Mary Solaas

This is a unique D!

Lab 13 Mod 12. Requirements: random stripes - I made it into a plaid; pattern of 4 images - I made several and used one on a small paper behind the pic.

Lab 13 Mod 11 - make 6 small arrows and a page of multiple arrows. all the elements, papers and photos are mine.

Lab 13 Mod 10. This was a memorial statue in front of the Cary, Illinois Fire Station that caught my eye on my annual visit to my cousin. The lab module called for a newspaper paper and a line pattern: circles, straight lines and dots. The fire truck is a watercolor from Free Clip Art. The Fire Station logo is also from Free Clip Art.

PSP - Lab 13 Mod 9 - requirements: Chicken Wire Pattern (put it on the background layer); Chevron ribbon (on the left side). I used the chevron stripes for a plaid paper and for a stripe paper - which I used as a pattern for the small paper and for the fill on the main title. The grill cluster is from PS - Jessica Dunn (one of my favorite designers); the title of grill master is also from PS - Elif Sahin. The title font is Comic Sans MS. The main title was inner bevelled and shadowed.

C is for Cameras

@Cristina I can't believe it. I posted this to you just about 15 min. ago and it disappeared. Well, anyway. I really love this. It's a stunning way to interpret that module. Way to go, girl!

This is the result.

I did a B&W photo with color showing through early last year. Not sure what discussion in the forum prompted it, but this was my take on it. I started with a photo from Laurie (a duplicate of course), made it into a black and white photo, erased the portion of the flower (I see that there is a portion I didn't erase in the middle of the flower). In my pspimage the color photo is the bottom layer and the black and white photo is the next layer. Since the 2 were together, I then just started erasing the flower on the top layer. The completed flower image wasn't accepted so I will post it next.

@Cassel Thanks anyway.

@Cassel YES - how about some instruction in Corel Draw! That's the next program I would like some instruction in. I really like the Corel stuff (including their word processor - I have it as well as Microsoft's Word).

The sketch is so like one I did for a lab module recently, so I am going to post it here also. Lab 13 Mod 6.

Lab 13 Mod 8. Requirements: folded transparent tape (used as attachment for tag); Bracket Frame (frame around photo); I did use a wood pattern for the frame and I did inner bevel it; also used the wood pattern for the frame on the background paper. The font used was Bodini bD BT. I made the tape in several different gradient colors as I didn't want to have to go through making it again; the frame I also changed the color several times with HueSaturationLightness>colorize ; the other elements including the scatter are mine. For the photo placement I made a mask from the center of the frame.

@Julie Magerka Beautiful layout. Yes the pale blue-grey background paper with the silhoutte (sp?) of the ferris wheel works well to focus on the photos; I love the pink and blue cotton candy - reminds me of fairs when I was a child especially, but even as an adult also; and I love your fairy dust with sparkles and stars; the different arrows you used also. Wonderful!

@Susan Ewart I put all the labs (written on a piece of paper) in a jar and I will pick at random. Sounds like a plan! I almost quit my plan several times, the latest with the pinwheel! LOL

Lab 13 Mod 7. Pinwheel. This one was difficult, but, when I finished one, I changed patterns and made 3. That was all that was required. Thought about children playing in the sunshine and so I went with an AI picture made when we were playing with Bing's AI - maybe last year or the year before. So I used that picture for my focus. I used one of Cass's mask's that she gave us - one was square and one was a circle. The flower cluster is from CF. The font is Adventure Island ScriptBold. The papers are mine. Oh, yes, I made sticks for the pinwheels as that is how I remember playing with them.

Really love this, Susan. You are so unique! 😊😘

My B is for books. I have been a book lover and reader since early grade school. At one time I had over 2000 books in my library (physical). Sadly, I had to downsize somewhat to 1000 books; however, being the book lover that I am, I am slowly again building up my library. Sh! don't tell my caregivers! I read the 3 volume set of Lord of the Rings every year - about to finish volume 1 and open volume 2 - The Two Towers - where Sam and Frodo encounter Gollum in the eastern realms and are about to enter the dreaded realm. Tolkien has such rich sayings in each of the volumes. Although I prefer to handle the physical books (the smell, the feel), I also read e-books in my Kindle app - for one thing, they are cheaper than the physical ones and you can keep a library in a little space!

And these are the patterns and a jpg of the tissue box.

I've just been playing around all day today (not much else accomplished). There was a random line design on a box of Kleenex that intrigued me. I finally accomplished 2 patterns and used them in papers. So, here are the papers.

This is my take on Cass-MultiFramesCollage1-Sample. the pictures were taken on 2 separate trips to the Gulf Beach. the background paper is one inspired by Ann Seeber some years ago as I had never used the Wave tool before (lots of fun and I have made several wavy background papers). The font (script) is Adventure Island Script Bold. I innerbevelled it. The F, B, and the collage are from my Beach Kit.

Oh, Jannette. I love this and in the picture it doesn't look like the vase needs polishing. I believe I see a banana behind the vase and 2 avacados in front. That looks like a beautiful wooden tray that they are in. The apples look good enough to eat. Such a beautiful way to use something that belonged to your husband - a beautiful reminder.

Back to the labs. Lab 13 Mod 6. Using a dot pattern (small dot) I made a paper and several ribbons. I am using the paper for this layout. The other element to make was a rustic wood frame which I used to showcase one picture (my great grandchild who lives in West Virginia. The other pictures are from my home; however, the dog is Murphy, my daughter's dog. I used a texture on the dark blue background paper (a woven fabric weave that I had made some time ago. The font is Pristina. I made a mask for the pictures on the side to resemble a snowflake and filled in with snowflakes in a light grey color so that where they are in the mask is less opaque. Oh well.

I started documentation when I started taking photos on a box camera that my mother bought for me when I was probably in the fifth grade or maybe the sixth grade. Anyway, it was the wonderful old black and white photos that last longer than the early color photos. My mother also used to document photos that she had in her photo album. My grandparents on my dad's side also used to document photos and they took a lot of them and kept them in albums. My aunt (my mother's sister) also used to document the happenings in her small town with both photos and newspaper clippings in scrapbooks. When my cousin (her daughter) who inherited the history scrapbooks was going to throw them away, I told her NO - I would come up and document by scanning in the items she would like to keep (and the ones I wanted also) and then put them in an album for her - she was to take those history scrapbooks (they were not in good condition since they dated from about 1919 to 1952 or later) and give them to the Bessemer City Library. She didn't really want to do that, but she did. She received some notices from the Library later on that they had been so appreciated by the library and some of the people who had looked at them. I made all the scans plus some old pictures of family that she had (which I had scanned) into a 2 volume set (I actually made 2 sets - 1 for me) and gave a set to her the following year. That year was a Savera/Bott Reunion that I had arranged with my people here in Memphis to take place in Bessemer MI. The family members came from many different states. They all looked at the set I had on display and were so pleased to see photographs that they recognized but no longer had.

I turned off my computer (laptop) last night and when I opened it this morning, it was uploading Windows 11. UGH!!!!!!! I hate automatic takeovers!!!!!!!!