Mary Solaas

Thanks, Annie.

I had my resident graphic artist critique my last layout and so I changed it and am posting the redo here.

Bonnie, Annie, Sandra and Minka - each layout has a different idea for a layout behind it.  So inspirational are you ladies - I might try it before the end of April.

By the way, Ann Seeber, that is really a neat layout for the Beatles.  Something said in the family today reminded me of "Yellow Submarine".

My daughter and I had a long talk because she obsesses about John Prine like I obsesses about Mario Lanza.  She is satisfied with the pic I sent her.  So thank you Lynda.

I'm looking at plugins that were available in previous versions (to 2021) such as Filters Unlimited 2.0 which was a plugin for 2020 and Particle Shop which was a plug in PSP X8.  How do I get them in 2021 Ultimate?  Do I need them or are they now a part of 2021???

OK, I am working on completing the set I began in March of the trip my brother and I took to the Glass Bridge in 2014.  It seems that I need to do 2 layouts to finish the trip and this is the one just before we stopped in Kingman, AZ for the road north to the Glass Bridge.  I don't remember all that I used for this layout but the majority of it came from Gina Jones Pretty Bird kit.

Lynda, I like your John Prine.  I hope you don't mind, I am going to print this out and give it to my daughter.  She is a great fan of John Prine.

Annie:  Do you create a color pallet from a picture?  It seems that the color pallet you used is from the picture you show.(?)

Annie - love your last 2 layout postings.  I guess I'll have to play around a lot.  don't know where to begin commenting on them - just love what you are doing.

Sue, that is a gorgeous scene (fall is one of my favorite seasons - I guess because of the vibrant colors - even the sky is a vibrant blue).  The layout is perfect for it and I like the red on the tag .  Evidently you used what you learned from the webinar on the background paper???  I finally learned that you had to close all the layers above the one you want to flood fill!

 

 

Minka, thanks.  I, too, wish to comment on the beautiful layout you did for Johnny Cash.  Loved the scroll you used to backdrop the pics and elements; also loved the letters - with the "line" in the background.  Everything worked.

 

Ann, thanks for your comments.  I remember "State Fair" also - it may have been the 1st movie of Rogers & Hammerstein that I saw (way back when).  Enjoyed the 1st one more than the last one that was made with Ann Margaret.

 

 

First off - love the postings you have been doing Minka and Ann.  As always you all are very professional in output and I too remember those songs and the feelings they portray.

 

Well, I have been trying to post my latest: You'll Never Walk Alone.  I don't know if it's because of the overlay I used or something that happened during the night to my machine, but I have had trouble getting this off the ground.  Maybe that's a sign?????  Anyway, Rogers and Hammerstein have always been my favorite team in the music world as I love all the work they did.  Hammerstein knew how to inspire with his words - almost every one of their musicals had an inspirational or thought provoking theme and song.  This is one of my favorites.  What I am trying to express is the emotions and thoughts that go through you when you are faced with life's storms and so I did not use shadows this time - everything is to portray the thoughts and emotions you feel.  So let me try again (I reduced the size even further in case that was the problem with uploading).

My Song Challenge is "I'll Walk With God". Mario Lanza is one of my favorite singers. He sang this for the movie The Student Prince. The background is a photo of sand from Clipart Library. The picture is from the web; the frame by PSP. The flowers are from Pixel Scrapper - apjess; the narrative is from the web; the paper for the narrative is by Gina Jones - Pretty Bird; the lace ribbon is by Cass-Fire & Ice (colored purple by me); the title font is Lucida Calligraphy 72 and the narrative font is Arial 14.

Ann - Love the title in the woman's boot!

Finally finished Lab 5 Module 11. Made the chevron paper, the eyelet ribbons (eyelet at top is from Lab 5 1st module), used a gradient for the chevron paper (made several colors of chevron papers), fishies are from PSP picture tube, segoe script is the narratgive, the arrow is from a scrapbook kit (sorry I don't remember which one) but I colored it black.

Just thought I would post the 2 cards I worked on the end of March. Zach really liked his card - his 8th grade graduation with his mom (obviously during 2020 lockdown). The Christmas Rose photo was taken on a visit to Mandeville friends.

Minka - lovely layout for the giraffes.

Corrie - really like your elephant layout (and the story).

 

Lynda - always enjoy what you produce. And speaking of Johnny Appleseed, whatever happened to Jonathon apples???? They were always my favorite, whether for apple pie or just for eating - firm flesh and not too sweet.  I haven't seen them in the grocery for years.

M= Monkey

Peter, I'm not sure, but I don't see the rectangle in your screenshot. I had that trouble with mine also, but what I did when I tried again was placing the cursor just INSIDE the rectangle instead of on top of the side of the rectangle. Try putting it just inside the rectangle and see if that works.

 

Thanks, Carole, for the info. As I suspected - I just have to use it and forget the mouse. I did notice that you could do just about anything you can do with a mouse when I was trying to use it in the lab work. I see that Ann Seeber was putting it beside the keyboard. My tablet is so big that I tried to put it on the keyboard shelf and the keyboard above it which didn't work too well as you still need the keyboard. You said that you angle yours - I think I will try that as I usually angle my keyboard anyway. Thanks for the help (and I really KNEW that nothing works like PRACTICE!).

Carol, I think it is mainly using it especially with PSP. I think you use yours mainly or so I think I remember you saying so. I tried to use it in Lab 5 to do the crayon edging and that went "kinda OK" but I know that "Painting" in PSP (and Painter Essentials which comes with PSP) should be easier with the tablet. The Wacom seemed to me to be expensive at the time so I opted with XP-Pen. I couldn't seem to have any luck with using it for anything else so I put it away and have been using the mouse as usual since.

Sheila - that is fantastic!  I have learned to do some things with the mouse that I didn't think could be done, but nothing like what you have achieved.  And, yes, I have a tablet, but not a wacom.  And I, too, would like some help from Carol on using one.

 

 

I guess I'm relaxing today. Anyway, I'm enjoying seeing everything everyone is working on and presenting. Corrie - love your #1 and how you presented it - love the colors - wild flowers are really so beautiful - even the small ones that manage to elude the lawnmower in our yard.

Annie - you always come up with something unusual. Meant to comment on your Victorian artwork you posted in another forum here - really lovely and "chic". Your Number 1 in this forum is really unique also.

Ann Seeber, I'm a fan of Ray Bradbury & 451 F and Martian Chronicles are thought provoking. Have you ever read or seen the movie of The Electric Grandmother? Done well by Maureen Stapleton.

Ann Lamp - 50 wonderful years - how great. Love the 2 pictures you have in this layout.