Double Take Challenge 2021

[Sue Thomas]

I amended the  final page, by replacing the lifted corner image with the original unlifted.

[Ann Seeber]

We had a bit of an adventure getting to our wedding ceremony. Hereby lies the tale...

 

(I also had an adventure trying to post this.. the wedding bell elements vanished when I scaled down the .pspimage. I had to go back and put them back in and then I saved it as a .jpg full size before scaling down. That worked!)

[laurie solaas]

Jnet I love your pictures and layouts as well. My favorite so far is the one that you showed the front of your RV. We are RVers as well. My dream is to possibly one day travel the US and Canada. Just experiencing this beautiful world. Do you live in Quebec? My grandmother was born in St Wensalas. They moved to America when she was 16 to work in the textile mills. My grandfathers people were of Scottish descent, and many of them left America to settle in the the Shelborne area. Hopefully my French will be good enough someday to navigate around Quebec.

[laurie solaas]

This has been a rough year for the world. Last Tuesday marks the anniversary of my second vaccine. The number of active Covid cases in Memphis has been horrible. So, we have been very careful. This week was the first time I bought my own groceries without curbside delivery. It was so nice to go in a store and actually pick out what I wanted for myself. I have missed talking to people in person, except for my immediate family.

 

I enjoyed creating the background for this layout. My 'grunge' is subtle, but it is there.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Wow Ann what a wedding story!

 

Monique a lovely way to show us all the pets you have had over the years!

 

Carole, I indeed tried a darker background on day 4 with all the whites, but I found it to dark, jut a personal preference. I was careful not to put text in the middle, as you pointed out earlier. I certainly will make an album.

 

Here is day 5 and the color is lilac. The panorama is of a meadow and  some of the flower photos are shots from that meadow. I extracted the butterfly from one of the photos (not very well, sorry) and used it as an embellishment because the layout missed something.

[laurie solaas]

Cindy, I wanted to encourage you to not give up. I have been where you are. I first bought PSP in 2018, and for three years every time I opened the program I closed it immediately in frustration. Carole offers a Basic Scrap course that is very good. I think also from time to time she has a Scrapbook Bootcamp as well that starts with understanding Layers.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

You folks never fail to amaze. I love all the pages/pets/birds/flowers/trips/weddings! Thank you all for brightening my day.

 

I will post some of my pages. Remember, I have never posted my 2018 results for this challenge...I got off course on some of the pages...that may be the reason I never posted...I really don't know but I didn't report a single result. South Carolina Senior Games. I played pickeball singles, doubles, mixed doubles. My friends played doubles and horseshoes.

 

 

[Bonnie Ballentine]

My pickleball group at play during the summer...

[Bonnie Ballentine]

This did not follow the lesson...oh, well....

[Jean Naumann]

Here is day 6.  For some reason when I reduce the photo to 600 pixels the text gets very feint.  At full size it's quite dark.  Not sure I'm  happy with the highlighting, but I guess as it's on its own layer I can always turn it off.  This whole challenge has been lots of fun and I feel like I've learnt so much. Hopefully I don't forget it all!

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Now for the completion of my 2021 exercises:

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Day 5

 

I really struggled with this one...just could not find photos I liked for the layout...these are, however, my photos.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

My friend lives in Washington, DC and his Mom lives in SC. He has just beaten cancer and took the kids to visit their Grandmother while his wife was helping her Mom with things.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Jean...you posted while I was posting. I love your page! If you would adopt me, you could take me fishing. I have fished all my life when I could...not very often, I am afraid. Thank you for sharing this fun page!

[Annie Tobin]

Carole, thank you, and yes it is a free font, Novak Spring, and I believe it is available at a few of the popular freebie font sites.

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks Jean. We really do have beautiful birds here and the Rainbow Bee-Eater is superb. I was a hopeless photographer and most of the photos I use are from Australia Geographic ... and they have some amazing photos of birds. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks very much Ann. It is a lovely compliment and I appreciate it. I really love your Wedding Day story ... quite amazing, and you did look very elegant in your wedding gown which would stand the test of time. Well done my friend. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks very much Monique, greatly appreciated my friend. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Monique, precious ones showcased wonderfully, well done my friend. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Very nice Monique. I love chooks and I have just purchased a chicken coop and moveable run for them to be able to get a green pick. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Sue a beautiful page for a sad story. I see it here too my friend ... no place for the native wildlife to go.

[Annie Tobin]

Lynda, I really appreciate the page you have created. A little history lesson included makes this a keeper. I hope you don't mind that I have taken a print screen shot to keep in my history folder! :)

[Annie Tobin]

Jnet, thank you very much for your lovely compliments. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Very well done Jnet and it does look an exciting place. :)

[Annie Tobin]

Corrie, what a meadow! It is beautiful and the individual photos of the flowers are adorable. The gradient is a match made in heaven. Well done my friend. :)