What are you working on (in March 2025)?

[Cassel]

It is a new month and new projects.

Show off what you are working on in March be it a scrapbook page, a collage, a tutorial, or anything else you want.

We are curious and want to see, learn, and get inspired.

These threads are quickly becoming a fantastic source of inspiration, support, and friendship. Keep them coming!

Remember to size down your image to about 600x600 pixels and save it in .jpg format before posting it (if you are creating a double page, you can resize it to 1000 pixels in width if you don't want to post the pages separately).

Here are a few guidelines for everyone:

• when you post a project, give as much information on your sources or techniques used. It will help others who are curious and would like to do the same.
• if someone uses something that you like on their page, ask where they got it. Sometimes, you can go get it too and it will be better quality than trying to extract it (as it would have been resized to post in the forum anyway).
• if it is something that they did from scratch, ask how they did it. It would be so helpful to everyone!
• if you like a photo and would like to “play with it”, ALWAYS ask permission. Sometimes, there are some limitations and the person is not allowed to let others use it. Don’t get them in trouble. Usually, people are happy to say yes (if they can) when you ask politely. And if you get permission, you might get a better-quality image than the resized image anyway.

[Ann Seeber]

@Cassel The pinned heading at the very top is still February...

[Ann Seeber]

Even though my bookmark says this is still February, I will post my new March Wild Cat Calendar. The template is from our calendar workshop last Oct. '24. They have unusual masks that add to the surrounding frame, and a separate layer which can be colorized. This is an action shot of a powerful jaguar attacking a caiman, which is a relative of the alligator. I get my information and photos from Panthera.org. The background paper is from Marisa Lerin. It started out purple but I changed that with the Change to Target brush using the dark blue color from the caiman's skin. The greens are from the photo. The March title font is Aviation Cocktail. I will post a full size version in our Facebook group Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro and Affinity that is suitable for printing. I put mine on my refrigerator.

[Lynda DiGregor]

A few of my photographs taken over the years

[Ann Seeber]

I used a bootcamp layout for a Bee festival that my daughter was involved with. 

[Ann Seeber]

It seems I was really into bees 2 years ago! 🐝

[Ann Seeber]

And then I was into spiders. The challenge topic was "FEAR"

[Ann Seeber]

This was from our Text Workshop last November.

[Julie Magerka]

Here's some layouts I've worked on lately. I have no particular focus, just react to photos I have or get and try something with them. I am dabbling and rather scattered, but I like to work on something everyday. The last week to ten days of each month is a busy time for me, so I am not able to comment/react/post very much. But I do check out the wonderful layouts that appear in the different topics. This place is my "stay sane" place. (However, I have to scroll quickly past the spider pix! 😛)

The fellow on the bike is a good friend of my (older) sister from 'way back. I've bugged him for a long time for a copy  of that photo. The couple are my parents just after they were married. And the blue layout is about my yearning for Spring which is still elusive here. Photo in that one from Pixabay.

The designers whose materials I have used are: Vicki Robinson, Anna Aspnes, ET Designs, Marisa Lerin, Rachel Jeffries, and maybe some others.

 

Edited March 2 by Julie Magerka

[Donna Sillia]

Playing with Carole's pixel stretch script.

[Cristina]

  On 3/1/2025 at 2:27 PM, Ann Seeber said:

Even though my bookmark says this is still February, I will post my new March Wild Cat Calendar. The template is from our calendar workshop last Oct. '24. They have unusual masks that add to the surrounding frame, and a separate layer which can be colorized. This is an action shot of a powerful jaguar attacking a caiman, which is a relative of the alligator. I get my information and photos from Panthera.org. The background paper is from Marisa Lerin. It started out purple but I changed that with the Change to Target brush using the dark blue color from the caiman's skin. The greens are from the photo. The March title font is Aviation Cocktail. I will post a full size version in our Facebook group Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro and Affinity that is suitable for printing. I put mine on my refrigerator.

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Anne, another great calendar page. This beautiful mask makes it unique.

[Cristina]

  On 3/2/2025 at 3:04 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Here's some layouts I've worked on lately. I have no particular focus, just react to photos I have or get and try something with them. I am dabbling and rather scattered, but I like to work on something everyday. The last week to ten days of each month is a busy time for me, so I am not able to comment/react/post very much. But I do check out the wonderful layouts that appear in the different topics. This place is my "stay sane" place. (However, I have to scroll quickly past the spider pix! 😛)

The fellow on the bike is a good friend of my (older) sister from 'way back. I've bugged him for a long time for a copy  of that photo. The couple are my parents just after they were married. And the blue layout is about my yearning for Spring which is still elusive here. Photo in that one from Pixabay.

The designers whose materials I have used are: Vicki Robinson, Anna Aspnes, ET Designs, Marisa Lerin, Rachel Jeffries, and maybe some others.

 

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Lovely layouts, Julie! Again, you are mastering this artsy way of scrapbooking.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 3/2/2025 at 3:04 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Here's some layouts I've worked on lately. I have no particular focus, just react to photos I have or get and try something with them. I am dabbling and rather scattered, but I like to work on something everyday. The last week to ten days of each month is a busy time for me, so I am not able to comment/react/post very much. But I do check out the wonderful layouts that appear in the different topics. This place is my "stay sane" place. (However, I have to scroll quickly past the spider pix! 😛)

The fellow on the bike is a good friend of my (older) sister from 'way back. I've bugged him for a long time for a copy  of that photo. The couple are my parents just after they were married. And the blue layout is about my yearning for Spring which is still elusive here. Photo in that one from Pixabay.

The designers whose materials I have used are: Vicki Robinson, Anna Aspnes, ET Designs, Marisa Lerin, Rachel Jeffries, and maybe some others.

 

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I really love the one of your parents.  I love them all, but your parents one is just so perfect.

[Julie Magerka]

  On 3/3/2025 at 1:49 PM, Susan Ewart said:

I really love the one of your parents.  I love them all, but your parents one is just so perfect.

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Thanks Susan. That's the one that came together more easily and that I enjoyed the most.

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 3/2/2025 at 3:04 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Here's some layouts I've worked on lately. I have no particular focus, just react to photos I have or get and try something with them. I am dabbling and rather scattered, but I like to work on something everyday. The last week to ten days of each month is a busy time for me, so I am not able to comment/react/post very much. But I do check out the wonderful layouts that appear in the different topics. This place is my "stay sane" place. (However, I have to scroll quickly past the spider pix! 😛)

The fellow on the bike is a good friend of my (older) sister from 'way back. I've bugged him for a long time for a copy  of that photo. The couple are my parents just after they were married. And the blue layout is about my yearning for Spring which is still elusive here. Photo in that one from Pixabay.

The designers whose materials I have used are: Vicki Robinson, Anna Aspnes, ET Designs, Marisa Lerin, Rachel Jeffries, and maybe some others.

 

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Julie I like them all but the one of your parents is so lovely! 

[Corrie Kinkel]

I have won this script last Sunday and of course I had to play with it. Although yesterday it didn't worked as it should and after some emailing with Carole we found what was wrong. So this evening I have played with it; I don't have many photos that are suitable for this kind of layout I kept the one of yesterday. It works now but the extraction of the mannequin is not very good, but I concentrated on the script and which of the 3 layers the script offers I wanted to use. When I have time I'm going to look for some flower photos to use with this script. It was fun to play in between the Build a Kit work.

[Susan Ewart]

  On 3/5/2025 at 11:21 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

I have won this script last Sunday and of course I had to play with it. Although yesterday it didn't worked as it should and after some emailing with Carole we found what was wrong. So this evening I have played with it; I don't have many photos that are suitable for this kind of layout I kept the one of yesterday. It works now but the extraction of the mannequin is not very good, but I concentrated on the script and which of the 3 layers the script offers I wanted to use. When I have time I'm going to look for some flower photos to use with this script. It was fun to play in between the Build a Kit work.

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This is really neat Corrie.  Is the background already smoky looking or does the script do that?  It looks really interesting.  

[Corrie Kinkel]

  On 3/6/2025 at 6:55 AM, Susan Ewart said:

This is really neat Corrie.  Is the background already smoky looking or does the script do that?  It looks really interesting.  

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Thanks and no the background is not part of the script. I have a collection of "Beautiful-Watercolor-Clouds-Gradients-18728804" probably from Inky Deals. The colors were too light for the ones I used to create the stretched pixels. Therefore a blendmode and a slightly lower opacity to get what I wanted. I will have to look for other suited photos to use the script on.

[Sue Thomas]

During the winter months, when the opportunity arises I like to walk across the frozen lake. Living in the  banks across the lake are lots of rabbits. They have become accustomed  to me. Looking down I marvel at the patterns under the ice.  Of course I photograph them.  I decided to use two shots in this page, which is still a work in progress.  The files are very large, so through such compression they will be greatly degraded, but it will give you a gimpse at what I see. I'm also dabbling with  the paper cutting technique, even though it is straight lines.  As I do, do paper cutting.

Edited March 6 by Sue Thomas

[Sue Thomas]

Image one of  frost under the ice.

[Sue Thomas]

Here is another one.  They really do make  lovely textured papers. 

[Susan Ewart]

  On 3/6/2025 at 11:15 PM, Sue Thomas said:

Here is another one.  They really do make  lovely textured papers. 

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These are fabulous, so much can be done with them as papers.  Ice is infinitely interesting.

[Sue Thomas]

  On 3/7/2025 at 5:04 AM, Susan Ewart said:

These are fabulous, so much can be done with them as papers.  Ice is infinitely interesting.

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Most definitely, the ice is still around 18 inches thick, which means I  still have time to walk the lake, taking more interesting photos. As the heat of  the sun warms the surface ice and then refreezes at night, it creates copious, fascinating patterns. 

[Cristina]

  On 3/5/2025 at 11:21 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

I have won this script last Sunday and of course I had to play with it. Although yesterday it didn't worked as it should and after some emailing with Carole we found what was wrong. So this evening I have played with it; I don't have many photos that are suitable for this kind of layout I kept the one of yesterday. It works now but the extraction of the mannequin is not very good, but I concentrated on the script and which of the 3 layers the script offers I wanted to use. When I have time I'm going to look for some flower photos to use with this script. It was fun to play in between the Build a Kit work.

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I love the colors and the result of this layout, Corrie. This looks like a cover page and the script made it unique.

[Cristina]

  On 3/6/2025 at 11:15 PM, Sue Thomas said:

Here is another one.  They really do make  lovely textured papers. 

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Good to have my laptop back so I can see the posts and comment again.

Sue, it’s a wonder what nature can create. We just have to slow down and look; it’s all there.
This photo will create a beautiful texture, and I’m sure we are going to see it in use in future.