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Many wonderful things here to look at. Always inspirational. I had a busy Sunday/Monday with company and didn’t get any play time until last night … when I reflected on the day being a State Holiday (Patriots’ Day) in my home state. If you lived anywhere near Boston you commemorated the day (April 19th, 1775) and probably recited “one if by land, two if by sea … and I on the opposite shore shall be. ” My husband being a sports guy, you could always find us at the annual Road Race in Portland – followed by an early BBQ somewhere! It was pretty much a ritual. Even the dog got to come along and somehow I think she always knew where we were going that day. I think animals have their own kind of internal clock. I think the best thing I liked about it was a massive showing of patriotism. Everyone, even the dog, had some sort of red white and blue on. — I used an old scrap round in the middle, Carole’s bow makers, ribbon, and even the Squares and Angles script for the little box. Glad my company was here when they were as it is a dreary pelting rain day today. I’m not even sorry about it though as we desperately needed rain! Have a great day, everyone. Keep making some awesome things to look at.
Hi everyone, I am not going to be around much for the rest of the week but wanted to wish Carole a happy birthday so I have made a scrapbook page for her which I am uploading ahead of the momentous occasion! My resources came from Pixelscrapper. Shall we all have a go so she can hang them up virtually?
Fiona
I like that idea, Fiona, and that is a beautiful start.
My posting is for the last one in my set of layouts of my trip with my brother which was started in March. This time I needed to go with the mask we had used in the Love Challenge. The reason being that I wanted my best picture of the Red Rock Canyon as the centerpiece and nothing else was working out. So this is it.
Mary, I love it my friend … a true result of creative perseverance, well done! 😀
On the way home is also a lovely page Mary and it does look a beautiful place to visit. Cool use of the mask my friend. 🙂It was obviously fun and patriotic Minka … I love what you have done my friend … captures the spirit. 😀
Fiona, this is a really beautiful birthday card … you have excelled. I didn’t realise it was Carole’s 60th … a special occasion indeed! 😀
I never realized how difficult it could be trying to make things look random. I had to stop tweaking because I ran out of time. LOL
Sounds like a good time was had by all, Minka. Really great layout.
Fiona, your card makes me think the party is going to be fun!
Mary, you have done great work on your trip pages. Lovely use of the mask to showcase that gorgeous shot.
Michele: regarding random photos, Cassel/Carole has a script for that. Here’s the read me text:
PSP Script – Scattered Photos
by CasselThis script will use all the jpg images in a single folder to scatter them onto the open image.
You will only have to open one image from the source folder for the script to determine where to grab the photos.
You can resize ONE photo and the script will resize all the photos to a similar size.
The script will offer the option to add a border. If you choose to add one, set the values for ONE photo and the script will apply it to all of them.
You can have the photos scattered all over the image, only in the center, or only on the outer edge.You can start with any size of shape image, and the script will determine if the resizing of the individual photos will yield a good result.
Once all the photos are added, you can add a drop shadow to them.
Each photo will be left unmerged so you can rearrange them if you want.I couldn’t find it in the store but it is on my PSP filed in Trusted Scripts.
HTH
This is what I have been working on. I used the color challenge palette to do it. Happy Birthday Cassel you youngster.
Thanks, Ann. I have that script, but I haven’t been able to access my backup files since my old laptop died. If I remember correctly, the script scatters the photos randomly, but it doesn’t preserve the orientation. It’s a great script, but not what I was looking for.
So, am I the only one who went crazy on the first day of Carole’s birthday sale? I have a ton of scripts, fonts, etc. to load.
I used the Painted Background script today for Shades of Mother Earth. It took me a few tries until I got what I wanted, but that’s due mostly to the pic I used. I used one picture for the background (I had to crop and smudge it as I was getting too much beige with the script on the original pic). Masked a second picture over it, then placed them on a larger image of the background. The font is Anything Script that I got in a free font bundle from Creative Fabrica. I’m very happy with the results.
Note: The images were uploaded in the order that I worked on them with the final one last.
Michelle, I used the scatter script on my Lesson 4 for the first time. It gives you the option to put the pictures on the edges, or in the middle or totally scattered. I’ll post my layout again here so you can see the effect I got.
That looks great, Ann. I’ve used the scatter script before; it’s just not what I was looking for. I didn’t want them overlapping. But thanks very much for the info. At a certain point, I just forget all of the tools we have.
Michele, the Scattered script is meant as a starting point. The simple fact that it will take all the images from a folder, resize them, add borders (if you want), randomize their placement and the rotation (if you want) is already a time-saver. Afterward, you can obviously rearrange them since the script is pretty stupid when it comes to a “nice arrangement”!
Michelle: I understand but I didn’t expect it to read my mind! I just opened my Pick tool and moved them where I wanted. The fact that I had 21 photos to place would be daunting if I didn’t have the script to help.
This layout is from Lab 5 Module 11 – using the template given at the end of the pdf. I changed my mind so much I’m not sure I remember where I got the papers, the stickers with the greenery and heart are from April Umbrella Weather kit, the frame for the picture is a paper from Helpful from Rush Ranch. I recolored all the papers except the frame to match colors in the picture. I played with making the picture deeper in the frame with Inner Bevel and the paper frame to look deep with Chisel.
I bought heaps of scripts … I could have stayed there forever but I had other things to do, lol! This turned out beautifully Michele, well done Hon. 😀
I, too, bought heaps of scripts, Annie. In fact I went up both on the 22nd and the 23rd. Started to play last night, but had to quit. Learned a bit about playing with gradients, though. I’m working through the labs also. Really didn’t like the template, thought I did learn how to cut out circles from different papers (what I originally put behind the 2 top papers (Lab5 Mod11-d). I played around with inner bevel and chisel for the frame and picture – that was interesting and my real learning from that lab. The picture I chose I thought didn’t work well on that template, so I modified it and this is what I came up with.
I’ve had a couple of busy days. First chance to come here this morning to see so many wonderful pages. I can’t believe how busy the campus has been. I too shopped in the store I have bought so many goodies to put to good use, and save time in the process. Great works of art ladies and gentlemen. So inspirational for all of us.
Working with double width pages in the Double Take Challenge, I pulled out a “template” (really a sketch, there are no layers) from last year’s Travel Time Challenge and rounded up the latest photos of my “Great Grands” I have several baby kits to choose from.
Michele- Really like your Mother Earth – Fantastic.
Ann Seeber – What a delightful double page of your great grands
Mary, this is quite lovely and thumbs up for the delightful colour coordination, well done Hon. 🙂
Ann, you so have beautiful grandbabies. I love your page which showcases them to perfection, well done my friend. 🙂
Carole (and Ann), I haven’t been able to access my supplies since my old laptop died. I have been hesitating to ask you to renew the download links because I’ve purchased a lot from you through the years. That’s one reason I didn’t use the Scattered Photos script. The other reason is the project really developed organically; I had no idea what I was planning until it happened which is my usual modus operandi. LOL.
Thanks for the kind words, Annie.
Mary, the color palette you used is great; it goes beautifully with the pic. If you hadn’t mentioned that you got the papers from somewhere I would have thought you picked the colors from it.
Ann, I don’t think it’s fair that you have three grands and I don’t have any. Are you willing to share? It’s a wonderful l/o.
Michelle: I could share Grands, of which I have 9. Here’s a photo of us with the Grands back in the year 2000. It’s the Great-Grands that are diverting me nowadays.. 😉
I haven’t been here in a while, busy with the Double Take Challenge, but there is so much going on. Way to much to comment on each one. It was a pleasure to see it all. I too have bought al lot of things from Carole’s birthday sale and have yet to learn to use them all. All in good time!
Michele, I know what a misery it is when your computer dies on you. I’m only just recovering from that same experience a couple of weeks ago. And it is a hell of a job to get everything working again just as you like it. I’m almost there now. So good luck and patience.
I’ve spent a day figuring out how to color the ribbon pattern without having to color the whole thing stroke by stroke. The pattern is a repeated pattern – just about an inch and a half repeated. So, I took out just that and created a new image with it. Copied that image and colored it, saved it as a pattern, opened a new image 3600 x 300 and flood filled it with my pattern.
I pulled out the April color palette to play with and turned it into this swirly background paper using various tweaks. I had the photo of the birds which I think are super cute so I added a frame that looks like looking through a lens. A little journaling about the birds and two of Corel’s spring overlays. Then I played with Cassel’s tutorial on text on a path. After several false starts I think it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself! 😉
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