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  • #48926
    Ann Seeber
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      Lynda: Neat the way the wine glass shape became a cocktail glass – with a cherry!

      Sue: In reading your post again, I focused on your city, Saskatoon. I looked it up and you are a little over 1700 miles from me here in New York, but just the name, Saskatoon, sounds more like some exotic location in the far reaches of the Canadian wilderness! I love the wild west so you’re probably living my childhood dream!

      #48932
      Sue Thomas
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        Michele a good campus friend of mine lives in  New York, like you she is  2 hours ahead of me.  The Prairie Wilderness, where once   10s of millions  of buffalo roamed, now,  as far as the eye can see  the vast grasslands are now down to crops.  Saskatchewan is a vast province, my home land is Wales UK, where you can place 3 UK’s quite comfortably into  Saskatchewan with room to spare.  My equestrian disciplined changed when we moved here from one day eventing, show jumping and dressage to trailing cows across the land for big ranchers.   Over the years horses have been replaced by  quads, and  big trucks to transport cattle.  If you are prepared as I am to get out,  there is an abundance of wildlife.  I love wildlife, and PSP  helps to edit my photos, and showcase them, from the Moose that come  into our treed area on the farm, to macro shots of  the smallest of insects. Buffalo photo is an older shot, the cow and calf Moose visited me on Friday, they come and go as they please as do the Antelope, and other creatures great and small.  I have yet to showcase the Moose.

        #48933
        Sue Thomas
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          Carole, I failed to post 3 photos under 600 pixels, an error came up, unable to establish a connection.  I’m only notifying you to keep you  up to date with the  campus.  You probably know anyway.

          #48936
          Cassel
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            Thanks, Sue, yes, that is one of the current issues I have delegated to my programmer. I am not sure where it is coming from, so he is onto that.

            #48937
            Sue Thomas
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              Anne I failed to post the photos with the message, here goes again! Sue.

              #48939
              Sue Thomas
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                Ann, I failed to post all three photos, so here is the last one.  Buffalo.

                #48941
                Ann Seeber
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                  Sue: I think moose look so comical!

                  What I know of Wales I learned from reading Sharon Kay Penman’s Welsh Princes Trilogy: Here be Dragons, Falls the Shadow and The Reckoning.

                  I loved learning about Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales and his marriage to the English King John’s illegitimate daughter, Joanna, supposedly to secure a peace after years of conflict. Exciting stuff in the 13th Century!

                  #48945
                  Sue Thomas
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                    Ann, Wales is steeped in History.  Fictional and factual. To this day the Welsh still don’t like the English,  we  don’t mind loosing to the Irish or the Scots, or any other team comes to that, when it comes to rugby, but when it comes to the English, we’d rather see  the other teams  win.

                    #48966
                    Sue Thomas
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                      All the snow and snow banks have been cleared, until the next snow fall. Feeling in the festive mood, I wanted to use this photo in a Xmas card. I opted for an ecard, created the envelope and card, background paper, using snow brushes, and the brush variance palette. The corners are from somewhere, I can’t remember where. I duplicated the corner, mirrored, merged down, duplicated and then flipped, I used the pen tool to create the lines in between the corners.

                      #48967
                      Sue Thomas
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                        Carole, I don ‘t know if it’s just my imagination, but do believe the campus has found a higher gear.  A little faster. 🙂

                         

                        #48968
                        Karon Dey
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                          Sue…Another great card with the White Tail Deer. I always appreciate your little “tutorials” on how they are done. I am almost ready to switch places with you though. Temps here in the 90’s and Eta heading our way.

                          Lynda…What a great layout. Blue Mooon, my DH’s favorite, and Margarita’s mine.

                          #48969
                          Karon Dey
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                            Sue…What amazing pictures of the moose and buffalo. Although I have lived all over the world this is one wonder I have never gotten to see. And your Christmas ecard is delightful.

                            #48970
                            Sue Thomas
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                              Thank you Karon, you are always so complimentary with your comments,  and I really do appreciate it.  I don’t think you’d want to  switch places with me  at this time of year.  Although the snow scenes  here are stunningly beautiful, the temps drop to  30 below and colder with the wind chill.

                              #48977
                              Ann Seeber
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                                Sue: That Christmas card is beautiful! Every element is so well coordinated. I particularly like the corner decorations. And of course, the blue jay could be here, right outside my window in the wild cherry tree, with the evergreen nearby. I long for a camera that would create the blurred effect behind the many birds I try to photograph with my iPhone. My neighborhood is far from serene. I lived in the country for years and am now recently back to city/suburban living which I enjoy as that is the atmosphere I grew up in.

                                Here’s an example of what I have to deal with when I photograph birds here from my kitchen window. I haven’t seen this mockingbird recently, hopefully in the spring:

                                #48979
                                Sue Thomas
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                                  Thank you Ann for you complimentary  comment on  the ecard.    Using PSP, you can create the blurred background,  also you can easily extract  subjects and place them on  a better background.   Carole has tutorials on doing all of these.

                                  #48998
                                  fiona cook
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                                    Just playing around with the effects following ‘A Beautiful Mess’ webinar tutorial but not applied them to any project yet.

                                    The Autumn leaves photo created as a Displacement Map was applied to the Toadstool image which had a Gaussian blur already applied to it. I wouldn’t have imagined the final effect but was quite pleased and enjoyed the inspirational tutorial.

                                    #49005
                                    Ann Seeber
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                                      Sue: I did as you suggested and followed one of Carole’s tutorials on extractions and ..voila! Here is the same bird from before, extracted, duplicated and telling their story. 😉

                                       

                                      #49040
                                      Annie Tobin
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                                        Ann, Corrie, Fiona, Karon, Lynda, and Sue. What wonderful work all of you have produced. It was a true pleasure to peruse these two forum pages. Beautiful papers, lovely layouts and photography that makes one green with envy! Well done my friends, you have all made my day. ;D

                                        #49059
                                        Sue Thomas
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                                          I’ve made a start on creating this year’s  Xmas ecards.  All y own work, including the photo.  The corner  holly swirl is a brush, the line is done suing the pen tool.  One of Carole’s Xmas  brush punches on the  card.

                                          #49060
                                          Sue Thomas
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                                            I’ve made a start on creating this year’s  Xmas ecards.  All my own work, including the photo.  The corner  holly swirl is a brush, the line is done suing the pen tool.  One of Carole’s Xmas  brush punches on the  card.

                                            #49062
                                            Sue Thomas
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                                              Here’s another one.

                                              #49069
                                              Ann Seeber
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                                                Sue: I’m admiring that Christmas Grouse! Never saw one before! 😉 You mention Carol’s “punches” .. what is that? (The journaling on the card has a typo.. the plural of reindeer is still reindeer.. without the “s”)

                                                I’m trying to decide with to do with these photos I just took of the new visitors I have.. the tufted titmouse twins.. they’re so cute!

                                                #49078
                                                Sue Thomas
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                                                  Ann,  Carole’s punches are brushes, and you’ll find them in the store, like all brushes, you can  either add a brush using a colour, or use the eraser tool.  Although Reindeer is  correct for plural, it is also accepted if you add an s.  I added an s to be in keeping with  penguins and polar bears.  here is a link to Carole’s brushes in the store. https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=12

                                                  #49083
                                                  Sue Thomas
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                                                    And another one!    I wrote merry Xmas and a Happy new year in Welsh, using the  Welsh  national colours.  I used  fonts to embellish the frame around the photo, retaining the photo within those fonts. And brushes on the out frame. It waas a cold frosty morning, after the blizzard.

                                                    #49090
                                                    Sue Thomas
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                                                      Looking at the two photos you posted, you could  create your own masks  on some of the birds and use them in a greeting card,   using a similar background so they blend in well.  If it would be easier than extracting, as not everything is east to extract. Both of these Jays were masked and I created a background where they would  blend in nicely, or play around with the  blend modes.  You could even  use a selection of the  background to create an autumnal feel, even place a  branch or a log where their are  feet are on the feeder.  There are so many options.

                                                      #49111
                                                      Annie Tobin
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                                                        Sue, beautiful work on this one. I won’t address the individual elements as it comes together so beautifully. I will say that your photo is, as always, superb. Well done my friend. 🙂

                                                        #49112
                                                        Annie Tobin
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                                                          Simple and gorgeously clever, love it Sue. 🙂

                                                          #49143
                                                          Annie Tobin
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                                                            I have many scrap kits and tubes by Alicia Mujica … needless to say, I love her style.  As my mojo has all but deserted me I thought why struggle trying to create my own elements, papers, layouts etcetera when I could use the trillions (slight exaggeration) I have accrued over the years.  So, until my mojo reappears that is what I shall do.

                                                            The tube is called Idaly and the scrap kit is called November, all of which were created by Alicia Mujica.  The layout is by Elif Sahin from Pixel Scrappers and the background paper is … wait for it, drum roll … me, myself and I.  It was achieved by an accumulation of layers and different blend modes which is the kind of playing I like to do.  Font used for Idaly is cubu and the font used for the November title is Always Beside You.

                                                            Thanks for takin a peek my friends.  ;D

                                                            #49158
                                                            Corrie Kinkel
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                                                              Dear Annie, there is nothing wrong with using all the stock you have accumulated, because you liked those things in the first place and they are in your style too. Struggling with creating something does not always give pleasure and I think you must scrap for pleasure! I love this community because it is not about competition! And everybody tries to create and make LO to there own ability. Your mojo will come back and in the mean time make lovely LO’s.

                                                              #49165
                                                              Annie Tobin
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                                                                Dear Corrie, you got exactly what I was trying to say. A little of myself crept into my last project so perhaps that will build. I am happy to snag photos from Unsplash so I study a scrap kit first and then go hunting for the right photo or tube. I plan on doing that today. Your encouragement means a lot to me Corrie, thank you my friend. ;D

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