The crab apple tree has lots of blossoms this spring, looking beautiful. I used a befunky.com edit of pinhole 1 for the black and white version then overlaid a partial of a cross process 2 version for a little color with a hard light blend mode. The original had a too much of the house behind...

scrap-genie's MAY 2023 challenge layout links: CHALLENGE 1 - DIFFERENT SIZE https://oscraps.com/community/media/springtime-color.378065/ CHALLENGE 2 - SEASONAL https://oscraps.com/community/media/may-favorites.378852/ CHALLENGE 3 - COLLABORATIONS...

So here's the flip side of my morning LO.

I sometimes say I'm a night owl and I really to like to stay up late then sleep late but I want a lot of hours of sleep too. The black lines are my drawing.

Ona @wombat146 I LOVE it! I'm afraid I don't know the song, but these outrageous dancing queens are perfection, especially in those colors against the night buildings. I haven't finished my latest projects, but this one really made me happy looking at it on a day I needed that so I think I'm...

From the 1st, title at the top, journaling on a line, designs on the sides & feeling of movement from the 2nd, quiet colors, 2 photos (in this case two frames on one photo) & large bow

DH worked on finding an angle from the boardwalk to get a photo of the male Wood Duck with his reflection and got this one. I liked it for this double scraplift.

Mine's with a train. Thanks for the topic this month!

The trip to Salt Lake City with time spent in Colorado too was astonishing to a flat land child. Wonderful memories including the trains.

The sunny yellow really stands out in the gallery. Loving your finally having daffodils in bloom. I like the book center and notebook spiral in this and the lovely little cluster. Nice take on the sketch!

This is what came to mind reading the intro.

That drawer with the Nestle's cookbook was a favorite of mine as a kid and so were the cookies I made from it.

It is a lovely page but the message is also so strong. I think I may know what you mean. I have friends, but not like a few in the past who were really close. But I think they made the effort to be close and I just don't know how. Maybe it's that I was younger and not set in a rut like now as...

Expression through these little soldier crocus buds coming up between a rock and a paving stone, and this year competing with a clump of grass.

Always like a font challenge! I used Minya Nouvelle (serif), Boss Signature (script), KG Skinny Latte (san serif).

DH took photos of this female American Robin for detail of her head pattern as it looks a bit streaked. The pair do settle into the yard and all around.

Thank you so much, Chris! :sparkles1: I love this sleepy morning LO, it just feels like a cocoon letting morning take care of itself. DH likes it too!

Wonderful distressed texture here! Another good looking LO with a not so great story without the water.

Lovely pages, but disturbing image without water. Refuge water flow often isn't natural but managed by the refuge with changes likely in how they see its purpose. Hopefully this one will get some of that snow melt!

Always fun with sketches and this one is nicely different.