Suzy

Here is a new hobby that is easy, fast and has no extra things to buy. It’s called map crunching, https://www.mapcrunch.com today’s image is from Bolivia, but I changed mine to a street scene outside of Oslo Norway. You can choose urban or rural, and the country, and a bunch of other stuff. Try it. Brought to you by Google Earth.

We have them here, too, but we also have BIG beautiful libraries, so I don’t stop at somebody’s little one. I was at my big beautiful library just yesterday when, after spending 2 hours finding books I wanted, they announced the library had to be cleared immediately. I had to leave my books in my bag near my tables and chair. I just left them there, after spending all that time hunting them down and culling the ones I didn’t want. I was quite put out! Meanwhile, my next kit is for the library, specifically the 150th anniversary of the Dewey Decimal System. LOL! I don’t think there will be a big stampede for my kits, first tomatoes, now Dewey, but the classification system is very important to me, and if more people understood it, I think it would be important to them, too.

I don’t understand how they work, including set up with the computer, so I’ve resisted getting oneso far, but these stained glass cards are compelling, Monique, beautifully executed.

Rest. That 5 minutes you’re supposed to give meat after you remove it from the grill, which nobody really does around here.

Jannette, nice job on that! At first I thought it really was a photo your took of some (very good) wall graffiti you had seen, so WTG! Cristina! What an awesome layout! Thanks for all the directions, specifically that background paper! But it also gives me ideas for some of those scripts I also own. Well, it’s just awesome. Ann, I’m sorry for your loss, and at such a young age, always hard to take! Your memorial layout is stellar. You put it together so beautifully. And such a perfect use for that Hanging photo script!I’m am just so impressed by all of it, the montage photo in the bottom right, the Corel Script, the background image, the placement of the photos, the title work and anything else I forgot to mention but which is part of the whole. I think I’m going to have to buy the script and save this LO in the folder to refer back to - once I have 12 photos of anything, LOL!

Wow, Dorothy, you have been really busy! WTG! Uncle Sam Soiree? Is that really an historical name for a 4th of July party? LOL! Fan-cee!

Jannette, that black and white is stunning! I went looking for the script, is your "dot" method this script by any chance? It is the line painting script, not dot, but it looks like it could be similar? https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_8&products_id=815 I looked closely at it while it was on sale, but I just couldn't see an application for it - and now I think I do! :)) I'm not as creative as most of the people posting on here, I'm afraid. :(

Susan, I love this! I went to go get the font at CF and it isn't hollow. For some reason i expected it to be hollow based on this. So my idea is to have Cassel write a script to make a plain old font like Amnestia become something like this. All she really has to do is get close, and the person can tweak it. Is this correct, do you think? It looks a little like and outline + enamel, gradient, and a tiny shadow. easy peasy! :))

Libera, Can I just use this cute Facebook header for my facebook page? It is just adorable, and there are no flip flops in my life!

Holy cow, Susan, that doily is gorgeous! And even more gorgeous is the detail on that Chevron tile! The pattern, the colors, everything. I just love it! I use those kinds of patterns to make “fill” I call it. Where I just need to use it as a pattern fill for the border of a card, or maybe something I would use instead of a ribbon….or maybe a ribbon. Or a full for a shape or letter or text. Chevrons are hard to use, but I would use the mitered corner frame script to make it all go the same way when doing a border. Well, it’s gorgeous.

Susan if you also post the original photo, I will show you what Cass Whitener script will do and post it. One click, baby! (I think. I won't know for sure until I do it, but it works for my stuff which is more along the lines of concrete parking garage walls and hotel walls LOL, that sounds potentially gross -- I think it's a plaster treatment they use. quite random.)

Yeah, what was that triangle one? Part of PSP? I hope. Because I didn’t download that fractal program. plus the texture on the sage green heart….how can I make that? the germ or smoggy snowflake has two sides cut off, so 4 of the 6 points are sheared, Does the program do that? Or did you crop it?

Susan, this is wonderful. You have made me excited to do this lab!

I never would have guessed! That Perfectly Vintages looks like the cover of a MONKEES album from 1971, yet when you see the glyphs, they are sort of normal, like on your LO. Weird! But I snagged it. ?. Thank you. Datestamp 12 is on my wishlist. Not sure I can wait for a sale because of your LO, tho.

SO if you can’t decide, maybe your V page should be “vacillation”? ???. Meanwhile, on this patterned paper, I like that you took the time to have one car with luggage facing right and one facing left with slightly different colors. It’s a little detail I appreciate.

Wow, just wow! This is fantastic, Corrie! And a shout out for the stamp script of Creation Cassel, which has been perfectly executed here, along with that perfect cancellation date stamp 12. This is really something! Edited to add: Which font did you use with Datestamp 12? I like it very much!

I love the font you used with this! Very cohesive. It looks like all you did was put that same pen to a ruler to make those frames.

Very nice, Sue. It looks like she’s saying, “Yes, May I help you?” at her front door. So if you shadow the photo, will you treat it like a stamp and be offsetting that semi-translucent frame everywhere it crosses the edge of the photo? That’s a lot of offsets! (Read:That’s a lot of work!)

Ann, that turned out very nice! I gather you can tell the script how many photos you have to place because the samples I’ve seen have way fewer photos. I like it with more photos, I think. Bonnie, you are on a roll! Three great LOS all at once! Donna, we have THE WORST luck with GPS - always our fault - always a mess. My husband loves it, tho. (Rolling eyes). I was surprised to see the little town where I was born on your map, Alliance, Ohio! My husband and I have taken a few day trips this summer with more to come. I come up with the ideas and he says, “sure”. And then they end up being not quite as I advertised. This last one was an overnight, more or less in that area, Shipshewana, Middlebury and Napannee. I do not think we will be going back, but the 18 mile bike ride on the Pumpkinvine Trail was really good. (Hence my bicycle kit from last month). On the way home, we got sort of lost and we were not on the grid. At all. No Apple, no Google, no VW Car care, no GPS. We just kept driving until we hit civilization, where I could ask a person how to get home. I think it added an extra hour to the trip home and it was completely ridiculous.

Brilliant, Corrie, really outstanding, well done, beautiful, and descriptive. Just all of it rolled together! Plus it’s cute. No wonder you were jet lagged, they dragged you across the country! P.S, never heard of the Overland Expo. Will have to Google it.

Ann, that is so nice of you. Yes, that would be ideal, I think I can just sign up for myself, can't I? These are free?

Oh, I totally misunderstood - I thought you were in the city the entire time. ut it sounds like you hit the high spots. I have friends on the other side of the bridge, one in a really small town, about 1 1/2 hours out. Only he says the 1 1/2 hours is now 2 1/2+ hours. This in the last 20 years or so, so it didn't happen over night, but I believe some of it really did happen overnight.

Thank you both (thank you all, incl Susan). You rock! I have another couple weeks to work on those things. Luckily I kept a plain black copy of the wavy text. I’m pretty sure when you can’t read it that the sticker part is too wide, but maybe it’s the contrast is too low. I have a lot of very bad tomato flowers here, Mary. They roll back, like a turks cap, and can’t be drawn - by me anyway - as a symmetrical shape. Pixabay has some I can maybe use. And I have tomato plants here I can take pics of. Maybe I can do something with those. I can draw one, I bet, but they usually come in a cluster, and that's where it gets hairy. I think I need to edit out some tomato stuff and and make it more generic. Add a bow or a ribbon, LOL! Or a jar of mayonnaise. A bunch of stuff is running through my mind. And I’m not happy with the papers now that I see them all lined up. Now I wish I had chosen a totally different topic, something else summery, like a trip to the lake or an outdoor concert! Thank you very much, Very helpful. And here is some trivia for you. The gooey stuff inside a tomato, surrounding the seeds, is called locular gel. I’m pretty sure that will come in handy sometime, just if I can remember it that long!

Yes, I’ll use all of those…well, if I can. Not sure I can draw a tomato plant in a pot with a tomato cage, LOL! A recipe card with tomato soup recipe would be really cute, and I already have the tabbed index card. Thank you, Susan

Here is what I'm working on - the July Blogtrain kit. I'm not sure what I need to add, or what I need to take away, but there is too much text. I'm not big on ribbons and bows, or buttons, and I can't really think of something small yet 3-D. I think Marisa has resin flowers over there I can add. It's one of those, "But why would I add a rose when we are talking about tomatoes?" I think I need to just suck it up and add the darn rose! Here goes the test run, sneak peek. I think you'll recognize Cassel's phrase strips, her datestamp 10 (altered) ,and I would say subway text, but I did it manually. In the background, I used shadow placer and open as a copy and open as a layer. I need to BUY the large paper preview set in the store. https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_10&products_id=72. I used the one they have there at Pixelscrappers, but it is super hard to use, being that it is just a template and is not automated. :)))) I need one favor from you all -- the slice of tomato was made by me using that spark AI. Generally speaking, I personally think AI is creepy, ad if you don't believe me, put a pic of your dog in there are see what it comes up with. YIKES! Edited to add: So I need to know for sure this tomato is not creepy before I put it in a kit for real. Let me know, OK? ESPECIALLY if you think it is bad.