My Grungy Garden

This was made with Anna Aspnes doublewide Template #12. The pictures were taken in August....I was meaning to show how grungy my rock garden looks after all the things it's been through this hot summer. Seems like there are still spots of beauty to be found just the same. I'm glad!

August Second Week

It was so nice there were times when I turned off the air conditioning! How wonderful! Anna Aspnes Template No. 6 inspired this doublewide layout. It's the first time I played with cardboard! Tutorial was by Cassie Jones with elements by Katie Pertiet. Text paths were from Patty Knox. I'm loving all these new things!

More Learning Adventures

I followed another Cassie Jones tutorial with elements by Katie Pertiet.   The picture is one of Joni's from last March when we went to Padre Island.  I meant to use a pelican but couldn't resist this picture-perfect gull!

Saffron Sunset

Another sunset layout,   this time featuring a yellow-orange look to the sky and water.  It was amazing.  The elements used here were from Anna Aspnes again.   I'm getting so I prefer to use Photoshop all the way rather than switching back and forth from Paint Shop Pro....earlier I was sure that would never happen.!  I went to Wikipedia to learn a little about saffron...it seemed to me that it was part of the fruit in fruitcake but I couldn't remember.   It was fascinating learning about its history and uses.   The snip of a definition is a scan from my collegiate edition of Webster's dictionary...copyright 1951!

Learning Adventure

I followed a tutorial by Cassie Jones this afternoon....it taught me things I didn't know about Photoshop.  The elements are by Katie Pertiet,  except for the picture,  of course.   That is a sunset from a year ago that I had been itching to use.   So here it is!  Thank you,  Cassie and Katie!

Earlier This Summer

So soon we forget.....June was not so hot that we had to stay indoors,  but the grass was growing so fast it was hard to keep up with!  I was delighted that my neighbor Shane and a couple of his buddies wanted to help mow!  There's little or no mowing this month;  everything is turning brown and the trees are shedding their leaves.  This is one of the first layouts I made with Anna Aspnes' magic fotoblendz effects.

Four days in Kansas

I spend most of my time indoors in this kind of weather but these four days I had to venture out there to take pictures of the roofing project.  The temperature was said to be as high as 111 degrees during this time period.  Thank goodness for air conditioning!  For this layout I modified one of Anna's templates...No. 12 doublewide.