Mary Solaas

Outside my window this morning. We havent had snow in quite a while, but this started yesterday and promises to keep up today. Hope we don't lose power, but at least we didn't have ice first as sometimes happens.

@Rene Marker This is the first I heard of what you are doing. Sounds great. Are the rest in the gallery? I don't recall seeing them here in the forum. I don't go to the gallery much for some reason, just the forums.

@kasany great picture and a lovely mask.

Here is my Week 1. this is my favorite house plant. I've been house-bound this past week and just started taking pictures again. the sun is shining beautifully today, but it is cold and we are expecting the white stuff beginning tomorrow here in the south (Memphis).

OKay - here it is with the change that Ann Seeber recommended.

Thank you, Ann. I welcome your comments and I will try that change in the title and post it later today. thanks again.

I'm really not happy with this layout, but it is what it is! Lab 11 Mod 9: requirements: water droplet (2 on the ground); cloud (made 3 and they are shown); umbrella - had fun with this. In addition to the water droplet, I used the tutorial for the droplet to make water drops and made a pattern of scattered raindrops (water drops) and then an overlay for a 12X12 paper. I used the overlay on the background paper and scattered the water drops coming down from the clouds; and put a water drop in each of the droplets. I also made a "Puddle" which is what the boy in the silhouette is standing in. Don't remember what the font name is.

Thanks. Guess I'm in.

If I understand this correctly, to join you agree to: take at least one picture a week by whatever camera you choose and of whatever subject you choose (remember I am thinking like alphabet soup), and then to show it at the end of the week (just the photo, not a layout - so it should be quick and easy). So, I need that script???

@Anja Pelzer Thank you. You are kind. Love the flower and frame you made with the paper you made.

Lab 11 Mod 8. Wasn't sure how I was going to do this since it is also about the sea. But I muddled through and actually had fun creating elements. Requirements: abstract fish created and then made into a ribbon; create an arrow and add words on top of it (I didn't create the arrow but used a preset shape and worked with those nodes to get the curve - still a challenge); made a stroke and use it to fill a wave (another wave pattern) - that wave pattern I've worked with several times - 1 to put the words on it and 1 to make shadows on the folds of the strip). i also used the stroke to make circular frames in different colors and as "x"s; and used that same idea to make a ribbon and then to use Carole's scripts to make a curled ribbon and several bows. Lots of fun. The surfboards I made in a previous lab.

I think this is a Susy Script. Available in the store but no charge. I've used it a lot.

Well, back to the labs. Lab 11 Mod 7. My 2nd attempt at this. I did the fishhook, the bobbin, and the wave pattern. I choose to do the wave pattern in the colors found in the river or lake in which my son and grandson are fishing. I've used this pic several times; it is one of my favorites. The fishing net I designed using cass's fishing net tube and adding a vector ellipse and rectangle with inner bevels. The fish in the net is from the vector workshop - loved that fish and have made it a shape, a tube, a pattern, (reversed the fish for another pattern which you might see in the 2 paper backgrounds). Used my bark texture on the dark green paper. The title is Rock Salt which was a freebie in this lab module. The template I used is in the lab module and modified.

@Anne Lamp Looks like a list I should make (except that I do like vegetables - no problem there). Procrastination is the name of the game. I sometimes do my best production at the last minute! Ha! Ha!

I'm in too!

Happy New Year to all!

Reminds me of the people in Houston, TX for Apollo 13 when they had to figure out how to get something square into a round hole!!!

@kasany Yeah! Where's the food?????

Does any of this have to do with the history ? Last year I had trouble with one file I had and it was one I had done of lot of undoing and redoing. It's the only time I've had trouble with saving and the PSP just seeming to hang up and not want to do anything. I did not stop to see what the size of the file was. But the 600px size of that file was accepted in the forum.

My thoughts this morning: can you make a square circle? So I started with a vector square, duplicated it (so I could show the transformation), and on the duplicate I used the nodes as symetric and made a circle - in a different fill color so that it could be seen; saved it as a pspimage, then as a png, and then as a jpg so I could show it here.

@Susan Ewart this was so much fun - easier than Spark. Here are 2 more I just got through playing with (although they are not Christmas.

Playing around in Creative Fabrica. Yes, I did order 2 more years as I have come to like it. Never tried the ShapeCloud before, and did today this is the result.