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I finally gave up with trying to remove the line. The mask had created some spots where the canvas could be seen, so I made a new layer underneath which I matched to the gray of the mountains. The pictures are from my grandson who visited Iceland in 2019. The masks are from preset shapes. The font is Berlin Sans FB and filled with an ice texture that I made with Filter Forge.

On Feet. WinterWalks.L.4.

Like Gerry, I chose birds for my Day 4-Scattered. Mine are from using the Merlin App on my mobile phone which records birdsong when I'm out in the yard and then will give me a nice photo to match. The cats are not from Merlin. ? I also used a Yin Template. The background is a Waterfall Gradient with some grass texture at the bottom. The title font is Broadway with an embossed white shadow. My indoor cats, Adam & Eve, are looking out the window and outdoors, Maybelline holds court with the bird flocks. She is quite feral and will not come near me when I leave some food out for her.

Day 5 The panoramic photo is a free wallpaper from wallpapersafari.com. because my own photos are much too small to make a panoramic photo. The small pictures below are my own pictures.

Lesson 3 in the bag....or in this case in the silos. Photos from a 2017 trip to Saskatchewan to my cousins farm. I found the silos endlessly interesting and somewhat abstract. the sunset there were really amazing (which I didnt take advantage of -a regret). as the crops were not tall I used grasses as a stand-in for crops. I might title it but havent thought of a name yet. I enjoyed this lesson and managed to combine them okay, thanks to tutorial. I used a very light yellow layer below the grasses and reduced the opacity so that I could maintain the yellow-red of the sunset otherwise with the white it got too desaturated.

and now day 3

Here is Lesson 2 page 2. . The back ground photos are Spider Squirrel and her baby, whom she had brought out to show my husband. Momma is the one with the almost hairless tail. Mother squirrels will pull their own hair out to line the den for their babies. BEST. MOTHER. EVER. Being the lady she was, she took time to stay grounded (on our back step) andliked to visit the spa for a much needed clean up. She had two litters a year. All the pictures in the slats are of her in the summer. the background photos are early spring. I did a bad extraction of the baby on the bottom left background of this page. I added it because he/she was looking right at me. (side note: that awful green in some of the shots is the patio slabs the previous owners painted. It's the most sickly color...but it's way down the to-do list.

Lesson 2 page 1 I didnt do this as the double page as the background on both sides are slightly different color. I need to work on it more and blend the edge of the one into the other. Sigh. I found this type hard to fit images into. If I had gotten it together I'd have done the abstracts like I had hoped to do. they are good with long rectangles. I do like very much what others have done. So many wonderful places people have been. The layouts are beautiful.

I used another one of the templates from Yin Designs. The Clip-to-It script is an indispensable tool when working on a layout like this. My parents were armchair birdwatchers. The feeder was strategically placed where it could be seen through the sliding glass door, and the tattered reference books were nearby in case an interloper flew in for a snack. When I moved back to Alabama, I carried on the tradition. Several feeders were strategically placed where we could enjoy the birds when the dining table. Mother even dragged out the 20-year-old reference books when needed.

I suppose, it's not perfect, sory but I could not find the best point to put good pics. Carole, thank you very much for ideas and notes:))))))) I must always remember about shadow.

finished day 2, used another shape, added a bevel and shadow, leaves are picture tubes, ricrac made with script papers with filters in 2unlimited

Lesson 4: I decided to use my flower pictures since I had so many of them. I used batch processing to add the white borders but not the size because of the different orientations. I used a script to change the sizes. The background is my gold shimmer, the leaves are from a kit that I purchased and the daffodil bouquet is my own. The font is Ambidexter, another open license font. I had downloaded the cass-alphaseparator script by mistake, but it came in really handy with the title. It not only separated the letters, but they were already formatted to change the fill and the stroke. The butterflies are from my kit and are beveled because a shadow ruined the transparency. I also beveled the title letters(saved the unbeveled file in case Carole doesn't like the bevel) because I thought that they stood out better. I also remembered to save the shadows on a new layer in case those need to be changed. Love that script, Carole!

Day 4 The datestamp is made with Cassel's script : cass-Datestamp8 Font of the big title is Ravie.

Day 4 and it was a struggle to get something to my liking. I already did the Double Take Challenge as it was called then and that was all about flowers. My theme this time isn't about flowers, but in the Alps are growing beautiful ones and I wanted to use them for this layout. The dilemma was that I didn't want to make more or less the same page although with different flower photos. The idea for this layout is based on template by Yin Design and the background is a photo by Alicja on Pixabay. The font is Groovy Yellow and the little greenery is from my stash.

@kasany That is a nice background you used! You might want to consider adding some shadows on your photos to give more 3D effect, especially with that textured background. @Gerry Landreth Oh I see. When you mentioned the Frame, I thought you were referring to the Frame tool and not the Picture Frame. I misled myself! Those brush strokes used as masks are great. I find they are a great way to have different shapes for masks. Good job. By the way, you might want to show a picture of that 20-year old book to add to your bird pages! @Sharla You found some great photos to display. Yes, it is a bit challenging to find something for that shape, but surprisingly, many photos can still be used in that shape. It is just a creative way to crop. @Corrie Kinkel I can see that your photos are well-suited for horizontal slats. Those photos of the cave are going to be very meaningful for the next generation as they won't be able to see them in person! @Susan Ewart I certainly would not have considered those as bad photos, AT ALL!!! It is so fun to display them. I can almost imagine the scene in front of me! You found creative ways to use the vertical slats. When we don't see the original image, we don't know what you cropped out and only see what you show, and the result is great! @Donna Sillia I see some bevel on some images, but I think that the multiple photos could use some shadows to make them stand out. And the embellishments could probably use larger shadows too as they are obviously thicker. You trained your relatives very well!!! And the results are stunning! They must be happy to see the layouts you make once they are done! For the line between the two, you might want to stretch one, and then use a feathered selection. Did you try that? @Marie-Claire It is a great way to use a large photo when you merge the different segments into a larger mask. Another creative use! @Ann Seeber Interesting to see how you used the principle of REPETITION without maybe realizing it (check the blog post HERE). @Connie Collier Those hexagons make a stunning display!!! I personally might have tried to add shadows but I think that the page without shadows still works very well. Keep them coming!!

My Day 2 spread - the photo is from pexels.com.

Here is my first Double Page Workship

This is wonderful Kasany. I live in a very snowy part of Canada and I'm shocked at how many people still ride their bikes in snow and -30 celcius. they have studded winter tires for them, who knew such a thing existed. I think it's crazy, but then I dont care for the cold.

Day 3 - My husband and I visited the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco while visiting our daughter's family for a high school graduation.

Day 3 still with holiday pictures of Malta.

This is beautiful. I love the title and that script sounds interesting. I better add that to my list. the sale starts tomorrow!

I wish I could take credit. I forgot to mention that they are from Unsplash. Most of them are from the same photographer.

OK ? I thought , it's correct now. Have you lesson3 now?

Day 2: The pictures are from my grandsons who live in Las Vegas and frequently hike, taking their dogs with them (and sometimes a girlfriend). The background and frame are from my kit. The font is an open font license called Centaury Display. I filled the Title with some help from Carole using a rust texture in my pattern files and outlined with a green grass texture. I finally figured out how to combine the two images and how to eliminate the line between the plaids thanks to the Blending Pictures Master Class. My grandsons are also trained to send me interesting pictures.

Day 3: I continue with my theme and the photos are from 2004. I'm very sorry to have to tell that the cave inside the glacier with its sculptures is no longer excisting due to the fact that all the glaciers in the Alps are rapidly declining. You can see climate change happening right in front of you. The font is Imprint MT Shadow.

What beautiful colors. Nature is amazing and super creative dont you think? Fish are so relaxing to watch. I didnt know they are intelligent or social. Are they from the carp family. I do know those are social even with people. Or is it they just know who feeds them....yeesh, they are "cats" of the water worlds.

Here's my Day 2 - My fishy ??

Day 2 and also the continuation of the holiday photos The font is Simplefire

All of the pictures are from Pixabay. The font, aptly named Spring, is from Creative Fabrica

Here is my first double page as I am running behind. They are pictures of that my daughter sent me after her vacation at St. Simons Island. I have her trained to take pictures for my projects. The first page is of the sea and the second is the lighthouse and her climbing and descending the stairs. Two of the shells and the seahorse are downloads from DigitalScrappers. Two are from Filter Forge, and the rest are mine extracted from shells collected by my grandson in Thailand. The font is from my kit with changes to the stroke and fill to a plaid that is also in my kit. The papers are my shimmer papers. I had to edit to change the size of the pages.

here's page 2

Day 2: I used the slats horizontally because that fitted my photos better and I made the paper with the little Edelweiss flowers to go with my theme. All the photos are mine except the one with the cars in bad weather, that one came from the internet (no name mentioned). The background paper is made by using an overlay with the blendmode Color. Font is Joaquin Regular, a freebie by Creative Fabrica.

I found lesson 2 a challenge with finding photos that would fit. In the end I went with an autumn theme - the photos were all taken locally last October.