Mary Solaas

Think this is where I will work today. Had a hard time finding it. However, now I know where to look!!!

I didn't join the bootcamp this time as I want to work through the Labs. However, I do enjoy seeing what everyone posts. Rookies are really not rookies - they, too, have beautiful layouts.

Love your post on the sandwich, Susan.

Pirkko, always love to see what you post - I like your perspective on things!

Nel and Susanne - beautiful layouts!

Thanks for posting, Michele. I've really missed your Fabulous Divas!

Lab 7 Mod 11. Create a photobooth strip for 5 pics; an arrow ribbon; and a cutout edge (kind of like a picot edge on a scallop). All the elements and ribbons are my own creation. The font for the title is Hesthia Austine; the word "Travel" is Kristen ITC; and the narrative is Arial Rounded MT Bold; I used the color scheme of the Palette Challenge for this month.

Trish - you have really been going to town! Love what you have been posting, but especially like this one with the gradient and so many textures. May I copy those images to give me an idea of playing around???

OK! Lab 7 Mod 10. Make a line pattern (overlay on the background); compass points (also made the compass and put the points in it); wavy paint splashes (ended up with 2); the anchor I attempted but ended up with a freebie from NicePng. I got stuck and couldn't go any further; so Laurie helped with my perspective and pushed me beyond pause.

And earlier today I was just playing around with the Effects>Reflection Effects>Pattern (and Kaleidoscope). Here are some of the results. All from using one square!

Lab 7 Mod 9. Create confetti, marker, stripe paper (different than before!). All created and displayed. Font is Ambrogio for the title and Arial Rounded MT Bold for the journaling. Papers and elements are my own.

This layout is for the scraplift challenge april 2022 but I can't find the forum so I'm posting it here. Pirkko did a beautiful layout for the March Template Workshop and inspired me to play with the kaleidoscope and create some patterns from the most colorful pic in this layout. Pirkko also took some of the kaleidoscope pattern to make an element and I tried to do the same. That was such a cool idea, Pirkko!

I researched how to make a gradient from a picture and so the gradient paper is mine, the kaleidoscope paper at the background is mine and so are the elements I gathered from the pattern. I also played with the hue map which you told us about in the last workshop, Carole. It is not simple, but now I know how to play with it. Don't remember what font I used for the title, but I inner beveled it as well as giving it a shadow.

Ann - you are a reader like me!

Corrie - Love your trip in a hot air balloon!, Ann - The Big Cats - WOW. Everyone - love what you have done in this workshop. Pirkko - the kaleidescope layout was just beautiful. Lynda - I see you made it from Chicago to LA. I have been on Route 66 at various times through the years - even made that short jog through Kansas, but stopped short of LA. Alan - like your layouts and I see that you do Video Studio too - so do I. Gerry - Always like what you show us. Lynn - that is beautiful - walking through life with the one you love. Marie-Claire - glad to see you are back in the game; hope you are feeling better. IT's been great going through all the layouts posted. I sometimes go back from page 1 all the way through. Thanks, Carole, for working this up. It has really pushed me this time and that is good.

Here is my final one. Had a hard time deciding how to do this one as most of my pics are horizontal and my brain is tired!!

Day 7

Here is the extra for day 6. The font is Matura MT Script Capitals, inner bevel and shadowed; the papers are my stash; the ribbons were simply colorized and texturized; leaf for the cluster is from PS Elif Sahin; the flowers are from my stash (created in a Lab).

Finlly on Day 6. 1st one done. The papers and the route 66 element are from my stash. The cluster is made from flower and grass in PSBT-July 21-Nature-DBMagnolia. The font is Magneto. The pictures are from our 2008 Route 66 trip and are of the road as it winds its way to Oatman, AZ.

I've really enjoyed this workshop also. There were so many things to learn - from Carole always - but also from each of you - I have learned something new - it might be in the way you display your photos, it might be the shortcuts you have developed over time, it might be your take in using the particular template. Great stuff!!!

This is my Day 5 Extra. The font is Medieval Sharp. The elements and background paper (which was darkened) are from PBST-June 21-Summertime-DBMagnolia. The 3 template elements under the photos I simply colorized and texturized.

Carole, you are so right. No shadows on the 1st one. I was really bleary last night and will have to go back and redo that one. I think I have put all the shadows on the one I'm posting tonight (almost morning again!).

I used the teaching you did in the Quick Page Workshop on this one. It helped me to find something to put in those "little squares". The cluster with the bell is one I created with one from PS. The hollys at the top right are also from PS. The papers I created and that ribbon under the cluster is one I created from one of the labs. fantastic that teaching on how to colorize stitching. Sure enjoy the Clip to it. Trust I won't forget how to create a mask!!!

 

IT's now nearly 2am. I did finish the diamond layout and did use the pictures at the campground when we visited Alabama in 2020. So nothing new - just copied the title and page frame from the first one since these 2 layouts go together!

I can't believe it's almost midnight! Well, as you know I'm behind and only on day 4. I finally finished the layout. Had to watch the video multiple times for how to do that page border. Really interesting way to do it! I didn't do the blur on the main picture, but that does work. Well, all the pictures are mine - no elements. Not sure what fonts I used. I think I'm going to use more of this Alabama trip for the Diamond layout.

I love what everyone has been inspired to do. So many different takes on a simple template. Does the template inspire us or do we take it as a chance to showcase pictures we have been anxious to use. I know that this one is displaying pictures I took of my great grandson years ago - I was fascinated with his fascination with his grandmother's little water garden. Now I have a chance to display them.

The font is Gigi for the title - inner beveled and shadowed. The background is filled from my gravel pattern. The blue paper was colored from the pic and texturized. The pink heart is from cpjess Cherish kit. The cluster is mine. Bought and used the ClipToIt script for the 1st time. Thanks, Carole - it really is a big time saver!

OK, here is my Day 3 layout. Photo is from Freerangestock.com, photographer is Jack Moreh. The poetry is an old English nursery rhyme (part of it I remembered from the dim, dark past, and the last line to the rhyme was found on the web). Fonts: poetry is Curlz MT, the acknowledgment for the photo is Arial Rounded MT Bold. The background is a blue gradient; the starry sky paper is an overlay (ps-marisa lerin) on a flood fill; the green and pink papers are from the Today kit (cpjess-today) and colorized. Elements: the gold glitter star is mine; the flower cluster is made from elements in the cpjess-today kit.

Oh, yeah - the moon paper is a copy of the moon from the picture tube that I isolated and made a png from for a Halloween layout. This worked fine to display as a paper for this layout!

I haven't gotten to day 3 yet! Just finished the Diamond template for Day 2. Finally got something I could use - I think my mojo has gone on vacation! Found a new site: FreeRangestock.com which has photos like Unsplash for free. So this photo is of a cute kid playing superhero and the photograper has him climbing a chimney in a busy city setting! So I have finally gotten to use splashes and the Wow! splash I made in one of the earlier labs (I think it was Lab 6 but I'm not sure of the module - it was one which stumped me and I didn't make a layout for it. The papers are mine. The bursts are a brush I made in that lab. The title font is Chiller and the narrative font is Comic Sans MS. The photographer is Jack Moreh.

Ann - I've got to say it! Love your lion layout! I couldn't imagine what in the world to use for a photo let alone the rest of the layout, but you have done great! Lions are one of my favorite cats - Aslan is a lion (I think C.S. Lewis was thinking of the title "Lion of Judah"). Disney did a great job with "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe". All the Narnia books are wonderful reads.

Love all the layouts shown! spent the day on this one and have learned new things. Thanks, Carole. Didn't know about the way to get around a part of the rectangle hiding by using the ctrl key. Also, had never used the hue, saturation, lightness tool. So, 2 new things learned. I have spent the day playing with that. Changed up this layout several times, but this is my final take on it. I did use the suggested Jessica Dunn freebie (I like using her stuff). We always stop at the Corn Palace when we go to South Dakota, so the pics are from 2 different trips, but they go together with the theme of the main picture.

My Diamond extra template follows. The navy anchor paper, pirate brad and pirate foil element are from Pixel Scrapper - Melo Vrijhof. The rest is mine.

Found it interesting. Usually I make the place for the photo a mask, but this was interesting. I did follow the tutorial. Couldn't make up my mind - I think the bubbles were my stumbling block. I tried doing a winter (Christmas) theme, but it really didn't work. Finally decided to go with the bubbles and do a summer pool theme. So this is the result.