What are you working on (in April 2020)?

[Michele]

Annie, my dear Annie. Wishing you a quick recovery. It must be so frustrating for you. Missing your wonderful work here. I agree that it’s great to come here and see what everyone’s up to even when we are not creating ourselves. Lots of love and healing thoughts headed your way. Hugs.

[Michele]

Haven’t been doing much scrapping lately; just no inspiration during this global crisis. My saving grace is that I have to do a picture for my gaming group every day so I won’t get too rusty. This was my daily theme pic from yesterday. Started with a B&W pic from VectorStock. Colorized it with Topaz B&W effects plugin. Then I applied a randomized kaleidoscope effect that I liked and used it as a background/frame. I buttonized the main pic on a separate layer and softened it a lot with the adjust option. I’ve found that using the Buttonize 3D effect on it’s own layer gives me more flexibility. The font is called Ultra. Keep in mind that I don’t pick the themes. LOL

Stay home and stay safe, everyone.

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[Lynda DiGregor]

Michele,

A couple of comments.

First, what is this gaming group? What do you do and why the themes?

Second, a number of years ago I was the director of a Women on Wheels group called the Illinois Red Hawk Riders so I really appreciate this particular “daily theme pic”.  Very nice!

Lynda

[Lynda DiGregor]

 

Libera,

LOL, looks like Red Cabbage

[Michele]

Thanks, Lynda. It’s just a Facebook simulation game called City Girl Life that was first sponsored by Disney and has changed hands several times. It’s similar to the Sims Social which shut down years ago. I actually started using PSP when I was asked to make some pictures for a Sims Social group. When that game closed, most of us moved over to City Girl Life. Long story short, I ended up as admin of a group of players. A feature of the game is the Daily Look contest, usually based on clothing collections they’re “selling.” They give us a theme and a background and we dress accordingly. Hence, the daily pics. We also have apartments that we can decorate. It gave me something to do when I was taking care of my mother. The reason I keep playing is because of the members of my group; they’re wonderful and I’ve known them for years now. (So much for making a long story short LOL.)

Here’s a screenshot of my current apartment and what I wore for the Live to Ride theme.

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[Lyn Lou]

Great work ladies, love the Papers Linda. My mojo seems to have disappeared with the exception of making my kits that I sell in a few stores.  These are my most recent kits.
I have been looking for my mojo this past week or so, and can’t find it….so if you come across it please let me know!

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[Michele]

Those are beautiful kits, Lyn. I think your mojo is social distancing with mine.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Michele,

That is very cool and looks like a lot of work…Kudos!

[Lynda DiGregor]

Lyn Lou,

Looks like you’re doing OK to me..Nice kits1

[Lyn Lou]

I agree Michele. Thank you both 🙂

[Julie Magerka]

With ongoing practice and help from Cassel, I keep working to improve old and damaged photos that are kindly shared with me for work that I do on the history of my home town in a monthly series of articles. Prior to getting the hang of using PSP for this, I just used the pix as they were. Now I can make them better so they print better. And I’m delighted with the results and with the help I get from Cassel.

Just showing a sample here. The shot is from the tiny village of Merlin, ON.

Julie (Belle River ON)

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[Lyn Lou]

Great job Julie , another useful tool, (depending on the version you use), is the perspective tool to make the buildings level.

[Sawnie Robertson]

For several years I have taken some of my better photos of flowers and painted out the area surrounding the flowers to make them stand out.  I am now preparing a scrapbook on each of the flowers with a black background.  I try to use what Cassel teaches in her classes. Attached are three examples of my pages.

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[Julie Magerka]

Hi Lyn Lou, haven’t quite mastered that one yet! But you’re right. Always learning….

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks dear Michele! I appreciate the love and healing thoughts … need all I can get, 😉 I love your biker lady, she rocks!

[Annie Tobin]

I do love these kits Lyn Lou, they are delightful. My mojo has joined up with yours … if I stumble across them I will send yours home! 😉

[Michele]

Julie, what a difference you made in that picture. Your town is going to love it and whatever follows.

Really nice work, Sawnie. Each page is unique as are the flowers.

[Lyn Lou]

Thank you Annie, 🙂 and I hope you find your mojo too.

[trish williams]

been making some background papers but couldnt decide which colour worked best

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[trish williams]

some more

 

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[trish williams]

finish

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[trish williams]

add initials

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[trish williams]

and a couple more x

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[Corrie Kinkel]

And here is the result on Module 4 from Basic Scrapbook Course.

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[Lynda DiGregor]

Filling in a few Labs that I missed. This is the first lesson in Lab 8 Module 12, Polaroid Frame. I’ve done something similar to this before but this seems easier.

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[Minka]

Hi everyone … Have loved seeing alllllllll of your work. I hope everyone is better by now and praying we ALL stay safe. Been busy with projects lately, but had time to play today. Probably going to be a long time before it’s safe to go home … so only going there in my mind for now. Let’s all hope it will be safe to move around freely again one day relatively soon.

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[Bonnie Ballentine]

Hi, Minka!

I love Peaks Island! I attend a senior women’s basketball camp in Portland, ME. The camp goes for an excursion one night and we have visited Peaks Island several times. Did you live there?

[trish williams]

Need a new project, need some inspiration

 

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[Lynda DiGregor]

Trish,

Beautiful backgrounds…perfect for spring

Lynda

[Lynda DiGregor]

We woke up to 4 inches of snow April 17,2020.  Just a week ago I was taking photos of the daffodils and the Pussy Willow.

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