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Here is what I'm working on - the July Blogtrain kit. I'm not sure what I need to add, or what I need to take away, but there is too much text. I'm not big on ribbons and bows, or buttons, and I can't really think of something small yet 3-D. I think Marisa has resin flowers over there I can add. It's one of those, "But why would I add a rose when we are talking about tomatoes?" I think I need to just suck it up and add the darn rose! Here goes the test run, sneak peek. I think you'll recognize Cassel's phrase strips, her datestamp 10 (altered) ,and I would say subway text, but I did it manually. In the background, I used shadow placer and open as a copy and open as a layer. I need to BUY the large paper preview set in the store. https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_10&products_id=72. I used the one they have there at Pixelscrappers, but it is super hard to use, being that it is just a template and is not automated. :)))) I need one favor from you all -- the slice of tomato was made by me using that spark AI. Generally speaking, I personally think AI is creepy, ad if you don't believe me, put a pic of your dog in there are see what it comes up with. YIKES! Edited to add: So I need to know for sure this tomato is not creepy before I put it in a kit for real. Let me know, OK? ESPECIALLY if you think it is bad.

MyLittleFractalGarden. Fractal flowers created with Fractal Explorer. Carole's template, free garden's fence, a background of the picture created by me.

Have now finished U in my Alphabet Soup Album. On to V. Might be Valentine - not sure. All elements and papers are my own as well as the pictures taken at Union City. I have noted the photographer of the city picture and where I got the journaling on the layout.

I like the tomato. Love the moth too. how about some pruning shears (since you have the quote "pruning is for suckers"), and maybe some seed packets for various tomatos, garden gloves, garden tools, plant pot with the tomato cage, or separate pot and cage, tomato planted in a plant pot and ymmy...a can of tomato soup. make it your own tomato soup. speaking of soup, I need to go eat.

No I didn't do all of that, because I was there only for a day but I saw most of it any way My daughter doesn't live in the city, so we went there, it's about an hour by car but the traffic was very bad and it took us almost 2 hours to get to the Golden Gate bridge! Ater that, it happened to be mothers day, we had a crab lunch at Fishermans Wharf and we looked at all the activities there and then took a ride down Lombard street, the car just fitted and could do the serpentine road! Saw the cable cars and the painted ladies. Btw your tomato looks great!

Suzy - the tomato slice is not creepy. I love what AI does. I've made sketches, art, png's and if you don't like what they do the first time, just say ignite again and it will give you something different. This looks like a great kit (but I don't like the caterpillars and moths that attack the plant)

Suzy, if you'd be interested, I found this .png on Pngtree and it includes the fruit, greenery and flowers. It's really large, about 3600 wide, so I made a reduction to show you here. If you want the large version, I'll put in up in our Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro Facebook files. I had to make a .jpg to post here but the original is a .png with transparency.

Thank you both (thank you all, incl Susan). You rock! I have another couple weeks to work on those things. Luckily I kept a plain black copy of the wavy text. I’m pretty sure when you can’t read it that the sticker part is too wide, but maybe it’s the contrast is too low. I have a lot of very bad tomato flowers here, Mary. They roll back, like a turks cap, and can’t be drawn - by me anyway - as a symmetrical shape. Pixabay has some I can maybe use. And I have tomato plants here I can take pics of. Maybe I can do something with those. I can draw one, I bet, but they usually come in a cluster, and that's where it gets hairy. I think I need to edit out some tomato stuff and and make it more generic. Add a bow or a ribbon, LOL! Or a jar of mayonnaise. A bunch of stuff is running through my mind. And I’m not happy with the papers now that I see them all lined up. Now I wish I had chosen a totally different topic, something else summery, like a trip to the lake or an outdoor concert! Thank you very much, Very helpful. And here is some trivia for you. The gooey stuff inside a tomato, surrounding the seeds, is called locular gel. I’m pretty sure that will come in handy sometime, just if I can remember it that long!

I have a couple of greetings cards to make so for the first I have utilised an effect for text from the recent master class 'Perfectly Imperfect'. For the main fill layer for the 'Maria' text I used Effects/Texture Effects/Texture 'Crumpled'. The Shininess was set to 47% which seemed to create more a gold look. I made 2 outline layers and used the Warp Brush on both. The lady in question is quite dramatic so I hope she will like the bold colours. It's her 70th so I used the pattern palette fill having created a little '70' image and kept it open on my screen in the process.

Excellent trip:)

I'm rather pleased with how this turned out considering I had no template. I created the mask and ran the raster-to-mask script. The background photo has an overlay layer effect. The font is Britannic Bold. Here's MAGIC!

I'm adding this layout here because it's June and I'm late for the May Scraplift Challenge. The background paper is made with effects>texture effects>texture>bricks. I scuffed it up with an overlay I made from the image in the middle. The middle dandelion fluff, is one of my photo's, which i did negative image and some other unspeakable things to. Only unspeakable because I cant remember, guessing I desaturated and lowered opacity and other stuff. I used barbed wire instead of stitching, it seemed to fit better. Photo's are mine. I spray water on the seed heads and brought them in the studio to photograph. The concept needs more experimentation (perhaps with gycerine instead). Fonts: Black Range (pluviophile) & Alisabela Brushley (quote) both from Creative Fabrica. I tried putting water spots on the layout but couldnt make it look random enough so just left it off for now. Carole: should this go in the miscellanous area of the gallery or in the Scraplift part, even though I'm late with it.

Yes, I’ll use all of those…well, if I can. Not sure I can draw a tomato plant in a pot with a tomato cage, LOL! A recipe card with tomato soup recipe would be really cute, and I already have the tabbed index card. Thank you, Susan

Mine text button is also clicked and I love it! I cannot tell you the number of times I have been dissatisfied with a long (or short) string of text, only to click and its all right there, ready for me to add a comma or change it slightly. I have been very happy not to have to remember it, to type it again. It's easy enough to click and hit the delete or other key and change it to the new text.

It it was once. Some time ago that I accidently clicked on the remember text icon. From what I remember it wasn't a simple case of unclicking that icon. After several tries I closed the program after deselecting, and to be on the safe side I also closed the laptop. For that tool not function. Give it a try.

This is like a fiesta! So colourful and pretty.

Hi, I'm back from my journey to visit my daughter & co and have been reading all the comments in the different sections of the Campus for over an hour now, you all have been busy! I had a massive jetlag and although I attended the masterclass this Sunday I definitively have to rewatch it, nothing registered with me. I have had a great time and am starting to make a photobook as I did before. I'm going to make a scrapbook page as introduction to the different topics of the book. After each intro page comes the "normal" pages with all my photos and stories. I don't do all the pages as a scrapbook page, that would take me months to do and family and friends over here are waiting to see my book with all the photos! I'll show the different intro pages as I finish them in this section of the Campus; they are still in random order because for some I need to do an internet search. This time they are rectangles because my book will be a rectangle and this way they cover a whole page, which I regret not doing last year.

That icon that Sue mentions might be hidden as you can see a little arrow on the far right of the toolbar. Click on it and it should unhide some of those hidden icons.

In the text toolbar, after the vector shape icon, you'll see a small box with a T in it, if you have selected it, it will remember the text last used. You'll need to unclick it. to resolve your issue.

I did a two matching pages to celebrate Magic's 3rd birthday. They had a fun pinata party. They sent 10 photos so it worked with Carole's new Hanging Photos 2 template. I totally used a birthday mini-kit from Melissa Lerin. I'll try to post a preview with the two layouts.