This one wasn't inspired by a catalog, but I think next week's probably will be.

Enjoy!

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You can download the zip file here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/kz3dj7

Oh, good grief....no one has posted their sketch yet. I was hoping to hide mine amongst a bunch of others. I'm not very proud of mine....still having trouble placing photos in these templates - can you tell I don't know what I'm doing???. Through much fumbling and redoing, I finally got some pictures on there. Lots more work I should have done on it, but I dumped it after I created my web jpg. The background paper came from dittersfreedoodles.com and the frame is one of Jodi's.

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You can either select where you want to put the photos and then do a "paste into selection" or you put the photo above the layer you want it to be on and do a "group with previous". Or you can just use it as a sketch and build it from scratch and use the cookie cutter tool to cut out the oval (in this case) pictures.

Cookie cutter! I forgot all about the cookie cutter. I also totally forgot about group with previous. When I tried to paste into selection, the the pictures got a funny cast to them - maybe because I thought I had to remove the gray color first??? I got a couple in using a real convoluted method. By the time I got to the third picture, I sort of forgot my sequence and never got it in there properly. I'll try again some day when I have more time....packing for a quick weekend trip. Whatever, I'm learning more and more every time I do a challenge and every time I mess up. Thank you for your suggestions. I'll either remember in advance what I'm to try or come looking for your post.

OK - I had to go try - did both paste into selection and group with previous. How simple is that!!! Thanks, Jane.

Glad I could help - hope you have a great trip!