Up-to-Date Challenge 2021

[MoniqueN.]

Latecomer here! ;) I'm getting busy with the Basic scrap course and now the up to date challenge, I have far too much hobbies ;)

 

Love the lay-outs I've seen so far :)

[Cristina]

Carole, I am already enjoying the new templates, and I am sure I will have fun as I did with all the other challenges I've participated in. :)

[Cristina]

Sue, Ann, and Linda, beautiful layouts and photos!

 

I haven't selected the photos I will use yet... Not sure which theme I will choose.

[Sue Thomas]

How are you Cristina?  weren't  you having some problem with your eyes?  Anyway, I hope you are well, and look forward to seeing your pages.  Take care, my friend.

[Sue Thomas]

Here is the month of March.  I will leave until I have finished all 12 months, before I write comments, on where and when the photos were taken.   I used an adjustment layer to lighten the  date boxes.  As for the text I will write it under the photos, and above  the word notes.  I used one photos instead of  three.

[Sue Thomas]

I notice that the background on my Feb 2021 layout there a distinct  beak, from the  gradient, I think it's because I had to compress to 600pixcels from over 4 MB.  It's ok on the page to be  printed.

[Cristina]

Dear Sue, I am glad to say that after 3 weeks of treatment for an eye infection, they are ok now... I have never had anything like that, and it was a bit stressful dealing with it. Thanks for asking. <3

 

Another great layout and I love the font!

 

 

[Ann Seeber]

Did the background for Jan and Feb with a gradient called Rising. And I selected the area of the calendar and filled it with white. I changed one of my photos; in Feb I added a photo of the happy couple boarding their raft to leave for the reception.

 

I did fill the background on March and April but I got confused with the photos for March. The layers had lots of PHOTO HERE directions so I thought I'd wait for Carole/Cassel to explain.

 

Carole/Cassel: I did try adding photos to March and something isn't working right. I used 2 photos: one for the right area and one that I placed twice for the 2 left areas. The left areas worked out fine but the photo for the right will NOT show up, for some reason. I'm attaching a screenshot to show what I'm dealing with. Help!

[Sue Thomas]

Cristina, I'm pleased to hear you have made a full recovery.  The font is called Bickham Script fancy.  I  haven't checked to see if there are any other glyphs in character map,  as  it's pretty fancy as it is.

[Sue Thomas]

Here is April, I chose these two photos, as there was yellow in them. Son in law Tom has Smudge and  Bramble on leads, their mother Tinks is  the one in the other photo.  They are Parson terriers.

[Sue Thomas]

Ooops! forgot to attach  page.

[Sue Thomas]

Very nice work Ann, I'm looking forward to seeing your finished pages.

[Ann Seeber]

Ok, here's what I have so far for Jan, Feb and March. April onward will be baby Magic. These wedding photos are for the ages with all the chanting and  rafting back upriver after the ceremony. The reception was held out in the woods in Colorado with lots of tents and mosquitoes. That tall handsome groom is my grandson. ;)

 

I changed the font on the month name to Bradley Hand. The gradient background is Rising rotated 180 degrees. I think that split screen effect came out pretty good, a first time for me.

[Minka]

I'm not going to have a theme to my calendar. Just each month will be something different to look at. :o) Jan I chose where I live. And for February I chose space ... because I like it. Would have gone to the moon myself if I could have.

[Alicia Garbelman]

I know there are many modifications yet to come, but I enjoy looking at all of your pictures, so it's only fair that I post my own progress so far. These are all my own photos.

[Cassel]

MoniqueN, don't worry, you will catch up.

 

Cristina, looking forward to your projects.

 

Sue, combining more than one masks is a great idea. And it can work well with some specific photos. And yes, when resizing, the gradients or shadings can sometimes give an odd look. At least, it is fine on the original.

 

Ann S, as I have mentioned on the FB group, there was an error for the March template. It will be great to end up with a whole calendar showcasing those wedding photos: a year to remember. As for the font used, you MIGHT want to try another one, later (you'll see what I mean)

 

Minka, did you use a font for the "unplug" or was it a premade word?

 

Alicia, you are correct; until the end, everything will be a work in progress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jnet Allard]

Hello,  here I am with my first two months.

What I have seen so far is very beautiful. Congratulations to everybody!

 

Désolée Carole, je n'ai pas pu passer avant pour aviser de ma participation

 

 

[Ann Seeber]

Hi everyone. Here are April, May and June. Now we're into Baby Magic, three years after the wedding. The other person in these photos is Nana Deb. She is Magic's grandmother, Will's mom and my daughter! Now the setting is Comptche,  Northern California, just in from the  Mendocino coast, about 3+ hours north of San Francisco. So far the fires haven't touched them. It's really damp there from the ocean though the air quality has suffered.

 

So far I'm sticking with the same gradient background and keeping the Bradley Hand font, though I did increase the size of the first letter of each of the months.

[Sue Thomas]

A busy day today, for now here is June's  page.  After seeing Jnet's pages I opted for putting a slight shadow on the photos.  Thinking back I can remember trying the drop shadow, but undid the shadows, simply because  I have never seen a calendar with shadows before.  Now that doesn't mean that  shadows are not accepted as the norm for calendars, as these calendars we  create are very unique and personal, to the creator and the persons receiving them.  OI created a background paper using the brown in the photos.  Used the  photo of Tinks, and placed her inside the date boxes.  Overlay, and opacity.  I may go back and dispense with  the note section, and place a  masked photo, fitting for each month, as I have loads of photos.  At least I have plenty of time to  fine tune the  months, before  printing and  posting  it.

[Sue Thomas]

Many of the family and friends that receive one of my calendars, don't like to write on them.  They have them hung up  on display than use  them as  a functional calendar,   so this layout works well, I think I will go back and  take the note section out and replace it with something similar to what I did in the  page.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Finally got a chance to get in front of the computer.

 

Calendar-01-2021

[Marie-Claire]

hello everyone, this is what I've made of it so far.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Marie Claire, Beautiful calendars and that is one beautiful dog. Does he/she have a name?  :-) Great photography too!

[Lynda DiGregor]

I am blown away...everyone is doing a spectacular job with these calendars. They will all make great gifts. :-)

[Sue Thomas]

I whole heartedly endorse Lynda's last comment!   The West Wales coastline is renowned for it's outstanding beauty and wildlife,  not  only  in the UK, but  throughout the world.  For this page I created a background paper using  as many colours that I could pick out of the photos, even  the purple from the Thrift flowers in the  top right photo.