Jumpstart January 2023

[mimes1]

I'll be playing catch up this week. My mom fell and broke her pelvis. She's settled and stable at the hospital for now but we'll be moving her to rehab sometime next week.  I should have some downtime in the evening to scrap when I get home from the hospital. I hope anyway. 

[mimes1]

January 23 - SPEEDBUMP:  Left some Love on 4 layouts ✔️

 

[April Showers]

January 26^th
TASK 22 - Start a new layout and add your papers
Note: You will need to use the tutorial you chose somehow on this layout. When you use it will depend on the specific tutorial.

[Belle]

26 January, Task 22. 

Layout started and added paper. Used the texture tutorial.

 Texture Turorial

[MariJ]

9 hours ago, mimes1 said:

I'll be playing catch up this week. My mom fell and broke her pelvis. She's settled and stable at the hospital for now but we'll be moving her to rehab sometime next week.  I should have some downtime in the evening to scrap when I get home from the hospital. I hope anyway. 

Oh, no Amy - so sorry to hear this. 😪   Wishing your Mom a smooth rehab and healing.    And, please take care of yourself as best you can.   Sending hugs, my friend.  💜

[MariJ]

I'm so far behind in tasks for this week and haven't gotten back to week one! 😱
I'm going to finish my last layout for Challenge Chase and then get back to this, 

[Florida granny]

Jan. 26
Task #22 complete. Papers added.

 

@mimes1 Oh no! Your poor Mom. That's so worrisome, but I'm glad she's stable and under care. Please take care of yourself, too! Let us know how you both are doing -- when you can.

[Celestine]

13 hours ago, mimes1 said:

I'll be playing catch up this week. My mom fell and broke her pelvis. She's settled and stable at the hospital for now but we'll be moving her to rehab sometime next week.  I should have some downtime in the evening to scrap when I get home from the hospital. I hope anyway. 

Oh, Amy, I am so sorry to hear this. This is such a serious injury for your mom, and I hope everything goes okay. I'll be thinking of you.

[Boatlady]

So sorry Amy it is so hard on us when our parents have problems. I wish her well and hope you can relax knowing she is in the care of professionals.

Jan 26

Task 22 added 2 papers.

[scrapgran]

Sorry to hear about your Mum @mimes1. Wishing her a speedy recovery. Take care.

[scrapgran]

Task #22

New layout started & papers added.

[April Showers]

January 27^th
TASK 23 - Add your photo(s) and an odd number of embellishments to your page.
Note: You will need to use the tutorial you chose somehow on this layout. When you use it will depend on the specific tutorial.

[Belle]

27 January. Task 23.

I applied the, aimeeh_forthebirds_texture, to the photo using a multiply blend mode to the texture paper. I also added 5 embellishments.

[KristiM]

Task 20 & 21
Many of the tutorials don't really work well for me since they are all geared toward Photoshop users and I use Affinity to create my layouts, but I was able to figure out something new about using brushes after reading this tutorial. 
https://scrapgirls.com/blog/5-fun-ways-to-use-stitching-brushes
"You can make perfectly straight lines by holding down the Shift key as you draw with your brush"  This also works in Affinity and I always struggled to create straight lines.

[KristiM]

On 1/26/2023 at 7:09 AM, MariJ said:

I'm so far behind in tasks for this week and haven't gotten back to week one! 😱

I know what you mean, MariJ.  I am struggling to keep up as well.  I am only about a week behind but even at that with the month quickly coming to end I doubt I will catch up.  I am finding these "task a day" type challenge are just a bit too much for me so this may be the last one I try to do.  

[Florida granny]

Jan 27 Task #23 completed. I added one embellishment. I'm also continuing to play with the tutorial on creative uses for styles and added a style to one of my papers. What a change! This is fun.  

[Florida granny]

1 hour ago, KristiM said:

Task 20 & 21
Many of the tutorials don't really work well for me since they are all geared toward Photoshop users and I use Affinity to create my layouts, but I was able to figure out something new about using brushes after reading this tutorial. 
https://scrapgirls.com/blog/5-fun-ways-to-use-stitching-brushes
"You can make perfectly straight lines by holding down the Shift key as you draw with your brush"  This also works in Affinity and I always struggled to create straight lines.

Good for you finding a tutorial that works for Affinity. Don't you love learning something new? (Like the shift key keeping your lines straight? Pretty cool!)

[MariJ]

Here we go, finally -- only 20 days late!
January 8^th  
LAYOUT TASK 7 - Add some journaling, a date, and any finishing touches to your layout.  
REQUIREMENT: When you are finished, upload your “Recent Photos” layout.

Christmas Now and Then

[scrapgran]

Task #23

I have added my photo and 3 embellishments. I used the Quick and Easy mask Tip by Anna Mansfield on my photo.

[April Showers]

January 28^th
TASK 24 – Create a title for your page.
Note: You will need to use the tutorial you chose somehow on this layout. When you use it will depend on the specific tutorial.

[Belle]

January 28. Task 24. Title added. 

[Boatlady]

Task 23  I added an odd number of embellishments

Task 24  I made a title.

[Florida granny]

Jan 28 task #24 complete. Title added... and, not surprisingly, I added a style to it. This tutorial has really inspired me to use styles in ways I don't normally think of. I also added two more embellishments for a total of 3. 

[scrapgran]

Task #24

Title added

[MariJ]

Ok, back in business here and playing catch up.

January 25th 
TASK 21
(Apparently I jumped the gun and not only picked my tutorial on the 24th, I tried it too on the last task.   But, I did more now)

One Click Selections with PSE 2020
I tried this tutorial, exciting!  I never knew I could select a subject like that, very cool and easy.  You have to have a photo that works, but mine did.  I also worked on and tried adding to and subtracting from your selection using the lasso tool.  It worked!  😊

January 26th
TASK 22
Layout started, papers added.

January 27th
TASK 23
Photos and embellishments added; I used the tutorial on the main photo.

January 28th
TASK 24
Title created using the Alpha from the Collection I'm using.

Ready for tomorrow's task!  

[April Showers]

January 29^th
LAYOUT TASK 25 – Add Journaling & Finishing Touches to your layout. Note: You will need to use the tutorial you chose somehow on this layout. When you use it will depend on the specific tutorial.
REQUIREMENT: Upload your “Tutorial Layout” to the Jumpstart January Gallery.

[Boatlady]

I used Jody West's tutorial for blending photo into background- I had so much fun messing around with this tutorial that I made 2 pages.  # one is horizontal gradient and #2 is Vertical.

One

Two

[MariJ]

January 29^th
LAYOUT TASK 25

Dr J

I added journaling and finishing touches and uploaded to the JJ Gallery
I used my tutorial: One Click Selections with PSE 2020 to extract the subject.  Extractions always take me forever, I had no idea it could be this easy!

Thanks for a fun month April. 😊  @April Showers

[Florida granny]

Jan. 29 - Layout #4: Masks added. I used this tutorial on 5 Creative Uses for Styles and had so much fun with it that I wound up trying several of her suggestions. Thanks for a fun week!

[April Showers]

January 30^th
SPEEDBUMP - We know you get busy, and life’s little speed bumps can get in the way, so today’s task is to work on any task you haven’t completed. If you’ve finished them all, congratulations!