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This layout adheres to the "spirit" of this challenge, but since I have few photos to choose from, I decided to make do with this one. My mother would deck me out for special occasions (like church or holidays), and I guess I went along with her wishes. But I really don't recall much in the way of specific outfits that I had. I know she made a lot of clothes for me (and my older sister) when we were young, but later we went on trips to Detroit to shop at the great Hudson's Department Store for some new school gear. No photos however and only scattered memories of what we got there. Of course, at that time, little girls wore only dresses/skirts to school. How very impractical since we were always rough-housing in the schoolyard at recess. This picture captures me (on the right) and a friend (and we still are) decked out for Easter. The little bags we're clutching just make me smile! And oh, those bonnets! Background elements from Katie Pertiet and Anna Aspnes. Frame from Natali (PBP?).

Week 41 I used the pattern in PSP (purple plaid). 3 layers of it, all at different angles and sizes, then blended it and thought it looked like a faded scratched up paper. I add a small amount of noise too. I used the same color text as I did on Week Forty and this time I used a blend mode (screen) and thought it looked like it was printed on that paper and was scratched up like the rest of the paper. I had previously made the sticker which only had one layer of flood filled pattern. The color was changed in the sticker outer ring and the background to suit the image.

Week 40 I used two different green watercolor papers (CF), desaturated them, then colorized to suit the blue rim on the cup/saucer (then went and darkened them with a blend mode so maybe it's not so matchy-matchy with the rim anymore). As mentioned I used a blend mode (I think multiply) on the two papers. then added a PSP texture effect (texture) and to my surprise it looked kind of like stone. I used the cutout effect on WEEK FORTY, but it looked horrible on the smaller text and outline, so I added a small inner bevel to them and a small shadow as well. No more buttons, I'm doing stickers now. I didn't know if the Lifted Photo script would lift anything round so I tried anyway. Some orientations looked odd but most seem to look pretty cool. It's like when cheap stickers don't stick well.

Susan, I am enjoying seeing your deck of cards so much. Although it will take you 52 weeks to complete this task, we can already conclude that the result will be great.

Wow, I love these. And how lucky to get a sublimation printer. I wanted one, but looked at the cost of the inks and just about passed out. I sure understand the hobbies, I keep putting hobby ideas off, saying I'll do it in the winter. So, I decided to tally up all the time I'd need to "do-it-in-the-winter" AND get it all done, I think I need winter to last about 1326 days! 😲

Hi Carole & Other Members! I watched your welcome video, thanks its very informative. I have been looking around at the campus for a while, and I have finically decided to join. I consider my self a Professional Amateur Photographer! I love taking pictures of everything, from nature to people. I shoot with a Nikon D5100 camera. It might be time to upgrade that to. After take the pictures, the delima is now what, what do I do with them now? By the time it takes me to learn how to use Paint Shop, to do the thing I want, I loose interest real quick. I'd like to learn more about paint shop to edit my photos and make those beautiful projects that I see. I have made a few in the past for a few projects. that's about it. I'll attach the last one I made.

I don't recall anything special from my early childhood. Fabric was still only available (after WWII) if you had enough coupons and there wasn't much choice either. One of my aunts knew a good seamstress and she often used an old coat of my mom or dad to make one for me. Old dresses, skirts or blouses from my cousins came my way, it was a real treat when I got something new. Later of course the situation improved and we could buy in the shops but because the seamstress had to earn a living too much of my clothes were still made by her. I hated to have to go for a fitting session because of all the pins in whatever I had to try on. When I was in my teens and starting in highschool there were lot of fashion shops and that's the background for my layout and story. It took some time to find what I wanted for this layout but luckily Marissa Lerin has a minikit called Scotland and that is were I found the buttons, cluster and plaid paper which I used to make a title. The mannequin is also from Marissa and the dress comes of a freebie with different dresses. The skirts and loafers are from the internet. Background is made with 2 papers by Anna Aspness and the whole layout is based on the template Lab 10-4.

Week 42 I had to check to see if I was in the right week or working ahead (hahaha, that would NEVER happen for me!). This is the red joker, same style magnet as the black and same photo since the photo I chose for it didnt work out. I started out looking at gradients for the background then used the one at the bottom, I forget the name...radial? I added many repeats and didnt like it so then I started running down the list of Distortion Effects, piling them on top of each other. Sometimes I'd duplicate if I liked something, and use the duplicate to keep going. I ended up in the Reflection Effects with Kaleidoscope and played around until I got something I liked. This reminded me of some kind of knit fabric. On the text for Week Forty-Two I had it original in the yellow color like the other two vectors which I rasterized and gave a bevel and drop shadow to. I thought it looked a bit boring and flat so I duplicated the raster layer and selected the text and used the background pattern as a pattern and filled the letters, then I used a blend mode to make it a similar color to the background yet still stand out enough to be readable. The texture doesnt show well because I had to really compress this to get it to upload here. It will eventually be on FB at the full size, soon as I get around to catching on the posts there.

Thank you Cristina. I am enjoying trying to make a different background each time. Thankfully, we dont have 104 weeks in a year! hahahaha

It's beautiful to see all the colorful flowers blooming in Spring, but it's special when Fall comes, and we see all these colors on a sunny day. Lovely work, Corrie.

I forgot to add. check out the sticker, you can really see how it looks like there is a light landing right on it. I thought it gave a good 3 dimensional look to the whole layout. One teeny tiny sticker with that fabulous script did all that. So cool!

Hi MoniqueN., I also noticed your absence here, but looking at what you've posted, it was for a good cause! See you then at the Calendar Workshop. 🙂

Too many hobbies, well can one ever have too many?........ I missed you here but noticed on FB that you were doing ok! It will be nice to see what kind of calendar you are going to do this year.

Although the Nordic lights were visible in my country, we didn't see anything! Where I live there is simply too much lightpollution and there isn't an uninterrupted view of the sky. A lot of trees, streetlamps and light from the glasshouses that shine very brightly and far. One benefit of all the trees is that their leaves are starting to change color!

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.

I thought I had not seen any of your work for a while and was hoping you were OK.

I get my grandsons (age 3.5 yrs & 6.5 yrs) once every few weeks. They love to bake with me, so lots of learning about measuring. Cracking eggs is their most favorite task, along with stirring. Being taste testers and getting to pour their own glasses of milk is the "icing on the cake." They also like to play with dry rice or barley and a funnel, spoons and measuring cups. What is spilled is easily swept up and discarded. We do play card games and simple board games. They are counting and adding as we play. And when they tire of that I bring out scraps of paper, the kids sized scissors and glue sticks. They love making their own creations, some of which end up on my fridge, while others make it home to show mom and dad. It is fun to teach them new words as we chat while we play. One other thing we enjoy doing together is playing outside. We can take a walk around the block on these fall days and find many different colored leaves. On a larger piece of paper they draw and color in a tree trunk and then dabs of Elmers school glue pastes the leaves where the artist feels they should go. Add a few clouds and a sun and wha-la, a masterpiece.

What a lovely photo from 2 girls in their finery! Your layout is so you I will recognize it even without your name!

Glad to see your newbee post! Welcome!!! Not everyone is a scrapbooker in our community. We have a lot of avid photographers, and we have converted a few to scrapbooking as it turns out to be a great way to showcase your photo in a different way than just add a white border or a vignette effect. You might actually like to join our Calendar Workshop as it is a great way to show off photos that will be displayed for a whole year!

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 missed the aurora on Thursday night! All my friends in Ohio were posting photos they took but I was in Massachusetts on Cape Cod with lots of light pollution. My friend and I decided not to go outside and see if we could see anything. We were both tired from our sightseeing that day on Martha's Vineyard. The museum here in town got some awesome shots with it in the background. And, the NWS (national weather service) office in Wilmington, Ohio (located not too far from Cincinnati) got some awesome shots as well. I follow a guy that does the weather on a Dayton TV station (will graduate with a degree in meteorology in December) on Facebook and he always lets people know when they might be viewable in our area. Hopefully there will be another time when I'm home that it happens! Trip was a great time and I have lots of photos to scrap!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Children do what they see. If their parents use their devices, their kids will want to also.