Susan Ewart

Lesson 4 I love text on a path. I should have started the path closer to the left side by the tree and made the font bigger. The font is Love Light. It doesnt have glyphs, but it sure is pretty without having to have them. Not sure if this is Creative Fabrica or a google font that came with FontBase.

You are quite right. Who's looking at who?

Those clouds would make a great base for making papers. Great shot. Clouds are so interesting to watch.

I do know of Joel Sartore and his project called The Photo Ark. I watched a series he did (about 6 episodes or so) and it was really good, but I knew about him back when he first started it. there are books I think, but I remember they were very expensive. What a beautiful layout you made, your colors are always well chosen.

Lesson 3 Yup, there's a typo 😪. And I used 2023 for text wrapping when I meant to use 2022. So of course soon as I duplicated and converted the dup to a raster the Vector turned into one single long line. So the type will stay for all eternity. These are my mutant Sunflowers that were only supposed to grow to 6-7' according to the package. they topped at about 10+ feet. That is the roofline of my garage that you see them grow past. The font, the little bee below the flairs and the bee line-graphic is from Creative Fabrica. The two flairs are from DigitalScrapbook.com and I believe they are from Jessica Dunn. the green patterned paper is also from DigitaScapbook.com. The other green paper is a gradient with a texture and a bit of noise added.

Stunning layout with perfect colors Mary! I really like how your fonts are dancing.

OMG! I love this. I love chickens and could watch them for hours.

Nothing I do ever ends up being how I saw it in my minds eye. I love the background on this layout.

Oh Mary, thank you so much. That means a lot to me.

Yummy! I haven't met a cheese I didn't like.

Pur-fect layout and so sweet.

I love steampunk too. You did a beautiful job with the fonts and layout. How cool to have a museum. I bet you could photograph the day away in a place like that.

We bought a cordless lawnmower once that had a recall. We took it in to get the part changed and when we picked it up, took it home and went to use it we discovered they took the brand new battery out and gave us an old one. It never worked well again. And it never occurred to us that a company would do such a thing. And of course we couldnt do anything about it because we had no proof they did that.

Lesson two Picking fonts it really hard. But I did enjoy using the sculpture effect on the chicken. I used cass-steel pattern then put the original chicken clipart above it and used a blend mode (multiply) and it brought back the colors in the feet, beak and red parts (what ever that is called). the weight plate (45lbs) was a icon image that i selected certain parts to give a inner bevel to and other parts got a cut out to make the plate more realistic. I know, I spent more time on the layout and elements that the text. I just noticed I forgot to add the shadow to the photo. I included what the chicken clipart looked like before and after the effects were added. And for some reason the chicken got fatter 😆. I think I really like that sculpture technique. the only other time I've used it was in the last Text WS. I hope I remember to use it often.

This looks great Anita. I had such a hard time picking fonts. I didnt care for what I did, but I love what everyone else did.