Ann Seeber

Acquired a rather nice photo of my granddaughter, the bride and her groom-to-be who are heading for a wedding on June 11. I made a mask for the photo, acquired the background and word art and ampersand from Marisa at Pixelscrappers and the lovebirds are from February's Valentine kits. The font on their names is Aviation Cocktail Aged.

Minka & Christina: Thank  you!

Been playing with a mask, and a photo that I enlarged to 12x12 and applied various effects and then twirled. The original photo is in the mask in the center. It came from Facebook/The Hudson Valley in Pictures and the photog is Melina Cronin.

Christina: I have 2021 Ultimate but can't find Instant Effects. Where do I look?

Christina: Wow, what an interesting layout! All those lab elements work very well. I looked for the "impasto instant effect" but couldn't find it. Is it part of PSP?

Having a little fun with a fun photo. Made a plaid from the photo and I tried out square-like corner punches and brushes that look like turtle toes. I made a pattern of the shiniest turtle shell and used it on the photo frame and on the brush pattern on the green paper. The bottom has some sort of "splat" ;-)

I'm here too. Not sure how many designs I will do but I like the camaraderie in these forums.

Not sure about the color combo but I've been dying to use this photo, so here goes. The photo is from the Hudson Valley in Pictures by Susan Ward. I used the curved photo script on it. The journaling is from Wikipedia.

Lynda, very nice. If I had to choose, I like the purple one the best, probably because the colors work with the flower.

Playing with Art Media, using the palette knife with 3 colors and adding a Gaussian blur. Now I need to find a  photo that works with these colors.

Lynda: So sorry for your loss. :-(  Your layout is lots of fun. A memorable time, I'm sure. I lost two grandchildren myself, so I feel for you. ((hug))

I found this photo by Roger Pare and story by Judy Lampe Shelledy on The Hudson Valley in Pictures on Facebook. I created the background from a photo by Jennifer O'Shea last winter that had a lot of sky and I enlarged it so I could get a 3600px paper from it. I did a mask for the eaglet but it ended up obsured with the round frame that I created using the selection tool and then applying the chisel and buttonize. The pale bottom paper I used Cassel's burned edges script and the label was in my stash of elements along with the sun and the trees. The title font is Curlz.

I love both your pages, Lynda! Of course I remember the Chevy commercial and your Sea to Shining Sea layout is marvelous, too! What a great way to display vacation and/or travel photos. Great photos, by the way. Your layouts really take advantage of the extra space in a 7200 width. Nice job on the mask for your truck! I also admired the concrete background on Sea to Sea. Great job!

Did an In Memoriam for my daughter's dog, Lolajean. Sweet girl! Used Cassel's template. Not easy!

Jnet: Traduit pour vous

 

C'était le 18 décembre 1977 et cela a commencé par une tempête de verglas la nuit précédente.

 

Nous avons parcouru environ 20 milles dans la glace pour aller au palais de justice pour la cérémonie. Frank était le conducteur nerveux et nous avions Laurey, Beth et l'amie de Laurey, Laura dans ma petite voiture. Frank n'arrêtait pas de dire: "Je vais vous y amener, Annie!"

 

Nous avons dû nous garer en bas de la colline du palais de justice de Newton et c'était de la glace pure alors que nous nous efforcions de marcher dans nos plus beaux atours pour rencontrer nos parents et le juge.

 

Nous avions réservé une réception au Ye Olde Jolly Onion Inn à Pine Island pour 85 personnes. Trente-deux se sont présentés. Il manquait le témoin et notre patron du journal.

 

Le rendez-vous de la mère de Frank a remplacé le meilleur homme de la cérémonie. Ma fille, Debbie, a signé le certificat de mariage avec Russ.

 

C'était définitivement une aventure!

I pulled out the April color palette to play with and turned it into this swirly background paper using various tweaks. I had the photo of the birds which I think are super cute so I added a frame that looks like looking through a lens. A little journaling about the birds and two of Corel's spring overlays. Then I played with Cassel's tutorial on text on a path. After several false starts I think it looks pretty good, if I do say so myself! ;-)

Michelle: I could share Grands, of which I have 9. Here's a photo of us with the Grands back in the year 2000. It's the Great-Grands that are diverting me nowadays.. ;-)

Annie: I love birds and have 5 or 6 feeders here for them at my little city condo. Your species Down Under are endlessly fascinating as I showcased with the lorikeets from my granddaughter's zoo. Interestingly, when in our 20s my first husband and I tried to emigrate to Aussieland. He was a local town police officer here and contacted several cities there looking for work. Unfortunately nothing came of it so I've never even visited your great continent! Actually, the 22 hour flight is somewhat daunting! Glad your layout had large enough type so I could read the whole thing. I would love to see a lyrebird in person! Well done!!

Cassel: Thank you for the clarification. Meanwhile, the wedding bells are a transparent .png that I found with Google which, of course, had a fake transparent background so I wielded my trusty background eraser and it was pretty easy after all. It has two colors so I don't think it's a dingbat and I didn't treat it as a font which I would  ordinarily duplicate the vector and rasterize. I was rather dumbfounded when it vanished on resizing. Here's a peek at the original piece of art...

We had a bit of an adventure getting to our wedding ceremony. Hereby lies the tale...

 

(I also had an adventure trying to post this.. the wedding bell elements vanished when I scaled down the .pspimage. I had to go back and put them back in and then I saved it as a .jpg full size before scaling down. That worked!)

Sandra: That's a wonderful story! We have something similar here called Pennings' Farm and when they wanted to expand the town was fearful they would bring in outside produce but they eventually got permission and my grandkids loved it too. I do love your red background! A quick hint, your title APPLE CHARLIES has too many "Ps". ;-) I used to work as a proofreader and the hardest mistakes to catch are those in the largest type!

Worked up another double page, not necessarily a particular lesson, though this had the three photo masks. Good for me to practice doing them. I still have to have a "cheat sheet." LOL I used a "template" from last year's Travel Time Challenge but it is really a sketch as there were no layers included. I used several baby kits that I've accumulated since the great grands started showing up. ;-)

Working with double width pages in the Double Take Challenge, I pulled out a "template" (really a sketch, there are no layers) from last year's Travel Time Challenge and rounded up the latest photos of my "Great Grands" I have several baby kits to choose from.

Carole: I'm a little confused. I didn't know I was supposed to crop the photos for the slats. I just chose photos that seems to work vertically. I actually enlarged them to 2900 in height to fill the slat and then slipped into the mask to get that effect which is what I saw you do on the video.

 

Here are the full photos of each bird, resized for posting here.

Annie: My goodness, you have smashing birds Down Under! The colors blow me away. Your layout certainly does them justice. If I were you I'd contact the Tourism Department to see if they'd buy it for their promos! Well done! ;-)