used them as a backdrop for many, many of my children's pictures! But this time I wanted to photograph just the flowers and left the kids out... well, actually, that's not so true... you'll see later on in this post what I'm talking about.

Anyways, I had a good reason for photographing the flowers. I wanted to make my Easter cards with a photo of them. That was my idea anyways... but sometimes my crazy crafty mind gets away with me and I end up with something different than my first thoughts. This was one such time... what I ended up with was this...

That I turned into this little project... (I gave 8 of them to my dear friends today)

I printed it out and glued it to a piece of foam board. Here's a side view to show how I wrapped the edges for a more finished look.

So to back track a little... I want to show some of the pictures I took of the lilac bushes and some of the edits I made... and yes I used ACTIONS again!

This is the original photo used for my project...

and here's the edited version... I added a action called "Sun Kissed"

The following are the pictures I didn't use for this project but probably will end up using somehow!

Original...

Edited with an action called "Velvet Truffle"...

Original...

Edited with an action called "Simply Vintage"...

Original...

Edited with "Sun Kissed" action (same used in project above)...

Original...

Edited with action called "Sunny Pop"...

My son Ryley came outside to ask me a question... little did he know he'd be sorry for doing that! Don't bother momma when she's got her camera in her hands... you'll get shot (he, he)!