Susan Ewart

12 minutes ago, Michele said:

I don't have access to the pics I took in Ireland as they were not digital and they ended up in storage. Instead, I decided to make stamps from some floral pics I had taken during a spring walk a number of years ago.

 

 

 

These are beautiful.  dont you find these look amazingly like real stamps.  It's a great tutorial.

11 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

@bina greene Your link only gives me the option to copy the filenames. The one you posted earlier worked fine and I viewed your work. Not sure why this one isn't working for me... 

Ann, the link worked for me, the download button was on the black background upper right corner of screen for me.   

2 hours ago, Cassel said:

That could be a way to go too. Since various elements are taught throughout the 7 days, one can combine them into one page. I just wanted to add something exclusive to the DIAMOND members.

I feel bad that I did nothing for this workshop.  My idea, after the first one fizzled out (due to rain) got very involved...in my head, which is where it stayed.  I just got so busy with hubby off that I had no time, even though i kept thinking i would.  Here it is, Sunday night and still no time.  I hope to work on something and post in the What are you Working on forum.  

5 hours ago, bina greene said:

.It's Sunday and I found some time for this incredible workshop. Many thanks again, Caroline and everybody else who has posted their fantastic projects here!.

This is my day one with the region shape done in what I intended to be a distressed or chalky stamped look. Not sure if it is recognizable as such but I am not too unhappy with the way the shape turned out.  Supplies I used are all freebies by Robyn Denton of Dancing Tiger Designs (dancingtigerdesignsaustralia.blogspot.com)

 

Here is my day 2 indicating the way to get to the destination. Again supplies are all by Robyn Denton, except the background by myself.

 

My version of the day 3 prompt 'postage stamp'. Sorry, it seems I ran out of upload space here, so this is a link to day 3, postage stamp. TFL

[img]https://i.imgur.com/A2M5YW9.jpg[/img]

Leather tag was the prompt on day 4.Here is the link.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/GzsnyJu.jpg[/img]

 

Wow! Bina, these are all very beautiful.  thank you for the link I love your leather tags and that postage stamp on that background is really cool. 

2 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

I haven't seen any for a several years now. If I'm not mistaken, it's the males  that flash in flight to attract a mate, the equivalent of  our Morse code I suppose, and the brightness of his  flashing.   The females stay on the ground until a flashing male catches her  eye, and  she will respond with a  flash.

Cool!

9 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

When I was a child we'd capture them in Mason jars and create little lanterns. 

Oh wow, that is something I've always wanted to do.  are they really bright?

3 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

This layout came about b/c I wanted to do some cutout text. I found Lab5-11 and had a go. It was straightforward and I made a made a few of them for future use. I like easy and fun.

So then, last night I was watching fireflies (which are actually beetles) flitting across my backyard. They just make my heart sing and lift my spirit every time I see them. Sadly, there aren't as many as even a few years ago, but they are so delightful. Of course, it takes me back to childhood when we chased them through the fading light of dusk.

The photos are found online; background has a radial gradient. Pretty basic overall. But I enjoyed doing it. (I gotta wonder if Sue T. has ever captured them on her camera or if she has them out in the west.)

 

This is STUNNING Julie!  I've never seen fireflies before.  They look very magical.  Really beautiful layout.  

3 hours ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

Julie it's beautiful but aren't you in the wrong place? it seems to me that it belongs to the palette challenge. 

Wow!  that is STUNNING Julie!

52 minutes ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

Day 5 Stamp

The photo is Fenn. He was supposed to be born on my friend's birthday...you know babies...they are born when they are ready...Fenn entered this world 10 days later.

OmG!  This is so cute.

59 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

That I am, I'm up and out at sunrise every morning, regardless what time sunrise is.  It's the best part of the day.  Come 10pm, my bed is calling, only to get up again during the early hours to view the night sky.  

...because if you dont get up to view the nightsky, you wish you had the next morning.  That is me if It's night with any moon showing, or interesting weather happenings.  I imagine you have a much wider expanse to see, being in a urban area, trees and houses obscure the moon from me at times.  And I work at night so I'm often hoping we get done early so i can catch a glimpse of a sunset or moon rise.  

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

Wanting to feel like I'm making some progress, I'll post my page 3, just finished. I'm always hesitant with embellishments, preferring to showcase the photos themselves. Here daughter, Laurey, and granddaughter, Jackie, find the young rhino hilarious at the Toronto Zoo! Font is Bauhaus. Background a pink gradient. 

What fun pictures.  And what an experience.  I love your gradient.  You make such beautiful ones.

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

As promised; here are my date stamps and a tag. I haven't done very much and it seems a general feeling for a lot of us. For me it was an unexpected busy week; our son had his birthday and we went over there for the day, it is about a 90 minutes drive with very busy traffic most of the way (I know for Americans/Canadians that is just around the corner). Then there came extra doctor's appointments for my husband and myself, nothing to worry about but it costs a lot of time because we have to go to town for it. Searching for a present for a friend who will be turning 80 shortly and we will celebrate with a lunch in a very posh restaurant in 2 weeks time. That resulted in another trip into town, because we couldn't find what we were looking for locally. Then in the evenings I had videocalls with my daughter and with the grands because that is the only timeframe when there is a time difference of 9 hours. And last but not least I had a spell of dizziness and wasn't able to even come out of bed for most of that day, but I don't complain it will be okay. It only means I'm hopeless behind and I'm doing the scripting course too..... I postponed lesson 4 until next week and concentrate on the Travel layouts first this weekend, at least if all goes according to plan!

I have seen very lovely and diverse layouts being posted when I had a look.

I hope you are feeling better.  Dizzy spells are debilitating.  These are lovely and all so different.

3 minutes ago, MoniqueN. said:

Hi all I started this week with day 1(duh), that one is finished, but the templates provided, are mostly vertical and my photo's mainly horizontal and haven't got the energy to look for other templates, so I will skip this workshop ? I have seen wonderful lay outs just now, always fun to see how everyone makes complete different projects ? Keep up the good work! ?

I too will have to pass it by.  I had good intentions but life has it's own design.  At least we have all the prompts and can work in our own time.  I actually thought we were only making one page and building on it each day with a final reveal at the end.  Oops, that's shows that I am even more out of touch with what was really going on. ?

On 8/19/2023 at 4:46 PM, Sue Thomas said:

This was a quick easy one, once I found photos that had similar colours  to the Palette.  The norm for me  is firstly choosing photos, and not the other way round.   the B7b44e was used in the bottom element, where I used a photo, overlay soft light, luckily it  retained most of the  colour in the palette.  The frames around the photos and the text paper  is dce6e7.  Decorative  frame is 9bc0de. Background papers are 40524b and 618a84.   Out of bounds, inner bevel on  decorative frame, a little noise on the background papers to give a little texture.

The little female in the  middle photo, (I think she is a juvenile) is in a state of torpor, all fluffed up.  I put  their feeders out at 5.45am,  as I fetch them indoors at night, as the evenings can get quite chilly, and the last thing they want is chilled feed.  I gently picked her up,  warmed her in my hands for a couple of minutes, placed her back  on  the perch, next to the feeder.  She was fine, ready to start the day after a long feed of sugar water.  I don't scimp on the sugar either.  Every year the hummers arrive  by the 3rd August, they stay for the whole of August before embarking on their long journey  south.  The feeders stay out until mid September  just in case  stragglers pass through.  They are truly flying gems, with amazing powers of flight and  often glittering iridescent colours.  To me when they arrive, I know that Autumn is quite literally  around the corner.

What a special experience to have held a hummingbird in your hands.

1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:

A simple minimalistic, earth tone colours page.  Word art:  I weaved some of the swashes over and under. I had intended to use the split photo technique on both the photos, but decided to use that technique on the overlap of the one photo.  

OMG!  Stunning.  I love dew drops on anything.  I wouldn't have thought it would be on a butterfly.  I love the colors of this butterfly.  Because I attempted to grow flowers this year I had butterflies in the yard.  They sure made me smile.  It's amazing how I will stop dead just to watch the butterflies flutter around, and feel like, at that moment in time, how lucky i am to see this. 

3 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

I definitely am late in getting out of the "start gate"!  I know this isn't a race, but it has felt like that for me.  I am really not sure, but I have the trip that Joe, Laurie and I took back in 2021 in the RV to visit family in the north and west of us.  It was a great trip, I found that I can't take the heights and I am definitely a mountain girl more so than the beach.  Oh, Well!  I take it easy and am able to do some things. This album will be longer than usual since we had so many places we were going and I am definitely going to do more journaling.  I usually journal whenever I take a trip.  It does help when designing the album.  All the elements and papers are mine.  The 2 elements at the lower left corner and the upper right corner came from Marisa Lerrin at Pixel Scrapper.  The font is Britannic Bold.

If you feel like you are late, I think I missed the gate completely.  I didnt know when I signed up that my hubby would (several weeks later) book a week off, which I totally forgot about.  So I have not been very active with anything PSP-y.  We had planned to go to this tourist attraction (Fort Edmonton Park) that has about 5-6 sections covering various period of pre-colonization to the 1920's.  It rained for two days; downpours actually.  And today I work, so I will have to go to my back up theme to try and pull off.  I not opptomistic.  You have a good start and what a trip it looks like.  I'm looking forward to being an arm-chair traveller following you on your trip

44 minutes ago, Natalie Spooner said:

Susan, I especially love that while you did not resize you simply used only a part of the large circle and used a longer rectangle as another photo creating a very different layout. That, and the fact my favourite colour is purple!

Thank You Natalie.  I did a lot of nip and tucking-in of the elements.  Not resized as per the rules but just out of sight.  technically since I dont cut off outside my canvas, it's still there, invisible, but ready to come back.  Also some duplicating.  I hope that was allowed, I believe are allowed to add elements which is what I did with some of the thin strips, duplicate butt it up to the original ones.  I usually play it safe with blues and browns and this time because of the flower I went with bold Magenta (and some of it's relatives: Magenta-blue, aka purple and Magenta-red; aka I dont know what that would be called, to me, color or Hue, is called what they are made of), it's a very powerful and strong color. 

1 hour ago, Jenifer Lyn said:

Thank you SO much, Susan!
That is so very sweet of you! ❥
I was just telling Sue that I was grateful with the things she is sharing.

Yea! You are getting blooms!
I am happy for you! 
Did you plant "annual's" - Surviving one season or did you get the 
"Perennials" - Returning every year?!

 

Annuals, and thank you for the explanation. I'm constantly asking my co-worker which is which.  Because to me annuals should means they come up annually.  But I guess perennial means forever so that wins. 

2 hours ago, Jenifer Lyn said:

I am SO terribly sorry that I had gone "Missing In Action",
real life came in and interrupted my play time yet again!
Late summer is quite a busy time on the farm, whether I like it or not! HaHaHa
I have a lot of catching up to do indeed!

So many new & wonderful creations!
This community is certainly a great source of inspiration to me. ❥
 

Life happens, we will be here when you are back in the game.  Take care.

1 hour ago, Anne Lamp said:

Whew, it was hard to use all those layers.  I was tempted to skip a couple of them, but then it would not have been right for this challenge because it says to use all of them.  One problem I had was with that many layers going ( I guess I should have reduced the picture file sizes before using them) I wound up with such a large project that my PSP 21 program was taking forever to do anything . Even when I just clicked on (file save as or resize image etc. it was taking so long I though it was frozen.  When I was about to give up on saving it as jpg so I could post it, I finally just left the program run while I did some chores and when I came back later I was able to save it.   Yes, Penny is my nickname and Tom is my hubby of 54 years.

That background photo is stunning.  Congratulations on 50 years.  And I'd never have guessed at your nickname.  My dad called me "Charlie", I have no idea where that came from, but I'm sure I ever heard him call me by my name.  It's now a warm memory for me.  He didnt have nicknames for my other siblings, not sure why.

1 hour ago, Anita Wyatt said:

Here is Travel Tale 3. The Hat really enjoyed meeting the knights that handle security at the fortress and also the good looking models (mannequins) at the store. I think it is time I shall give the hat a name. How does Mr. Red sound? Font is Anberta, Date stamp was made by following Carole's tutorial (I need more practice on that). Photos are mine, Background colors were picked from photos. I do not have the Dozi's grunge brushes and her website does not have them listed. I used the marble 2 brush as someone here recommended, than you! Sty tuned for more Travel adventures from Mr. Red.(a.k.a. Mr. Hat).

I love this, it's a great idea and I love forward to the adventure of Mr. Red, he has more adventures that I do!  Back in the paper arts period of my life, we'd make "flat" versions of ourselves (a full length photo of the person - on maybe 5x7 or 8x10 size, cut out and mounted on a stick) then you'd send them and a diary off to one of the participants who would take the "flat" you on an adventure, and photograph and write about it in the book.  I didnt do ones like that but did other ones where I made a diary of the event the person missed and then sent them the diary with the flat version of themselves.  It was hard to find photos of them without them knowing.  but quite fun to do. 

On 8/23/2023 at 2:39 AM, Michele said:

I love papers as I can also use them when making ribbons, bows, etc. as well as combining them in a project. I also use them to flood-fill elements I already have or shapes I create. Blog trains are a favorite source for me so I look forward to seeing your creations. I don't know if you'll be offering layered templates, but I often use them as is or for inspiration. I wish you luck and send congratulations.

oh yes, papers, especially grungy, watercolor type, textured, peeling paint, blended (paints- such as Justinas at the Migo Studio makes for photo backdrops - but a digital version, I have the bootcamp course and had just sold all my paint so not wanting to invest in paint again - except for my color course) etc. 

5 hours ago, Jenifer Lyn said:

  •✿• How I loved reading this!
My property ( even the crops ) have MANY praying mantises & stick bugs (Phasmids).
The Mantis is crucial to the crops as they kill the grasshoppers that can destroy everything it lands on.
If you want to attract the mantis, plant dill!  I believe that is why I have as many as I do.
Some cultures see them as a sign of good luck & fortune. We can all use that! 
Many Native Americans believe that they came before the creation of man as well.  
Very beautiful in my opinion. But the stick bugs.. EWWww!
For some reason they bother me unlike the mantis.
They walk quite creepy,  jerking their bodies as they move.
I freak out when one lands on me! HaHaHa

The ladybugs!
@Julie Magerka Your layout is lovely!
I love ladybugs!  Crucial to the crops indeed.
I don't use harmful poisons that in turn contaminate the soil, thanks to them.
I have to keep an eye on some certain plants in my veggie garden though,
as some plants are their favorites to eat (Like my beans, spinach and carrot tops).
I find them in the house quite often too, but thankfully, I have never been taken over by them. 

I enjoyed this conversation! Thank you! = )

Between you and Sue Thomas we are going to be learning a lot!  By the way, you have the gift of words.  You write very well.  On a side note, the sunflowers are starting to bloom...even if one is a 9' mutant, I will love it just the same as the little 3' one.

Wow Everyone!  Amazing work.  Well, I havent even started yet.  It might be one post at the end, waaaaay at the end.  It's being an unexpected busy week.  But I am inspired by what I see in the forum.  

On 8/23/2023 at 9:00 AM, Lynda DiGregor said:

This is the RV park that we are staying at while waiting for the house. It is pretty nice.

Love this RV Park.  and weirdly I live on Sycamore Avenue (in Canada)