Spring is (supposedly) coming - time to roll out the salads and cold desserts! I'd already done this one as a smaller card, but I think it will be MUCH easier to read at this new size.

Embellishments used:

• Flower and ribbon is from Team Digital's Birthday Bonus freebie kit
• Paper and notepaper is from Nicole Young's kit Ticket to Love
• Font is called Kingthings Wrote, by Kingthings
  

All American Macaroni Salad

Having printed about 30 recipe cards, and finding the cutest little fake-antique box to keep them in, I've decided that they're too small - I'm finding it a real struggle to get all the information on such a small space. So I'm upgrading to A5 size, which feels massive after such a cramped canvas. This is my first one at this size, and I've decided to keep them in protective sheets, instead of laminating them, so I can add comments and changes if I want to.

Bits used:

• Flower from Robyn Gough's kit Fabbo Funky Flowers
• Paper from Suzanne C Walker's kit Back to the 70s
• Font Love LetterTW
  

Decided that tagging each image in my collection can wait a while - this is far more fun!

Embellishments used:

• Flower is from Team Digital's Birthday Bonus freebie kit
• Paper and notepaper is from Nicole Young's kit Ticket to Love

Font: Magic Cards Medium

Lesson 6: Glass Brads

I totally cheated with this - it's the same script that I used for lesson 5, with a few layers removed and tweaked.

Lesson 5: Glass Brads

Lesson 5 depends entirely on using PSP and PSP-specific filters, so it took a bit of searching to find a GIMP tut that wasn't centred on making buttons for websites (have been feeling a bit under the weather and not in the mood to try and nut out an alternative on my own). And then I just so happened to be looking at scripts on DA and found one that did all the work for me:

It's based on a full-sized, step by step tut, but like I said, I'm feeling particularly lazy this weekend, and am happy enough to just have the result with minimum effort.

Scrap Class Lesson 4: Metal Element

Lesson 4 is to create a simple metallic element. It took me a while to figure out which filters I needed, but the result looks close enough to the original for me. I'd like to learn how to make more realistic elements, but for now I think this is a good start.

Scrap Class Lesson 3: Buckle

To make a buckle from scratch, based on a PSP tutorial. Using GIMP, I'm not sure I've got the right idea, as I used a different filter to what PSP has... but this is all right by me for now. Hopefully I'll improve with time, lol.

This is the same thing, with a ribbon added to see how it looks: