Corrie Kinkel

In April we had a 1-2-3 Challenge and I used different techniques from the tutorials: a folded ribbon hanging in- and out of a frame (out-of-bounds); a folded edge of a paper; a cluster and buttons with a thread through the holes.

I forgot to look here because I found all the pieces fairly easy, only #6 costed me a lot of searching, but in the end I got it. There were several that I knew immediately, because I use the search bar on the blogposts very often to see if there is a solution there for something I want to know and only if I can't find what I'm looking for I ask Carole. But I nevertheless like a treasure hunt very much!

U = Under Extracted coffee, means a brewed espresso or coffee that has been subjected to an insufficient amount of extraction - exposure to hot water - and thus has very little body and is weak. I am aware of this effect but didn't quite know how to explain it in English but Google helped out.

Very nice and isn't amazing how easy it is to make an unique card, no matter if it has to be a quicky or one where you had more time to create something. I sometimes think it takes more time to wait for the card to dry after printing than to design it!

I can't remember nor find when or where we had a tutorial about SubwayArt; it must have been around Christmas time because I used all the words for Happy Christmas in different languages. I made a card out of it and have used it to send that year (I think it was in 2020)

This is a layout from last year's Card Workshop, where I made this card as an invitation, but I have kept a copy as a PSP-image and have used it since with other text for other occasions and with changed colors too using the Hue and Saturation. How to use that command is referred to in many tutorials, classes and workshops because it is so easy to use and give totally different results. At first I found it a bit difficult to understand, how to play with the settings, but now a use it on a regular basis because it keeps the opacity of the element I want to change the color of.

After Bootcamp and some more trying to make stuff on my own, I did the Basic Scrap Course which at that point, early 2020, had only 5 lessons. Later number 6 and 7 were added and this is the layout I made in 2022 for number 7 where we had to create a cluster, text stripes, a scalloped mat, a frame and the text not on a straight line. I must admit that the later 2 editions ere a lot easier to do than the first 5 when I was a newbie at scrapping.

Between all the other activities in the Campus and at home I have been working on a card for a dear friend who is turning 80 and it is a miracle he lived through all the medical conditions he has had in the last couple of years. He was and is now again an enthousiast golfer and plays golf one or two times a week. Therefore I made him a card with all kinds of golf accessories which I found on digitalscrapbook.com. It is a double card, but has a plain backside with my normal logo. On the card I used a couple of small masks to blend the images together because I didn't want sharp edges; duplicated a lot of the golf balls to put in the basket; the cup was very "ugly" colored so it is changed using Hue and Saturation. And last I used an Edge Punch. one of the last series I have bought, this one goes so well with the balls! Saturday we will have lunch in a posh restaurant with all his family and friends.

Michele I love both of your pages, the colors are gorgeous and it is sometimes amazing what you can find on Creative Fabrica. I'm a fan of them and often take a look, not always for freebies but for inspiration too.

After a masterclass on blending photos I have put the calf in the photo where the other cows were grazing. And later I have used this technique a couple of times in bigger layouts, so here is it better to see.

The last day of the Vector Workshop where we leaned how to use the vector tube script.

Following a tutorial to make chickenwire

We had a masterclass on how to use numbers in a layout and that class was just before our 50th wedding anniversary, now almost 2 years ago

This was made following a tutorial from the Lab on making a stencil with an adorable image of these little owls (a freebie by Creative Fabrica)

K = Koffie, Dutch for Coffee and it is pronounced the same

Many congratulations from me too! 12 years of the Campus and still going strong, what an achievement. I am very proud and thankful to be an active member for the last 4 years. You are always there for us when we need help or inspiration. I look forward to all the planned activities and will try to join in the fun, the treasure hunt and the party.

A = Arpeggio - a coffee brand from Nespresso

Bonnie what a nice gesture with the shirts and you must be very fond of Judy to become her caregiver. I hope you can cope when her dementia is getting worse. From experience, which I wish I never had, I can tell you that it is a long and hard responsibility to take on. My mam had this awful condition and it has taken more then 12 years before she died. So from helping out in the beginning it became a heavy burden in the end and there were days that I really hoped she would die in her sleep. In the first place for her, because she was so unhappy in the last stages of her live and that was so painful to witness. She died 16 years ago now and I still can have a nightmare about it; it has replaced to some extend the happy memories of her. So take good care of Judy and of yourself too.

Michele I love both of your pages, the colors are gorgeous and it is sometimes amazing what you can find on Creative Fabrica. I'm a fan of them and often take a look, not always for freebies but for inspiration too.

My father died 46 years ago now when my children were young and I miss him more then ever now I'm getting older. It is a "weird" feeling that I'm much older then he ever was.

I'm so busy catching up with the scripting course that I recycle a layout that I did about coffee. It is from november 2020 and I was in my first year here in the Campus. I was building my stock and wasn't a diamond member yet, so the papers came from Pixelscrapper (digitalscrapbook.com as it is called nowadays) and the bow is a freebie by Carole. The photos are mine, as always.

G = Grinding coffee beans, I can still hear my grandma doing that with a grinder by hand, later my mam used an electric grinder which was very modern at that time!

Thank you and I'm very glad you didn't really thought of giving up. Although I understand very well the need for having a couple of hours to spent on a new lesson to grab the full meaning of those new concepts. I'm struggling myself with that too and I don't have to go to work anymore, but my beloved hubby takes a chunk of my time and I have other weekly appointments with a friend to go walking and swimming (one has to keep fit).

Susan you are not going to quit! and leave me out there, will you. I'm on lesson 5 too and my advice is: read carefully, take it slowly and try every step. It is logical though. I think of it as a new language which has very strict grammar rules. See you inside the course with some results.

And to think that I have arthrosis in both hands and the first OP for that was when I was 45! My hobbies have always required good use of hands and eyes, so I had to say goodbye to lacemaking, embroidery and papercrafts to name a few. But when one door closes another one will be opened eventually. In my case the computer was that door and that allowed me to use my photos and that's why you find me here and it saved me from being bored!