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jhbren

By jhbren

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I started this spread last night, wanting to finish as many layouts as possible before leavening tomorrow to visit Alta - and her family, of course. Choose the layout design was easy - I love this template by Elisha Barnett, and I had seven photos; perfect fit. The hard part was choosing, and rechoosing, and manipulating papers for the background. Nothing I have in my stash worked "as is"; I shuffled and rearranged and blended and added adjustment layers until finally this combination emerged. Then I needed to find embellishments for the corners - brushes and styles to the rescue. When I read the challenge this morning, I howled - my contribution was almost done, and I hadn't even planned it to be colorful - Alta's painting demanded lots of colors. Thanks for the challenge, Valerie.

 

I was surprised by one issue. When I cut the layout in two, the style on the bracket mat added itself to the cut edges. Not a problem for printing, as I'm using 8 x8 pages, and can print on 13 x 19 paper, and just cut. It seem a bit strange on the digital images posted, although I tried to cover it with an overlayed strip from the mat. If anyone knows how to handle this problem, I'd be grateful for the solution.

 

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teecee

What a wonderful layout Jo! The photos are adorable and the embellishments of paint splatters are perfect. Great journaling and wonderful background too. I love it!

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AggieB

Great job on the background - it looks wonderful & the paint splotches are a really neat touch. Your daughter is a brave woman and your granddaughter is very talented.

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Elisha

This is beautiful! I'm so glad the template worked so well for you. Regarding the style - yes they can look funny at the edges of your layout. To solve that here, you'd want to merge the style to your element before splitting the layout. To do this, create a new blank layer and then merge the two layers together. Then the style will not affect the "cut" edge.

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Florida granny

This turned out great! Definitely worth all that work, LOL. She's adorable. I especially like the splotch embellishments. I imagine that's what her work surface looks like, too. :D

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