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Hi Annie I’m glad you liked it because I wasn’t too sure myself. I was a bit out of my comfortzone. The blend mode I found by just trying them all. I first had a backgroundpaper with a worldglobe that I found on Pixelscrapper, but it was too obvious. So I lowered the opacity (white layer underneath of course). Then it needed something else and I did an overlay with a photo of our old marketsquare, that photo had a blue sky and lots of paving at the bottom. It still wasn’t what I wanted and I played around with the blend modes and luminance or dark light and a very low opacity about 30% gave this result. It made the sky and the paving disappear, a rather fun effect.
Well after long and hard thinking I have come up with this LO. As Annie said it is difficult making something of Europe. I have quite a bit traveled around but it isn’t easy to show all of that in this setting. So I decided on something else and show where I live on this continent of mine. And instead of my usual flowers I used flaggs. The background is made by a paper of the globe combined with a photo and using a blend mode and opacity.
I’m happy that the alphabet game is way easier!
Karon thank you for your comments and I’m sorry to hear of your loss!
Lynda thanks for the info and I’m not one bit concerned leaving my pot outside. It is made of very thick stone ware, not of the thin stuff that most Delftware is made of. This one was made for heavy duty and survived over a 100 years by now! I should add however that our winters are mostly reasonably mild.
I too have looked at the Splatter Portret Tutorial that Lynda mentioned earlier and this is the result. The title is in Dutch because I don’t know an english word for it. It is a stone jar that was previously used for preserving foods/veggies. I have this old one that comes through the family for a very long time and have used it for different purposes. It has been an umbrella stand, pot for big house plants and now serves on my patio where we just planted some bedding plants in it.
Thanks Annie, I’m working on it but I haven’t come up with a good idea yet, there are so many possibilities! I remember to have read or seen on the telly about this new continent, but those things take ages.
Wow, Annie, great to see all your Australien info and it is so colorful!!! You have done your beloved country well!
G = Greenland, if we are going to use all the countries we can think of, we will have many rounds of this game!!!
Cristina thank you so much for your kind words, but it is Sue I have to thank for her encouraging comments and explanations of her technics to many of us newcomers. I find those complementary to the TUTs and very helpful on the smaller details such as using the warp mesh. Seeing all the different pages here is a great inspiration and help in finding what I like for my own style. Besides that it is wonderful making new friends all over the world and learning about nature in all those parts of our planet. It has made the one and a half year of Covid-19 much more bearable for me!
What a great and very different Wordart is created!!! And thank you Sue and Annie for the comments between you about my work. Much appreciated and it did put a smile on my face.
So here is my Wordart and Sue thanks to your explanation on Facebook about the Mesh Warp tool, I gave it a try and I think that tool will become a favourite one. The fonts I used are Styll Love, Phaethon, Renitha, Sonia and Nadine. The little flowers are a font too: Nature Pro. There are those gardenposters you can hang on a wall or a fence and as we have some on our fence, I did that here with my wordart. I’m going to like this wordart thing!
Susan Ewart, thank you. My book has 45 square pages and it is indeed hardbound with a flat binding. I showed some double pages overhere that look rectangular because they are together but I also have a lot of single ones and all are 12×12 with the double ones of course 24×12. I didn’t have to change anything, just fill the booktemplate from the printing service. I do it all on line and have made a lot of photobooks this way too, it is really very simple to do. So I encourage you to look into it. Good luck!
I see so many lovely creations, it’s a joy to scroll through them and get new ideas. I will certainly look into Lady 22 templates, thanks for the link! I fear I don’t have time enough!!! But I have made something from the nested frames, I had to search my photos for a suitable one, still with a flower one it too.
Annie, maybe simply but very lovely and very nice to see a couple of birds that I see almost every day. But I haven’t been able to make good photos of them.
Annie, thank you. Your comment is so encouraging and shows me I’m on the right track for now.
Lynda, when I see your vegetable garden I envy you, but only a little bit. Years ago we had one too, but the work became a bit to much for my husband (and for me on my own). Since then we have moved house but I still miss it sometimes. I hope it will give you a nice harvest.
In the end I got there, so here is my scavanger hunt. It took a little bit more time then I anticipated because I spent 2 whole evenings on video calls with my daughter and the grandchildren in America! The time difference is 9 hours and the evening is the best time for such calls and that has priority!!!! I have deviated from my flowers to grasses, also in bloom. All the 5 elements are present and I gave the out of bonds technic a try. The green background is also a photo of grass with a heavy blur and a blend mode. And I scattered some seeds.
Dear Annie thanks again. I’m starting to use a more subdued color palette these days because I find it suites a lot of my photos of flowers and nature better. But on another topic that might change completly.
Lynda and Annie thank you so much! It was fun to make this book and really not that different from my usual photobooks with only photos. I then have more text in it because the photos need some explanation and sometimes some embellishments as well. I think in maybe a years time there will be another scrapbook! Annie hugs to you too!
Hurrah, my book arrived today, I didn’t have to wait until friday and so here are 2 pictures of it. I’m very happy how I turned out; the flatbinding is perfect and I did not have to alter the pages I had made at all. I will have a conversation piece on my table; we are allowed to have more visitors at home now and I can show to them what scrapbooking is all about without having to turn the PC on. I’m sure you will recognise the White page from the last challenge.
Annie, I love your Chrismas tree and I admire the amount of work it costed you to make this!!!
Sue, as always lovely and delicate. Your robin looks quite different from ours, althought both have a red front.
Ann, nice duck, I have seen some of those overhere too.
Annie, I can hardly wait for my book to arrive. The printing service said approximately friday.
Lynda, nice work, you have no doubt enjoyed yourself making it!
In the meantime I made this card for the friend to whom I send one every week. I duplicated the photo and used one for the background with a lot of blur and some green bokeh tubes. On the second I used a watercolor brush for the mask and 2 simple frames. The text front is Crows and it says Lily of the Valley in Dutch. I aso made the same card with happy birthday on it. I think because of the colors it is very usable for a gentlemen too.
Mary have a nice trip. It is wonderful that you can travel again! Here in Europe we are only allowed to travel to certain countries that are deemed to be safe and only if you are fully vaccinated, tested negative or have proof that you had Covid. The only other option is to stay in your own country and although the Netherlands can be beautiful it is a very small country! But at least somethings are possible yet.
In the mean time I have been selecting and preparing a lot of my layouts for printing. I always use a printing service where you can create your own photobook, but this is the first time I make one for my scrapbook layouts. I do all of this on my computer and yesterday evening uploaded it. I choose a flat binding because I have many double pages and in my experience the printing service does a good job. Now I just have to wait untill it gets delivered! Of course I had to make a front cover and this is what I came up with. I’ll show the book when it is in.
