Corrie Kinkel

D = December (easy as well)

Thank you Susan, I hope we have had the worst now and that it will gradually improve. November wasn't his month so to speak! Maybe I'll use this photo for next year, for now I think I'm done and have enough cards ready. The font is Merry Christmas and it was a freebie from CF a couple of days ago and of course I couldn't resist.....

My husband is ill again after having corona 2 weeks ago, so I had a rather dull but busy week and was at home for most of the time. That is apart from the grocery shopping and my Thursday swim. We have a couple of big containers in front of our house and the Nandinas in them have gorgeous red berries and those came to the rescue for my photo of week 48. In Dutch they are called "Hemelse bamboe" and that goes nicely with the English "Sacred bamboo".

Dan we undertook this when Windows 11 came on the market and the migration of software and files from 10 to 11 worked completely fine and rather quick! Even if you haven't set up everything you probably will be able to follow the masterclass tomorrow evening, so don't despair 🥲

Anja you did a great job with day 7 and many of us had a hard time with this one. Finding the right photo to use isn't easy and personally I don't think I will be using this particular technique very often although it is always handy to have options, you never know when they come in handy!

Kasany lovely photos and I like this template very much! Thanks for the link and the remark that it works with PSP.

Anne that was quick I just downloaded this freebie, but I have a question about your text. The first word is hopping, shouldn't that be hoping? Or is it my insufficient knowledge of the finesses of the language?

Jeni thank you, it means a lot to me in this week dominated by all kinds of problems, not in the least an ill husband! I loved Yosemite very much and we were there way too short to have seen it all, but the waterfalls were fantastic in that time of the year. I would love to see the Autumn colors there as well, maybe another time on another visit to my family.....

I haven't done this workshop in the order it was given; unexpectedly I didn't have much time available this week. I have done this workshop before so I could pick the tutorial for which I had time to do it. Here are my last 2 days; for day 5 I only made the text on a label that I can use this X-mas with the cards from the other days. I have even printed one of those cards because it had to go in the mail to my family in the States and it will take a while to get there. The label comes from DBMagnolia and the stamp I created a while ago. For day 7 I had no ideas for a X-mas or New Year card and it took me a while to find a suitable photo. I almost never use a photo from my grandkids because my daughter doesn't want me to do so and if I do, I have to blur their faces which for this tutorial makes no sense. I found something but I admit it isn't the greatest photo to use. The papers and cluster come all from another kit by DBMagnolia - Winter morning and the snowflakes come from a freebie from Creative Fabrica. The font is Western Bold and the text is Arial. Although I haven't been very active, I have enjoyed all the work and creativity from you all which made we want to try to do as many days as I could. I hope to see you soon in one of the other workshops that will come in the next year. Carole thank you for giving this workshop again and as always there are things or tricks that have faded from my memory because I don't use them that often.

I'm pretty sure we now make it to the end! We are almost there and it was a great experience to do this with you ladies and some guys as well. Your teacups, saucers teapots and sugar bowls are fantastic, so I'm looking forward to the couple of weeks.

Well I live in a different part of the world and besides the more or less universal days on Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and New Year we have a couple of national days during the week. By the way X-mas, Easter and Pentecost are 2 days! There is Kingsday on April 27 and it is always celebrated on the day itself, except when that day is a Sunday then it will be on Saturday the 26th. Next comes Liberation day Mai 5 and that is an official holiday only once in every 5 years, so coming year we have an extra day off. Besides those there is Good Friday and Ascension day, which always is on a Thursday. There are discussions now to swap one of the second days of the Christian related days for the Eid al Fitr, which signals the end of the Ramadan. The Netherlands is a small country and all our holidays are national ones.

As you see I combined day 6 from the Text Workshop with this Song Challenge; sometimes it is necessary to be practical! The photo is from 2 weeks ago, now there are almost no leaves on the trees anymore. The papers are by Jessica Dunn - Wild-Wood-Thicket and the enamel leaf and the small leaves are from her too - Autumnbramble mini kit. I used my own leaf picture tubes to make a scatter and the rope is one of Carole's but recolored to match my color scheme.

With this layout I combined day 6 with the Song Challenge from this week and I'll post it over there too. I used the template for this 6th day and the papers are from Jessica Dunn - Wild-Wood-Thicket. The enamel leaf and the smaller leaves are from her too in Autumnbramble . The leaves scatter is made with my own picture tubes, the photo is by me and the ropes are from Carole but I have recolored them to go with my colors.

R = Roma funeral

N = Name(s) on the gravestones

Jannette we zijn nu op pagina 3 an als je wilt weten of een woord al gebruikt is kan je op de vorige pagina's kijken. Jannette we are now on page 3 and if you want to know if a word already is used you can look on the previous pages.

I have been a bit MIA for the last days of the workshop and have had some time now to see all the great projects you all did, but it is way to much to comment on them all. I had to take photos on an event of my swim group and make an album out of it. I have just sent it off to the printers and keep my fingers crossed that it will turn out nice. Maybe I'll finish the workshop in the coming days as I have noticed that I'm not the only one that hasn't completed it yet.

Susan I think that temporary files and "klembord" are the same, this might be a language issue. In spite of being Dutch I use PSP and some other programs in English, so I don't have to deal with those issues.

I have been a bit absent here and in the Text Workshop because the co-ordinator from our swim groups had her 85th birthday. After our weekly swim class on Thursday we organized a buffet for her and my part was taking the photos and make a photo album plus helping where needed. The last couple of days I have been busy selecting the photos and making the album, which is now at the printers. I can't show most of those photos because of all the people in them, but I can show something of that buffet. I made a little cluster with the stacked alpha script for the 8 and 5 with a bouquet from my stash and have that on some of the pages in the album, so it runs as a theme through it.

L = Lament or Lamentation

Thank you and yes I'm going to print it. This format will print nicely and give me 2 cards from an A-4 satin photopaper.

A great layout and so you! You do the design elements of Anna Aspnes and Katie Pertiet justice and those fit your style perfectly.

For day 4 I used a card from the Mask Workshop - Extra 2b and a photo I took in Yosemite NP in may this year. When I took that photo I already thought X-mas card! 😃 It has text on a path and the 2 embellishments are from my stash. I don't think I am able to finish this workshop but that isn't a problem I have done this one before. The reason is I have a photo assignment and have to make a album out of it. The lady of our swimgroup has her 85th birthday this week and we decided to give her a surprise buffet in the cafetaria part of the pool. Everybody paid € 5 and one of the members is a cook and the pool director donated all the coffee and tea and the plates/cutlery etc. Today was the big event and I had to take all the photos, so for the next couple of days I'm busy to make an album that then will be printed and presented to her. If I was making this only for me I would take the time to finish this workshop, but now there is a little bit more pressure to hurry up. I'll have a look her what everybody is making and see you all in a while

Ann I like your new kitty but the wrapped text is a little bit hard to read in the color you choose on the busy background.

Daniel I recognized this great layout from the Tourist Spot challenge and it is very nice to see it again!