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More gnomes for me from CF! The snowflakes are a picture tube from Corel which I colored using the change to target brush. The font is Merry Sugar Snow and I used a combination of an outer bevel and Gaussian blur to make it look like it's sunken into the snow, too. (I know Blue Winter is supposed to represent sadness, but I decided to go another way.) I just realized I forgot to add "Fabulous Divas" somewhere in the pic. That's what happens when you run out of time; I really need to start these earlier. 🤪

Template by Dear Friends Designs at GingerScraps...A Year In Review...2018.

December and January (so far) have been nothing but dreary, dismal, and dull here in SW Ontario (Canada). Days in a row of grey wet weather. I am feeling no inspiration or creativity. Everything (except the green grass) is brown and grey. So the layout is a reflection of that gloominess. Nothing special; picture from the Boston Globe with a frame. Dog walking has been a challenge, and the wet paw prints are a continuous job to clean up.

My Year in Review - featuring family photos. The center strip is Jonah's new teeth!

Week 1. Poncho received an orthopedic dog bed for his Christmas 🌲. He never wanted to lie on anything other than the floor, but this bed was adopted from day one. At the beginning of last year he had problems with the left biceps tendon (shoulder), and had to undergo surgery for this, he was under anesthesia 4 times. We were very worried because collies are very sensitive to many medications. He has now recovered well, and his coat has grown back nicely, but is not allowed to jump, do stairs, etc

The last project that I finished were my Christmas cards using lots of dies. I am just finishing up a crochet cowl pattern now. I need to print off some photos to start some scrapbooking again.

We had 12 inches of snow dumped on us over the weekend. This is an iPhone shot out my kitchen window of the close-by juniper.

For my first week, here is Markus watching my son "torture" the piano 😉

Not really, only on icerinks that have just a couple of centimeters it is ok and they have opened. On deeper water it is too dangerous because the high waterlevels are going down, the pumps are still working to get rid of all that water. Therefore there is a current under the thin ice layer which prevents the grow of the ice and it won't hold. Maybe for an individual skater but not for many people at the same time. Besides that later this week the temperatures are said to go up and we are back to the rain again

Yes I have that color problem too and if I use a printservice that can give a slightly different color as well. I have calibrated my screen and that helped a bit, it has not as much difference now. Your script comes in handy now!

LOL. That sounds like me. I remember as a kid my Dad said everything I tried to sing came out sounding like Jingle Bells. I still remember that over 60 years later. He was probably right. I am so bad when I try to sing along to a song I like, it sounds so bad I have to tell myself to shut up and enjoy the music. That was a wonderful tribute Ann made to her Mother.

This is a lovely layout and it could have been here in the Netherlands because we have had so many rain in the last 2 months that the rivers, lakes and brooks are overflowing! Now this week all of a sudden we have days with temperatures below zero even at daytime, but at least with a blue sky. I know for many of you that is normal, but not here and the forecast is that the weather will change back to rain and higher temperatures!

I don't think of blue as sadness in winter I think of it as the color of winter. Because it reflects a blue sky in the shade on the snow, it's often blue. Icebergs and ice formations have blue in them, and I'm pretty sure they are happy too. I love this particular color of blue. This layout is so cute.

My mother made sure I had lots of music in my life. She played the piano beautifully. When I was a child, I was asked which I would prefer, a television or a piano, and with my mother in mind, I chose the piano. In her youth she was a ballroom dancing champion. She was raised in the Jazz Age and was a lover of the composer George Gershwin - his orchestrations and musicals. She took me to movie musicals every week since my dad worked nights and had to sleep. I took piano lessons for 7 years and couldn't get past the 2nd grade book. Mom read sheet music like a book and could play anything, at tempo, on first sight. I think I was intimidated. I did love music and every Saturday the Metropolitan Opera held forth from our radio. After I was married, I went to Adult Education classes and took up the guitar; came home and repeated the lesson for my husband. Mostly we played The Beatles. LOL Here's a tribute to my musical mother that I created during my first year here on the Campus.

I am working on a friend's Canva project and made this table of contents. The light bulb is a black preset shape which was altered with vectors. For some reason the Canva clipboard misaligns the one top text, but it looks good in the presentation. Canva is a whole other learning curve, and I'm not ready to indulge. I am only using it because of my friend's presentation. Thanks Carole for the great vector lessons!

Thank you Susan, and so sorry for you! All is well with us now, but it was indeed a stressful few weeks.

My parents built the house I live in back in 1964 (I was 9 years old). Mom had learned how to play the piano when she was younger and wanted one for this house. Before they could buy one, the opportunity to get an old upright piano was presented to Mom. Mom was a teacher and the school district was getting rid of some of the pianos that had been in one of the buildings that were no longer needed. Mom said. Mom and Dad were responsible for getting the piano moved to our house and if I remember right, it cost $25. Another $25 was spent to have it tuned. So $50 for an upright piano. Mom's aunt taught piano so I started taking lessons with Aunt Irene. Those lasted 5 or 6 years and as long as I practiced I wasn't too bad. I did learn how to play some of my favorite pop songs of the day and at one time I could play "Stairway to Heaven" almost by memory. I was a Rainbow girl in junior high and took the position of "Musician" for a period of time. With being more active in other activities in high school, the lessons stopped but I still played for my own enjoyment. The activity that took the most time in high school was band. I started playing the clarinet in 6th grade and continued through my senior year. Our marching band was all brass so I had to learn another instrument for those 3 years. One was alto saxophone and the last 2 years was spent playing baritone (our high school only had 3 grades at that time). Lots of good memories from those days. I still have the piano and some of the music books (and sheet music) that I played back in the day. It doesn't get played at all but is great as a backdrop for photos of the dogs (Pepper and Paige when I had them and now Peyton). I also display several of my layouts on it. As for singing... I don't have a voice at all so I don't even sing along in church or elsewhere. I just mouth the words so people think I'm singing!

Time to get out the skates!

Thank you Corrie! I forgot to mention that I also used a script from Carole for the frame with text. I've had that script for a while. Here on the forum I now notice that the blue color I chose is too dark. I didn't notice that on my large monitor.

I'm very glad Poncho has recovered from the surgery! He almost has become a member in the scrapbook group. We see so many lovely photos with him.

Your mom is an inspiration!

I can understand that. And you are right, the phones are amazing these days. They are almost the price of a camera too. You are so lucky to have IT people in your family. My hubby is really good on the computer side of things, but both of us are terrible with smart phones. Soon my phone wont be supported (it's very low end smart phone - to say it's "smart" is a stretch) anymore and we will be having to navigate the multitude of options and plans. It's the plans that stop us from buying, they are expensive. I pay only $180 a year for unlimited texts, I only pay for phone calls during the day, nights and weekends are free. I see plans that are "starting at" $35/month, that's more than double what I pay. Believe me, I see the value in having data, just can justify the cost of it.

I made this Kit for a Mini-Kit Recipe Challenge in PixelscrapperForum for all who want to play with it -- here is the Download

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.

This my contribution for week One. I just choose the fonts I will be using on every card.

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.

As my first post for 2024, here is a summary of 2023 from the Campus. We could not have done it without you all.