Mary Solaas

Wonderful! Yes to the Dixon Gardens and I did peek in to the Cotton Museum because Laurie and I were preparing baskets of Memphis stuff back in 2008 to give to our folks as we travelled across the west and north - I got a little bale of cotton there for each of the baskets. We got FedEx keychains for our FedEx souvenir, and little Elvis Presley dolls for our Elvis souvenir, a jar of Corkey's Barbeque sauce also and little yellow duckies for the Peabody ducks. Glad you enjoyed my city.

@Suzy You know, Memphis is my town. I hope you do get a chance to make a travel book about your visit. did you come to see Graceland? or the Peabody ducks? or the Elvis Presley bash in August at Graceland? or the football team? or the baseball team? or just to see what it is all about? and what about Beale Street? Did you enjoy my various layouts about Memphis earlier this year?

Before I go to the Travel Challenge Workshop, I finished my work with Lab 11 Mod 6. Stitched Shape, Double Scallop Rectangle (I really wanted to make one as a circle, but wasn't able to manage it), surfboard (I did 3). All done. I used the title from one of the Vector Workshop layouts, the sun sticker from another lab. The background water paper was one I made in my Chattanooga album. The picture was taken by Laurie.

These are such great layouts "youall"! You are giving me a jolt of creativity to get started on my trip. I've wanted to do a photo book on the trip Joe, Laurie and I took in 2021 in the RV. I'm not a big fan of RV travel, but it has its advantages. It was north and west from Memphis, TN and while I've used a google map for the background on previous travel workshops, your inspirational use of maps are giving me food for thought. I'm late in getting started as things have kind of piled up on me at home, but I'll get busy.

Great idea using the location markers.

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!