Mary Solaas

I loved The Wizard of Oz! Since I've been "shrinking" as I've gotten older, I keep telling the kids not to throw water on me as I will then disappear!!! LOL

@Chris Schults Thanks for the uptick. It looked intriging but I can't afford the piggy property as my PC is getting full and can't afford a new one just yet.

Master Class - Paint Shop Christmas 5 - Carole has us drawing gnomes for any of our projects.

Still working on it. I guess this is about midway in the total trip. We are now in Wyoming and will be there for a couple of days. The campground is 7000 feet, and with my COPD, it is pretty tough breathing at first. Second day I felt better and went with Joe and Laurie to some of the places they went to on this day. The flag and seal for Wyoming is from the web and the curvy road sign is from Pixel Scrapper (also the 2 rv's on the concrete road).

Pages 19 and 20. The map of the loop road and the 2 lower right pictures on page 20 are from the website for Custer State Park. The rest of the pictures were taken by Laurie and Joe.

Can I just send you the file? I'm not sure what site I was on when I decided to download the zip file. I can send the zip file - where can I do this?

I downloaded the neon brushes from photoshop and I cannot open the abr file to import the brushes. Help.

@Phil Kettmann I have used Corel software (Paintshop and Video Studio) for close to 20 years and I'm still learning new things about how it works. Maybe one day I might open the instructions. Me, too, Phil. Cassel's the greatest teacher. She explains things so well. Even if I can't boil water, she teaches me how to.

And so pages 17 and 18. Used some of the instructions in the Text Workshop this year. The little flare button on the 18th page is from Pixel Scrapper.

And now for pages 15 and 16 - the Badlands. Had to edit it to put the date stamp sticker on it.

I'm reposting pages 13 and 14 (posted in What are you working on in September 2023). Carole suggested I post it here.

OOPS! Sue - you didn't catch my spelling error. But I did. It's Dances With Wolves not Dances With Wolfes.

Pages 13 and 14. We have arrived in Belle Fourche, SD and visited Aunt Mary Lou. It is Friday. Tomorrow we will go to the Badlands. Sunday is the picnic in the city park with as many of the extended Solaas family who can come. Made 2 flare buttons for this layout. Also, did a postcard and stamp as that is part of the workshop. Always fun to do.

This is the 2nd one - finished off in PSP.

Yes, thanks for mentioning Particle Shop. I, too, began playing with it. Choose the color blue, and used one of the brushes and this page is what I came up with. The second one is the same page but smudged, blurred, etc.

Guess I'll be posting my Travel Challenge balance of pages in the "What are you working on..." forums, cause it's going to take me into October (maybe even November) to finish. Then, there is that Alphabet Challenge from 2022 that I still have 3 more to do - X, Y, Z. Here is page 10 and 11. All my own papers and elements. Having fun with the leather tag making and decided to do some flare buttons too.

me too

Didn't get any "corn" in the restaurant next door, but it was great. It was COLD that day. We started our trip the end of May and continued through the middle of June. That is really not the best time of year to go north, but as you know, things warm up and are great in June generally for travel up north. We had better weather about 2 days later when we were in Belle Fourche, SD and enjoyed our picnic with a large group of Solaas relatives and were not wearing winter gear! You'll see that in the upcoming pages. Next in our travels, after Mitchell, SD and the Corn Palace, is the 1880 Village. Great outdoor "museum" of buildings of an 1880 town in the Dakotas. It was still cold and we were bundled up. However, the day after we were in Belle Fourche and the weather was warming up.

Great idea - will go back and do some more for that bracket frame and label

Lab 11 Module 3: colorful banner, sun shape and a stylized flower (which I've really had fun with including expanding that flower)

Lab 10 module 8 - split photo - really had fun with this. and simple blocking.

Lab 9 Module 6 was a paper fan and scribble text (plan on doing the scribble text in a halloween layout sometime).

Lab 9 module 9 again - metallic word

Filled cutout from Lab 8 module 10. in the title.

Another fall item - metallic element 2 - from Lab 7 module 3 again.