Corrie Kinkel

All the best at the doctor's tomorrow, hope you are quickly back to normal and continuing with this promising bleeding heart!

It looks you had so much fun that day!

Me too!

I'm in too and I'm looking forward to learn more about the working of vectors in Affinity

R = Remover

Your vectors are perfect but I love the your layout with them and those beautiful geranium.

Cristina that is why I pass one this one too, because I'm making a photo album from my trip and want to have that finished before I do something else! Besides that my husband is glad I'm back and also we have some things to attent to. I will join the one for Affinity, by then I hopefully have more time.

Glad to see you back and so good to hear you enjoyed the company of your little girls, maybe they will grow into great photographers one day! My granddaughters are a bit older than yours and I was able to do nice things together with them. My youngest takes photography classes in school we had great fun with the exercises she had to do for homework. So how knows ..........

I pass on this one but will participate in the one for Affinity. I am looking forward to learn about vectors for Affinity, something completely new to me.

Cristina you are constantly finding new videos and bring them to our attention, which is greatly appreciated, so a big thanks to you🙏

This challenge came at exactly the right moment for me, thank you Carole for the inspiration. I'm making some scrapbook pages for a photoalbum from my trip (see the what are you working on thread) but I need a page that isn't specific for a subject, like a daytrip to..... I will use this layout without the song challenge text and put a text in Dutch at the same place saying "Voorjaar in Californië" (Spring in California) and a datestamp with 2025. I have cass-Watercolor2 script and used that on 5 flowers from my trip. As all the flowers have greenery around them the colors blended in when I arranged them and everything is on a very light artsy background that I already made before. The font is Fantasy Snowman and Arial

The last one is about the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose where I went with my granddaughters. The tour takes around 75 minutes and because the house is very big we walked more than a mile through small corridors, up and down stairs. The text on the layout is in Dutch but tells the story of Sarah Winchester, a widow and heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms fortune. Because she felt haunted by the ghosts of those felled by the "Gun that Won the West" she begon a never ending renovation of her house. It resulted in a 24,000 square foot labyrinth with 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 160 rooms, 13 bathrooms, 6 kitchens and one seance room. There are doors leading to nowhere, staircases to the ceiling and windows in the floor. We have enjoyed it very much!

Number 4 is all about Stanford. I promised my granddaughters a trip to Stanford Mall to go shopping and have lunch and I am impressed with all the greenery, flowers and the cleanliness of the mall. Another day I went with an Uber to Stanford University where I went to a small museum The Anderson Collection. A collection of contemporary art from the Anderson family and there even was a small painting by Willem de Kooning, a Dutch painter who went to the States and lived there. After the museum I walked to the Arizona Garden, which has a collection of cacti and succulents originating from Arizona. Undoubtably I will use photos from that day in projects to come.

Number 3 and a daytrip to Monterey Bay and Aquarium. I used photos of the jelly-fish in day 7 from the Template Workshop. The 17 mile drive was a very scenic drive with lots (17) of opportunities to stop and admire the ocean and take photos. That day was rather windy, so the waves were crashing against the rocks at some places.

Number 2 is about a daytrip to the Muir Woods National Monument with those impressive Redwoods.

I have been working on a couple of pages for a photoalbum of my trip. I don't make a whole album with scrapbooking, just one page for every topic and after that page come the photos with some text if necessary. I do that in the software from the printing company. For my intro pages I use a rectangular format in the size of the album, so they fill the whole page and the printing will be on the full page, no margins. My pages although resized are pretty big so I have to post them here one by one. The first is about the village where my family lives and if you wonder why the apricots are there? Well the village started its life more or less thanks to big apricot plantations and everything was explained in the history museum.

I had that once with my hydrangea and it bounced back beautifully, so there is hope!

This song sums up the idiocrasy of what is happening at the moment and you made a fitting layout for it. To me this isn't political, it underlines the madness of it all.

Oh Donna that looks terrible! Luckily you have the photos of last year and maybe all is not lost and some of the plants will survive and perform next year. If not: think of the bright side and plant new ones!

That is a nice way to display your jewelry. Your way of spelling it as jewellery was new to me so I checked and saw that it is UK English. I'm learning here so much more than scrapbook related things!

Thank you Jeni, I think that most of the photographers among us don't like to "maltreat" their photos.

I thought of that too and I know how to do it but decided against it because I didn't want to tamper with my photos in this occasion. For another type of photo or layout it can be a great way to show photos.

Yes you are right, my photos although I have more, were way to big. That aquarium had lots of great display tanks with all kind of fish but the jelly-fish were the highlight!

Lesson 7 Yep I made it to the end, but this one was the hardest of all! I wanted to use these photos from my visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the biggest in the US which has a fantastic display of jelly-fish. The lesson was about changing a template with 2 photos into one with 4 photos. I think that by now I understand how to do this and in the end simply ignored it. I didn't use a kit because I have nothing that applies to an aquarium theme but I used bits and bobs from my stash with different adjustment layers, color overlays and a lot of blend modes to get something that gives me a somewhat coherent layout. The fonts are Ally handwriting and Arial. I have loved seeing all the work and ideas from everyone and I have enjoyed learning some new ways to use Affinity; a big thanks to Carole! I will certainly keep using it and already am looking forward to the coming vector workshop, but in the mean time I now am going to make a photoalbum from my trip.

This is a very original take on the letter I with things in your house! I love your play with the colors, even in your card!