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Here's my page for the Random Challenge "Numbers". Photos are mine, the blankets I made as each was born, and the little girls had fun being babies again like their new cousin. Apparently there is an unhappy baby! lol. Not a spelling mistake his last name really is Kidd! Hence the tongue in cheek! ? Oh how fast they grow! The papers I made from the Mask WS lessons, those were a lot of fun! I couldn't stop playing around with the new knowledge! The leaf /petals from the recent vector Class, the number brads I created from inspiration from @SueThomas beautiful and so neatly done Robin LO. Fonts used are Hello Honey from Fontspace and Schadow BT already on my computer ??, picture tube was a freebie from PSP with one of the versions. Cheers for now...

Here is the Postage Stamp sheet with the cut-out. These stamps can become addictive.

Here is day 7. I used the extra template from Day 1. I tried the sand writing. I am not happy with my results but I have completed it several times. I'll work more on it later.

This is a page I started back in June, when I saw the first Ambush bug of the season. It's still a work in progress. I thought I'd post it anyway. It had recently merged. At the time of shooting the Ambush bug, little did I know that there was also a male mosquito in the frame, until I downloaded the photo onto the computer. (Macro shot) . Did you know that only the females feed on blood, requiring the protein to produce eggs. The males feed strictly on pollen, which is what this one is doing. Humans are generally a host of the females as a last resort. Most mosquitoes feed on other animals like birds, and my horses. If you want to cut down on the mosquitoes around you, dispose of all water collecting objects. I change the water in the birds baths twice a day, to prevent any larvae from developing. They are more active at night because the sun dehydrates and kills them, that is why they select shady wet areas. As for the Ambush bugs, I find them adorable prehistoric looking creatures. The top pic is a handsome male, and the bottom pic is a beautiful female. I used the original photo for the background paper. Edited. I've posted an uncompressed layout on Facebook, for those that are interested.

Day 7: I don't know why, but I struggled a bit with this one. Half the time I make things hard for myself I think.

Here is the postage stamp sheet.

Played some more with postage stamps today. This is a lot of fun. I have 2 more label sheets and will post them in a few minutes.

In case the label isn't legible in the layout , due to compression.

I have really enjoyed putting these pages together especially as the visual memories are so good of the holiday and the gorgeous scenery. The difficulty was in selecting the photos as I took so many. I may tweek some more but these are how I have left it at the moment. I've tried to be consistent across the 3 DPSs by using the same background image; that of a distressed wall snapped from the holiday and stretched across the pages. Since joining in the various projects on Scrapbook Campus I tend to see things a lot more than I did before that are worthy of photographing specifically for backgrounds.

I, too had cataract surgery last October and then the other eye this year. I asked him if he could make me either near sighted or far sighted at the same time. He said no and he could also not fix an astigmatism. That was the first time I ever heard that I had such a thing, To make a long story short I go for what is a last visit next month. I so want new glasses but had to wait for the last visit with the surgeon. Keep your finger crossed that it will be the last visit with him!

And to think that I have arthrosis in both hands and the first OP for that was when I was 45! My hobbies have always required good use of hands and eyes, so I had to say goodbye to lacemaking, embroidery and papercrafts to name a few. But when one door closes another one will be opened eventually. In my case the computer was that door and that allowed me to use my photos and that's why you find me here and it saved me from being bored!

Here's what I came up with for the numbered items. Couldn't think of anything else and wanted to do something. I grew up in a really small town, moved to the big city for many years, then came back 11 years ago to a small town. I love it. Trouble is, everywhere is growing so fast and it changes the nature of the place. I think I should live in a cabin deep in the woods away from developments. The frame at top is from Melo Vrijhof at DS, the phrase strips from Cassel, the background image from online somewhere. The font in red is Boring Showers. Made the little numbered squares.

Pages 3 and 4. Again, Marisa Lerrin for the rv stickers on the road and the rv button or brad. The seal for the state of Nebraska was taken from a web page of state symbols. The ribbon I made with one of Cassel's scripts. The peony I extracted from one of the pics Laurie and I took.

I'd like to see some of this in action. If I took off my glasses and you were 6 feet away from me, you'd look like a blob of color. I have pretty bad eyes. Perfect for picking photography as a hobby ?.

Susan, it is so irritating not be able to see clearly. I have an eye condition that makes me see the vertical lines all wobbly and never straight. Not only in a photo but in real life like a door-post. I had an eye operation on each eye, not to remedy this, but only to stop the proces doing that. As an eye OP is a tricky OP it inevitably leaves a little scar and have side effects too. It is a costly affair as well because I almost every year need new lenses! It is 7 years ago now and I got more or less used to it; my brain knows that door-posts are straight and I "see" them as straight now. But this trick doesn't work for objects that are new to me and those are wobbly until my brain learns that they are suppoost to be straight. It causes headaches...but without the OPs I would become very partially sighted, so I don't complain '(at least not to much!)

That’s interesting , Sue. Robin goes back and forth when I look at it. A few seconds, maybe 3-5 seconds it’s a cutout always a cutout first, then for 5 seconds it's puffy, then a cutout again, just back and forth.. It finally ends up being puffy, 8 look away for a minute or two and like magic! it's a cutout again. ? Progressive lenses….. I go through about 25 pairs of glasses a year. Those cheap blue light magnifiers. Just random things break them, really, except the following which happen kind of a lot. getting into a car, I hit the ones sitting on top of my head (I do this a LOT). I bend over to pull a weed, they fall off and I step on them. (or more likely cannot find them at all in the flowers because they flip and land 5 feet away). I lower my head and lose them on a bike ride and the rider behind me rolls over them. Or a car. I clean them with the edge of my tee shirt and the lens ends up in one hand and the frame in the other. I can’t afford anything better than the magnifying readers I get at QVC where I buy in bulk. I have an appointment later this year to see if I need a prescription, but fingers crossed I don’t or I’ll have to wear a sports band at all times or wear the with a little chain neckless around my neck instead of as a headband. .

Screen shot, of enlarged cutout. I think it may be how the eye perceives it. Look at the curl on the R, and then the rest of the word.

After some thought when I was outside, I came up with this for the Random challenge. I created round beads for the numbers, and a label specifically with a place to put the numbered beads. After looking at Julie's cut out page, I decided to do a cutout for the word Robin. Scalloped edge is always effective, and simple to do. I wanted the labels to be together. I thought to pin them, tape them, thread sting though them to keep them together, and thought no, it might look to busy. Any suggestions would be great, but for now I'll leave the labels as they are. This random challenge was ideal for creating a page on the cycle of the Robin, as I said I was going to do, after doing the Oriole page. Only the Wrens are left to showcase in a similar fashion. Once the Robins have fledged, like many of the Blackbirds, and some other birds, they spend several days on the ground, before taking to the trees. They are able to fly short distances, but when on the ground they aren't to far from low cover, to dash to when they feel under threat. Within 10-13 days they go from hatchlings to fledglings. I have documented that process too.

For sure! I love love love bats. Isnt that like a flying rodent. that's like the bestest of the best. A rodent and it flies. I really love the fruit bats. I think they are also called flying dogs, flying foxes or something to that effect.

This is fabulous. I had a good laugh at #2.

And these are the next 2 pages. You will probably recognize Cass's pinwheel. the balance of the elements and papers are mine. The pics of Jim and Joe are blurry - although I used a flash with my point-and-shoot camera, it was pitch black that night lit only with a small fire off to the side and not too close to them. Had a job lightening them up enough so you could vaguely see them. Oh, well. It was a great night. Somehow it always is after a good thunderstorm - the air is so clear.

I also have a wonky right eye since birth. It has an astigmatism and what's called Dwayne's Syndrome (muscles are stuck so it doesn't move beyond midway looking to the right). I always assumed that corrective laser surgery would do nothing for that. The left eye has learned to compensate for the weak right eye, and I've learned to live with it. But when I was younger, I was really self-conscious about it. I don't usually sit to the left of people so they won't notice if I have to turn to the right! Amazing the things we share on here!

Wow, if anyone else reads this...STOP, DROP and ROLL...over to Facebook and have a look at Sue's images. Words escape me. I love all kinds of photography and when you see it done above average, it makes me speechless. Can you imagine how quiet around the campus is gonna be, with me being "speechless". ?. Kidding aside, GO LOOK! You'll love it. And Sue, THANK YOU. What a great treat for me. Great photography is the best motivator.

Yikes! I also have an astigmatism, so i'll say no to the fix in the future. I have had this really weird somthing in the back of my eye that my (now retired) eye doctor tracked for almost 25 years that I went to him. It hasnt changed but I have to have visual field tests every 2 yrs, which I fail everytime. Arent genetics fun. I'm adopted so I have no idea what's in store for me.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing!

Gah! Another thing from 2023 that I want! They’re adding up! It is lovely, and I see Ann has used it too, so I think I’ll be seeing it around a lot more.

Here is Day 5 with the layout template: Mr. Red has been kept busy landing on many different spots. We both really enjoyed the work of the street artists. They just set up their painting supplies and make an ordinary plain street look beautiful. I guess they have to get the city's permission to do so. One of our favorite paintings was the Musketeer. Around that time, they filmed a remake of the 3 Musketeers movie in Wurzburg. The other large picture shows an aerial view of Wurzburg from the top of the Stein Burg Castle. The smaller pictures show the gate to the Residence Court Garden and the spring flowers. The font I used is Santika Script, with inner bevel and drop shadow, the photos are mine. I added a date stamp and a texture (crumble) to the brown background. I will work on the stamps tomorrow.

Halfway through finishing uploading my holiday photos and creating masks for them from the template, I suddenly realised that I had previously purchased Cassel's 'Clip To It' script and not only that had been useful and bound it to my layers palette! Duh! Much easier now changing the template areas to Masks. I haven't tried it yet but wondering if the photos would benefit from a drop shadow like on the pots card. I am not sure what layer to use for each Mask group in the template though.

I had a lot of trouble with this tutorial. It's taken me a couple of days to get these done. In fact, I tried so many different things that I'm not sure I know what I did. By the time I got a result I liked, I had no idea how I got there. For someone who usually keeps great notes, this is very frustrating. lol

Day 5 Stamp The photo is Fenn. He was supposed to be born on my friend's birthday...you know babies...they are born when they are ready...Fenn entered this world 10 days later.

I do the same thing, Rene...sometimes it doesn't resemble the original when I have completed my project...but templates are a starting point. My mojo is dead...creating is not happening. I have completed each day but with the element only...no scrap pages. Day 2 I used Google maps; took a screenshot; cut out Virginia and highlighted our route.

I took my first two layouts and used the open book script. I didn't have that option the last times I took this class. I think it looks good. It is posted at 1200 px wide for this forum.

Day 2. The elusive Carmen Sandiego slipped away to Tokyo. Argh! Where will she go next, and can this gumshoe find her and return the Crown Jewels? The flight path on the map is outdated. Russia closed its airspace and the current route is over the North Pole. The change adds at least two hours to a flight that is already twelve hours long.

This is the RV park that we are staying at while waiting for the house. It is pretty nice.

Thank you, Carole. If it weren't for your classes and workshops, I wouldn't be able to make my own elements and papers. I haven't been downloading so many kits since there is so much I can make myself.

My grandson sent me many pictures of his Southeast Asia 3 month vacation. The map is from Google with two pictures merged. The plane is a Preset shape, the palm tree is AI, the escape circle is from Marisa Lerin as well as the location markers. The paper materials and the plaid are my own. The suitcase is from an LSJ kit.

here is my day 2

Here's my Day 1. I had absolutely no inspiration so it's pretty boring. LOL

A VERY big thank you to Ann, I am now able to at least share a bit of what I created! ❥ Day 1 I haven't been outside of the farm in ages. So I chose a vacation that I have dreamed of since I was a little girl, Fashion Week in Paris! I spent countless hours with my Auntie, watching all the fashion shows & cutting favorites from magazines, to save in a box for future inspiration. We would frequent our most treasured fabric store to touch and feel the newest trends, all the while dreaming it was me that was to model in those lovely dresses and my Auntie and I that would sew them. I was no more the model than a couture seamstress, so instead, I clung to my roots and farmed instead! HaHaHa I am so used to making my projects at 3600X3600 and though resizing, not having to watch the actual file size. I went just a little too far on this first day, that I had to lower the quality by quite a bit. I added the original to my Photobucket HERE , if you would like to see the original size & quality. (I will place all my regular sized files in this folder from the Campus, so please feel free to take peeks as you wish). * I have been using challenges and now these workshops as well, for compiling some of my better pieces, to show in my new shop. This allows me to get 2 tasks done at the same time, and in it, saving much time. Fonts used are: AdornS Condensed Sans & P22 Typewriter

Here is my Day One map/trip project featuring a jaunt my daughter and granddaughter took from Pennsylvania, USA, to Toronto, CA, last week. Their route goes from Matamoras, PA, to Newark Airport in NJ by car, and from there the flight to Toronto. I started out with the template but ended up paring it down a lot. I like playing with maps!

Day 1. I'm a little late starting mine but am focusing on a holiday to southern Turkey this year. Should have used the same map for my background and to make my Turkey overlay as they are slightly different in perspective. The examples shown so far from you all look inspiring. I have used a gradient fill for my main shape and added the shadow.

Here is mine. I'm not sure I love it, but it's finished.

I've been doing a lot of the Creative Scrap tutorials lately. For the vast majority, I've been following the Detailed Handout so I can listen to music while I'm doing them. For this one, I had to watch the video. As great as the handouts are, sometimes I just need Carole's voice to get the technique into my head. ?

Although it was not announced previously, I finally finished extra templates for our DIAMOND members. Stay tuned!

Challenge.

You must be relevantly new to the campus. I have been quiet for the past few months, it is summer after all, and where I now live in Canada, the season is very short, but guaranteed to be hot and sunny, unlike my homeland Wales. I've been active in the campus since late 2015, and seasoned members have become accustomed to expecting my layouts to be of all kinds of nature. Here are some recent posts. I thought my posts would automatically go into the gallery, but I see obviously not.

Daughter Laurey and granddaughter Jackie flew today to Toronto, Canada, for a 4 day vacation. I insisted they send lots of photos so I can use that for my travel layout. I told them I already have a few basic shots...

This was a great challenge, and by that I also mean brain smoking! Somehow it came together, I never really feel I'm in control of the out come, I just go with the flow that seems to evolve in the process. There are some fabulous results being posted and tricks / tips shared. Thank you all. This tells the story of my Sister's grandson having lunch with our Dad, his GG Papa. The request was for tomato soup and crackers which is a favourite for both of them! The papers, tags and graphics are from a DS kit of Jessica Dunn's called Bistro. I overlapped a lot of the rectangles at varying opacities. The inner circle was filed with a paint transfer and shadowed which gave it some texture. The large font is Ravi, and the pointers are Gigi, both in my collection, probably from Creative Fabrica, but I'm not sure.