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I resurrected an old one from 2016 for the Daily Look and made some adjustments. I probably got the ladies from Google, but I didn't record the illustrators back then. The first one looks like Inslee Haynes Farris' work, but I'm afraid I can't give credit to the other three. I used various frames and flowers from Pixel Scrapper. The font is Runy Tunes Revisited.

A new OOB. Mock-up home made

Great choice of topic, trains, lorries and heavy equipment make for great OOB. I wonder how it would look if the train and track was above the keyboard. Good idea to create your own mock-up.

My challenge for fast food. Good food leaves the plate very fast. A nice extended family luncheon.

I love your work, Michele, and your choices of illustrations.

Eli's pancakes disappeared very fast

I've been working on making preset shapes. I needed an arrowhead and a shield for some things I've been thinking of. They required me (at least I thought so) to use two vector shapes to complete each project. I couldn't for the life of me remember how Cassel told us to export a couple of shapes as one complete shape. So I looked at the workshop and in Lesson 2 she describes how you have to highlight all the layers and then GROUP them. Well, that worked and so now I have a shield and an arrowhead.

Me too, Corrie... We also learn from each other, as one question/comment from a participant can open our eyes to something we've not thought about.

My improved version of the O.O.B. mock up homemade.

I'm not completely satisfied with this one yet but the photo made me keep it down. Because otherwise the wheel and cart would remain hanging in the air. I have the impression that the boy stands in front of the whole rather than in it. So look even better for mock up and photo.

That is how we all learn, through trial and error. Tenacity, persistence, patience along with encouragement will pay off, with rewarding results. It isn't always an easy technique to master, to obtain that realistic effect, that we all know isn't real. As Carole said it is fantasy.

I tried many ways but above the keyboard the screen had to be huger. Onrealistisch high. The top of the train disappeared. OOB's are surrealistisch but a big part must be realistic. Making your own Mock-up is faster than to find something on the internet. I found that keyboard as pgn. But again I'm a step further in learning OOB's. another time I make one with the top as oob and not the side. Before I have a perfect one????????? Every try I run into someone else. But every attempt is a good exercise.

Tja dan trek je makkelijker naar zo'n plaats toe! Fijn dat je goed bent geslaagd.

Thank you Janette. Yes, I love the Art Nouveau and there are very beautiful fonts in this style, especially for vintage or festive scraps. Dafont is my favorite font provider, very clear.

I can affirm, this is a really good sandwich! We watched them assemble it.

Nice to read you have a Dutch fabric market! I am in the Netherlands and in my village it has been a long time ago that we had such a market. In the surrounding bigger cities it is not so common as 20 -25 years ago. Maybe there is one fabric stall on a weekly market that has al kinds of goods, such as fruit/vegetables, socks, flowers, fish, bakery products and so on.

Cristina thank you so much. It is a good feeling to actually be able to use the things we have learned so far. You are going through the same lessons for the second time and I already know that if this course comes up again in another year I will take it again to rehearse. I find it much more inspiring to do this with a (now small) group than on my own.

Doska: This is a nice font. I just found it.(Dafont) and a nice picture of your 50 years aniversary.

Help. There's a lion in my cabin.

I had fun today playing with some scripts from Carole. I made tablecloth with frays, used the Sandwich plate with the stonescript build a room and a table,

I started working in the relatively new McDonald's in my town during my senior year of high school. I got the job because I was 18 and could work past 10 p.m. to do the closing chores needed. I worked all summer before heading off to college. When I came home for Thanksgiving, I stopped in to ask if I could work during the break between semesters and they said yes so I worked during those 4 weeks over Christmas/New Year's. At that time they told me that I would be welcome to work there the following summer if I wanted. So I did. So my job during my early college years was McDonald's. The funniest story though is that my dad absolutely loved their "fresh" French fries. He was under the impression that they cut fresh potatoes every day for their fries. Boy did I burst that bubble when I told him they were frozen! He still loved them. I quit eating fast food about 15 years ago unless I am traveling. For me it was for budgetary reasons... fast food was expensive even then. Here is a layout I did 9 years ago about the store I worked in. The owners were building a new store next door to the old one. The store I worked in was torn down and is now parking for the new store. One of the owners was an employee at this store when I worked there in the mid-1970's. She worked her way into management and after getting married to another manager, they set their goals of owning their own store. Last I heard, they own 3 or 4 in the area.

I wanted to show my lovely bistro chair so I placed it in the corner. 😃 The font name is BUTTERFLY. The background is a brown color layer and an overlay of an interior. I don't remember what scrap kit it was. At last, I could use picture tubes from PSP.

How about a large plate full of FRENCHFRIES to share.

I'm in too. Think I'll do more cameras like I did for the magazine workshop. thankfully there's time to take some pictures before the workshop.

I'm in too. I haven't done this before but I trust you guys will help me if I get stuck.

I'm in!

I'm in too and very glad we do another one this year. It will be my 4th time and I have made a lot of different ones as gifts. This year I will use the flower photos from my trip to the States. There are a whole bunch of flowers we, over here, don't know or only have as houseplants. A friend to whom I send some of the photos was already speculating: "a new calendar?" So no pressure.............. I have them in a separate folder already and I'm ready to go.