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Basic Scrap Course – Module 7. I still struggle to find the right tools in the gradient materials palette. The kit I used had a large collection of Alphas, so I used the gradient part of the lesson to create a surrounding frame for the whole page. The scallops were new for me. I’m also enthusiastic about selecting an area and promoting it to a layer. This is saving me a lot of measuring headaches! This gal is my granddaughter, the zookeeper. The zoo has a flock of Lorikeets so the children can enjoy a hands-on experience.
After logging in to Corel, I voted for all four of your entries, Sue. They’re impressive!! I think the damselfly is my favorite only because I have collected photos and jewelry with dragonfly and damselfly designs. Best of luck!
Susan: The kit is from Ionka’s Designs.
I have these birds at my feeders, though they’re mostly ground feeders, and I know they have a bad reputation of laying their eggs in other bird’s nests and leaving the young to be fostered by any songbird whose nest is big enough. I decided to find out why this bird exhibits this behavior. Here’s the story –
I used a kit called ID-All That’s Fall which is part of a mega kit with 8 or 9 separate kits by various artists; my title font is Algerian, and the text is in Agency FB.
I’ll be posting a larger version in Facebook where you might be able to read the text more easily though. now that I’ve posted it, it looks readable here, also.
Susan: Thanks for your compliments. I’m enjoying my colorful new hobby.
Lynda: Thank you for your kind words. These colorful little crustaceans are fascinating.
Here’s my version of the D-I-Y project for July, featuring my latest aquarium denizens: Dwarf Freshwater Shrimp.
Doing the Basic Scrap Course, just the final two Modules as they are new. Here is Module 6– all about my maternal grandparents coming to America. The title font is Snap. I’ll post the journaling too as it’s hard to read in 600 format.
“Emil Haggquist and his wife Selma Hammär Haggquist arrived in New York from Sweden via steamship around the turn of the 20th Century. They entered the United States through this huge Immigration Hall on Ellis Island, located in New York harbor. At the height of the immigration rush it could hold 8,000 people at one time.
Immigration officials wouldn’t deal with the unusual spelling of his last name, so, willy-nilly, my grandfather became Emil Higgins. His birth certificate stated he was from Russia, but it was actually Finland that was occupied by Russia at the time. Selma had been a widow from Sweden and brought along a daughter, Agnes, from her first marriage. Settled in New York City, they had 2 more children; my uncle Stanford and my mother, Mildred.”
I just wanted to pass along a discovery I made. Carole mentioned the Basic Scrap Course is next on the agenda, and, as usual, I have done those exercises a few times. I took a look and was pleasantly surprised to find two new lessons added that were quite exciting. Ordinarily there were five lessons, but now there are seven! Here’s a link to the new Module 6 of the Basic Scrap Course for everyone to explore. I’ll be back with my own interpretation later.
Susan: Your DIY page is outstanding. The background photo is perfect! If you don’t mind, I may use it as inspiration. Great job!
Corrie: Wow, that’s impressive. Very different style of framing/matting. Is the term “passe-partout” used for the matting? (Google was not very helpful.) I like the look of your whole page symbolizing the letter “O”!
Susan: It’s probably not you. Even Carole admits that placing text within the selection can be tricky. I think it’s a relatively new feature and may not be totally de-bugged yet. I do know that you can totally lose journaling text if you haven’t made a raster duplicate. It’s the vectors that seem to be the problem. And yes, I said bounding box meaning the selection area. I don’t know where I got that term from … :-\
Carole/Cassel: That looks like a totally different layout size compared to our earlier pages. I was working in 2550px x 3300px so I could print at 8.5″ x 11″ portrait aspect.
Susan Ewart: I vote for the red one! 😉 I had a thought about text bounding boxes: it’s a feature that is not supported by Photoshop so I’m wondering if there’s a connection there?? (just speculating…)
Bonnie mentioned this template, so I decided to have it actually display multiple photos. My granddaughter, Ilana’s bridal shower was Sun July 17.
DAY 9 – PROJECT 5 – AT CONVENTION – This is my eldest daughter, Debbie, this summer at her AIA convention in Chicago. She lives and practices in Northern California. She is Magic’s grandmother. The background photo is by Juliana Marx on Unsplash. The title font is Babilonia.
Michele: I also enjoy turning QPs into templates. I don’t use a script. I noticed the background FB adds so I add a black border to my “desktop” size (900×900). My desktop is black so it works there and FB always picks up on the black and just adds more, according to their algorithm. Here’s an example …
Susan Ewart: As usual, you are hilarious! 😀 I do make the templates from scratch, so watch out, they may make strange layouts! 😉
Your Tea Time is beautiful! And the Bootcamp isn’t going faster, you’re on a roll! You go, girl!
DAY 9-PROJECT 4: SCHOOL Daze – My granddaughter Anna, the first-born of my grandchildren, and her college friends in 2006 at UC Berkeley. She majored in Asian Studies and then went on for her MS in Speech Therapy.
I used a Pixelscrapper mini-kit called Argyle from Marisa Lerin. This kit had me struggling a bit to get colors to match, which is not my usual experience with kits. I think I’ll also post the kit preview and you’ll see for yourself! 😉
The title fonts are: Britannic Bold and Childish. The small journaling text is Agency FB. The scatters are Picture Tube bubbles. I also used the Picture Tube to add stitching on the button.
I also made a template from Carol/Cassels example layout which I will post in our Facebook files.
My Great-grand Magic’s mom has her at work making potions! (Yes, really, I think!) Day 7 Project, I made a template from Carole’s example and then chose a kit called Summer in my Backyard-lrd, that I used exclusively, though I had to reduce the opacity on most of it as the colors hurt my eyes! 😀 Granddaughter-in-law Lucy supplied the title, text and photos. I’ll leave the template in the Facebook files.
BOOTCAMP-DAY5-ADVENTURE – This is a colonial-era tavern in my hometown of Warwick, NY. I guess the war was hot and heavy in this area. And not everyone was on the same page. There was a forge that was destroyed by Washington’s troops because it kept selling munitions to the British! My late husband and I enjoyed cocktails in Baird’s Tavern with Rotary friends. It’s beautifully restored. I used a Revolutionary era map for the background and found a color palette for that era, too. The headline font is Classic Barbershop. I created a template from Carole’s design. I’ll post it in the Facebook files if anyone would like a simple, classic layout.
Suzy: One tip – vector layers will always show a small white arrow just to the left, which when clicked, will open it up to allow text editing. On your screenshot, that would be the layer on the bottom. Hope this helps!
Susan Ewart: That’s very pretty! Let’s have tea, or coffee or wine! 😉 I hear ya’ about the flood fill missing the elements if you’re filling a layer on the bottom. I noticed that and now I just move the layer to the top, temporarily, fill and then slide it back down. Maybe locking transparency would help? IDK – This didn’t seem to happen with previous versions of PSP.
My entry for Bootcamp: Day 3 – Cherry Shrimp aka Crustaceans in my Aquarium. (Not for human consumption 😉 )
The title font is Bodoni MT Poster Compressed. The background photo is my aquarium with the highlighted photo of one of my Cherry Shrimp. I also have some Orange Sunkist Shrimp and I still have my Nerite Snail named Roomba. I haven’t named the shrimp as I plan on slowly adding more. They do better in groups.
Wow, that’s great, Carole. Thank you! I really appreciate knowing those details up front. It looks like a lot of work for you but Don’t Stop Now! 😉
Michele: The frame is a freebie from the store when the script came out. I did some color changing so I have several versions. Glad you like it. I love the Singer with Goldfinch art!
Carole: Here’s the revised sandwich and tablescape. Thanks for your help!
Carole/Cassel: I hid everything, and this is what’s left. I originally made a copy of the plate to be able to create the saucer under the cup. I also applied some effects to the saucer. Why is the original plate included in the effects? It isn’t on that layer! Aarrgghh!
