Michele

I couldn't come up with something for my FB gaming group's theme the other day until I found this illustration of  wine being poured into a glass. For the background I resized the original pic to a square and applied a seamless tiling effect. Then I decided to try the Displacement Map which I'd never used before. It has a setting called Under Ice and I liked the way it looked. The font is Frisha. As our friend Annie would say, thanks for taking a peek!

Such wonderful pages, everyone. You all are an inspiration!

Lovely pages, ladies.

Fun with clipart: for when you don't have much time or any ideas, but you must produce something. Font is Mia Bella, paper and gnome from Creative Fabrica, envelope from The Hungry JPEG, and cupid from NicePng. (Daily pic for my gaming group, of course.)

Loving everyone's work. Too many wonderful pages to comment on each.

Thanks so much, Val & Karon.

B = Bills

W = Wedding Invitation

 

 

T = Thank You cards

Thanks so much, Annie & Cristina. I initially used a pastel rainbow gradient, but it didn't give me the wow factor I was looking for. Someone asked me how many heart layers there were. I had to open the file and count...there were 20! I didn't realize how many I had done. Whew.

N = Notes

As usual, this was made for my gaming group. The font is Love Struck which I got in a free valentines bundle from Font Bundles. The heart is a preset shape. I duplicated and resized each heart by 110% moving the new layer down each time. Filled each one with a rainbow gradient set on a circle (sunburst) with 6 repeats and increased the angle by five for each one and added a small drop shadow. It took me a long time to find the %ages and angles that were good for this image. The background consists of several layers at different opacities.

Wow, everyone's been so busy already this month! Love them all. Minka, I was really touched by your story. <3

Fabulous layout, Ann. I haven't been on the new bridge yet, but I have armchair traveling down to a T!

Love it, Annie. I like how you pulled the colors from the bird's crown to decorate your page.

Annie Tobin, I received an email notification with your lovely words, but I don't see your post here. Thanks so much.

 

"Annie Tobin wrote:

 

Perfect Michele ... my eyes were immediately drawn to the subject which was definitely not overpowered.  Love it my friend.  ;)

 

Post Link: https://scrapbookcampus.com/Community/topic/what-are-you-working-on-in-january-2021/page/9/#post-52168"

 

 

Thanks, Ann. :)

I thought the members of my gaming group were going to hate this, but I couldn't have been more wrong. I never know with them; that's one reason I'm always trying different styles. Usually, it just takes on a life of its own every day. I took the original fashion illustration by Sunny Gu and there were lots of selections, borders, duplicating, and resizing. I was very happy with the flower pattern I managed to extract from the original; I'm not usually that lucky. Used a simple font called Coverface SE as everything else was so busy.

 

Any constructive criticism is appreciated.

Sue, fabulous cards. And I agree with you; there are too many wonderful projects here to mention each. I'm just very impressed with everyone, especially our new members.

Thanks so much for all the wonderful feedback. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it; my confidence can always use a boost.

 

The "boo-boo" was that I left one of the layers hidden on the second row of text. I have a habit of keeping all my layers until I'm sure I've gotten the effect I'm looking for. With all the hiding and unhiding, I guess I missed it. Lucky for me, you can't tell unless you look carefully at a large version. We are our own worst critics, aren't we?

 

 

U = Unexpected ... you never know what will happen or who you'll see.

Some pics I made the last few days for my gaming group. For newer members who don't know me, the game picks a different theme every day.

 

Photo Freeze: The girl is a character from the game; the photographer is clipart from PinClipart. I combined two different background papers by Jessica D from Pixel Scrapper. Finally, I used Cassel's Winter Wonderland master class to create snow and the ice text (I made a little boo-boo on the second line, but it was too late to fix it.) The font is Bauhaus 93 as used in the class.

 

Sunday Stripes: Fonts used: Tall Stripes and Rasty Lop. The original pic is by one of my favorite illustrators: Malka Favre

 

Sky Blue Shades: Found the hairstyles on Google. I used the Antique Mosaic effect on the background. Font is Billy Signature.

 

Hope you enjoy them.

I know I haven't been commenting or sharing much lately, but I check in almost daily. I always get my smiles. :)

This was a page I made for my gaming group recently; the game gives us a different theme every day. Created using KakleiDesigns contribution to January's A Love For Layouts Hope For the Future Blog Train. The font I used is called Ink Free. The pic is something I found on Pinterest. I love templates when I don't have a lot of time or when I have no ideas of my own.

R = Refreshments