Sue Thomas

I must say I'm most definately not a glittery person. I rarely use glitter in my layouts. Saying that I turned my paperclip I created some time ago into a gold glittery one. The leafy elements I turned into a soft glitter, along with the wording. It is glittery, as I used the glitter 2 tutorial from the creative scrap, but toned it down somewhat. All my own work. 1 folded corner on a polaroid photo. For the papers I applied textures and blend modes, after selecting colours from the photo.

I'm much obliged, for those meaningful words. I was thinking the same, as the window of opportunity to take the best shots was closing.

I had the opportunity, to go up in a hot air balloon, many years ago. It was a wonderful experience. A whole different view of South Glamorgan, and it's diverse coastline. A lovely capture. It always pays to sieze the moment.

I encourage you to do so! There is a masterclass, 'Adjust What!' I can see this technique being used in your exquisite layouts, with impressive results.

An ever changing landscape! I drive through this valley en route shopping once a week, or once a fortnight. An incredible display of colour as the sun was rising yesterday morning. Well worth leaving early, even though I had to wait for the shops to open.

Snowdonia National Park. Eryri National Park, covers 823 square miles of Welsh natural beauty. It is Wales' largest National Park.

Last one for this challenge. Again, I used one of my own painted frames. When was the last time anyone used the adjustment layers?

I greatly appreciate your words.

I too love the gnome in the corner, a nice touch. Between the punches and the mitred corner, there are endless possibilities. Even, with the punches on their own.

As I get older the less time I get to accomplish what I set out to do in a day. I thought I'd have more time on my hands, but apparentely not. It isn't as if I sit on my laurels either. Winter is the time to be more creative on PSP, once I have organized my photos, identified and documented insects, birds and other creatures I may not be familiar with. Long cold, dark Winter days and nights is the best time to while away those hours on PSP. Even preparing for the following year's calendars and cards.

Here is another one using my own template. The beauty of creating one's own allows you to have wider and narrower spaces between the frames, and widths of the frames.

I was going to go with a mask, but saw that you had already created a gorgeous birthday card using a mask. Creating these frames are ever so easy. Saying that the more corners, and overlaps you have the more work it involves. Yet worth it in my opinion.

I didn't use the freebie, I used one of the templates I created myself, as I don't have the script. The tag is from my own resourses, the backgroundpaper is a paper template. Colours taken from the photo, and the leafy element.

Assuming the elements are all the same shape and size, you could even flip, rotate, or even mirror them once the texture had been applied.

Marc is a renowned British actor, I remember him as a child in Grange Hill. Van Der Valk, is an excellent program.

I love it. Interesting background pattern.

It was enjoying itself sitting in the water. Having the bird bath to itself. It was quite happy to sit there, posing for many shots. Which gave me immense pleasure, for a short while.

You know even as flowers fade and decline as summer draws to a close, and enters Autumn, their organic pigment diminishes. Yet, even those diminishing pigments have a beauty all of their own, when you look closely, just like the flower in the image. A laudable shot Corrie!

I believe, I have posted 12 non wildlife pages in this challenge alone. Only the other week, week 35 was a photo of an old local red barn. I had to check myslef, as I created the pages, and yet doubted my memory of what I had and hadn't posted. Lol !!!

Week 39, I do two per week, one wildlife and the other landscapes. Seeing as we are now into Autumn I thought I'd post a shot taken the other day. I love earth tone colours.

Week 39

I am much obliged. Please do scraplift it. I'd love to see how you'd use the technique.

I am most appreciative of your mind blowing words! The photo I used, although I love it for it's simplicity and plainness, it isn't really a wow shot. Saying that I could see it had potential for this challenge. The 2 juxtaposed images after editing shows the contrast between the bright colours of the robin and the light shades of the other. Thanks to the power of PSP editing.

I decided to do another one, something quite different, but a layout I like to do, as many may know. Hopefully, whilst abiding within the rules of this challenge. Duplicated the photo, promoted a selection, in this case the Robin. Created the frame using a heart font, extracted the head to give that out of bounds efffect. All I did for the background was to lower the brightness and contrast, Keeping the framed Robin colours as they were taken by the camera. Male Robin taking a blueberry back to the nest. After he had, had his fill.

Well done you! Now I see how you used it, it looks better untitled.