Mary Solaas

Lab 8 Mod 10 - God Spilled the Paint. Learned: 1. Cut Out Elements and fill with background paper and possibly picture tube stuff (the capital letters are cut out to the bottom background layer and Cass gold stars picture tube); 2. Crayon Rub on an extracted leaf (the purple leaf in the bottom right); 3. create a paint shape and place it in the folder for shapes (purple paint shape on top of the paint splatter). The capital letters are font Gill Sans Ultra Bold with the outline at 25. The script letters are Edwardian Script. I inner beveled the script on the white paper and the paint splatter and the paint shape. I used the color replacer tool on the stroke outline, the paint splatter, the paint shape, and the lavender paper. The picture was sent to me from a friend in California many years ago.

Pirkko - you are doing some amazing things with a mandala; and Marie-Claire - I love your Mandala Poncho which would make a beautiful crocheted doily!

Anne - beautiful picture beautifully portrayed.

Steven Garthwaite sent me his baseball stitch tube and I created 2 baseballs from it.

 

 

Alphabet Theme - J. J is for the Jolly Green Giant. All the papers and elements are mine. The font used is AR Blanca.

Lab 8 Mod 9.  Multiple diamonds (the background paper over the red paper is that); Letter Tiles - I copied a picture of all the letter tiles from Scrabble on Amazon - they are selling a bag full of them.  From that picture I got the background for me letter tiles and the numbers for each of the letters.  So... I made a complete alphabet of them!  Decorated letter: I hung a gold heart I had made in a previous lab on the C for Chritmas.  The C is FuturaBlack WGL4 BT (isn't that a mouthful?). the rest of the word is Forte. The holly peeking out from the word is from a Christmas kit but I'm sorry I don't remember where I got it but it probably was from PixelScrapper.  The stars are a picture tube from Cassel.  All the rest of the papers and elements are mine (the Santa is from Corel's Video Studio).

Lynda - love that moon layout.

 

Marie, Ann and Colin - like your layouts too.

 

This lab 8 mod 8 has been hard, but a real learning experience for me.  As you can see above, I told Carole I couldn't make the arrow stitch in a circle.  Well, I worked at it today and learned 2 things about fonts: 1. what Offset is for, 2. that sometimes the - numbers are important in kerning.  All the elements are my own as are the papers.  The 2 small arrow-stitch circles are the ones called for in the module; also the brad (brown textured one in the corner), straight arrow-stitch, and open circle polka dot paper.  All are there.  I extracted the 2 gnomes and played with them so that is the reason for the "invasion".

Thanks, Carole.  I'll look at the kerning.  Can't let this problem lick me!

I'll show you what I did to make an arrow circle using the directions in a previous module (I believe it was mod 3).

I have a problem, Carole.  I am working on Lab 8 Module 8 and there is an arrow around a circle elipse that we are supposed to do.  Although I have watched the video a couple of times while having my PSP 2022 up and the suggested layout up, and have looked at the pdf file on how to do it, I CANNOT make it work.  On the straight stitch using the > and -, it works ok.  But the circle doesn't.  I have tried with different fonts and it still won't work.  I do use the "accept" after fixing the > correctly (on the circle with the offset setting and  the distance between each character with the kerning), the - will not line up!!!  Even toying with moving either the > or the -, it still doesn't line up.  I am attaching a png of the result (last attempt) and a screenshot of the pspimage.

Thanks, Lynda.

 

Back to the labs.  Lab 8 Mod 7 deals in rust.  Well, I did make a rust pattern and was able to copy the rust pattern Carole showed in the pdf for the lab.  A swirly kind of cogwheel was to be made and I put the rust on it as well as leaving one plain so that I could have different colors/patterns.  A repeat pattern was devised to put on paper and color differently so that many colors showed up in the pattern.  All done.  The title font is Bodoni MT Black which I filled with the rust pattern also.  This is a park in Ironwood, Michigan (the UP).  We visited it on our trip to a family reunion. Oh, yes, I also made a pattern of opposing arrows because a paper with that was shown on the layout from which the elements were taken.  That was fun!!! But, now I have the pattern.

I'm slow on the alphabet challenge and so I'm just now posting I.  I is for Ida - my mom.  Great gal, miss her.

 

Have to mention that you all have been so busy posting animal pictures in the Corel contest.  Lynda and Sue - you are really great photographers!

 

Papers and elements are mine - made in the labs of course!

Yay! Finished Quick Page Workshop!  This is the extra for 7.  The pictures were taken during our 2012 family reunion in Bessemer, Michigan.  I'm sorry, I don't remember the name of the font.

Neat, Ann!  They grow so quick!

 

I'm finally on the last QP.  This is QP 7.  The Title Script is MaturaMT Script Capitals.

And this is QP Extra 6.  Pictures taken on a trip to one of my favorite places, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.  The upper right corner picture is the plaque for Apollo 16.

Corrie - love what you are doing.

 

I'm still working through the Quick Page Workshop.  This is QP 6.  I'm posting it and then I have to stop and make dinner.

 

 

Still behind, but moving forward!

 

QP 5 Extra

My daughter and I stopped at our favorite park near our home yesterday.  The Memphis Canadian Geese (they stay here all year round) were out with their younguns!  This is QP-5 and I'm going to call it a night.

 

 

And here is QP 4 Extra.  1st b'day celebration for one of my great grands.

Trying to catch up.  This is my QP 4.  A great stop on our 2008 Route 66 trip.  The font is Brush455 BT.

Cindy: Interesting way to fill in the top picture if you do not have a picture to use. Love it.

And this is my QP 3 Extra.  I tried to also find the colors that would fit the layout.  This was the recreation room of a marvelous old motel that our caravan stopped at in St. Louis on our way to South Dakota Family Reunion.  Lots of fun here for the kids and the grownups.

Ann Seeber: I really like your sunrise on the QP 3 Extra.  The colors are absolutely right for that qp.

IT's interesting - more fun!  I didn't change anything in the QP3, except add a title using Cass Fire & Ice Font she gave us in one of the 2020 or 2021 workshops/challenges.  This is a really neat place in St. Louis.  It was the Brown Shoe Company Warehouse which was transformed into the children's museum.  So many places to crawl through up and down the several floors in the building; and you can see some of them climbing in the airplane outside the building in the first picture.  Even some grownups (my adult kids) love to go there and PLAY! (I stay on the ground floor and let them play)

Thanks, Sue.  It was a great help.  An interesting way to change the color of a layout.  Using a gradient produces interesting results too, but not always what you would expect.  This has been fun playing around.  Not quite as much fun as the Kaleidoscope, but fun.  Now I know a number of different ways to change the color.

 

So now, I chose a photo that matches the qp colors.  This is from Grants Farm in St. Louis - an old farm which has different animals, flowers, birds, and a beer garden.  We have visited it several times.

Sue - 76827 - finally got the message! thank you.  Now here is the new qp extra 2 and a screenshot of what you said to do. Thanks.