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Flax flowers. Using adjustment layers.

I used the grid from the Workshop with my photos, Beth's photos and photos from my hairstylist that he gave me permission to use. I have used the quote in the doublepage workshop. The butterflies are my own extracted with a few that I made into tubes. The font is Ambidexter, an olf. I separated the letters and filled each vector with different flower patterns from my own flower pictures. Since there were so many letters that I would have had to rasterize, I used the layer styles for the bevel and the shadow (not as good as if the had been rasterized). The background is one from some gradients downloaded from Deviant Art and called Kaiharii.

Here is my work for this month: Page layout, Open Your Eyes Done with: Remembering You Page Kit By Whispy's D'zines https://www.mymemories.com/store/display_product_page?id=WDJA-CP-2403-223678 and Page layout, Spring Song Done with: Pink And Blue Kit By Malo Scrap https://ko-fi.com/maloscrap/shop

I'm finishing all the projects I was working on; I want to leave with nothing unfinished and find that when I return in May. At that point I certainly won't do so anymore. The wood elements are a wooden background from the Behold Spring by cpjess, a wooden token I did sometime ago and the letter S is made by cass-Stacked alpha script. I have the same wood texture and used that for the other letters, all with the font Book Antiqua. I used the notebook paper, done after a tutorial in Lab 14-03, to write my story about this little gem of a flower. The paperclip I have done so long ago that I have no idea from what lesson or masterclass it stems. The heart paper is in my stash and I don't know where I got that one. In making the folds I assumed the paper was identical on fore- and background. Of course the photo has a white background.

Hi all I was inspired by Cassel on the blending photos so I thought I would give it a go using the same photos as she used. I tried playing around with different methods and this is what I came up with, one rectangle and the other circle. I couldn't find the what are you working on to post it there, sorry.

I'm a bit early too but the "highlight" of my week was my birthday. I have no photos of the occasion that I can use here. Just some of family and friends that I will have to blur and I don't like that at all. It are all people that matter to me but for here not very interesting. So I made myself a birthday cake with sprinkles on top (tubes made by me and Carole). The 75 is cream piping, freebie by Carole; just as the doily and greenery with extra roses. The candles are from Marissa Lerin and the rest comes from my stock. The rest of the weeks in April and the first week in May will come as I'm back from California after I have recovered from the jetlag; I don't take my laptop with me. I will leave here coming Tuesday, so bye for now and see you in May. I will check in on the Campus when I have some moments when everybody is at work/school and it is just me and the dogs. In the weekends we will take trips.

I have a flower bed full of daffodils, one of my favorite flowers. The daffodil picture was taken yesterday and the dandelion field is behind my house. The green paper is from my kit, and the fold is from a scrap tutorial. I have been totally unsucessful in using the cass folded edge script, but by accident managed to fold the daffodil picture. I filled the fold with white like the back of a photograph. The mossy wood is from a picture my daughter sent me, and the preset wheel is filled with another wood photo from Beth. The no trespassing sign fill is from a photo of tree bark that I took some time ago. I used a brush to make the edges uneven. The yellow is a gradient, and the greenery was made in Procreate. The font is Kristin ITC cut out of the bark photo.

This is a photo of Sycamore gap before the tree was cut down, the beagle is Dash we looked after him as a pup for 7 months.

Bumble bees are active in all weather, the queens are the first to emerge in early Spring, and the last in Autumn. Many bees are temperature sensitive for emerging. I've already see some bumbles, but I have a feeling that it is because it's unusually warm. I don't have as much as a dandelion yet. The Prairie crocus will be the first to bloom, any day now. For the bumbles I use tiny bottle caps, with a small amount of diluted honey. The mourning cloak, Compton tortoiseshell and Red Admirals are out and about, for now they feed on the sap of trees. I spread over ripe bananas on the tree tunks for them, or halve an orange or two. I had to put out another bird bath today, as the Robins are enjoying having a bath. I empty them at dusk, as it still freezes at night. The norm is, but doesn't always apply to all species, the males are far more colourful. The Male Merlin is much darker than the female.

Oh, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Corrie. May all your dreams come true. Safe travels and happy landings.💗

Oh, happy birthday, Corrie! And I wish you a safe flight and wonderful time here in the old US of A! Your previous travel tales have been very interesting and I can't wait for more!

Corrie, Happy Birthday and all best wishes for a wonderful trip.

I was playing with screenshots from an Explore live cam. Today's rainy sunrise and a pretty one from another day. Used the blend mode to come up with this. The Text is the freeby from C F It is called Pastels but has that drippy look.

Fonts: Quimby Gubernatorial and OCR-A, scanned slide

Sounds like you had a wonderful birthday, @Corrie Kinkel, and your card is wonderful. Have a safe and enjoyable trip. Too bad you'll be on the west coast and I'm on the east coast.

You have created yourself an absolutely superb card. Happy Birthday young lady!!!! Enjoy the journey, and savour every moment spent with your family. Creating memories that will last a lifetime.

Happy Birthday Corrie! I hope your day was fabulous! have a wonderful time in the US, looking forward to your return. And all the layouts that will come with it. Cheers!

😄Happy to piggy back on that education, lol! I wouldn't know either what species of owl I 'd be dealing with if that owl sat right in front of me on my desk. Really not good at owls but I know that there is a traditional owl nest nearby and I can also hear them woohoo sometimes at night 😉 I will have to look for some owl cam.

These are my pictures of the 2024 Solar Eclipse

Just as Susan I joined in April of May 2020 and haven't seen this particular layout in a magazine challenge. It is stunning, you know so much about nature and lucky for us you show those photos and educate us here as well!

Fonts: Selectric Advocate, Slimlines. Graphics Gina Jones and myself.

Hello, my dears, I hope I'm making this announcement in the right place. Perhaps the rose-loving German or European members of the campus would be interested in experiencing a parade with a rose queen elected every two years and many themed floats made of rose petals. We already experienced this in 2006, here is my current Alphascrap from the DS forum. I have the link to Steinfurth for you in English, but you can also set it to German at the top right. https://www.bad-nauheim.de/en/discover/festivals-and-events/rose-festival There is also a memorial stele in Bad Nauheim for Elvis Presley, who was stationed there as an US Army soldier in the late 1950s.

Belated Happy Birthday, Corrie! 💟 Enjoy the time with your family!

I remember it well. At the time I regarded your comment as the ultimate compliment, to be mistaken for a photographer for a magazine, and magazine cover designer. Well, like the majority of North Americans, you call them gophers, so yes, it's a Richardson's ground squirrel. There are gophers, like the pocket gopher, which has external cheek pouches, for carrying food, and bedding. They are all rodents.

This is new to me. I started at the campus in May 2020. thank you for re-posting. it. It's stunning! I'm really quite blown away by it. And of Ann's friend's shot. You magazines are so real, I've mentioned before, when I started I thought you were a photographer for a magazine...that what I told my husband. BTW...my guess is that 'rump' is a gopher? On my grandfathers farm they had guns set up to shoot them....how HORRIFYING!

I see that Ann has posted a photo of Great horned Owlets, taken by her friend. This is a page I created and posted back in the summer of 2019, showcasing one of the two Owlets that I documented and observed at a friend's hay barn not to far away. The Owls have nested there for over 10 years. Many of you won't have seen this page.

Crossposting from Chit Chat- I just cobbled together this layout using my template from the webinar's grid format. Photos by (daughter) Laurey Keller of 2024 Total Eclipse, Matamoras, PA SI-Star Gazer kit / Elements = Light (overlay @ 50% opacity) + Nebula-1 (Does anyone know who "SI" is?) Font=Distant Galaxy Outline (which was an offering by Star Wars creator Lucasfilm) / White Sand gradient

The 1st story page; the preceding ones are just more title pages. I'm by now wondering if I should draw this out to more pages. It is one rather short story. As a kid I always thought there wasn't enough text on these pages in story books. Then again how attractive exactly is a visual of lambs being breakfasted by the wolf? I might change the body font which is France and giving me a bit of a headache. I love its looks tho. The title font is Calysa.

Though I posted this in the Flowers Challenge I'd like to show it here as it's inspired by the webinar and Sue Thomas' layouts. I also made templates. Here are Spring flowers in Warwick. The clipart lower right is from Jessica Dunn.

I couldn't agree more. I saved the templates after converting the photo slots to masks.

Another excellent masterclass today. When I read what it was going to be about, I knew what I was going to showcase. I used the first layout which Carole demonstrated.

I have a book going for a young family member. Here is my cover. Graphics Marisa Lerin. Font Qiara.

Week Fourteen - 04/07/24 - Baby great horned owls well camouflaged in a tree and trying to look fierce. 😆 Photo by my buddy Michael Turek. Font is Valentina.

Revisited and revised an old one. I have no idea where I got the cherry blossom clip art or the lovely pic I used for the slats, but the font is Asia Pacific, free from DaFont.

April Showers Papers and puddles from Jessica Dunn on PS/DS. The people are characters from the game. The font is AlphaShapes raindrops, free from DaFont. The creator is Fonts & Things and they have some very interesting fonts https://www.dafont.com/fonts-n-things.d1209.

This past week we have some stunning sunsets and sunrises. The temps are rising slowly, obviously the ground is still frozen, hense the standing water. Rainbows are created by water droplets in the air. The colours are wave lengths of light. Like in a sunrise, as in the image below. Red is recalled the red shift, as the light is stretched. Stretched light causes the red colour.

Font is Myriad, most graphics Jen Maddock, some myself.

As a major consumer of flax seed I love this picture. Even though my cousins in Sask grow it, I've only been there when the seed has just been planted. Does is smell nice too? I cant remember what they told me about it.

Happy 75th birthday, dear Corrie🌷🐞, and I wish you a safe trip✈️, lots of fun 🤩and a healthy return🙌.

💗Oh thank you so much @Michele! So sweet of you!! I'd thought my googling was pretty solid, but I sure did not find it... so this is really great. I am hoping to use it on a poster for a friend and her flower arrangement classes. Can't wait to look at it up close. 💗

I'm two days early posting week 15. I read that Susan is waiting for the Robins to return to her area. Several arrived over this past weekened, along with several small flocks of Juncos, a Male Northern Flicker, and a handful of Song Sparrows. The long awaited songs of birds has once again begun, breaking the long silence of winter out in the trees. Shot taken on Monday afternoon. On their arrival, I promptly put out blueberry jam, and berries.

To quote Carole " a great starting point to display photos............," Once again she is right! I edited the one template and created what Carole demonstrated in, I think was the 4th project in the masterclass using grids. The paper with Carole's corner punch is a paper template. The others are my own. I did rotate the stipes, but it didn't look right to me, so rotated back to how I created it. The tag is one I made a while back. Wood tokens, and a wood burning tag. The heart paperclip is my own, which I colourized, using the sculpture tool. (silver) It doesn't really look like it, but the wood burning tag is actually not only under the folded paper, but also it's shadow.

A perfect starting point to display photos. And then, the sky is the limit if someone wants to add details, embellishments, etc.

Absolutley!

That was a very interesting read. It must have been quite a bit of work to make these layouts, but they are effective.

Very pretty!

In other words; typical prairie weather...unpredictable. Last week for us, +20 cel. today; snowing and zero

I know, everything about it. The lead in lines of the fence, the water creating the sky reflection making a repetition pattern of sky, land, sky, land. A joy for eyes!

My total solar eclipse experience in 1999☀️😎 SOFI= Sonnenfinsternis = solar eclipse

Great calendar page @Ann Seeber, love the open book look. Is that a script as well? I was hoping to get into scripts on Easter Monday but life had different plans... It sure is on my list. Thank you for the lovely kit @Louyse Toupin!!! I have a little project going with photos from the sixties and seventies. Some are slides, all are scanned, except the one on this page 😉 Graphics JBD Design discontinued. 10x8 inches. Font is Lato on body and Nickson Four on title.