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That’s what I do, but with the one surname (although I have done some other names for neighbours). I am making some images while I have a lull in the correspondent requests.
Yes, going for the Advent full-house! Also trying to simplify some images, the scripts are such fun it’s easy to add too many to one picture!
Hi,
It’s a One-Name Study so is of limited to anyone who hasn’t a ‘Dowling’ in their family! Anyway, it’s at http://www.dowlingfamily.info.
Not all the images are there all of the time. Many are programmed to appear at random or on certain dates. This is to keep a stuffy information-driven site looking a little different each visit.
Totally in with Corrie here, I have so many scripts too. I have a Word document with all the ‘owned’ Read Me’s in; my notes as well as the script image, and occasionally one I add. I can highlight the Read Me warnings to draw attention to them or where there is a video. When I get a new script, I add the Read Me to the document before I practice with it.
Word allowed me to create a comprehensive index, so some items are indexed more than once (Bows and Knots are indexed under their shop title but also under Ribbon, etc.). Suzy’s issue about getting new scripts rather mitigates against printing the big document though, so the index allows me to find something more quickly even if I forget the store name.
Thanks Mary. If you look at the Store Supplies / Circles and Spirals you will see the similar images that relate to DNA-Y and DNA-mt. I often get asked about what test to get so these are quick-info images. If you want to know more about each test, contact me off-forum at brian@dowlingfamily.info. Happy to chat about my first hobby!
Further to the above, here are some spirals where the image does not rotate.
Other scripts used in these images are ‘Stripes 1’ (for the background made first in black and white); ‘Copper It” (for the black and white stripes that are then turned into a copper effect); ‘Imprint’ (for the logo set deep); ‘Baby Block Alpha’ (for the DNA title in bottom left); ‘Distressed Edge’ for the hole-in-the-page frame.
I have been picking the cooking apples and now have a full apple store… and some blanched windfalls in the freezer. That’s apple pies until about June next year! Yule Tide will have holly and some of the snow script I think…
Yes, I look on the scripts in terms of two cups of store-bought coffee each so, having cut back on coffee, I reinforced the change by buying a script and I have a good few now! Some just save so much time and others re-boot the imagination of what can be done. I have also received some positive comments from some of my site visitors.
Following on from lovely Michele’s Silver Elegance last month. I fancied creating something with that simple silvery look for my website. Michele sent me the background… and I used it as the main supporting element. The text was typed out, masked into the same background… then the text (Academy Engraved LET) was deformed with Perspective. Drop shading was added to make the text stand out from the wall. A curtain was added for contrast and some lighting and darkening. No scripts used here but Cassel’s flare.png used a few times. The font on the screen was Kunstler Script.
Michele,
I am new to the Campus and still getting used to where things are and how things get done.
I would definitely appreciate the background. I make images when I want manic eye-catching and others where I want more simplicity to focus a message and I like the balance of your arrangement.
Brian
Ann – The Drive-In site works well with the product doing the ‘talking’ and nice spacing around them. I like the slideshow that allows viewers to choose the picture.
Dawn – The silver is such a great look and I am going to try it when I can think of something genealogy orientated… I must be able to find a 25th anniversary somewhere to highlight that way.
July 1st – CANADA DAY! Hi, these images are to draw attention to Canada on my website.
The collages fade from one to the other on the home page at Home (one-name.net), where it will sit for a few days and then more permanently on the Canada page at Canada (one-name.net).
The images were created using a good many Creation Cassel scripts, so much so you may find it interesting to play ‘Spot the Script’. This set is dedicated to Carole as a thank-you for her great creations.
Brian
This website decoration features the Subway Art script. The quotation on the left uses Subway Art set on fixed colours to match the website theme and selects them, in this case, at random. The Subway Art is used again on creating the flat book cover author and title before that was turned into a book with the Book Cover script. In the case of the book text Subway Art colours were set to one only but still allowed to randomise the font.
Also on view is a tube frame created with the Custom Directional Tube script.
The site is at https://www.dowling.one-name.net/ but I use the images in a slideshow on the home page that changes on refresh. The purpose of that is to make an essentially static data site look as if it has changed since one’s last visit. Keep clicking on refreshing page and it will play through about twenty at present at random. In truth new people are added to the site almost daily but adding a marriage , birth or death doesn’t count much as a dramatic change for anyone other than the person they are related to!
Some images have a double role and may head a particular subject on specific pages. The Africa image heads the Africa list page which is somewhat down a few layers.
R1B is a very big haplogroup. More detailed results should equal a more accurate path. Mine probably took two steps backward for every step forward! and no doubt a stop-off at the local hostelry!
This website decoration features Word Frame 5. The frame of the picture was created in Word Frame 5 and then the Stone script was applied to the frame as befits its stone-age relevance.
This website decoration uses Accordion vertically. The list of names was made flat and then the Copper It script (possibly my favourite) was used to give it colour and texture. This was then put through Accordion. I added some Dimension and distorted it a little with Perspective. Online Copper It looks more reddish than in my PSP workspace.
Also on this is a Ribbon Factory (A) ribbon with Ribbon Banner with Ring Strap ends and a Custom Brad brass pin to hold it up.
In this website decoration Word Frame 5 is used to frame a postcard TWICE! The two frames fitted together and merged. A US flag was then opened, used as a pattern at 45 degrees and 3D’d.
Also Date stamp and Stamp scripts used to the right
Brian
Here is the ‘Word Frame 5’ from my website. LB2-008 has a worn texture added to the frame so ‘Copper It’ can pick up some variation. LB2-009 is a straight ‘Brushed Metal 1’ with gold (this picture incidentally has been modified with ‘Pencil Sketch’).
That was nice enough but noticing the gap between the words and the frame’s bar made me think of threading a ribbon through it. I erased the bar so it looked like it was underneath, then I lightened the area on the ribbon above the frame’s bar.
The ribbon, from Ribbon Factory, had Frayed Edge applied to it (the fraying had to be erased from top and bottom).
It may well work nicely with some vines or lace woven underneath.
Brian
I’m with Mary, I find it quite addictive when I get going on PSP 2022. On my website I try to get something to change, if only a little, so it doesn’t look neglected. Yesterday I added my latest graphic for the Diary section. It’s a Preset Shape wheel, sectioned-off in places and wood patterns added to it with a twist of the pattern with each spoke and section of the wheel-rim. My favourite script Copper-It was used to copper the leaves with Celtic season labels. These have two shadows one for the wooden rim and one, deeper, for underneath. The pointer on the right is leather on a rock created with a Filter Forge stone embossed with a spiral pattern (looks very Gaelic).
The Daffodils was put through the Word Slats script. I have kept the psp file so can use the wheel again for the other special days by swivelling the leaves and re-doing the drop shadow.
I have stop myself adding everything I have… I barely stopped myself adding frost to the winter phase! I’ll get on with the next picture that will probably be a Mother’s Day picture pointing genealogy users at a women’s list, maybe.
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This one uses more CC scripts and I have been having so much fun using them I have to stop myself adding everything in, as less is more. Anyway, there is an embroidered patch, two more postcards under my first use of a ribbon (I’m not normally a ‘ribbons & bows’ person but would like to learn more about there use as tucking things under them looks cool). The date holder on the right was cobbled together and could be better. That’s the lot with all 5 rotating on my website https://www.dowling.one-name.net/up/index.htm, and is the current ‘Leaderboard’ for about a week until I refresh with another creation.
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This one uses another Cassel Creations Word Painting script over a flag for the background. My equivalent of your scrapbook photos is my postcard collection. These are just simply stuck on top of the background. I tried some tape effects but not too happy with that. The top right postcard back has a postage stamp made with a script and a date stamp script.
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This one uses another Cassel Creations script for the Wooden Puzzle 2. To practice I tried to repeat the theme of the freebie but with slight variations for the low height base. The text on the tab, by the way, is cut away to reveal the website background, then each other tab is made more transparent to highlight the image in view.
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This uses a variety of script and is more a practice session for entering snippets of text. The Custom Coin took a little while to get what I wanted. The image can be enlarged but I have to work on the fact that, on-line, it is initially seen much smaller.
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I’m not a scrapbooker but using techniques to brighten a website on family history. So information is the priority but the graphics are decoration . This is 1 of a set of 5 that fade from one to the other. It was created using some Cassel Creations scripts. The world map was created using Copper It but not in one go… to keep some of the detail I divided up the image into components and ran it on them individually or else whole continents or islands disappear. The map of Ireland on the left uses Wood Puzzle 3. I wanted something decorative and thematic; I didn’t want something accurate in detail as visitors can find that for themselves, just something to take away from the stuffy research lists a little.
