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As usual, my project is animals because that's what I have the most pictures of. Part of plan behind this is to create a monthly page (or double page) of the pets I take care of each month and then at the end of the year, put them in a book and gift the book to the pet parents. These are my March pups and kitties.

finished my 2nd page and doublepage https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/uploads/monthly_2023_04/large.KTCL-Souvenir-Templ-doubleP-WS-anja1-500.jpg.c8aee8ed9d0b923fa1bfdcaee924658d.jpg

ByBike 1 and ByBike 2=my first double page. I'm pretty glad how it looks;)

I love everyone's pages, what lovely photos! I couldn't cobble together enough today to do a double spread, but it's a start. And I sure need lots of practice transforming those psd files ..

Double-page projects are always challenging. In this case, there were not enough pictures to fill the spaces, and I had trouble finding clip art that I liked. So I resorted to an old theater technique ... spread them out and make it look full. I've done a couple of picture books, and Carole's Open Book script is an excellent tool for previewing the layout. NOTE: The blurb may be hard to read: "The Easter Egg Hunt is proof that children can find something if they really want to."

Well I see that I'm not the only one with computer problems. Mine got an update yesterday evening while I had my PSP open, but I was downstairs for a while looking at he Dutch version of the Antiques Road which is a programma I like. When I returned to the pc it was NOT behaving and I had to start my 1st double page a couple of times again before I realized what the problem was. Just close everything and restart and then it was all okay but at that time it was already, or again, after midnight. My theme for this workshop is Switzerland in general. I have been there so many times because my daughter, before moving to the States, has lived there for more then 20 years. I'm just going to show some aspects of Switzerland, think mountains, lakes, flowers etc without giving the names on every photo. I think I'll have to change or adapt the templates because they don't suits my photos. Day 1 features the many mountains of this country.

Lesson 1 These are photos from a holiday in Malta, the first double page are photos taken in La Valetta.

Hi all, I started after work with my first page, I choose my photos with old cars we saw on a Classic Days Show 2015. I hope to do the next side tomorrow evening https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/uploads/monthly_2023_04/large.KTCLTemplate_9photos2-claasic-cars-anja-1a..jpg.4cce92712fb74b91a0562434dc67ff72.jpg

That's a fantastic idea Lesley, the owners will love an album like this.

Here's my Double Page day 1, leaving for the week so I'm not sure whether I'll be able to finsh the series

Hello, I have been away from scrapbooking for quite awhile, but I am anxious to get back into it. I have not decided what my project is going to be but I will keep it simple, at least to start. I look forward to see some great project, perhaps, I will get some inspiration. I am an old man (88) but I like to keep busy with something I enjoy. I like working with pictures and short stories. I am hoping I can learn to use this course with both. Henry

I'm signed up. In the past I've created travel pages (real and fantasy). It was really fun to do a set of pages for a trip to Botswana, Africa, which I'll never do IRL but admire from reading about the country in the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency book series by Alexander McCall Smith. I'll show you a sample. The very first project I did when I joined the Campus was double page layouts illustrating our family vacation to Acapulco, Mexico. Not sure what I will do this time around. We'll see...

I got a good start today on day 1 project! Here comes the but...my computer had other ideas, (DISC IS NEARLY FULL). I was able to clean disc and remove some data, so I have a good start on #1. My pics that I plan to use have been decided on, and I have a new computer I have just been dragging my feet on getting it up and running. (I think it's time) it should be an interesting week! Looking forward to seeing everyone's creative work.

The wild cherry is finally blooming in front of my patio. Used the first lesson from last month's titles and filled with a picture tube flower 08 where the color seemed to echo the cherry.

I have learned over the years to embrace clusters but I really am a clean and simple scrapper. However, a small cluster can help add a pop to the page and sometimes helps to hide an imperfection of a photo. A well done simple cluster can actually be used as a border for a photo, like the sketch in this challenge. I still cannot cluster heavily like some scrappers do but then their reason for scrapping (which they admit to) is for an artistic outlet. Some of them use the same photos over and over. I am a storyteller and my photos tell a story so I do want them to be front and center on a layout. But I have found that small clusters can really add a little extra to the layout but not take away from the story. Here is the layout that my cluster was used on. The template had the paper strip under the 3 photos as a journaling strip. I had a large amount of journaling so instead of making it super small and unreadable, I chose to use it for the cluster. The template used was a freebie at one time by Scrapping With Liz.

It seems that most of us don't like clusters very much and that includes me too! When I was searching my photos for the coming Double Page Workshop I decided the theme (I like a theme) Switzerland as I have so many photos about it. I have done some layouts for my daughter and her in-laws so I have the ribbons and the flair button I used for this random challenge. But it is not my thing, maybe just a good idea to get out of my comfort zone?

I have collected a few clusters over time, but I end up never using them on the few layouts I do. I'm not a scrapbooker so frills and embellishments are not to my taste.I think Sue Thomas's idea of having a layout and then creating the cluster makes good sense. I wanted some spring-y colours in mine to go with the warm weather we're having, which is really unseasonable for this area, as in 'way too hot! The wavy ribbon is from lindsay jane designs and it's a border that I resized and changed the shape of. The flowers and paper strip are from Di Hiller. Only a tiny bit of shadow added since I see that many designers offer their clusters with and without.

I was working on a layout for my cousin with pictures from Hurricane Ian so thought I would use this cluster sketch to add to it. There was a space on the template where it would work since the template had a paper strip. I just used elements from the kit I was using (Stormy Weather available at Sweet Digi Scraps). Background paper is not the paper from the layout though.

I tend to pick clusters up here and there as I don't feel mine are very good. This one worked pretty well, using supplies from my Rustic Build-A-Kit, except for the greenery. The wavy ribbon is from a textured paper with a blinds texture on the edge.

I don't enjoy clusters and rarely, if ever, use them. I had to turn to pickleball to get started. I didn't add shadows...should I have. If anyone else used shadows, they would want to add their own.

This is so pretty. Your lighting is beautiful on the flowers.

Finally took some time to complete a challenge. Thank you as always Cassel for stretching my comfort zone and teaching me countless lessons. Paper inspiration from Marisa Lerin"s - Hello Spring Kit but were coloured to follow the given pallet. I created the Elements and filled them with the paper patterns. The fonts used were Culrz, DeVinne, and Cooper Black Out . The photos are mine taken on a sunny morning when the sun was back lighting them so they had some transparency which I found interesting. Love seeing all the creative talent in this Campus,

I have a small set of pale pastel shiny papers in my files but with no identifying information as to where they came from. After seeing that Donna tried to colorize hers, so I thought I'd try on mine and have had some success. I did them all in 3600 but here's a preview. Voila!

Individual vertical daffs by Elif Sahin, flowers 34-08 at Digital Scrapbooking.

I feel your pain. my 2TB SS HD is almost full (on a separate drive with my photo's). Is sure does slow it down. I think we have 32 GB ram. That's my husbands department. I am also in the middle of clean up but I have really bad monitors so i cant really tell if I should delete photo's or not. I have monitors picked out that I want but I dont want to be out of pocket so i will sell off a piece of exercise equipment I think. It's really hard to cull photo's but it's sorely needed. Another SSD will be installed sometime in the future as will more ram. Of course then I need equal amount of space for back up. UGH. Sometimes I watch the green "saving" line and it's so slow and i'm saying, dont stop, dont stop. Never have I cheered for a green line so much in my life. Hubby says: the HD is too full, get rid of stuff. I also followed Ann's recommendations and clear the temp folder after and sometime during a PSP session. New computer stuff is exhausting, I dont want to move up to Win 11. As opposed to new stuff in PSP...that's exciting!

Disc is full! Oh, my disc is not full, but I have an old computer (it tells me it cant handle Windows 11) and my 1T SD Cdrive that my son put in for me is 1/2 full+ which slows down my working in PSP. Cleaning up unwanted data is a chore I'm in the middle of. Some pspimage files have a hard time saving and some in opening. Life is interesting - I'm not ready to get a new mega mega PC.