Raspberry Jelly Jewellery makes hand stamped individualised pieces that make really special gifts to the ones you love.  It was fun to create photo sessions that would showcase the jewellery and the sentiments behind them.  The first showcased a Mother and Daughter relationship.  The second a Bride and Wedding jewellery, and the third was a Grandmother and Grandchildren.

For the bridal shoot make up was done by Danielle Sutton.
Hair by Sharna Roberts Drummond.
Flowers from Living Colour.

Grandmothers makeup by Danielle Sutton

Raspberry Jelly Jewellery is available on these web links:
Raspberry Jelly Jewellery facebook page 
Raspberry Jelly Jewellery website

Isn't Raspberry Jelly the coollest business name!
xox
Calico Jo

In my spare time I have been experimenting with using paint brush effects  on portraits.  (Spare time pfft, it took me 3 months to edit 5 photos :D )  
I had photographed and used bits of painted pictures as textured layers, but I had never really utilised the paintly effect brushes already in photoshop.  I also learnt how to create my own paintbrushes.

Here is the other 4 experiment photos.

This was using painted texture layers I had already photographed.

Using a paint brush I created in photoshop.

Textured layers and the paint brushes that are already in photoshop (if you have a look at the cloth by my hand).

Using everything I could throw at it!!

Here is how I created my own brush:

• I took a photo of a painted texture (off an oil painting) and then opened it up in photoshop.
  
• Select - colour range
• tick localised color cluster
• use eye dropper and choose an area of interest and then use the slider - range - to adjust what you want selected.  What is white will be selected.
• Copy selected part.
• Under the brush layer, duplicate the texture (oil painting) layer and fill with white.
• Click on the brush layer and desaturate it, then play around with the levels to get the strength you want.
• Edit - define brush preset - name the brush.

Done, you now have that brush anytime you want.

I started experimenting with this effect because  I found this inspiration on Pinterest:

I am going to be doing a series with ladies representing different colors and I thought this chart will help me set the theme and mood to each session.