brads: noun

a slender wire nail having either a small, deep head or a projection to one side of the head end

Fabulous Friday Challenge - Brads and/or eyelets

brads- Heidi Grace, Eyelet Outlet,  Stemma, and Queen & Co.

flocked cloud paper- Heidi Grace
umbrella paper - My minds Eye

Paper Dolls, Stretch Your Imagination cartridges

My Little Shoebox sticker letter

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

stickles

Helmars Zap dots, Liquid Scrapdots, V2 Spray

I would rather live in a sand castle wall hanging

A close up of the sand bucket. I wadded up a pinch of tissue and added glue to it, then poured "sand" on it. Then added tiny brads to the handle and adhered the handles to the bucket. I sliced the top paper so I could slide the shovel "into" the sand, added the starfish brad behind the top layer to add depth.

The trees are sanded along their sections, then crumpled and loosely adhered to paper.

I wanted to show the amount of layering the bottom section has. There are cuts to slide items into, pop dotting to add height. 

A close up of the umbrella, I set a brad in the top, I had to cut off the ends of the brad using my wire cutter so the tabs wouldn't show.

I sewed a little on the flag and used my Helmars Liquid Scrapdots for the tiny seagull. He was too small to use a pop dot and I wanted him to have a little dimension.

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Now as a continuation of my journey into manual mode on my camera :) Since yesterday I experimented with shutter speeds in bright light, today I used lower shutter speeds in a room with low light. My instructor said when in doubt, start with the camera in automatic and see what the setting is and then take it down a F-stop. ( A F-stop to put it in the very simplest terms, it is the opening that lets light into your camera. )

So this was taken on automatic, which produced a flash. Shutter speed 1/40 sec. Not bad, but since my paper has shimmer, I get a glare.

Now if I stay in automatic, but remove the flash I get a grainy and less focused picture. Shutter speed 1/6 second. 

So if I use the setting for the automatic setting ( with flash ) and put it in manual mode using the shutter priority and put my shutter speed down one F-stop, shutter speed 1/30 second, then I get a darn good shot with no glare.

So, using low shutter speeds indoors can produce a well lit picture without the flash BUT you do have to bring out your tri-pod and use your timer so your hands are off the camera!