Michele

How about pics and text in the future?

Fiona, if I had a garden, it would be filled with wildflowers. Can't wait to see your new projects.

They are so darn cute, Fiona. I love the re-purposing of the cans. Are you converting to a sustainable garden? If so, I would love to see more pics.

At first I thought about wedding dresses, then I decided baby clothes would be the most sentimental. I downloaded a kit by Janet Kemp from PS and used Carole's Hanging Photos script. I'm so glad I bought it because it takes a long time to get this result manually. And it's great that it leaves everything on its own layer; I did some rearranging. The title font is Lovely Blooms from CF and on the baby blanket I used Mix Stitch from Dafont.

I had very little time to do today's daily look pic. But I had this sweet little kitten from Creative Fabrica* that I fell in love with and never used. I added a mask from Lady22 on a background from AnnieC. The font is, coincidentally, Lazy Cuties also from CF. I added very low opacity drop shadows to everything simply to get rid of the "flat" look. *When we celebrated the campus's 10th anniversary, I won a one month subscription for CF. I've been hooked ever since and cannot foresee ever ending it.

Thanks so much, Mary. I've never thought of making a palette of my pic and then playing with the effects to make a paper. What a great idea! Thanks. And I agree with Susan. Just because you're not working on a layout doesn't mean you aren't creating.

CF's Spark is a lot of fun!

Here is yesterday's daily look for my gaming group. The fashion illustration is by Megan Hess, a wonderful artist. I used some elements from AnnieC's contribution to the SYHO (Scrappin' Your ❤️ Out) Lavender Fields Blog Train. One of her flowers worked great as a picture tube ~ created a vector and used the vector tube script to make the frame. The font is Palegina free from Creative Fabrica's 12 Days of Christmas-Beauty-Handwritten-Font-Bundle last year; the bundle is still available as the Beauty Handwritten Font Bundle of 43 fonts for $7. I added a white drop shadow using offsets of -10 and another dark one using offsets of 10.

N = Nurturing

Thank you, Susan. I totally get the randomness of grief; I was just discussing it with someone the other day. ❤️

I should have given some details on my Mother's Day pic, but I was sad and missing my mom. Anyway, Cristina and Suzy: I used one of Cassel's edge punches for this project. I absolutely adore all of her punches, but the edge punches are so versatile. I had a bunch of layers as I had to do a bunch of cutouts. Thanks for all the positive feedback. ❤️

K = Kisses

Wish you were going to be on the east coast so we could meet. Have a great trip!

G = Grandchildren which is what every mother wants!

A = Adopted

Wonderful layout, Mary!

Me, too, Cristina.

L = Love There's nothing like a mother's love.

G = Gloria, my mom. I miss her.

Thank you, Cristina. I fight against the lack of creativity all the time. That's one of the reasons I'm making more of an effort. It took me many hours between searching my few original pics and getting inspiration from looking at templates.