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This shot was on the news showing the aurora over the Tappan Zee Bridge (now Mario Cuomo Bridge) over the Hudson River here in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Wow, clever and beautiful, Corrie. I wish it was MY birthday!! 😉

These are just stock photos, but they do showcase The Dress. My mother complained that I would never wear a dress. (I was usually outfitted in a cowboy outfit.) Then I saw the movie "Meet Me in St. Louis" and Margaret O'Brien, who was a huge child star at the time (she actually won an Oscar for this) wearing what I deemed a beautiful dress. Well, my mother immediately jumped on the idea and voila, I had the dress. The template is from Lab 14-04, the title is Corlita Sans, the heart is from Melo Vrighof and the washi tape is from Jessica Dunn.

Just playing around with pieces from the Anna Aspnes freebies. And wishing my fellow PSPers a Happy Thanksgiving (well, the Canadian ones anyway). The only bit I "created" was the beaded string effect. It's an idea taken right from AA. I used her strings and the alpha beads come from Marisa Lerin (I started making my own and then gave up!). Oh, and the text is something I made some time ago, just added the Canadian flag to it.

I love rainbows, unfortunately I see very few of them out on the prairies. The jackdaw was meant to complete the shot.

You might have been reluctant to do it, but the layout works so well! Love the colours.

Week 41 A rainbow and the sun catching a little autumn colour,. The jackdaw flying by was a pleasant addition to the photo.

Lab 13 Mod 5. did'nt really want to do this, but finally tried out the fringe paper. Made several of them - three in Mardi Gras colors (which I used for this layout), two in Halloween colors and two in Valentine colors? The picture was taken by my daughter and is actually after Mardi Gras but in February. The font is from Creative Fabrica (where all my specialty fonts are from) and is called Adventure Island ScriptRough. The mask I got sometime back and might have been from CF or NicePng.

Lovely Cristina and we are fortunate that Julie shared that tip with us. I'm still unpacking all the goodies and I used some alredy.

Last summer Jacek's trip. It's been a very early trip. Letters made by Carole.

That's better. This is what I was looking for after several mentioning that they had viewd the 3 videos.

I have the same "problem" and have accumulated so much that I sometimes forget what I have or where it could be stored. Most of the time that is straightforward but with a some of these goodies there isn't a logical place to put them. I still have them all together as well and will look into it after a couple of weeks. October is always the busiest month for me due to many birthdays and appointments. But I'll survive.......

Instead of that page, use this link instead, more direct. Scroll down to locate the 3 videos. https://annaaspnesdesigns.com/welcome-video-new/

No VIP should clean a bathroom! That's what men are for, right?

I watched the three videos, they were great. I joined the VIP email list too. hahaha, the first time I've being a VIP in my life! I'm gonna make my husband clean the the bathrooms today! After all, a VIP wouldnt do that, am I right? I'm still buying kits till the end of the year and then hopefully stopping and using only what I have. I see she has some pretty great deals coming too.

The cluster is visible although barely but Jupiter is very clear.

I forgot to mention that in this shot, look closely towards the centre of the page, and you will see a cluster, that cluster is Pleiades. ( A constalation within Taurus) The bright large light towards the tree is Jupiter. Due to compression you will have to look hard.

Corrie, I hope so too, that you will get to experience the aurora at least once in your lifetime. Night before last my daughter who lives in Haverfordwest West Wales, made a trip to the top of Preseli mountain in Pembrokeshire with others, and captured some awesome shots on her phone. The very first time she had ever seen them. Being a KP7 index and higher, the viewing of them dancing can be seen much further south. They are giving another high index for tonight, providing the sky is clear, go out after 10pm to see if you can see them. Being on the same latitude you should see something. Don't only look north. Yes, Susan, although I am fortunate to see the auroras dancing on a regular basis over counless years, this weeks' displays have outranked all the others I have seen. Unreal how the skies were dancing this week, well into the early hours and longer. I have never seen anything like it. I am contantly in awe of the lady (mother nature) dancing the night away. Last night I went to bed early, getting up at 3am this morning, to watch her still dancing. I'm like Carole, I have a basic phone, so I have to resort to my camera. The slower the shutter speed the more colour I am able to capture.

Hi all, I have been "missing in action" for a while now. Hope you are all ok. 🙂 I have so many hobbies and that's why. I bought myself a sublimation printer, so with my Cricut cutting machine, I'm busy with that now. And card making also with my Cricut 🙂 Looking forward to the calendar workshop, I will be more around then. Will have a look at what you guys made with PSP later on 🙂

I just have to share this. Quite by accident I came across a designer on FB who offers a rather large number (40!) of FREE zipped files. Her style is very artsy and mixed media-ish which I enjoy emulating. She's much like Katie Pertiet in that way. https://annaaspnesdesigns.com/products Her name is Anna Aspnes. Her site offers the download link at the bottom of the home page. All you need is to sign up for her newsletters, confirm in your email, and then follow the links they send for the downloads. Three videos (quite basic) are also free. Just putting it out there for my fellow PSPers who might enjoy some of her materials. Share with friends is what Mama taught me! 😁

Something totally different and not what I make often. This card is for my very dear friend who will be turning 80 in a couple of weeks. It is just a miracle she is still among us and I have sent her a card every week when she had chemo with a lot of complications in the early days of the covid pandemic. She is doing well but has a lot of side effects from the ongoing treatment. She always loves birthdays with all that comes with it like pendants, flags, garlands around her chair, balloons and so on. Of course I could have made a nice card with some flowers but I have sent so many like that to her that I wanted something different this time. I have a couple of balloons in my stash and changed the colors to my liking for this card. Duplicated each of the recolored ones, put 80 between the two layers and reduced the opacity of the top balloon. In my stash are some translucent balloons with confetti in them, so I made confetti with cass-ConfettiMaker script also round and in the same colors. That confetti in a smaller size is inside the text too. It will be a double card with my logo on the back, probably with a small balloon as well. My birthday wishes will be handwritten inside. I sincerely hope she will like it.....

Wow, I like your playing around!

I have to stop downloading and buying too! I couldn't possibly use what I have accumulated in a decade or more! But freebies? That's a different kettle of fish.

Go to this page, Sue, and scroll down to where you see the section on "Learn". She also has many videos on YouTube. Even the older ones are worth watching. https://annaaspnesdesigns.com/

I have only now downloaded the mega gift. mY goodness it is large. I'm having trouble in locating the videos, would one you stear me in the right direction please.

Oh Ann, that brings back such memories for me. I too was usually seen wearing cowboy gear and rarely dresses. And my mother was an extraordinary seamstress who kitted out my dolls instead of me. I don't have any of those things anymore, but I sure remember them. Thanks for the memory! And I do recall Margaret O'Brien. Perfect layout for the theme.

And it seems to be the gift that keeps on giving. You'll get emails about more freebies to come! Gotta love that. I'm still watching her videos and trying to use the techniques that she has developed for such unique layouts.

Thanks so much, @Julie Magerka. It is certainly a MEGA bundle.

Me too but apparently I have no luck! In some places in Belgium and the Netherlands it could be witnessed but where I live we had a cloudy sky with some rain. I'll try again tonight, fingers crossed!

Wish I could take credit for it! That photographer does some great nature pix!

Happy to see you back!

This is the layout I created to practice the techniques from Lab12-Module 01 (Colored Tape—Hand-drawn Frame—Scallop2 pattern). I'll catch up in a couple of more years! Credits: Cassel: Lab12-Module 01 & Admission Ticket tutorial Rachel Jefferies: Background paper – 2024Oct Bloghop freebie „Portraits-paper3“

Julie, the photo is really stunning and repeating what Sue said; you did justice to it with this beautiful layout. I love the color palette you used.

Thank you, Susan!

So do I! I agree that this is a great way to learn. After taking Carole's Basic Scrap Courses, I wanted to continue because they taught me not only scrapbooking but, more importantly, PSP. I had no experience with scrapping, so I would search the Internet for ideas for layouts. I had created folders with ideas for one-photo layouts, two-photo layouts, etc. Sometimes, it was the color palette or the title that caught my attention. A long time ago, I replicated "a photo mat," created with paper ribbons. And I haven't stopped learning since then!

Carole, last night was again spectacular, not anything like the night before, nor for anywhere as long either. I would have it was more of a KP3 or 4. As the light show was much further north. I stayed up until around 1am, then decided to go bed seeing as I didn't get to bed the night before until around 5am.

An occurance like this doesn't happen very often, well, certainly not with such intensity. The last time was in 1976 in Saskatchewan. A long awaited occurance happened last night. KP7 (a measure of geomagnetic activity index). Was it worth being outside taking pictures, until I couldn't feel my fingers any more? Yes! It most certainly was. We also had our first frost last night. The Aurora danced intensely overhead and south throughout the night, from 9pm til shortly after 5.30am this morning. Needless to say I didn't get to bed until shortly before 5am. With your permission I'd like to post an image per day until Friday. (Which is when my P52 week begins) Each one being different. Auroras occur when charged particles launched along the Earth's magnetic field collide with gases in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Those collisions produce tiny flashes that fill the sky with colourful light. What does KP7 mean, you may ask! Well, it means a strong storm, bright, dynamic and colourful aurorae, which is clearly visible in the southern sky. KP8, would be a severe storm, bright dynamic colourful, clearly visible again in the southern sky.

Another Steve Biro photograph, which puts me in mind of Sue T. He got this shot in 2019 after many attempts over the course of some time. This image went viral and he became quite well-known across the world. You can google Bruce. I kept it really simple since the photo is so stunning.