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.

Thank you Jeni. It's like I've discovered flowers for the first time (well, since 2021, when I started with the Campus).

I love this. You chose the fonts really well. And that photo is outstanding!

Lesson 1 Font is Erica One (CF I think) - it is one of the fonts that don't line up so you have to use the 0.1 stroke rule. I used daisy picture tubes and very low opacity fill. Photo is mine. I love this technique. Button is from Elif Sahin (Digital Scrapbook.com), papers are all PSP textures or patterns.

I'm wondering what kind of drugs I'm on...or should be one. Why the heck I posted here I'll never know, especially since I already posted stuff in the November thread. Thanks for letting me know. I think I'll got bang my head against the wall for a bit.

This is what it looks like before the texture and before the Vector layer was hidden.

Week 47 I might be early for this, it's really busy week at work with many extra jobs so I'm trying to get a head of the game. This was a surprise one for me. It came together very quickly and was born out of making a mistake and running with it. I chose a gradient and forgot to check if 'use all layers' box was unchecked. When I flood filled it only filled the middle portion (inside of the frame). I thought it would be cool to invert the gradient and flood fill a new layer. I stretched the top of the new layer to get the lines to line up. I didn't know what color to make the font and the outline and parts of the vector were cutout from the mistaken flood filled layer. I hid the Vector layer and this is the result. I added the blinds texture to the outside (you can see it in the cut out vector parts too) and a texture to the inside of the frame. My boo-boo, here is the week in the proper spot

I am. It's a challenge, but I'm up for it.

We have a name in my city that is going to be changed. I think people will always call it by it's original name. Maybe we should be keeping the name so we can be reminded to not do what was done back in history. Or we might really be doomed to repeat it. If you sweep it under the rug, will people just forget what happened? My husband always says, managers only remember what you did in the last week (good or bad) and that that's how they think of you. And in my job, that seems to be the case.

Jannette, I hope you husband rallies and improves. Corrie is right, even if you just pop in the look at what people will doing. Don't forget about looking after your own needs too, to keep you strong at this very stressful time.

I actually worked for a retailer at a Scrapbook retreat 4 yrs in a row. I wasnt a scrapbooker or a PSP person (but I was a papermaker and bookbinder - paper is paper, not matter what you do with it).