Gerry Landreth

Carole - I took a second look at the text and realized, that because of the colors, it needed more definition. The orange in the text was getting lost against the peach of the background.

 

The shadowing is subtle. Maybe too subtle. Or maybe I overthink too much?

 

Thanks. I always appreciate your eye.

 

 

This layout features a quirky roadside attraction. Huntsville is a major hub for research and development for NASA as well as the space and defense industries. I live in a small city on the outskirts. When I tell people that my neighbors are rocket scientists, it is a literal statement.

 

I've attached a picture showing the engines underneath the rocket. It is fenced off now, but it is no less impressive to see. The papers are from Digital Scrapbook. The astronaut is from Pixabay.

Susan - It's a pleasure to meet a fellow flower serial killer. I'm surprised I was allowed in the garden department to get flowers for those projects. The big hat and hug sunglasses probably helped distract the Flower Police.

The two planters were attempts from a couple of years ago to bring color to the patio. The rose bush fascinates me. Even after trimming, it quickly grew back and was filled with roses.

 

The font is Beyond the Rainbow from Creative Fabrica.

Carole - The pictures of the girls are "old." My eldest niece, on the left, turns 39 in September. The other two are 37 and 35.

These are my nieces. Interestingly, as adults, they never put their kids in dance classes. Could it be that they didn't want their crazy uncle embarrassing their children with similar photos?

 

The kit is Midnight Dancer by Whipsy's D'Zines from GoDigitalScrapbooking. The dancer was extracted from a photo on Pixabay.

The picture is my paternal grandmother, Henry Retta Vice. BTW - her name is spelled correctly. The boys are two of my older cousins, Gene & Jim who are fraternal twins. It was 1959, the year I was born.

Carole - The background paper and star scatters came from a kit called All the Star by Scrapvine. The stripe is from the free bundle that Creative Fabrica is offering now. It is in the Purple Ombre group.

 

I think it originally came from Digital Scrapbook (Pixelscrapper), but it is not there now. However, I found it at Scrapvine.com which had several nice kits available for free.

It's a lot of stars but I got inspired after seeing the awesome (and humbling) pictures from the new James Webb telescope.

Never go to the grocery store when you are hungry. It's also good advice for doing the sandwich exercise.

 

This time I did it after dinner to head off the urge to make a bologna sandwich.

Hello again. I always look forward to Bootcamp. It never fails that I either stumble on something new from the lessons and from fellow scrapbookers or find a new approach to solving a problem.

I saw a cartoon that sparked the idea. Rudy is a patient model.

Father's Day projects for my brother-in-law with the kids and grandkids, and two of my nephews-in-law with my great-nieces and nephews.

AlphaMaker has been in my collection for some time, but this is the first time I have used it.

Today is an anniversary that still haunts the survivors. My mother was in the house, our childhood home when it hit. She was unscathed save a scratch or two.

 

Years later, a cousin who would randomly drop by when his truck route took him nearby frantically called me. All but two houses in the neighborhood had been destroyed and he was standing in front of an empty lot. He breathed a sigh of relief when I explained that my mother was fine.

These are my youngest niece's children. The oldest will be 14 next month. The youngest is 7 and a 12-year-old is sandwiched in between.

 

I used a template from Miss Fish. The papers and elements are from a kit called Evening Sun by Aimee Harrison Designs. I found it on Gingerscraps. The font is Ernestone from Creative Fabrica.

I ran across this picture of Rudy lounging and remembered a template by Miss Fish. Thanks to Bonnie for turning me on to her work.

 

 

This is my sister and me. In addition to solo work, we did a lot of four-hand performing (two people at the same piano.) We were also the organist and pianist at the same church for a time.

 

We fought a lot but always managed to come together through music.

 

The template is from the Lab.

Ann - Thank you for bringing attention to this problem with pictures of these magnificent cats. I have sent both of my senators, neither of whom are cosponsors, an email urging them to support the bill when it comes to a full vote. Sadly, I live in one of few states that have no regulation at all.

The pictures are of my sister and her husband. Their 28th anniversary is next month. The color for 28 years is lavender and the flower is orchid.

 

The kit is Lavender Fields from Jessica Dunn and the orchid photo is from Pixabay.

Ann - The "virus" background in the graphic with Rudy's masks was done using a graphic I found on Pixabay as an overlay. Once I found a good blend mode, I lowered the opacity because it was overwhelming the rest of the layout.

 

Susan - The cats are a cheeky pair with distinct personalities. They help keep me grounded.

As a follow-up to The Faces of River from Day 5, Rudy is featured in this layout. He takes his modeling work very seriously.

Thanks to Carole for another great workshop. Like others, I learned new things and drew on things I learned in other workshops. I always enjoy seeing other interpretations of the same template and learning from the ideas that are shared.

 

Today, I learned (again!) that "greyscale" affects everything, not just one layer. I also learned that once you save the file, you can't undo it, meaning any color pictures added later are greyscaled. Hopefully, it will be a while before I have to learn that again.

 

My parents married in 1958 and were married 52 years when my dad passed away in 2010.

I had forgotten about these pictures. The BW picture is my dad's family - mother, Henry Retta (yes, that's how she spelled it), father Alford Landreth, and their ten children. My dad is in front wearing the gray shirt next to Aunt Kate who was picking her nose.

 

The second photo was taken 45 years later and was probably the last time the siblings were all together. My dad is in the back in the center. Aunt Kate is on the right. She outgrew the nose-picking.

 

The music motif honors the role that music played in the family. Any gathering was a reason to make music.

I pulled elements from a bunch of different kits and, honestly, after going back and forth so many times I couldn't tell you which ones finally were used.

 

River is my older cat, but only by three weeks. Still, she is always quick to remind Rudy that he is the baby of the family and he has to do whatever she says because she is the oldest. My world gets complicated sometimes.