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Year In Review

Lab 11 Mod 8. Wasn't sure how I was going to do this since it is also about the sea. But I muddled through and actually had fun creating elements. Requirements: abstract fish created and then made into a ribbon; create an arrow and add words on top of it (I didn't create the arrow but used a preset shape and worked with those nodes to get the curve - still a challenge); made a stroke and use it to fill a wave (another wave pattern) - that wave pattern I've worked with several times - 1 to put the words on it and 1 to make shadows on the folds of the strip). i also used the stroke to make circular frames in different colors and as "x"s; and used that same idea to make a ribbon and then to use Carole's scripts to make a curled ribbon and several bows. Lots of fun. The surfboards I made in a previous lab.

Me, too, but I forget what I learn by the next day. LOL.

Very cool! Thank you!

I decided to do the basics and show them here in 1 thread day 1

Oh, gosh, I didn't see the first one until now - love the out of bounds with both the giraffe AND his leaves out of the frame LOL! I just love the round disks in the middle and the stamped paper - well the giraffe paper underneath, too. An excellent LO all around.

That is so nice - the stripe paper and the dots withthe tilt of the backing papers. So happy! And the alpha is fun, too. (Wouldn't you hate to have to reach into that bucket of fish futter? Blick!)

Susan, there is no doubt...we are animal people! Thank you!

day 2 with my own Kit JustForFun you can find the link in "What are you working on (in January 2024)?" Thread font Underwater for the MainTitle

I gotta say, March is my definite favorite for cutness overload...followed closely by July and August.

Me too. I'm also a dinosaur. Truthfully, when I get home Friday night from work I don't even remember to look at my phone till Sunday night or Monday morning. I only text and make calls, in fact...I hope you are all sitting down for this....I do not have data on my phone (*GASP*). Now, that's a dinosaur! I just got a message saying my phone is so old that I will not be able to receive or send photos or MMS texts (whatever they are).

I can't use a phone. I need something more substantial and I hold it with both hands. Any phone photos I take are always blurry because my hand shakes since the phone is so lightweight. And, when I started this in 2008, I had a cell phone that didn't even have a camera!!! I'll always use a regular camera no matter how great cell phones get at taking photos. Just call me a dinosaur... And, I only use my phone for phone calls and texting as well. The screen is too small for me to get on the internet or play apps! LOL

I always enjoy the Year In Reviews that Carole gives us.

Mary beautiful, it makes me long for summer!

Same wedding. Template by Lady 22, #208.

Same wedding. Template by Chantahlia Designs, #103.

I think this is a Susy Script. Available in the store but no charge. I've used it a lot.

It is often called a CHALLENGE, but it should not be a STRUGGLE. I have seen this interpreted in many different ways, and honestly, what if you skip photos even for a few weeks? Unless you are tracking something super specific (ex: weight loss using a particular program, the growth of your flower garden), who would know that you took that picture this week or that week? I am actually planning on joining this and showing Markus in different settings around me, throughout the year. 🙂

AKA your "Wheels" (like Biceps are known as your "Guns")

My contribution for this font challenge. I used the Mona Home font for the title of the poem and the font for the poem itself is Aura also a thin monoline font. Thanks to the extremely mild weather we have had the snowdrops are already in flower. My son showed me a photo of it from his garden, but for this layout I used one I took some years ago because it was better suited, no clutter in the background! The drawing of the fairy comes from DigitalScrapbook.com and I had it for some time in my stash together with the poem. I have taken the liberty to alter the poem a tiny bit. In the poem was written the Fair Maid of February and I changed that to January. I think that's ok I'm not going to sell or publish this layout other than here and maybe in our facebook group.

T = Triceps - build these 3 babies up and it'll push up your biceps making them look bigger.

Yes, the script makes preset shapes from font dingbats.

P = Pilates

Those dastardly dastards! (I'm coining a new word). That's too funny. I don't have a common name and this is the common misspelling of my name. When I say my last name I usually have to spell it, so I say, "E-W-A-R-T....Like Stewart, only, we aint no Saints"! Get it? I think Stewart really means St. Ewart! 😋

Wow Scrappers, have you been busy these 6 days in the new year with such beautiful ideas. I bring you, with Carole's permission, my January 1st creation (also in my scrap gallery) I had so much fun putting it together. The photo is just lovely, which I initially only sent to her privately, but she likes it when I put it here. Credits: Photo: © Carole An very old "white christmas" kit from Molemina Photoframe from "HOHOHO" kit from DS Anette Marie Background: MLDesign Texture 07 "Xmas" Fonts: Happy Holidays & Elegance

I have been playing around with the new script cass-CountingCards1-Weeks. I made 2 cards for week one but I can't see myself taking a photo every week and make a card. Carole maybe this could be a new challenge! So I thought when would I count in weeks: on a holiday when I make a lot of photos and each week could have a lot of photos. That would make a nice intropage for the different holiday weeks in a photo album. Therefore I tried that option with a photo from last year. Nice!!!

Well, back to the labs. Lab 11 Mod 7. My 2nd attempt at this. I did the fishhook, the bobbin, and the wave pattern. I choose to do the wave pattern in the colors found in the river or lake in which my son and grandson are fishing. I've used this pic several times; it is one of my favorites. The fishing net I designed using cass's fishing net tube and adding a vector ellipse and rectangle with inner bevels. The fish in the net is from the vector workshop - loved that fish and have made it a shape, a tube, a pattern, (reversed the fish for another pattern which you might see in the 2 paper backgrounds). Used my bark texture on the dark green paper. The title is Rock Salt which was a freebie in this lab module. The template I used is in the lab module and modified.

I went back to a former Year in Review layout and edited it for 2023. I picked out my favorite projects from each month of the year but, because the illustrations are confined to a square format, I didn't include our calendar project from November. The date is a font: Algerian with a gold metallic gradient and an inner bevel.

Here is a layout I started in 2021 for the Color Challenge, and although I posted it as finished back then, I left it in the unfinished folder for later tweaks. The color that was supposed to be part of the layout was already in the photos, so I changed the background paper to a solid gray color and added an overlay. I started with Lynn Grieveson's (The Lilypad) Template - #lgrieveson_messy_captured_4. I created the Wordart for the first version, and for this reviewed version, I added some elements following Carole's tutorials: Post-It Note, Straight Pin, Pinned Paper The lifted photo effect was created using cass-LiftedPhoto Script.

I've started organizing my fonts into categories using NexusFont and Character Map UWP. In preparation for the Template Workshop, I have also been making masks using cass raster to mask. Most of the shapes are from preset shapes and preset shapes that I created using the ss Making preset shapes scrip.

Christmas Eve service...Kit from Digital Scrapbooking, Commons, "Ready for Christmas" by Saskia Veldhoen. Paper, solid, 03. Frame 18-10a. I extracted the tree from a photo. Gifts from Creative Fabrica. Tree graphic, 18-10a.

Happy New Year! Here is my January Wild Cat Calendar for 2024. The image is from Wikimedia. The title font is Wide Latin. The Jaguarundi is a small wild cat from Central and South America and is listed as Endangered.