Susan Ewart

I will for sure! a trip of the lifetime it would be.

Wow I looked up where you live and it's beautiful. Shameful I couldn't picture where NB was in my head. What a great location, I bet there is a lot of historical buildings there. Looks like I'll put that on the bucket list of places to visit and photograph (when we retire).

Bonnie that's beautifully done. Is that a bus in the lower right picture. I love tht one.

Is that you up in the 1941 box? Beautiful layout and tribute to your father. i like the photos done that way and the background with the curled paper edge.

I'm adding this layout here because it's June and I'm late for the May Scraplift Challenge. The background paper is made with effects>texture effects>texture>bricks. I scuffed it up with an overlay I made from the image in the middle. The middle dandelion fluff, is one of my photo's, which i did negative image and some other unspeakable things to. Only unspeakable because I cant remember, guessing I desaturated and lowered opacity and other stuff. I used barbed wire instead of stitching, it seemed to fit better. Photo's are mine. I spray water on the seed heads and brought them in the studio to photograph. The concept needs more experimentation (perhaps with gycerine instead). Fonts: Black Range (pluviophile) & Alisabela Brushley (quote) both from Creative Fabrica. I tried putting water spots on the layout but couldnt make it look random enough so just left it off for now. Carole: should this go in the miscellanous area of the gallery or in the Scraplift part, even though I'm late with it.

I love them too! And my yard is full of them. I made a deal with DH Rob (Darling Husband Rob) that he could mow the front yard but I got the backyard left alone until I finished with the little beauties. they are dont now and I did manage to get to shots (portraits mostly in the studio). I am working on another layout with them. Your's is a beauty, perfectly perfect. they are the happiest of flowers.

C= Charlie, the nick-name my dad called me. I'm not sure why or how it came to be. Just remember it as long as I can remember.

Awwww, so sweet.

Yes, there will always be questions. Usually I just go from the link in my notification email and it takes me to the post so I forget what's at the top of the page. It's good to be reminded to look where I am before I "speak".

I made a new post. Is this correct? thanks for reminding me, sometime I forget to look at topic of the original post.

Congratulations to Suzy for her wonderful new kit "Limequila" found at Digital Scrapbook's June Blog Train. Link below (I hope it works). https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking/digitalscrapbookcom-blog-trains/june-2023-blog-train-final-list?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=this_week_at_pixel_scrapper

So pretty!

It's at the blog train for june at Digital Scrapbook. Hope this link works. Scroll down and you will see Suzy's kit. the photo doesnt come up on my computer, but the links worked fine for me. https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking/digitalscrapbookcom-blog-trains/june-2023-blog-train-final-list?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=this_week_at_pixel_scrapper

I will look for The Doctor Blake Mysteries. Thank you. We did watch the season 1 behind the scene and see that season two has one as well. I enjoy behind the scenes shows. She is the woman every woman would like to be for sure. I think I'm more like Dot....but not as smart or capable with a thread and needle. ? Thanks for giving us a new show to look for. Since we gave up Netflix we've been watching a lot of good shows in U-tube.

Oh yes, and it's just the best show. Jack has the most beautiful voice wouldnt you say. And Phryne, her clothes and just the way she is, love it. It's a fabulous show. We are getting it (in Canada) on utube...until our powers that be cut us off that is. We were watching Poirot, Miss Marple and other Agatha Christie movies and now our govt has blocked those due to new legislation. FUN POLICE are alive and well at the CRTC (our regulatory body). Thank you for your comments. Do you watch this show as well. We are almost binge watching in case we lose it. Currently on Season 2 around episode 10 I think. The set is so richly decorated and fashion is stunning.

That background effect is really cool. It's interesting how you came up with it. I need to do more thinking out of the box like that.

It's about time. I was on Digital Scrapbook and noticed I had a picture there. Took me 1/2 hr to find it on my computer.

I am looking forward to the class. Thank you for your comments. I think I had to turn it into a raster to use the eraser tool on it. But, yeah, Vectors make my head spin. We will take the workshop and tame them demon vectors. It is dizzying trying to remember when to convert to this or that. I hear the words from Carole but it isnt sinking in. I think we need to do it and struggle through the blocks that arise to actually "understand" it. My vectors were in making shapes and sticking them together. After the fact, since I used "spades" in the cards, it would have been cool to use spades (outline) where the little circles are.

hahahaha. this is actually from 2018, in the hospital when my niece who just had a baby (c-section no less) had to get up out of bed to take a picture of me and Baby Luke. Worst. Aunt. Ever. I look the same, still crazy hair that needs cutting badly, but much more gray at temples. Ann has hinted I should add one for some time, so I'm seeing how long it takes for her to notice. I will try and get a new picture sometime soon.

Thank you. I tried doing them outside too, but seems like my creativity stops at the studio door. ?

Nothing wrong with that, if it's not working, move on and find something that does work. It's not giving up, you solved the problem of those textures and overlays not working, so you in fact learned something from trying it. I know it feels like giving up, but think of it as learning what isnt working often moves you back to what IS working. Dont we learn more from what goes wrong than what goes right. I do know all too well this part of learning is the unfun part of it

I am watching this Australian Mystery series on utube and there was a scene with a cool design in the building (picture below). I wanted to try and receate the graphic version. I cant wait till we do the Vector workshop. I used vectors to create it and did some problem solving along the way. I'm happy with what I did this time. I didnt quite get the proportions right. When I know better I'll do better. I was playing with what to do with the background when I tried the gradient called "Underworld" so my theme was gambling in the underworld (too much watching the TV show Supernatural). I used the eraser tool to fade out the bottom as if it was descending to the underworld. It was the first time using the Custom Playing Card script from Carole. I LOVE IT. I learned to click "cancel" when choosing a photo and "cancel" again to continue the script and ended up with the layers of, white background and card number/suit. I put the same gradient on the card, lightened, and put my photo's on. I can see a lot of ways to use this script. My original layout was quite dark (my monitor is very light so it's hard to know what it looks like) so I lightened it up for the forum/gallery. My photo's of a recent studio shoot, fun with expiring dandelions. Font is Vanilla Right.

I love this and I quite like the white background. It's a high key layout. I also like the use of the three strips creating triangle which are very dynamic in the composition/design world. You could try a texture but it might not look so good with the sketch graphic. I think it would detract from the cleaness and mimimalist style.