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Hello everyone, here I'm showing another tutorial from the campus blog, namely the snow globe. This was a good inspiration after I was looking for a motif for the birthday card of my young nephew, whose birthday is coming up. It is created in the size of mobile phones, which can be made horizontally or lengthwise. The birthday child can also use it as a background for the home or lock screen. Credits: Snowglobe with holder: Doska Papers: Creative Fabrica Tube and snow: pngtree Font: Mia's Scribblings

It's still raining here, no snow yet. I am still addicted to making masks. I downloaded a picture from Creative Fabrica, removed the background, and used brightness and contrast to make it black. I applied cass script raster to mask and added one of my daisy pictures.

Julie, the weather might not be the best, but the layout is beautiful.

I’m in. I’ve created my own template – really simple frame and some text. I’m not having a specific theme other than I’m going to using a photo I’ve taken that week. On the first of Jan we had a compete rainbow. I wasn’t quick enough getting outside to catch it so I only have one side of it but it makes a nice memory.

After a consultion with daughter Deb I have revised the photo Year in Review; changed the central strip photo and removed that text. It is of young Jonah''s first teeth.

It is nice to see that snow globe tutorial used for something other than Christmas. A great example of how one technique can be customized for something else. Good work!

Template 214 by Lady 22.

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 entry to this challenge

Michele, this is sooo cute! I agree with Susan; I don't relate blue to sadness in winter...This gnome is having lots of fun making angels in the snow. 🙂 Let's say the 'Fabulous Divas' were on a well-deserved winter break. 😄

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.

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.

Thank you, Michele!

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!

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.

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

I remember in grade school learning the recorder and the ukulele. We had to tune the ukulele by reciting "my dog has fleas". I have no idea why. I am not at all musical and cant even hum a tune. everything turns into the tune of "Happy Birthday to You". I cant remember words or names of songs, even ones I've heard hundreds of times. But I do love music.

Your mom is an inspiration!

I wish we could send the snow to you. We just had a dump of it. Shoveling season has begun.

I was wondering where those Divas were. But at least there's a gnome to admire!

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.

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.

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

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!