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Thank you for kind words. Everyone has been busy creating wonderful pages. I've been making the most of summer, and everything it has to offer.

Granddaughter Jackie and hubby Corey are celebrating their Second Anniversary. I had 16 photos to place and thank goodness for Carole's Hanging Photos 2 Script! The succulents are for Corey and the animals are for zookeeper Jackie, found in the Animal Kingdom kit; the LOVE word art and snippets are from Melo Vrijhoff on Pixelscrappers. The title font is Simple Pen Solid and the frame is labeled BMU-Eve from Scrap Girls and the striped background paper is from a wedding kit by Sahin Designs.

This morning in the latest email, Carole has another new script called Paint frames 1. I'm always looking for new ways to showcase photos and these frames are awesome. I've created the rectangle frame with corner boxes before, but not with the a higher opacity that overlapping or another coat of paint would give. Anyway I gave it a go. Although the script would have been quicker, these frames were easy to create. I added some noise

Phil and I decided to make some day trips, one of which was hilarious because he told me he knew where he was going. After going about 15 minutes in the wrong direction, I finally turned on GPS. I have made a vow to always use GPS, especially when he says he knows the way. In fairness to him, he did a good job navigating Windsor Ontario with no GPS.

I did another layout for Father's Day, this time using a more up-to-date photo of my Dad (Rudy with his kitty in his favourite worn out chair). I started with Merisa Lerin's Yesteryear paper for the background, then threw in some splatters and splashes (b/c I like to). I added a Starburst overlay that I created from the Tutorial that Carole recently highlighted. I made the rustic wood frame from Lab 13-6 (which took me a bit of time to get shadows sorted, and looking at it, not sure I got 'em right), and I made the punched out paper strips from the same Lab module. I used the flower to cover a glass ashtray by the chair rather than cropping. It took an unconscionably long time to do, but it's done.

GPS are not always the best thing to follow! On a trip with 2 of my friends to London, Ontario, Canada in 2008, we had a GPS. They live in Dayton and had gotten breakfast before they picked me up. I hadn't eaten so I was hungry about an hour into the trip up I-75. I wanted a McDonald's breakfast and we were in an area where there weren't any McDonald's right off the highway. One of the girls tried searching but I saw a bulletin board indicating one coming up at the next exit. So she stopped searching on the GPS. I got my McDonald's and we got back on the road. When we were going through Toledo, it kept telling us to exit. We kept heading north on I-75 and it kept telling us to make a u-turn to head back to Toledo. We did make it to the crossing and heading into Canada (we took the tunnel that time). When we got through the tunnel, the GPS was telling us to turn around and go back to the US. Finally, the girl decided to see where it was trying to take us. Turns out when she quit searching she had accidentally changed the destination to a restaurant in Toledo (Olga's Kitchen)! She changed the destination and we had no problems from then on. Since then I've been extremely careful when setting my GPS unit as to my destination. But I also look things up on Google maps before I go so I at least have an idea already.

I made this for the Paintshop Maniacs page from a photo that I took at Colonial Beach, VA and my own mask. I used the shape cutter for the letters, then applied the cass-edges script. I applied a layer style bevel and emboss to the blue layer.

A lot of fabulous creations and photos again! I can't get enough... @Corrie, great that you arrived back home, well preserved! I read french and german daily news about canadian wildland fire and intense smoke level in some U.S. cities. I hope that those of you who live there are all safe??!!

Yes, just a little box and so much "mystery"... I added the screenshot in case you wouldn't see this part immediatly. It's like not seeing the forest for the trees sometimes. I must honestly say I wouldn't have known it, if Carole hasn't added this little but such important detail. Just chance for me that the box was already checked ?

Great mask!

Beautiful Thats so Loving to make that to for them, its Awesome.

W- words/sentences in my poetry album from my dad

My hubby said the moon this morning was a red sliver (he leaves around 3-3:30am), wished I'd looked out the window, I was up at 5am. Ann, yes, this reminds me of Dune as well.

Parrotheads unite! You got fins to the left, fins to the right And you're the only girl in town

Yup, that was it! Good grief, such a tiny thing but such a big impact on results! Duh.

That was the precise problem! When I saw Carole's comment about it, I finally tried and it works fine. Just one little tick-box overlooked and it throws everything out. Thanks for your kind help.

Fantastic, Julie. I absolutely love it.

Thank you for showing them. It really helps to see them in action. And wow! the photo's are stunning, so crisp and detailed.

This is beautiful Julie. It goes so well with the first one. I really like that wood frame and the background layer is just like I wish I could do.

Julie, I just made another test, unchecked the box "Resize all layers" and got exactly the result you obtained the first time. I followed Caroles tip, my box was checked before, so I had not the "mystery" ?!

I see. The problem is likely that when you resize, the box for "Resize all layers" is unchecked, so the design resizes but the canvas does not follow. Have a look and see if it is checked or not.

Wow, spectacular, Corrie! Beautiful layout and I've added this to my bucket list. I'd love to see the Native American exhibits you mention and Sedona with the Red Rocks. I did Google the Overland Expo in Tuscon and it looks great for RV'ers. Here's the link - Overland Expo West

This is my next intro page and it is about the weekend trip we took to Arizona because my son in law wanted to go to the Overland Expo! He went there for one and a half days and had the time of his life. My oldest granddaughter went with her dad for the first 1/2 day while the rest of us (my daughter, youngest granddaughter and I) visited the Museum of North Arizona that has an amazing art collection of the Hopi's, Navaho's, Apaches and other tribes. En route from the airport in Phoenix to Flagstaff we also visited Montezuma Castle, a big pueblo build inside a cave. The second day, son in law again to the Expo and the rest to the Grand Canyon, which is hardly to describe, spectacular!!!! The third day on our way back to Phoenix we visited Sedona and the Red Rocks, which were also very, very beautiful. Near Phoenix the highway is through the desert, another new experience for me. It were 3 days packed with so many new adventures and of course many photos to remember it all. This page took me a lot of time to do with all the tiny details. The font is Perfectly Vintage and photos are mine except the flyer of the Expo which I found on Google.

I love song challenges. My fantasy vacation to the Florida Keys to one of Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville Resorts (he has some all over the world). His iconic "Margaritaville" song always makes me stop and sing along. I got a lot from NicePng, the layout is the template from Lab 13-06. The background is from my stash of beach kits.

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.

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!

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

This is my take on remembering my father on Father's Day. I have pictures of Rudy as I knew him (when older), but I have such a soft spot for this photo of him (from his passport) when he looks so young and vulnerable. He was beset with many trials when he was young (in Europe), but he became a gentle and kind man despite the challenges. My dad....? I used several backgrounds of paint splashes and splatters b/c I love using them. The background paper is from Digital Scrapbooking (M. Lerin, yesteryear) and lots of recoloring and blending. None of the materials used are mine, except the bevelled frame. I like ripped and torn pieces and asymmetrical designs.