Mary Solaas

Really great layout. I had heard of the red hat group before, but enlighten us with your experience with the group. This is another really great way to show your travels. That red hat "travelling" is such a good idea. Way to go!

Love it. Have used the map background before, but that overlay of the place where you travelled is really great.

I love it - using pastels for the state shapes is great - it has a light and airy feel to it. Why in the world was the trip terrible?????

I had an error in one of my layouts in the spelling and I appreciated it being pointed out to me. If one is going to have their layouts printed, I am sure we appreciate proofreading by knowledgeable people.

I've been just playing around until the Travel Challenge starts tomorrow. Couldn't think of how I wanted to display my CFSpark Andy Warhol Cat and then I started playing around with my abstract paper I created from another CFSpark pattern I created and the hexagon shapes from the last lab requirements and came up with this kind of abstract layout for the cat. As Annie Tobin used to say - enjoy. I've been thinking about her lately, too.

Lab 11d Mod 5: hexagon shape, smudge brush, dictionary copy: All done - (smudge brush was used in the bottom left corner and top right corner. The picture is one generated by me in CFSpark (asked for a cat on a rug by a fireplace) - used the white overlay reduced to 10% and then overlayed one of Susan Ewert's cracked paint overlays with reduced opacity just to give the frosted glass some depth ; the papers are my own. Made several ribbons or paper strips of different hexagons I'll post them also.

I'm in too

Ann - Thanks a whole lot!!! I've been looking for "frosted glass overlay" and can't find one. This is how you do it!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Lab 11 Mod 4: Rope words; rope wound around a wood frame; horseshoe. All 3. Again I used that upper and lower section - this time for the title words (made with a rope tube) and used the rope tube for the frames. The cowboy boots are from Creative Fabrica; the frame is from Cass. This was good practice with the pen tool and creating vector shapes (the horseshoe) and I also used Cass-CustomDirectional Tube script to create a tube of the horseshoe. I was going to use it on the layout, but decided against it - it just didn't work for this layout.

Michele, the flower chain is tutorialed in Lab 7 Mod 12. I had to look it up and my spreadsheet (shown earlier) has the picture of what I did for each of the tutorials, so it was easy to find where that came from.

So I had to try out that special border in another way. It seems that you can use anything that will go from border to border and have no gaps. So I tried with a banner that I had created in one of the labs and it works. All of the elements and papers are mine as well as the pictures (which I've used many times). The font is Nandola (probably from CF).

Dorothy Donn's posting of her lab 6 layouts inspired me to try to make that flower (?) element in the middle. I couldn't quite get it to work, but the multicolored element is my attempt at it. I also tried doing another 4-petal flower multiplied and these are my results.

Back to the Labs. Lab 11 Mod 3. Make a banner, 4-petal flower, Sun element. All 3. Doubled up the 4-petal flower to make one with 8 petals. I needed practice to make that delightful border, 2 words, paper above (and below if you want otherwise you can have a different pattern/color below), and middle to display what the layout is about. Although I had written the instructions to make that, I found that I had to add some instructions for how to select with the magic wand. More practice needed, so I may use this again. All elements and papers are mine; the picture is one I took at the Botanic Gardens and the tag is one from the brochure. The font is Better Caramel.

I have worked most of the day on this shape. I just couldn't get it to save as a preset shape. I was practicing the CRAC Paste for the open eye, and the cut and remove part for the closed eye. All were on separate layers. Then trying to export as a shape. At first all it did was export the individual layer shapes but call it the name of the shape in the shape folder. Then I went back and looked at the instructions in project 2 for saving a 2 layer label and found that you had to group the layers and name the group the name you want. Did that. No luck. It wasn't until I had deleted the brush name from the shape file, and then went back to my pspimage on the group layer and then export it that it finally worked.

I've had trouble with the pen tool before. So I'm working on using it again. Made a heart paper clip and used it on Winnie.

Well, I finally did an M.

When I drew my cup, on another layer I used the elipse to draw the saucer and another layer with another elipse to make the underside of the saucer. The colors of each (no stroke) were different shades of the same color. Of course the underside needed to be shaped and placed so that it really looked like the underside.

Monique - I gave up on using the M, but I like what you did with it. So, I guess I'll have to practice one more time!

I'm still practicing. Liked the teapot tube used by Monique (Monique, you found several tubes I had missed); and so, I took just the teapot from that tube and used it with the customDirectional Script from Cassel and made a new tube out of just the teapot; recolored a copy of my background paper, made just the teacup and saucer into a new png and used it, recolored it, made it hold tea this time, used that smoke brush in Particle shop and Aryaduta font to finish the title.

The background paper is one I made from a pattern in that AC program we were talking about a couple of months ago. I'm not sure how they nailed that robot down on the skateboard - but we made a couple of videos of it rolling down the driveway all the way to the street. It was fun!

Here is my take. The papers and elements are all ones I made at different times. The pictures were taken by Laurie of David's creation for school several years ago.

All our talk about how to keep information on all the information we need to find, or go back to. One of the nice things Carole did for us was to arrange the labs and master classes in alpha order and to (in the case of the labs) tell what each module in the lab had instructions for creating. I have found that most helpful. I plan on keeping a folder in my special stash (K drive on my computer) for Workshops (the name of the workshop tells what it is instructing), and this may be instead of the database I would have to really study to complete (as well as the time to fill the different tables with items typewritten). I will keep the guidebooks and mp4's for each workshop there.

ME TOO!!!

Thanks, Carole. You rock!!!

That was my excel spreadsheet. The pictures were what I had done in working the labs. It was so cumbersome because I couldn't save the actual item I had created because it would take too much resource to bring it up and so I had to create a sample in order to put it in the spreadsheet. I am just starting on the database and I don't want it to take up too much of my time in learning it. I've been away from database programming for many years and so this may happen and then again it may not. In the meantime, the masterclass names tell a lot about what action is contained in it. Carole has a neat way of displaying the labs on her site - shows what is contained in each module of the lab. That is where I will go when I am looking for a tool, creating an element, pattern, etc. until (and if) I make a database. Also, she is pretty explicit in listing her other tutorials. Thank God for Carole!!!!!