Susan Ewart

Wow Leslie, how awesome to see a rhino in the wild, it must've been a humbling experience. I hope we see more from this adventure.

I would love a comparison as well. Perhaps in the Q & A or a blog post.

Oh Cristina, that means a lot to me. I still consider myself the newbie, the little sister trying to keep up with all the big sisters and brothers in the campus.

Beautiful memorial. I had to look up Anzac and learned it is the same as what we call Remembrance Day in Canada.

I love that word Ann (volunteers). I had volunteers volunteering to help spread seed too. the birds made sure that sunflowers were popping up all over the lawn too! those ones only got 8" high but still had a pretty flower. So bizarre.

These are just like the regular ones I planted too. The package said 6-7 feet, they topped out over 10 feet and were above my garage roof just like that. We had so much wind and breezes last year that photographing outside was near impossible. Nothing stayed still.

I love the pictures. I hope you use them again in layouts so we get to see them bigger. The koru looks so cool, the roses are beautiful. I always love animals so seeing them is pleasure to the eyes.

Thank you so much. Choosing the elements and the colors are the hardest parts. I read others also have that problem, we are good company here.

Frame is what I thought of too, but also a pattern for a paper. What does it look like with a bevel. Or debossed (sorry, I forget the graphic term for that look -recessed into the paper). It's a superb and 50's -ish look to it that I love. I have one I want to replicate from the handles on the freezers in the grocery store. Funny where the places you get inspiration.

Lesson 3 - Template 3-Diamond I should have titled this "Blend Modes" because every paper or photo mat, and the two pieces of foliage have blend modes and some with 3 or 4 papers in the blending group. I did group all the blended stuff and duplicated the group, hid it, then merged the end result for the shadow part. I used elements/papers from Digital Scrapbook (Marisa Lerin, Brooke Gazarek, Gina Jones, Jessica Dunn, Kerri Dempsey and Janet Scott). The foliage I used the tutorial with the filled duplicate layer above, took me awhile to get the right color fill. I still found it was too bright on the layout so I merged the blend group and blended them into the blue paper (already merged blended group). I even attempted to make a cluster from 6 separate elements. The fonts are Creative Fabrica; Madelican and Matona ('S') Photos are mine and they aren't really looking at the real sun (like fake news, there is also indoor fake sun 😲). These were my surprise sunflowers I discovered at the back of my very small garden that I only noticed because I needed to go into the little shed. I thought they were mutants, cute fluffy mutants.

Not at all overdone Ann! I LOVE this.

These so beautiful Ann, I love this type of architecture.

Very beautiful photos, I can't imagine what it must feel like standing at the base of the rock. by chance have you heard of the song "Echo Beach" by Martha & the Muffins? They sing a song with the same name (different spelling). I can't help but sing it even though it's not about your beach.

I love this quote. I'm about to post sunflowers too. My bizarre sunflowers booked time in the photo studio so they are much different. the petals on yours are huge! I also love this particular template.

Thank you so much Cristina. I really enjoyed this one. the quote was so nice I had to use it.

This is so wonderful to see them altogether in a collection like that. Thank you.

Lesson 2 Diamond Template used (PSP) the blue paper is from my 2024 Build a Kit as is the brown template with the cracks and on that I used a paper from Digital Scrapbook. Behind is some rusty metal I had in the PSP patterns folder, with a filled color above and a blend mode, then I also used the eraser tool to take some of the layer away (same goes for the vertical wavy line, I also added a bevel. the photo (mine) was shot on mid grey background then several papers (blended) from Riley B Graphics (Creative Fabrica) and I masked the subject. The Title looked good in black but was just flat looking so I used "Selection from Vector Object<modify<expand" then on the blue paper layer I promoted the selection to a new layer from there I added a small bevel. The same was done the heart at the bottom of the quote so it would stand out a bit better. I'm seeing some really beautiful and inspiring layouts. And as usual I'm behind. it's my crazy work week with all the extra jobs that aren't in the normal week.

So cool what you did with the ampersand (I love ampersands and this is a beautiful one)

Thank you so much Sharla Wow Sharla, you are really good at describing a scene for the AI. These are beautiful. I really like the sunbeam one.

Lesson 1 Template1b- PSP papers from Creative Fabrica and Digital Scrapbook. Font is Keshiki (CF). The dots have a very low opacity. The rectangle is a blend of a paper and a fill color. the photo is mine and a re-hash from the Magazine workshop (I'm almost done!). No time for new photos right now 😢.

I love the clean lines in this layout and the circles look great against it.

Wow, this is so cool. I remember party lines, we had one in the early 70's still. I remember how bad my one brother and I were. If we picked up the phone and other people were talking on it, we'd be snickering and they would be telling us to get off the line. And we'd laugh. We got caught and boy, did we ever get in trouble. We never did it again. I find the concept of a party line so bizarre. Talk about no privacy. I really like the background of your layout, it has the feel of that time period. I agree, looking to the past in turbulent times is comforting.

thank you so much Julie. That neon is really quite easy to do (with the tutorial of course).

Beautiful Lynda. Nice to see you back in the Campus.

How exciting of a find Rene. It must have been a travel through time to have a look through the books. The one that was your moms is a great discovery. It must make you imagine your mom using it and what it was like in the time she did use it.