Weekend Projects and Tranquil

It was a busy weekend, but I managed to finish up all my layouts for Stacy Julian’s More Fun class for September. Now on to complete two more layouts for the Design Your Life class with Cathy Z. I’m already loving this. Here’s the first layout for Week 1: Balance & Symmetry:

I’m not one to use enlargements, but I think that might change. It took a while to get the photo printed the way I wanted it. I’ve been trying to work with color profiling, but in this case the printer default produced a better photo than choosing a color profile in Photoshop Elements. The more I get into photo editing, the more I realize I don’t know. Still working on trying to learn the basics in Lightroom as well.

The other big project was card making. A friend is coming over this afternoon for her first experience with this hobby so I made a lot of simple cards so she could see the possibilities without needing to spend a fortune to get started. Since Saturday was World Cardmaking Day there was a lot of inspiration on the internet.

The first two were inspired by a card on Kimberly Kesti’s blog. She got her inspiration from Ali Edwards.

Also inspired by Kim Kesti:

And a two more from three sheets of new Basic Grey paper I picked up on Friday.

And one final card with a stamped image. This was one of my earlier stamp purchases from PrintWorks. I used it to practice blending colored pencils with Gamsol. So many things to learn!

Yesterday Karen, Marie, and I walked in the Breast Cancer Making Strides walk downtown with about 9,000 other walkers. It’s always a fun event and the weather was perfect: sunny and cool.

So, I didn’t post on HS: MS this weekend. Today’s prompt is Tranquil: Free from disturbance. Find something tranquil in your space today. Here are the Canadian geese at the Brighton Town Park. They used to migrate, but so many people feed them that they stay here all winter. It is a tranquil spot.