What are you working on (in May 2021)?

[Sue Thomas]

I am enjoying all the wonderful pages posted.  What a creative, imaginative, talented bunch you all are.

 

 

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I have tried 3 times to post and I keep getting a message that I have sent an unsafe message. Will try again later.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Template B from Inspiration in the Campus.

 

More pickleball; more templates.

 

We played in a larger group last weekend for the first time since Covid began. It was so wonderful to see friends we had not seen in so long! I love this group photo...had to scrap it...twice!

 

 

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Template 8; Bourico Casper, Lady 22.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

That's weird...I left the campus, returned and now I can post. Have a great evening, Everyone.

[Ann Seeber]

Lynda: Here's a link with some info on the Pine Siskin. They were very active this year; their migration was called an irruption because the breed seems to explode all over the map. The photos I used are not mine but show a siskin defending a food source and probably a nearby nest. They are small and don't ordinarily take on cardinals.

 

https://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/pine_siskin_info.htm

[Sue Thomas]

Played with Carole's nested frames.    I used adjustment layers.  A rose photo I took the other day  at the local garden centre.

[Sue Thomas]

I enjoyed doing this page. The background paper is a paper template I found on Pixel Scrapper. Carole's corner punch. I used colours from the bird, trying to match them the best I could., as per usual. The paper and text, matches the greys of his/her breast. Some of the techniques which I use are in the beautiful mess masterclass. My usual word art, extraction of bird, and framing. This one is a non breeding immature bird. I can tell because his /her head is mottled rather than all black., same for the brown bib, which would be black in a mature bird. I'm not one for using to many elements and papers, but after the Using element templates masterclass, it opened up a whole new world. I love the small detailed patterns to found in the paper templates section on some scrapbooking sites.  By the way, I heard this song on the radio this morning. I love Stevie Winwood songs.

[Mary Solaas]

Sue, Bonnie, Lynda - great layouts.  Sue, love that Harris Sparrow layout.  You seem to be laying off the plaid papers!

 

I am on the trip - we are headed in the RV to South Dakota to visit relatives.  I am not driving and not navigating (although I did navigate some on the 1st day).  As I said some time back in May, I am still in kindergarten and working in Lab 6 (there are 12 modules).  I finished what I will do with Lab 6 Mod1 - Cathedral Window paper, puffy paint, wood frame with a mitered corner.  So I did Cathedral Window paper in several colors and reduced the windows because I don't like the big windows.  The puffy paint I made a complete alphabet and finally accepted it, but I find that I am going to have to increase them in size.  I made them in red, but I am happy to say that I can color them for each layout I use them - this time they're green.  The frame I made using photos of the furniture in my room! Then I saved one in brown, one in grey, and one in light grey.  I did install them in my picture frame folder for PSP and also one in picture frames in my scrapbooking stash.  the 2 small papers are from Gina Jones Pretty Bird kid.

[Mary Solaas]

I 'm fascinated by what you all are doing with Cassel's nested frames.

[Annie Tobin]

Sue, beautiful and beautiful my friend. You have showcased them very well ... love them. ;D

[Sue Thomas]

Annie, thank you ever so much for your kind words, as always they are very much appreciated my friend.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Hurrah, my book arrived today, I didn't have to wait until friday and so here are 2 pictures of it. I'm very happy how I turned out; the flatbinding is perfect and I did not have to alter the pages I had made at all. I will have a conversation piece on my table; we are allowed to have more visitors at home now and I can show to them what scrapbooking is all about without having to turn the PC on. I'm sure you will recognise the White page from the last challenge.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Very nice Corrie. I'm sure your visitors will get a thrill from your book.

[Annie Tobin]

Dear Corrie, well done my friend. It looks beautiful and you must be so proud ... what an achievement. A party conversation piece for sure. Big Hugs to you! ;D

[Michele]

I finally got on the bandwagon and used Carole's nested frames freebie for my gaming group's daily pic today. The script is going on my wish list in the store.

[Ann Seeber]

Michele: Stunning layout! Love your surfer! Where do you get your art? Your Fab Divas are so eye-catching! I have to ask, what size canvas do you start with? I'm looking to deviate from our standard square 3600x3600 scrap page. It doesn't print well. My desktop doesn't do 12x12. :-)

[Michele]

Thanks so very much, Ann. I use a bunch of different sources. If I don't have an immediate idea, I do a lot of googling. Sometimes I get inspired by things I see on my searches; sometimes I look through my supplies and something hits me. The surfer girl came from pngtree and I found it by googling surfer clipart. I was looking for something that would enable me to use the nested frames and I thought she was perfect. I looked on PixelScrapper for the background paper. It distracted from the girl a bit so I put it over a white layer and lowered the opacity of the surfboards lighten them up a bit.

 

If I'm starting from scratch, I usually begin with a standard scrap page. More often than not it doesn't end up staying that size. For instance, this project started full size with the background, but I cropped it to be more in line with the frames. As far as printing goes, I am clueless as I don't print my projects. I'm sure there are other campus members who can help you with that.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Ann, when I began digital scrapbooking I created 10X8 pages. At that time Costco would print and 8X10 for $1.50. I used Costco to print many pages. When I came upon Pixel Scrapper I began to think about 12X12 and now that's the size I use. I don't use my home printer to print pages...however, Costco has raised their prices and their quality has diminished.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Lynda and Annie thank you so much! It was fun to make this book and really not that different from my usual photobooks with only photos. I then have more text in it because the photos need some explanation and sometimes some embellishments as well. I think in maybe a years time there will be another scrapbook! Annie hugs to you too!

[Annie Tobin]

Fab page Michele ... delightful colors and terrific use of the nested frames script ... well done Hon. ;D

[Annie Tobin]

This one was very simple to do using a layout template by Lady22.  I loved the photo which was the result of a Google search for funny birds.  Fonts were Scriptys and KGHappy.  Thanks for takin a peek my friends.  ;)

[Corrie Kinkel]

Annie, maybe simply but very lovely and very nice to see a couple of birds that I see almost every day. But I haven't been able to make good photos of them.

[Susan Ewart]

Very beautiful Annie.  I will look into templates.  I confess I dont know what templates are and which part is the template.  Such a newbie.

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks so much dear Corrie ... sometimes simple is best but I have to confess I think it has more to do with my mood! ;)