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When I was first here last year I did a pair of matching layouts featuring my fur kids, Adam & Eve. I used what techniques I had learned in Bootcamp and the Basic Scrap Course plus stuff from the other challenges. These celebrate their adoption from two different animal shelters. Adam was first in 2010 when he was 2 and Eve was next in 2015 when she was almost a year and had been picked up as a pregnant stray. She had her 2 kittens and they were adopted before we adopted her. So, here is my Hauspanther and my Tuxie.
The 2021 Up-to-Date Challenge gave me a way to showcase my family in California. I sent the 13 pages to them and I understand my grandson’s mother-in-law has it on her wall in Colorado. I learned a lot about templates doing this. Hopefully we can do one for 2022??
I’d like to show any newcomers what can be done with the very first lesson in layers. I’ve taken Bootcamp four times and each one produces a different lunch table. Here’s one I like best. Since I embellished it, I must confess I had the most trouble with cutting the sandwich and the toothpicks!
I really enjoyed the Feb 2021 Love Story Challenge and in Lesson 4, (password: teddy) learning how to create my own mask so I went on to create a bonus layout that week for one of my animal friends. It was a break after showcasing Magic, the new great-grandbaby in town.
I found the September 2020 Random Challenge – SPEECH BUBBLES. I had fun with it.
Here’s the link to the Campus posting and my version is below.
We have an announcement in our family; my granddaughter and her fiancé have announced their wedding date for next year. I decided to play with the Love Story Challenge masks and Carole’s linoleum pattern paper. I used two background papers, the base is monochrome and the top is multicolor and reduced in sise to create a border. The top font is Mama and the lower one is Mistral. A very simple page when finished and I like them that way.
So, without further ado, here are Ilana and Maverick announcing the big date!
EDIT: Here’s the link for the tutorial for the linoleum paper. You can make it any color to match your photo and apply various effects, also.
My contribution for today is MASKS. I thoroughly enjoyed the Love Story Challenge in February for that reason. My great-grand Logan was born Feb 6 so I got to showcase him in a layout that I really admired. I did struggle a bit but in the end I love the result. The font for the title is Mama.
https://scrapbookcampus.com/Community/topic/travel-tale-challenge-2020/
My very first layout when I joined The Campus was the Travel Tale Challenge 2020. There were helpful templates to use and luckily I found a large, panoramic photo of Acapulco Bay to use as a background. I used a silhouette of Mexico for my map. We learned to make a postcard and stamps. I added the parachute flyers because they were typical over our beach. We stayed for a week each year at one of the hotels on the beach but one year we decided to try the Las Brisas resort on the mountainside, above the bay. That was the most fun because they arranged all kinds of adventures for us so we didn’t spend the whole time lazing on the beach, as usual. For me, using PSP for a layout like this was a whole new experience!
Cassel: The graphic for the freebie didn’t display on my MS Edge browser but I clicked on the “broken” icon and it opened up so I did get the “freebie” after scrolling all the way to the bottom. Just afraid it might discourage others from the download.
I learned to make patterns as well as plaids in my classes and tutorials. This layout used the colors of the Lorakeet bird to create the pattern for the first layer and the horizontal bars. I usually make 2 background layers, one full size and the next reduced to 3500 x 3500 to make a 50 pixel border all around. Then I can add a shadow to the 2nd layer, also. Cassel had given us a freebie of animal print alphas but not a full alphabet of each pattern so I used the Q to create the O’s in ZOO. I also got the animal footprints from her for my Picture Tubes. These photos were taken at the Claws ‘N’ Paws Wild Animal Park in Mt. Arial, PA, where my granddaughter is a keeper.
Corrie: I take those classes all the time and I’m always learning new things plus those layouts are classic. Here’s mine and see how much different it is from yours!
Nadine: Those are both beautiful! I have Filter Forge but have not used it. Not sure where to start.. I’ll have to check out Cassel’s tutorial again. Thanks for the reminder!
Still fond of this layout from one of the beginner classes, which I continue to attend, month after month. Here I learned to apply a select borders frame which I continue to use all the time. Plus we learned to add alphas instead of text for the title. The occasion was great-grand Logan’s gender reveal when a young bear came to party with us.
I see the Love Story Challenge is very popular. It’s where I learned a lot about masks and how to create a plaid from the colors in a photo. Here is my favorite: The Black Vulture – Love Story Challenge 2021 – Day 2 (activehosted.com)https://scrapbookcampus.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=3fc2c60b5782f641f76bcefc39fb2392.2777&s=4c34039e501194bf899a889f83048c0e
Thank you, Marie-Claire. We’re pretty good up here about 70 miles north of the New York City subway system. Those poor people will have a hard time getting to work!
I have learned a lot about using templates in my classes here. The one for the rock band Queen was for our Hobbies Challenge and I used the same one to showcase my daughter’s beloved Lolajean who passed last year.
Carole: According to our WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU map, we have at least two in Louisiana, one in Patterson and another in Metairie. They both seem near the coast. Perhaps their accounts would show more detail?
Here in NY we are being deluged with at least 5 inches of rain just for today. We have flood watches in effect. 🙁
Here’s one I did last year for the August color challenge. The color was called Noir. It’s gonna be hard to top…
Cassel: will you add a translation for your newspaper image? Not the newspaper text but the sign and story. (sorry I don’t speak French and my translator doesn’t work on images. Thanks)
Fiona: That storyboard looks great! Just so you know, if you wanted to print it as a magazine or booklet, it would need two more pages. They work in fours. Either 4, 8 or 12 pages for the printer. I worked in publishing many years and learned the rule of 4s.
And here’s the back cover of my magazine (page 8) and I snagged one of the “extra” templates to do it. The background photo of a brown thrasher coming in for a landing is at opacity 30 / luminescence. The highlighted photo is overlooking our Hudson Valley region, shot from up in the Catskills. I’ve also included my “storyboard” showing all my pages.
“Annie: Beautiful! I feel ya with the work for a simple layout; I had the same with my coppery wood duck. BTW: Love your new profile pix!
Cassel: you said “Ann S., where did you play with shadows? I don’t see that on the pages.” It’s the title on this page and I did also play with the story text and it’s now in two colors.
I like to see how my pages flow together. Here’s a little mock-up
Finished the latest page plus did some revisions as Carole suggested (sort of 😉 ) I also liked Christina’s technique with the photo background so I redid my Cardinal page and followed through with the latest page which is a companion page. I’ll post all here now. On the page The Twitter Confrontation I got to play with shadows with the warp brush as I had them on a separate layer! Who knew! Fun!
Here’s the latest with the split mask as instructed. At first I couldn’t see the flood fill until I highlighted the mask layer and lo, there it was! My final bird of this series, the Northern Cardinal, who has been imbued with spiritual powers it seems. All his quotes were foretelling angels. A beautiful bird, and his “wife” is just as handsome in her greenish brown with an orange bill. Is this the final of the series or are there more pages?
I’ll upload the current page plus a display of all the pages so far.
Cassel: You said: “Ann S., have you tried the two-color text idea? I think that it might look good to have white text on that dark green box.” So I tried it out and here’s both versions. See what you think. Personally, I like the all black text, myself.
Here are pages 4 and 5 that face each other. I think the numbering is off on the templates. These are marked 3 and 4 but that is assuming the cover is marked page 1 which it never is. The numbering should start with cover/2/3/4/5. I will probably tweak these some more to bring them into the same design and the other 3. Meanwhile, here are the Twitter Wars!
Edit: I did some tweaking to put these pages more in line with the previous ones.
Marie-Claire, I am truly enjoying your project. That street art is stunning and to think you can walk around feeling you are right there in it! When I need to post in a “foreign” language I type in my native English and then go to Google and get it translated and then post that. What conveniences we have now!
Marie-Claire, j’apprécie vraiment votre projet. Ce street art est magnifique et penser que vous pouvez vous promener en vous sentant bien dedans ! Lorsque j’ai besoin de publier dans une langue “étrangère”, je tape mon anglais natif, puis je demande à Google de le traduire pour moi, puis de le publier. Quelles commodités nous avons maintenant!
Here’s my Day 3 – Page 3. I told you there’d be trouble with these two! 😉
Same font (Berlin Kitchen) as the cover but used two different gradients this time and kept with the style of the cover by adding a light shadow.
Edit: I added the bird silhouettes to the top of the page and now it looks finished to me!
