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My final TorontoTravel Tale - page 7 & 8 open book. Title font is Bungee Inline, backgrounds are photos with reduced opacity and using exclusion on the left page under the cass-hanging photos script, and hard light on the right page. My girls had a great time and Canada may never recover! ?

This is my next double page. Again, the Marissa Lerrin RV stickers on the road.

so many wonderful places and photos from all the travels I love to see them all here is my last day , playing with the cutout- tutorial

made this layout for my Berlin Travel Album and for this challenge, because I found this photos . I am drinking coffee in the train

Day 5

Day 5 Also o pages yet, but I have made the postage stamp and postage stamp sheet. And of course with my favorite on it

Day 4 I haven't had much time yet, but I did make the tag

This is one I did back in 2017. I used a photo for the background (Delphinium). Usual word art, the coffee and biscuits I found on line, masked it into the page. I'm not a big fan of coffee, when I do have a cup, it's a few grains of instant coffee. I do enjoy a cup of tea though. Herbal or regular.

The beauty of observing and shooting these entertaining creatures, is that I can create a story behind the shots. Umpteen times they will pack their cheeks and disappear down their holes to their burrows to fill their larders. In the bottom photo you will see him packing a piece of carrot in to the cheek. Stretching the skin, to reveal the pink skin, something I hadn't noticed before.

Absolutely. It's a lovely book.

I'm so busy catching up with the scripting course that I recycle a layout that I did about coffee. It is from november 2020 and I was in my first year here in the Campus. I was building my stock and wasn't a diamond member yet, so the papers came from Pixelscrapper (digitalscrapbook.com as it is called nowadays) and the bow is a freebie by Carole. The photos are mine, as always.

Just finished Day 6 a little while ago. I used the extra Template from Day 6. Photos are mine, and Mom volunteered to wear the hat for a few minutes. Background papers are from Digital Scrapbooking (Jessica Dunn).

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.

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 with the cut-out. These stamps can become addictive.

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.

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.

Canada would be happy to see everyone again. Next time, come to New Brunswick!

What a cool program. I just checked it out.

H = Hot. Coffee belongs to be (like men) Hot, Strong, and Warm.

GMIC is a free plug in for Photoshop, but works with Paintshop.

Thanks Sue. It was simply a texture from the Effects menu>Textures. I usually forget there are more choices there than in the Materials Palette.

My mum died just before her 70th Birthday. 23 yrs ago. I don't know about you, but as I have got older the more I miss her. Out of the blue I would ask her a question pertaining to something I was doing at the time. Or something that I'm doing would remind me of a memory of her.

Susan, I have a plug in called GMIC that makes all kinds of different effects on your papers. I used some of those papers as backgrounds.

Finally finished! I decided to use my grandson's pictures from his stay at a river fish farm in Vietnam. I didn't have a lot of pictures, but I made some fish using Filter Forge filter "Aquaria." The water picture is AI from Adobe Express. The map is from a photo that David sent me when he sent the fish farm picture. The font is a grunge font called "sailor 1 grunge." I couldn't divide it in half because I placed the map in the middle. Papers are mine; two columns are a gradient.

Hello everyone, thought I would share something that I created today.. Tomorrow is my dad's birthday, he has been gone sixteen years.

Here's my Wild Cat Calendar for September. Template from Cassel. Photo from FreePix. Information from The Wildcat Sanctuary, Sandstone, Minnesota. I used the pattern Wood Tile 01 to fill the photo frame, the top strip and the calendar grid. I have this posted on Facebook in its full size, so it is printable. (I have it on my refrigerator door @11x8.5")

ȕHere is my Postcard. Bella sent it to Natasha and here is what she wrote with a little help from me: Dear Natasha, Many greetings from the beautiful city of Würzburg. See you soon. Bella

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 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.

AND here is my final Travel Tale open book page. I used the template from the Day 7-Extra. There was one oddity buried in the template: the small white strips on the right-hand page turned out to be layers that ran all the way to the bottom of the page and beyond! The top had the strip and so did the bottom which was off the canvas. This was true for both white strips. I replaced them with copies of the others that I flood filled with white and deleted the original layers. I used earth tones from the photos and Crumpled and Blinds textures. The photo stamp is from Marisa Lerin. I did the cutout lettering on the large tortoise photo on the left. This started as a double page, but I cropped it which made it much more workable with my computer. The title font is Birdy.

Here is my postage stamp.Somewhere along the line, I must have hit the wrong key, but it seems as if some of the flowers are moving, or my eyes are tired. I have to tweak my sheet of stamps, will post them when ready.

I installed the '23 patch but have yet to really test it out. '23 was giving me big problems with vectors so I look forward to re-trying that workshop. Meanwhile, a nice crew from a local cat rescue org. is helping with capturing my "friendly feral's" kittens and Mama also, to be TNR'd and returned. The kittens are shipped off to waiting foster homes to be socialized and adopted out. Here's one of the babies, just nabbed last night. ♥️

I agree totally,, my mom passed in 2011. I must I have never felt so alone when she passed, even now some days are still hard.