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Once again an intriguing challenge, really had me thinking! Anyway this is my contribution. The Club In The Scrub is one of those must visit places when travelling to the opal country of NSW. Lightning Ridge is where black opals are mined, and it is a fascinating place with some interesting characters. Conditions are hard, but a mining licence is cheap and the shacks they live in are very basic so cost of living is very low. Mind you opals are few and far between so nobody makes a fortune.
The definition is of “Scrub”, the two slides show the Club and the three cardboard elements (two flairs and the border) are from a set called “Cardboard Jungle” from Studio Linda Renee. I used a photo of the golf course as part of the background, 50% opacity with a layer style of luminence.
Thank you ladies for your nice comments. To answer the questions: I use the A4 size paper with 300 dpi resolution, usually in landscape but have done portrait. This size is good because I can use simple Document Frames which are just a plain black and don’t detract from the collage. I resized these two to 30% – any smaller and they look horrible. The photos are a bit of a mixture, we have a lady golfer who takes photos for the local paper and of special events, plus I take some and other ladies pass on some they have taken. The ones for Cyril’s page were given to me by Fay and I have done some special pages with photos supplied – one of our ladies was the Drum Major for the Mount Gambier City Band for 25 years and when she retired I did a page for her (attached). Now I have retired from work and Committee commitments I have more time to “play” with PSP.
A number of years ago a friend invited me to celebrate her 60th birthday and I decided to do a collage for her of photos taken at the Australian Ladies Open Golf. This was so well received it has become a tradition now that golfing ladies’ “zero” birthdays are marked with a collage. In 2017 I have done a 70th and have a 90th for later in the year. I have just finished an 80th which I have uploaded here. I have also included one I did for her husband’s 90th in 2013 – Cyril is still playing golf at least twice a week!
Love the page Cristina, especially the way you used the photos to almost be a panorama. Cassel’s tutorials are so easy to follow, I can almost feel artistic!
Welcome Anita, you will find the Campus is a great place to meet other like-minded people, share your projects with them and see what they are doing. The feedback is always positive and there are so many ideas, inspirations and tutorials to help us along the way. Enjoy.
Nice pages Anja and Dawn, lovely colours on both of them and I love the sentiment on yours Dawn. I thought for a while, not having any building type photos, then I remembered our caravan club last year where we were randomly divided into groups and given a children’s toy to build. It was a great way to get to know other people and the ingenuity and cleverness which was shown turning bits and pieces into toys was quite remarkable. There was also a lot of rivalry, trying to see what the other groups were making, even some trying to sabotage other group’s efforts (in a nice way of course!). It ended up being a lot of fun and not only built toys but relationships as well.
Beautiful pages Anja and Dawn. For my take on this challenge I ended up doing a sort of fantasy page. The sky background was from a paper, the grass, dirt and trees were done with picture tubes. I used elements from various sets I have – the wellies were originally patterned and I reduced the brightness to make them black. I had trouble with the shadows though, they didn’t look right, so in the end I didn’t do any – I will have to revisit Cassel’s tutorials and see if I can find anything to help me.
Something from the Store Blog – the engraved rocks.
Something black – the wellies.
Something round – the wreath
Something with a number – the sign
Something attached to something else – the wreath, the ivy.
Something with a hole – the chain on the sign, the flower pot
Something that starts with the letter T – the trellis and trees
Something lifted from the paper – the Lobelia tag
Something I made from scratch – the sign (I used preset shapes and Cassel’s engraving tut) and of course most of the background
Something made of wood – the wheelbarrowThis was a very interesting challenge, certainly made me think!
Royanne love your pages, the use of colours and backgrounds, particularly in the belly dancer page, were really good. You have made me jealous of your husband as my husband and I are both keen golfers and that looks fantastic! Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a Persian Magic Carpet to take us all to the places everyone has showcased here!
Dawn I love what you have done, as you said it will be a lovely card. I have some digital stamps but hadn’t thought about using them in this way, generally leave them the colour they are (not all of them are black) but this is a great idea, I will have to try it. Isn’t it wonderful how we can pick up little tips and tricks this way!
Dawn your pages are lovely, the colours are very pretty together. I have done a page that I might use as an Anniversary card one day. I used the technique of locking the layer, selecting the text and painting over it, it was so easy! I’m not sure where the wordart or the elements came from, I inherited a lot of items that had no maker’s names on them, so I apologise for not acknowledging the source.
Thank you everyone for the kind remarks, it is always nice to get good feedback. Well the two pages I mentioned before turned into FOUR! The hardest part of this challenge was sorting out, selecting and scanning the photos – using the same design made doing the actual pages very easy, particularly using the SimpleCaption script. These pages use elements from Cassel’s Canada 150 kit, and the Athabasca page uses her WordEdgeCut script.
I want to thank you Cassel for setting us this challenge, I don’t think I would ever have done anything with these photos otherwise and it was lovely to look back on the trip after all these years. I still have photos from the Rocky Mountaineer trip I haven’t used but it will be easy to add pages if I get the chance.
Another two pages, nearly there! I have tried to stay with the design of the other pages for continuity. The postcard and stamp was from Cassel’s tutorial. I am planning two more pages to show some of the photos we took when we went across the Rockies, I still have photos from Thunder Bay and Calgary but I think they will have to wait for another time.
Dawn your pages were really lovely, and I love the sentiment in your postcard. You may not be able to travel but at least you can see the places through other people’s photographs.
Here are two more of my pages, I still want to do more to finish the trip and I have lots of ideas from the suggestions Cassel has given us. These two are of the first part of our trip when we spent a day in Quebec then took the train to Montreal where we had another day – not long enough but didn’t have any extra time. I have used the blue colour from my map of Quebec and added the SmoothOverlay from Cassel. I made the date stamp and leather tag from the tutorials, and used a script called SimpleCaption from Corel to frame the photos. I tried to mirror the layout so the two pages could be used as a double page. The titles were made using the text cutter in PSP and one of the photos.
Beautiful page Royanne, love the effect of the photos being in the baskets and the autumn colours and elements really look good. You must have lots of fun with such a lovely helping hand!
Royanne love the use of the map points, really sets off the page. I had problems with the maps too as our trip to Canada was part of a round the world trip that started here in Australia, went to England, had a short detour into Ireland then back to London to fly to Canada. We went straight from Toronto to Quebec City to start our trek across Canada. I ended up splitting the maps into the three countries otherwise you couldn’t really read them. The maple leaves are from Cassel’s tube, the rego plate is from her Canada 150 set. I used the colours from the Canada 150 logo for the Canada map and the papers.
Dawn that is a lovely page, the colours work really well – good use of sepia for the photos. Like you I have very few family photos – leaving England when I was 22 I didn’t bring many with me, and most of the ones my grandmother and mother had went to my sister when they died.
So here is my idea for the word EVEN. This brings back memories of a four weeks in Tasmania over Christmas/New Year that was cold, wet and windy, but the company was great and we had a lot of fun.
The photos are from a second trip to Tasmania in 2011. The background is a photo that I applied the Ghost filter from Flaming Pear to (came with the freebies Cassel told us about) and then I lowered the opacity of the layer quite a bit as well. The boots were from some clip art I had.
Well done Cristina, the photos for the sea page work really well and I love the Close Encounter idea as well.
Welcome to Sharon and Dave, I’m sure you will be inspired by the pages you see being shown here and learn a lot from Cassel’s tutorials. I don’t do many scrapbook pages either, I mainly do greeting cards, collages and posters (not so many of these since I retired) but have enjoyed doing pages Cassel’s challenges. Like you Dawn I probably won’t get a page a day, might wait until the end and see what to do then. I already have a destination in mind.
Thanks Cristina, I like these challenges as they give me the incentive to make pages which I probably wouldn’t have done otherwise. It is so interesting seeing what other people do, everyone has different ideas and we can learn a lot from each other, plus having lots of templates and page layouts to choose from means we can concentrate on the content, not the layout, if we are struggling for inspiration.
Thanks Dawn. Grant High started doing musicals in 1976, at first every year but now every second year due to time constraints. I became Producer in 1987 and had that role for 17 musicals before retiring. I have lots of wonderful memories of seeing how the students developed and grew in confidence from auditions to final performance. We are also very lucky to have a first-class professional standard theatre, the Sir Robert Helpmann, which allows us to really showcase their talent.
Three very nice but very different pages. Cristina I like the idea of using the letter C as the frame for the photos.
Here is my offering. The idea of using sequins as the elements made me think of some of the costumes from our 2007 school musical, Disco Inferno, so I found three photos of cast members backstage, used the logo background for the background page and a background from a set called On The Movies which I got from the Digital Scrapbooking place. I used the Albumin photo frame from PSP, the sequins were from a set called Remembering December from Club Digital, and the mirror ball I found on-line. It was a standing joke for many of our musicals that one scene always had to have the mirror ball in it (it belonged to one of the teachers) and this sometimes stretched our imaginations – on a couple of occasions the ball only made it’s appearance in the dress rehearsal as there was no really appropriate scene for it! The D could be Disco or Devil, depending on how you feel.
Great pages, Royanne I loved your page, a very different take on the theme but really beautiful.
The class was really good, sorry I couldn’t attend live but the video was great. It was not so easy however to come up with a page, I had a few ideas but finding photos and backgrounds that were suitable was quite hard. Anyway this is my attempt. I used a photo of a friend’s baby, and other photos of our visit to Singapore: the orchid garden and bird park. I did a bit of cloning to get the plants round the Emma, and used the feathered circle technique for the glow behind her. After a bit of trial and error I settled on the Luminance (Legacy) blend mode. I wanted to highlight the birds a bit but using the same technique didn’t look that good, neither did going for sun rays, so in the end I used the layer properties and added a small outer glow. The quality of the reduced jpeg was not as good as I would have liked but hopefully you get the idea.
I am registered too – I have so many travel photos it will be good to have some different ways to use them.
Solent you mentioned using the watercolour technique for cards – here is one I did for my nephew-in-law back in 2013. The photo is of Dartmouth, Devon – we had been on a steam train and cruise from Paignton via Dartmouth and Totnes, and as Jonathan loves sailing I thought it would be a good photo to use.
Once again two lovely pages, your colours Dawn are beautiful and I love your idea Cristina. This is my offering – as I put in the journal we live opposite Mount Schank and spend a lot of our time in the kitchen looking out at the crater. The sun & moon start at the left hand side and work their way across to the right as summer comes, then back again. For a few days the moon actually rises in the middle – looks like it is actually coming out from the crater. The background for my page is a photo I took of just the sky which I have blurred a bit. The photo borders I made with a free plugin called BorderMania. I wanted to keep the page simple so didn’t add any embellishments other than the cloud from a set called Nature Adventure.
