Leaderboard

Continuing Lesson One, here's great grandson Logan. My daughter Laurey is his grandmother; her daughter Ilana, married to Maverick, is his mom. I added a starry banner from Marisa Lerin and the font is Stencil. I played with the colors a lot using the Change to Target brush which preserves textures.

I hope it's ok for me to post, even though I didn't register for this workshop. After scrolling through the lovely pages submitted, and read Donna's comments on her page, I realized that I have a few layered quick pages, which I've had for a while. I must confess I have never used them, well until now that is. I deleted quite a few elements, added a little texture to the papers. The colour palette was prefect, so I didn't have to change anything in that department. It ook me less than 15 mins to complete the page. As I also changed the photo slots to masks. I'm going to go through the other layered quick pages, adapting them my liking, to be used. On the 15th April I was in a state of euphoria, when I heard a chorus which I wasn't familiar with. I have the Canadian Toad and the Plains Spadefoot toads. Currently their dulcet chorus is constant day and night, all around, but especially at the dugout, and other standing water. It took most of the day, but eventually I spoted 2 of these frogs out in the trees. Having a distinctive sound I was able to track down where is was coming from. They are tiny, less than an inch in length. It's hard to believe they can freeze, and their tiny hearts will beat again when they thaw! A type of antifreeze in their blood protects them. Most other frogs bury down in the mud. They are a type of tree frog which is also a unique trait. I posted a photo to a Sask macro nature photography facebook group which I'm a member of, requesting an ID. I wasn't the only one to be excited at my find. As I'm told they are hard to find.

I used a Marisa Lerin Quickpage downloaded as a PSD so that I could change the colors to match my picture. The photo was sent to me by my grandson when he was in Thailand. The background is one that I used in my kit which was white. I used a gradient overlay and blend mode to change the color. The quote is from a good friend who asked me to help edit his book. We used this picture and quote in John's book.

Being silly with my daughters, (l-r) Debbie and Laurey. Laurey is famous for wearing flip-flops all year-round.

Hi Carole, I hope you’ve had a wonderful day. May the year ahead be filled with joy and happiness and all you love.

Happy Birthday, Carole!

Hi Suzy I re-did my background using your suggestions, I really liked the effect that the cement photo added to the overall image.I did play around with textures etc but I liked it just the way it was. I added a photo frame around the edge of the background and used the buttonize effect, the tree came from a blogtrain but I can't remember which one. The Happy Birthday card in the shape of a birdhouse was one I made for my son a few years back, thanks again for passing on your knowledge. Is the size of the image okay?

Day 1, using the Diamond Extra template. I used a photo from the distant past, a Carousel from Burnaby Village Museum (in British Columbia). I even gave a donation to save/restore it many years ago and they have a book with the names of everyone who donated and my name is in it. This carousel was also featured in a stamp set of Canadian carousels and the photo they used is the horse that I have showcased in the past. This is my busy (several extra jobs) week at work so I might be sporadic with my postings. I'll try and keep up though. The font is Cowboy Kids, either Creative Fabrica or Google fonts, all is mixed up together now in my font viewer.

busy QP by Cassel photo is mine showing me QP by Marisa Lerin Facebook cover - filled with picture tubes

My weeks for this challenge starts on a Saturday, even though Week seventeen is early, I wanted to showcase this photo which I took yesterday, as the temps are starting to rise. Yesterday was 18c, today is 22c. The remaining ice on the Lake won't be there for much longer, even though it is' doing its best to linger for as long as possible. I went to Danielson Park yesterday for a hike, on my way back, whilst crossing the dam, I stopped to take this photo.

I'm a day late in saying this, but, Carole, you are much loved by all of us. I know you are really a hobit in real life because you gift us on your birthday! I trust you had a very happy birthday. Thank you for the gift! As you know I've been buying scripts, etc. recently even before your birthday. But thanks for the gift - I bought several more.

Welcome to @Bonnie Ballentine, @Ann Seeber, @Mary Solaas, @Michele, @Susan Ewart, @Anja Pelzer, @Donna Sillia, @Emerald Jay. @Ann Seeber. It is nice how you added that rainbow alphabet to the banners. @Donna Sillia, it is nice that you can get a layered quick-page as they usually are flattened single layer images! @Emerald Jay, are those flowers from your garden? @Bonnie Ballentine, I will never get tired of kitties pictures! If anyone has issues receiving their emails in the series, let me know Google and Yahoo are particularly picky about received emails and some might be deleted without your knowledge. Looking forward to more projects in the next days!

Happy Birthday dear Carole and thank you for the beautiful work and the beautiful creations you offer us so kindly.💖❤️❤️❤️

Happy Birthday ! 💐 and thank you !

Here's my first part of Lesson One: a new photo from my California family. Great-grandson Raja is now 8 mos! Deb is my oldest daughter, Aaron is her beau, Anna and Will are her children, TJ is married to Anna and Lucy is married to Will. Raja and Magic are Will & Lucy's children. The lettering on the banners is cass-alpha-graduated-dimension. The font used is Children Funny.

Re-posting from earlier: Happy Birthday, Carole!

I wish you all the best and God bless you Carole💐🙏✝️🎂🎁🎵 Mobilphone size😉

That is so interesting Sue. I did not know they froze and thawed. It's very interesting and so cool that you found them, especially the one amongst the leaves.

Wow, that turned out great, Gwen! The card is really, really great, too, so I guess you aren’t a beginner, see next paragraph. Did you tell your son he is the baby bird with the giant mouth? Hahahaha! Next photo you can step back from the cement, say 5- 7 feet away. It’s ok if there is a seam or a dirt spot. Or you could go to a stucco wall. Then you can have two go-to textures, each completely different, that you can use any time. From there you can color them, or get Carole’s script that takes the photo and makes a blurry multicolored background from it. Darn it, I forget the name, can anybody help here? BECAUSE I MEANT TO BUY IT AT THE BIRTHDAY SALE AND FORGOT! Well, anyway, you put the colors you want on your cement with the script, then when you go to the different blending modes it’s a wow! Size of the image is perfect.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY & THANK YOU! It's your birthday, but we are the ones getting the presents. I have already gone shopping! ☺️

Happy Birthday Carole and thank you for your inspiration and support throughout the year.

Much love to you, Carole, and thanks for the gifts. ❤️

Before: After: Done very quickly. I'm sure I could do better with a little more effort. I also removed an age spot from my forehead. 🙂

Photo

I'm going to follow Mary's lead on this challenge. This little beauty showed up this morning, he immediately reminded me of Ann, and the page which she posted. Last Autumn I had dozens of them, but then they weren't in their Spring attire. A handsome Spring male Myrtle Warbler. The tools that you would use to remove glare in glasses can also be used in other projects, which is what I did here. I used the clone tool to clone the bird to open grassy space in the main photo. I also cloned out the bird poop on the wood. I promoted to a new layer. Created a mask to remove any details that I had missed. Copied a section of the grass area, paste as a new image. Edited the background. Copy and paste the bird onto the edited grass. I decided to frame it. I have included the original photo which eables you to see what I did.

I couldn't resist doing a showcase for this woman's fabulous art. And here's a Gift Link to the article, no subscription needed.

I use the scratch removable tool to remove wires from pictures. This is an example. I also played with glass texture on the one on which I had removed the wires.

These are the two backgrounds I created from the clematis photo from my garden last year and the bridge photo which I took last year also. I used various blend modes and effects using the blind mode and balls and baubles. It may be difficult to see as the images are small. Thank you Suzy for igniting my curiosity in making backgrounds.

I have wondered about my photography images after I am gone. I have no kids and I think, it will just be all gone, who would want them? It really is something to think about isn't it. When a relative passes, does anyone remember about the computer and what might be on it? I have to say, other than thinking all my photos will be just gone(when the computer gets recycled), I had never really thought about the works I have created with the photos. I am interested in what others think as well.