Mary Solaas

Well, I did go back and finish the 1st attempt. The multiple diamonds background I added the halftone effect; the brad is mine and the chain is a picture tube; the font is from Marissa Lerrin and I placed a background behind it as a frame and it is textured with bark texture; the Title font is Adventure Island SansBold and the journal font is Mongolian Baiti. I assume that both fonts came from Creative Fabrica since that is where almost all my extra fonts come from.

Lab 12 Mod 7. Requirements: embossed metal element - upper right corner; diamonds 3 - background paper; zigzag stitch - tent and tree at bottom left of journal paper. This was my 2nd attempt at doing this module. I was going to do a layout of one of the national parks Joe & Laurie visited on our 2021 trip, and I may do that later. For this one, I used my template designed for the beach kit.

Lab 12 Mod 6. Requirements: Mandala - back of the pictures; paint streaks 2 (Not happy with this) behind the gold butterfly; Gold Texture the frame on the background layer. I used Cass Circle Pictures for the pictures and then resized it for this layout (hid the original background layer).

Lab 12 Mod 5; requirements: 1. create a paper with random dots - the frame paper around the picture (I created several and chose this one to display); 2. create a pattern of triangles facing in opposite directions (#7) - I used the pattern for a paper, and a ribbon and used Cassel's script for Bow 12; 3. embossed paper - I had quite a time creating the butterfly pattern for the embossing to display it the way I like - but it gave me an idea of how to create patterns for embossing that are not round. I placed the picture in a mask I created when I was fooling around with various transparencies of frames; and I used that sparkled butterfly that I used in the last module.

Back to the Labs for me. This is Lab 12 Mod 4. Requirements: ledger paper 2 (my background - I made several different colors and kept the pattern); rolled tape (not my favorite) and I tried folding it - without the tutorial but had followed several tutorials that folded ribbons etc; added sparkled butterflies (using Cass sparkle script). I use the pictures I took in the Botanic Gardens in 2022 a lot!. The blue patterned paper: I used the bird pattern (on the tape) and kaleidescoped and patterned it several times and liked this version the best. The other requirement was to make a folded paper streamer/banner. I chose to use butterflies and not the boy and girl. It was really interesting making the shadow on the fold/crease in the center of each butterfly. The mask I used was given to us in the Mask Workshop.

My grandmother kept chickens too. Saturday the oldest hen was taken to the chopping block and was hung upside down on the back porch to drain the blood. Sunday was chicken and polenta. I'll have to admit that I did eat the chicken on Sunday as I wiped out Saturday's view from my mind.

Annie was such a special person.

It's always great to see your take on layouts!

State of or DC?

You, know, I find it interesting that the naked eye can't see it as clearly! But that is what everyone is saying that has posted pictures. This looks more like the Northern Lights as I saw it in Upper Michigan when I was a teenager.

Will attempt. Great granddaughter Annabelle took some pictures earlier this year (she is really a good photographer) and this one really spoke to me. My daughter told me that it looked like the Marvel character Groot - but much older. So - it became Groot's Grandpa! The paper is mine, the bursts are paint brushes, the font is what this challenge is about and I made the solid with an oak bark pattern and colored the shadow brown. The frame paper for the photo is from Cassel.

Hi, Brooktim! I'm from Memphis, TN. Where are you from?

Non-scrap 7. End of the QP Workshop! Been so much fun. Thank you, Carole. The flowers are from different gardens: present garden, previous home garden, Church garden. The sun sticker is from my Beach kit.

I, too, am afraid of heights. But - if my brother was going to do it, by golly, I sure was going to do it! Bravo to you! I loved the singing cowboy. I stopped and listened to him (noone else was) and I asked him if he knew any of the old cowboy songs - Water, Tumbling Tumble Weeds - he did and so he serenaded me!

And the extra for lesson 7. The font is GranaPadano for both the title and the journaling. The extra brad is from my desert kit.

On to lesson 7. These are a few of the pictures of the trip my brother and I took to the Glass Bridge in Arizona. It was a great trip and this was the final destination of that trip. We were gone from home about 3 weeks and enjoyed many stops on the way (followed Route 66 from St. Louis, MO to Miami, Oklahoma) and left the old road and continued on I-40. I will post the picture of Eagle Point separate because you can't see what is on the sign in the QP. And, that is 4,000 feet above the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The title font is GranaPadano, the journal font is Arial.

OK, Ann. This is a picture of the sign in the park. I will post first @ 800 px to see if it goes. I cropped it from one of Laurie's photos which are really huge to begin with.

And the non-scrap for lesson 6. I changed the background with Adjust>Color and Adjust>HueSaturationLightness to contrast with the blues, whites, and greys of the pictures.

Extra 6. I used Arial for both the title and the journaling.

On to lesson 6. Title font is Ravie.

Lesson 5 non-scrap - card. I made an Anniversary card. The silhouette I had made for one of the labs. The font is Pretty Smile. I used the layer styles to bevel the font, the silhouette, and the heart.

The extra QP for lesson 5. Pictures my brother and I took on our trip to the Glass Bridge on Route 66 back in 2014. The fonts are: Bell MT for The Mother Road and FutureXBlaklt BT for Route 66. Unfortunately the wording on the signs in the pictures doesn't show clearly. The large one is the sign for the Route 66 State Park just outside the St. Louis area near the Merrimac River. The smaller picture is my brother standing in Winslow, AZ by the sign "Standin' On The Corner".

Non-Scrap 4. Desert pictures by Laurie again. I changed the layout colors with Hue-Saturation-Lightness to go along with the desert colors.

On to lesson 5. Aryadata is the font and I did choose Layer Styles - Bevel, Emboss, and Outer Glow.

@Susan Ewart Wow, Susan. You sure are on a roll. Your creating the text and then using Objects>Convert text to curves>as character shapes - really got me going. I believe Carole taught us that in one of the workshops we've been attending - maybe the Text workshop??? Anyway, so I got to playing with it and this is what I came up with. Because using layer styles means you don't have to change the text to rasters in order to bevel, etc. them. Carole also introduced us to layer styles in one of the workshops. We have to remind each other of the different things Carole is teaching us - so much to learn (and maybe forget until one of us reminds us of them)!