What are you working on (in January 2025)?

[Anne Lamp]

The photos are mine taken after the Jan 5/6 snow storm. The frame is Thecass-PaintedFrames1-Sample-02.

[Mary Solaas]

Back to the labs.  Lab 13 Mod 6. Using a dot pattern (small dot) I made a paper and several ribbons. I am using the paper for this layout. The other element to make was a rustic wood frame which I used to showcase one picture (my great grandchild who lives in West Virginia. The other pictures are from my home; however, the dog is Murphy, my daughter's dog. I used a texture on the dark blue background paper (a woven fabric weave that I had made some time ago. The font is Pristina. I made a mask for the pictures on the side to resemble a snowflake and filled in with snowflakes in a light grey color so that where they are in the mask is less opaque. Oh well. 

[Michele]

  On 1/11/2025 at 1:16 AM, Mary Solaas said:

Back to the labs.  Lab 13 Mod 6. Using a dot pattern (small dot) I made a paper and several ribbons. I am using the paper for this layout. The other element to make was a rustic wood frame which I used to showcase one picture (my great grandchild who lives in West Virginia. The other pictures are from my home; however, the dog is Murphy, my daughter's dog. I used a texture on the dark blue background paper (a woven fabric weave that I had made some time ago. The font is Pristina. I made a mask for the pictures on the side to resemble a snowflake and filled in with snowflakes in a light grey color so that where they are in the mask is less opaque. Oh well. 

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The snowflake mask is great; so clever.

[Mary Solaas]

This is my take on Cass-MultiFramesCollage1-Sample. the pictures were taken on 2 separate trips to the Gulf Beach. the background paper is one inspired by Ann Seeber some years ago as I had never used the Wave tool before (lots of fun and I have made several wavy background papers). The font (script) is Adventure Island Script Bold. I innerbevelled it. The F, B, and the collage are from my Beach Kit.

[Ann Seeber]

  On 1/15/2025 at 12:34 AM, Mary Solaas said:

This is my take on Cass-MultiFramesCollage1-Sample. the pictures were taken on 2 separate trips to the Gulf Beach. the background paper is one inspired by Ann Seeber some years ago as I had never used the Wave tool before (lots of fun and I have made several wavy background papers). The font (script) is Adventure Island Script Bold. I innerbevelled it. The F, B, and the collage are from my Beach Kit.

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Those waves work perfectly, Mary. Glad you had a chance to play with them!

[Cristina]

  On 1/15/2025 at 12:34 AM, Mary Solaas said:

This is my take on Cass-MultiFramesCollage1-Sample. the pictures were taken on 2 separate trips to the Gulf Beach. the background paper is one inspired by Ann Seeber some years ago as I had never used the Wave tool before (lots of fun and I have made several wavy background papers). The font (script) is Adventure Island Script Bold. I innerbevelled it. The F, B, and the collage are from my Beach Kit.

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Mary, I like everything about this layout. Great work!

[Cristina]

I finished a layout I started last year to practice the Lab12-M04 tutorials (Ledger Paper#2 -- Rolled Tape -- Streamer#3)

Credits:
Template Messy Gridded 4_4 by Lynn Grieveson.
Cassel’s DateScript#8 and Rope#52 Picture tube
Anna Aspnes FotoGlowMix1_3
Fonts: Luna Cute and Canastra
 

Edited January 16 by Cristina

[Mary Solaas]

I've just been playing around all day today (not much else accomplished). There was a random line design on a box of Kleenex that intrigued me. I finally accomplished 2 patterns and used them in papers. So, here are the papers.

[Mary Solaas]

And these are the patterns and a jpg of the tissue box.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 1/16/2025 at 10:03 PM, Mary Solaas said:

And these are the patterns and a jpg of the tissue box.

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Mary that was a lot of work but well worth it, they are lovely! 

[Julie Magerka]

  On 1/16/2025 at 4:06 PM, Cristina said:

I finished a layout I started last year to practice the Lab12-M04 tutorials (Ledger Paper#2 -- Rolled Tape -- Streamer#3)

Credits:
Template Messy Gridded 4_4 by Lynn Grieveson.
Cassel’s DateScript#8 and Rope#52 Picture tube
Anna Aspnes FotoGlowMix1_3
Fonts: Luna Cute and Canastra
 

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Oh, those cute little cutouts at the bottom! Love 'em, and the photo glowz from aA work so well here.

Edited January 16 by Julie Magerka

[Julie Magerka]

I haven't been able to settle on anything since the holiday period. I work on something; set it aside; try something else; set that aside; and repeat.

But a good friend's mother (whom I've known since I was a kid) just turned 100, so I had to do something! This is what I ended up with. She liked it.

[Ann Seeber]

  On 1/16/2025 at 11:36 PM, Julie Magerka said:

I haven't been able to settle on anything since the holiday period. I work on something; set it aside; try something else; set that aside; and repeat.

But a good friend's mother (whom I've known since I was a kid) just turned 100, so I had to do something! This is what I ended up with. She liked it.

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Wow, I never would have guessed that the woman in the framed photo was 100 years old! I hope I look that good in 16 years! Beautiful layout, Julie. Those AASPN materials work so well for you.

[Cristina]

  On 1/16/2025 at 11:32 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Oh, those cute little cutouts at the bottom! Love 'em, and the photo glowz from aA work so well here.

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Thank you, Julie! 

It's interesting how the ideas flow and how I started the layout differ from how it ended up, even more so with so many months in between.

At first, I considered creating the cutouts across the whole page width, but then I decided to use only the title width.

That led me to add an Interlaced Rope to practice this, too.  I also considered having a Lifted Shadow, but then I concluded that was enough. 😄  Otherwise, I would never finish the layout, as I still have the Affinity Bootcamp, and I'm still learning PSE2025.

But it's great to work with PSP, where I know where all the tools, effects, etc. are!

 

 

Edited January 17 by Cristina

[Cristina]

  On 1/16/2025 at 9:48 PM, Mary Solaas said:

I've just been playing around all day today (not much else accomplished). There was a random line design on a box of Kleenex that intrigued me. I finally accomplished 2 patterns and used them in papers. So, here are the papers.

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I love both papers, Mary! So intricate designs! Congrats!

[Cristina]

  On 1/16/2025 at 11:36 PM, Julie Magerka said:

I haven't been able to settle on anything since the holiday period. I work on something; set it aside; try something else; set that aside; and repeat.

But a good friend's mother (whom I've known since I was a kid) just turned 100, so I had to do something! This is what I ended up with. She liked it.

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Wow, Julie, this is beautiful! Clean, elegant... just perfect!!

 

[Julie Magerka]

  On 1/17/2025 at 9:18 AM, Cristina said:

Thank you, Julie! 

It's interesting how the ideas flow and how I started the layout differ from how it ended up, even more so with so many months in between.

At first, I considered creating the cutouts across the whole page width, but then I decided to use only the title width.

That led me to add an Interlaced Rope to practice this, too.  I also considered having a Lifted Shadow, but then I concluded that was enough. 😄  Otherwise, I would never finish the layout, as I still have the Affinity Bootcamp, and I'm still learning PSE2025.

But it's great to work with PSP, where I know where all the tools, effects, etc. are!

 

 

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It seems most of my layouts go that way....different from what I imagined. Sometimes I feel limited by my skills and not being sure how to do something that I'd like to do.

I am so far behind with everything PSP or Affinity. Maybe the inspirational mojo will come back soon!

[Julie Magerka]

  On 1/17/2025 at 8:29 AM, Ann Seeber said:

Wow, I never would have guessed that the woman in the framed photo was 100 years old! I hope I look that good in 16 years! Beautiful layout, Julie. Those AASPN materials work so well for you.

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She might be 98 or 99 in that photo, to be honest. But she has always looked amazingly good and has the most beautiful hair that is always coiffed perfectly.

[Anne Lamp]

  On 1/16/2025 at 9:48 PM, Mary Solaas said:

I've just been playing around all day today (not much else accomplished). There was a random line design on a box of Kleenex that intrigued me. I finally accomplished 2 patterns and used them in papers. So, here are the papers.

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It had to be a lot of work but these are some great unique papers.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/16/2025 at 10:03 PM, Mary Solaas said:

And these are the patterns and a jpg of the tissue box.

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Well done Mary.  I don't even know how I'd start to figure that one out. I enjoy your papers, thanks for sharing.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/16/2025 at 11:36 PM, Julie Magerka said:

I haven't been able to settle on anything since the holiday period. I work on something; set it aside; try something else; set that aside; and repeat.

But a good friend's mother (whom I've known since I was a kid) just turned 100, so I had to do something! This is what I ended up with. She liked it.

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You are doing such good work with what you've learned from aA.  I love this.  perfect coloring for the background.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 1/17/2025 at 2:08 PM, Julie Magerka said:

It seems most of my layouts go that way....different from what I imagined. Sometimes I feel limited by my skills and not being sure how to do something that I'd like to do.

I am so far behind with everything PSP or Affinity. Maybe the inspirational mojo will come back soon!

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I'm in the same boat....wait a minute, which one of us is supposed to be rowing?  No wonder we arent getting anywhere.😁 

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 1/17/2025 at 2:08 PM, Julie Magerka said:

It seems most of my layouts go that way....different from what I imagined. Sometimes I feel limited by my skills and not being sure how to do something that I'd like to do.

I am so far behind with everything PSP or Affinity. Maybe the inspirational mojo will come back soon!

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I hope your mojo will come back soon!

[Cristina]

  On 1/17/2025 at 2:08 PM, Julie Magerka said:

It seems most of my layouts go that way....different from what I imagined. Sometimes I feel limited by my skills and not being sure how to do something that I'd like to do.

I am so far behind with everything PSP or Affinity. Maybe the inspirational mojo will come back soon!

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I read a newsletter yesterday, and the designer said she was having "a little creative burnout". I liked the expression she used. lol 
I guess everybody has this "creative burnout" once in a while. 🙂 
 

Edited January 18 by Cristina

[Rene Marker]

  On 1/18/2025 at 9:54 AM, Cristina said:

I read a newsletter yesterday, and the designer said she was having "a little creative burnout". I liked the expression she used. lol 
I guess everybody has this "creative burnout" once in a while. 🙂 
 

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That is quite normal for scrapbookers. I've gone through phases where I don't scrap much at all. Quite often other things going on in my life become the focus and scrapbooking takes a back seat to those life things going on. But I will get my "mojo" back due to a challenge or some other inspiration later on and off I go.

The other thing for me is when a layout isn't coming together, I just do a basic page and call it done. Then move on, quite often doing multiple basic pages. Eventually the creative part will come back maybe because of the photo(s) I've chosen to scrap.