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Celestine

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  1. Celestine

    Sisters

    My poor old eyes are struggling to read your journaling, but I do like your layering and palette. (I do think I need to get my glasses prescription updated - yikes). Total gorgeousness, as always, Bea!
  2. Celestine

    Why Go Out?

    That photo is really interesting! I like the way you have combined the ombre and the flower tear paper over the top - it makes for great contrast for the yellow-framed photo. The tiny buttons are adorable.
  3. Gorgeous car! I love the wild black and red background you chose for this.
  4. I am so happy you found this inspiring, Marilyn! Like you said earlier, no layout is ever late! Now - important thing is to keep that layout as a template so you don't have to start all over again! 😁
  5. I think this is really well done! It is hard to pack 13 images onto a page, but sometimes it is what the layout calls for! I think you did a terrific job positioning everything and making them all large enough to really see. The use of the ombre is perfect and I like the staggering. It is very pleasing to the eye. What a fun layout, and I am sure it will be treasured by Julianne's family, just like their lucky little shamrock!
  6. How adorable with the journaling to go with adorable little you! I think you did a great job upgrading the slide image. I have some to scan, and I am dreading it! Your cluster and the sand are just perfect.
  7. That looks like a fun beach day. The seagulls are hilarious. I like the way you picked a patterned border and used the red frame. Everything you did draws my eye to the center photo.
  8. So cute and I love the tree filled with the music paper. and then repeated as the background in the oval image. I like the way you paired the very classical red and copper with the buffalo print. Great juxtaposition.
  9. Looks very pretty! We have hostas just like that in our yard, but I am going to have to move nearly all of them. The tornado last spring took out all the trees and shade in our yard and my hostas just burned up over the summer. I really like your pretty watercolor paper and the little corner edge.
  10. What an incredible play area! The kit is perfect for this photo series. I also like the frames you used paired with all those red border brushes. Love it.
  11. @MariJ @barbaraj I wish I could claim credit for the stroke of genius on the repeating anchor squares, but that was one of the papers in Bekah’s kit.
  12. Such pretty flora and fauna! That rattan frame is really neat. You picked up just the right colors with the red papers.
  13. Oh, my goodness, I ADORE this! That pattern in the top, paired with the gorgeous heart and wine cluster is fantastic. Those red chairs and the umbrella balance that stunning Gothic Revival house and the red damask perfectly. Wowza! Love it. You are so good at pairing your scenery images with patterned papers. You could teach a class on this technique.
  14. This is adorable! That word strip is so funny. Love the way you layered all the red papers on top of blue. You work with pattern so well, and I am truly envious!
  15. Marilyn - I am really loving this. The addition of the photos on the long strips really works! I'm with you about avoiding too much pattern if you are using color photos. The subtle background pattern is probably enough and provides really good contrast. Can't wait to see the final version!
  16. Bekah E Designs My Anchor Brandy Murry SSPT: Torn Paper Masks Fonts: Sunday April, Tatlers End Photos: Personal
  17. Have you thought about dividing the set into six months on top and six months on the bottom, and then having a long strip for #13? This way your strips will not be so thin. The showing bits of paper will be fewer but maybe repeating some of the patterns will make it less jumbled looking. Just a thought!
  18. From camper living and travel to box gardening, it is always fun to join your adventures! Great photos. I can’t believe those carrots wintered over! Blended wood for the background is perfect, along with that grassy border.
  19. Very pretty! This is a great template to use to show off both the greens and the cacti!
  20. That mask is a natural for the fragmented challenge! You had a stunning photo to highlight. Like Tracy said, the watercolor paper is perfect. Thanks for joining the challenge!
  21. Oh, I would love this, and so would hubby. Love the photo that shows it so well. Yum!
  22. Celestine

    Azalea

    So, using the title as the fragment is an interesting take on the challenge. The colors are very pretty. I like the duplicate of the image in the corner with the cluster. Thanks for joining the challenge. April does the drawing for the newsletter and weekend challenges, so I don't know if she has accomplished that already.
  23. Oh, I have a recipe that is similar, but without the avocado and with cilantro. I love that recipe with all the fresh herbs, so I will need to try this. I bet it is really good layered with fajitas as well. Yum. I love all the subtle shading and then the punched border. Thanks for joining the Recipe Swap!
  24. @MariJ As a reminder, I scrap pages in My Memories software, so I hope things translate. I created the photo boxes for the images first, trying to see how wide I needed them to be. If you do 12, then you will definitely be working in photo fragments, where only portions of your images are likely to be visible. So, set the standard width, and then stagger them up and down, and then space evenly (there is an "Align - Space Evenly Horizontal" command for selected items in My Memories.) I am pretty sure there is an Align and Distribute command in PS. Clip an image to each photo box. Then I created two more sets of photo boxes in the same width for each image, and bumped one up and one down from the image box, unevenly. Make sure they are lined up vertically with your image. Clip papers to each photo box. Bring the photo boxes with the images forward so they are layered in front of the boxes filled with papers. I did not place shadows on any of the boxes because I liked the look of the flat and I thought the contrast with the black paper was better without shadows. Also, I should mention that all the photo boxes were the same size for convenience sake, but the layering and staggered bumping up and down makes them look like different sizes. I hope this explains how I put it together and translates to PS! I know I should learn PS better as it has tools not available in My Memories, but I always think the simplest tasks take soooo much longer in PS. It is probably because I just know MM software extremely well and for some reason PS has NEVER been intuitive for me. Even when I was working in my government job, I knew Adobe's InDesign software really well and could never master PS. Weird, I know. 🤷‍♀️
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