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Because it's October and I just enjoy this month so much, I have to keep making some layouts to showcase the colours around. The photo is mine from last fall at the dog park in town. The papers in the background are from Jessica Dunn. There are Foto Glows from Anna Aspnes behind the framed image. The frame is a cluster from Melo Virjhof at Digital Scrapbook from a while back. And a bunch of other bits and bobs from my Autumn stash.

This picture is on the wall of one of our favorite restaurants. It is unsigned - a print of a painting. I just started playing around with it and how to display it. Decided on doing a vertical format this time. the picture is in a mask from Jessica Dunn - April 2024 challenge mask. I put a cream color mat behind it and a frame around that of Cass stitching. The background is made up of 4 layers - white, bluish purple, picture, overlay of RileyBgraphicsLondonFog7 from CF and colored a bluish purple using HSL and blend mode of multiply. the other layers have different blend modes as well. Several of you use your "logo" on your layouts. My daughter was telling me that my graphics designer daughter-in-law had said that everyone needs to put their initials or logo on all their work. Maybe it's time for me to develop one.

Recent taken shots by JK and my recent PSP tools which I was playing with.

I think that someone could print/cut them for you but also, maybe there are printing services that could do that. I seem to remember one Canadian company that prints game cards, game boards, etc. I remember searching because I thought of making a "Snakes and Ladders" game with people's photos so the kids could play with a board that had familiar faces!

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.

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.

Are you going to print all of these wonderful playing cards? They would look great framed together, I think, if they would all fit. Such a fab collection you've created.

Thank you for the info. I love this picture.

That's a good idea to have a logo.

Virbrant colours, I love it.

That's a good idea, I'll look into over the winter...hahaha, if you saw my post about all the projects I was "saving" for the winter months, you'd laugh at my deluded thinking that I'll actually get it done.

I'm not sure what I will do with them. They'd look cool as cards for sure. I will do some fun layouts with just the cards I think. Like a Royal Flush or Full House or something like that. If I had a printer and I guess a cricut I could maybe print and cut them.

Yah but you see the possibilities and how to do it and that is what makes it so special!

Thank you Cristina, but with such colors in the sun it is very easy to take good photos!

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

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.

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?).

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.