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I’ve had this photo of my great-granddaughter, Magic, for a while and decided to try Carole’s heart/slat template. This was taken in May 2021 when she was 11 months.
FESTIVAL: Annual Onion Festival in Pine Island, located in the Black Dirt farming region of Orange County, NY. Polish dancers, polka music and lots of onion gear. Our local polka celeb, Jimmy Sturr, hosts every year. I used the #7 bonus mask template again with two photos, Jimmy’s poster and a couple of candids from previous fests.
Thank you, Lynda and Corrie for your kind words. Stand by, I’ll have a Black Dirt Onion Festival ready soon … here’s a preview. 😉
FESTIVAL – The Hudson Valley Garlic Festival is held in the Village of Saugerties, Ulster County, NY, a bit north and east of the Warwick Applefest. They usually fall on the same October weekend. The Garlic Fest is a two-day affair whereas the Applefest is just on the first Sunday in October. I’ve never attended the Garlic Fest personally. I had more fun making this layout using bits and pieces of art and info from their official website. The blue balloons are psptubes.
FESTIVAL: Warwick was my hometown for over 40 years, and I attended the first Applefest in 1989. It was so successful that it seemed the whole world converged on my town! In subsequent years, we left town for the day. ;-D
Julie: Thank you for doing Roy! My late husband’s favorite and he became one of my favorites also. Fabulous voice and you’ve done him proud!
Jacques: I like your layout but can’t read the text in that color. I think I’d choose a pale color like her skin tone and it would stand out better.
I revised this layout. Re-did the “lifesaver” graphic. This is based on Masks-Day7-Extra template but turned sideways.
Still playing with masks, this is the Extra from #7 turned sideways. Instead of a jagged edge, I used the eraser tool with the shift key down to create the “scalloped” edge on the mask. This is my granddaughter and great-grandson last summer in my youngest daughter’s pool. I love the color of the water and wanted to use it somehow in a layout. The background on the left is just a paper I had on hand and so is the lifesaver element. The smaller photos are just selected from the large one and mirrored. Once I was satisfied, I merged the small groups so I could apply subtle shadows. So, here’s Ilana & Logan – Summer of ’21.
Edit: Decided to revise the “lifesaver” graphic.
Catching up on my Alphabet Album – D is for Dragonfly. The dragonfly art is by Stephanie Law.
My March Big Cat Calendar
D = DOC NYC is an annual documentary film festival in New York City. Co-founded by Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen, the festival is the country’s largest documentary film festival with over 300 films and events and 250 special guests.
Buddha Doodles keep me hopeful …
I took the quiz and got 10/10! I am proud of myself, even though at least one was a guess! 😉
I’m frightened for my friends in Europe and angry that this has come to pass. We, in the US, are also members of NATO so we will also be involved if it escalates that far. The last I read the Ukrainians are sitting down to peace talks and also, kicking butt! My prayers are with them.
Monique: This was last year’s workshop for a 2022 calendar. It is finished for that year. The new one for 2023 isn’t out yet.
Sue Thomas: Yep, me, too! I go by the written word much better than to-ing and fro-ing with a video! 😀 Thanks for your kind words on my sunflower project, which was my way of acknowledging the brave Ukrainians’ struggle. I tried to avoid the obvious and just concentrated on the flowers and those powerful words.
Christiane: I had the same problem with Linoleum. Look under Effects, Distortion Effects and there you’ll find the Displacement map. I had to hunt for it myself. Good luck!
Here’s my last effort for Masks-Day 7. I used the Extra design this time as I’ve done polka dots, etc, last year. Here are some Sunflowers with a quote that is currently in the news using Forte font. The top photo is from THViP shot by Philip Milio, the poured watercolor on the bottom right is by my daughter, Debra Lennox. Others were found on Google Images. It’s not the season for sunflowers but they are all over the news and internet right now.
Randy: (#72842) Regarding your photo’s dark green background, I think the effect you’d need is the Depth of Field which is under Adjust at the top. It lets you apply a blur to the background while isolating the main figure in your photo. Or you could use the Freehand Selection tool to outline your flower and then invert the selection (Ctl-Shift-I) and use the Adjust / Brightness and Contrast tool to dim the color. Good luck!
Here, back again, is great-grand Logan from last May. He just turned one Feb 6 this year. He’s so cool! Love lino backgrounds. I save them with my stash of papers, too. Everyone’s work is fabulous!!
Here’s my Masks-Day5 – Logan-Yum! Followed Carole’s video pretty closely; used a gradient for the background and applied a leather texture. This was the day of great-grand Logan’s first birthday, in the morning, during breakfast at home. The title font is Mama and the smaller one for “yum!” is called Milkimo Cheesecake. I created a square frame with rounded corners and filled it with gray and applied a bevel.
I revised the font for the heading, using Bring Heart this time. Hope it is more readable.
Here’s Masks-Day4 – Pileated Woodpecker. I was lucky enough to have a pair in my yard at my last home in the countryside before moving to the city. They were noisy and made a BIG mess of a large tree stump! They are beauties, though, the largest of all our woodpeckers and I’m convinced the model for the cartoon, Woody Woodpecker. 😀
Also, sorry, Carole, I got ahead of myself when I found my directions to make linoleum 😉
The title font is Magneto. I made my own mask using one of the watercolor brushes.
Hi Christiane, welcome! We have a lively crew here from raw beginners to experienced PSPers. I find that Carole is a great, patient teacher and have learned a lot myself in the last two years I’ve been here. I had used PSP to create a website for our business, but it was rudimentary, so I’ve benefitted from instruction just for that. Now that I’m retired, I’m concentrating on my pets, family, local wildlife and my favorite, Save the Tigers campaign. Have fun!!
