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Here is the final page of my magazine challenge project. Sue Thomas asked in a comment if I had ever carved a Celtic Love spoon and I have not. But the comment inspired me to create this last page. So, a big thank you, Sue T.
In the process of doing this project I have learned to become very proficient with creating and modifying masks. I will now use them more often in my work. I am definitely looking forward to another week-long challenge.
As this is the last page of this project, I wanted to thank everyone for sharing their wonderful ideas and interests with us. I have added some acknowledgements to this page to recognize a few whose comments were particularly helpful. Note: your names will not be shared outside this forum.
Until next time.
Today was a challenge. I spent a lot of time trying to find a picture that would work in 4 components. With my 8.5X11 format, it required a tall thin image to fit the space. I could not find one. So I decided to turn to whole template 90 degrees to the right. Now I could use one of my carving project pictures to make a page in the theme of my Woodcraft magazine.
More great images to look at from all you talented scrapbookers. I see a few of you also rotated the template.
Ann L, your picture of Haleakala brings back some nice personal memories. Love the view.
Val, thank you so much for your detailed comments.
Ann S, good idea to put your pages in order like that. It gives a complete storyboard of your magazine.
Only one day left. I look for to seeing how everyone does their magazine wrap up.
For those who like working with their hands, there is always wood carving. It’s slow work so it requires endurance and a lot of patience. Some carvings can take weeks to finish especially when there are other things to do, like working on a Magazine Challenge. As you can see the Bison Paddle is not yet finished.
Cassel, thank you so much for the text suggestion. I went back to the instruction text and made the stroke transparent. The letters became so clear and it was indeed so much easier to read. Another lesson learned, merci.
I tried, here on day 4, to add an instructional element to make my woodcraft themed magazine. As this was a two-page project it seemed to fit the occasion. In the process of this project I am learning a lot more about using masks in Paintshop Pro and as a result things are getting easier to transform to my ideas.
Mostly I keep getting great inspiration from all your entries. The variety of styles and topics is terrific.
Wow! what nice work you are all doing. Ann, your use of gradients in the title is a nice effect. Sue T, your split title is so eye catching.
I have kept my pages simple so far but very much I like the pages with some explanatory text. I think I will do some of that as well.
Carole, thanks for the tip about the shadows on my text in the cover. I tried it and it looks so much better.
Before starting on any projects, I thought that a safety tip would be a good way to lead into my new magazine.
I also like the looks of an 8.5 x 11 format that many of you used, so I tried it here.
Hi everyone,
Love all the interesting ideas that are showing up already. it is always great to get ideas from your work.
Cassell, thanks for the ‘custom wood text’ you gave out a while ago. My theme on this challenge is an excellent place to use it.
The baskets here are store bought, but the stand was built in my shop. It now gives easy access to our gloves, hats and scarves.
Thank you all, Ann, Annie, Sue and Cristina for your comments and suggestions. I appreciate the feedback.
And congratulations to Sue for guessing correctly. I do indeed live in British Columbia, Canada.
Thank you all for your nice comments on my photos. It really spurred me on to share another hobby I enjoy. During the colder months I like to do some indoor hobbies and as you can see it relates to sewing. A trade I learned from my dad.
As a challenge within this challenge, I invite you to guess where I live from the hangings in this picture.
Hello All, It been a while since I contributed anything to the forums, but the hobby challenge got me going again. The COVID thing made it so that I could not get out much and so I haven’t taken many new pictures. This challenge however allowed me to go to my stored pictures and share my passion for birdwatching. The sandhill crane lives at a bird sanctuary in my neighbourhood and is in its colourful mating plumage. The sea eagle was seen in Australia during a boat trip and the guide was throwing small fish in the air for the eagle to catch.
Let’s go Birding!
The thing I like most about these subway art entries, is that they all have a positive message. We need more of them in this difficult time. Well done Ann S, Bonnie, Annie, and Sue.
With all the COVID restrictions, we are still allowed to curl in our province. However, the club rules have changed to ensure that we all stay safe. So I thought it might be worthwhile to make up a subway sign to highlight these new rules.
I saw Carole’s email about subway-art and Ann’s thoughtful subway-art here in this thread. It spurred me on to make one. It was surprisingly easy and fun. Hope you are all staying safe.
Hi everyone, I am saying hello from Delta, British Columbia. Home of the Great Blue Heron.
I was hiking with my grandchildren when we came upon this interesting scene in Minnekhada Regional Park. The big old tree on the upper left has had to work hard over its life to get to water and the roots have travelled over the nearby rocks to get it. This shows how nature adapts to different climate conditions.
It’s fun to take pictures with a purpose. Last week I was hiking on the west coast of Vancouver Island and I saw this interesting arrangements of trees. Note how the salt spray from the ocean has shaped all the trees in this cluster to follow the line of the winds. I would never have payed much attention to it or even bothered to photograph it if it had not been for this September Challenge about trees.
Shawnie, you’re arrangement of all those different tree variations is terrific. There are so many when we see them but don’t record them as you have. Very nice.
Where I live the trees grow big. I love to walk in these forests. It always amazed me that when these trees were cut that the stumps would eventually nurse new ones.
The oak and maple leaves don’t really belong in a coniferous forest but they were the only photos I had that I could turn into embellishments.
I had a busy week and so I am catching up so here is my day 6 story. Fear of dogs is not unusual and I am over it now but it was traumatic while it lasted.
Well this assignment was a challenge for as I could not get the text of my story to automatically fit into the circle shape. The PSP Help has a chapter on Pasting and Fitting text to a shape. It has some simple steps that should lead to a Paste-to-Fit option, except I was only ever given a Paste option. That gave me one long line of text that I had to manually break up to fit into the circle. In the end I got the text where I wanted it but it took a lot of time to make it right.
If you have any experience on how to make this feature work, please let me know.
Well Day 4 is finally done. It took a while as I have a lot of blurry Black and White photos from my early years in Canada thanks to my dad’s interest in photography. But it took a while to locate the best ones to use in this story. so, I decided to design this page using the B&W theme.
I spent a while reading all your submissions and enjoyed the stories very much.
Corrie, Ik spreek nog steeds Hollands maar met een Canadees accent. At least that is what my cousins tell me.
Day 3 is done, and like Sandra, I am finding the journaling easier if I just write my story first and then take a screenshot to add it to the page. I am impressed how everyone seems to find appropriate embellishments to accent their stories. Well done all. It takes a while to read everyone’s stories but it is worth it. Fun to read snippets of your lives. Thanks for sharing.
Well, Day 2 was easier. I kept all things simple and concentrated on the story instead. Sometimes it is hard to be brief and keep facts focused. I particularly like the black and white templates as they give a structure idea but leaves the embellishments to us. Thanks, Cassel, or should I say, Carole now that you have shared that fact with us.
Corrie: I really enjoyed your Sinterklaas and Name stories. I can vividly remember Zwarte Piet banging on the door of our living room in Amersfoort. Then trying to decide which one of us would go and see what was left on the other side was a big challenge. Eventually one of us would do it to the delight of the scared others.
Well, the Day 1 assignment was fun. Mostly because I changed that way I tried to frame my story several times. I also had some trouble with a few Paintshop features that took me some time to figure out. That is what I like about these challenges. It forces me to try out things that I have not done and learn some new stuff along the was.
I am wowed by the interesting stories you all have to tell. Looking forward to more as the week progresses.
Sometime after I discovered this Scrapbook Campus website, I was introduced to this photo wall image. I’m not sure if it came directly from the Campus or if I found it on the Internet while trying to do a campus related project. However, I have been able to use it a number of times to showcase some important people in my life or highlight some favourite photos. In this image I added the ‘old guy sitting on the bench’ so the gallery would not look empty and the plant to give the gallery a homey look.
Day 6 is done so all 7 days of the challenge are now complete. Thanks Carole, for the motivation to learn something new. Due to the pandemic I have been able to spend a fair amount of time on this project. The repeated use of many of the PSP functions has made them automatic now. Not so much guessing on what to do next.
Hope to meet you all again at he next challenge.
It’s Day 5 over again. I completely missed the stamp part of this challenge. I liked the templates provided and got into using them for my work. Then seeing Mary and others doing the Stamp and Stamp sheets, I decided to try that as well. I always wondered what the ‘Step’ function was for in the Eraser tool. Live and learn.
This Dancing Lady orchid was seen in St. Lucia at a doctor’s home that we visited. He had the most beautiful garden that included an orchid gazebo.
I have only one day (6) left to go. I will miss the challenges, but I can use what I learned on other projects.
Hello Mary, my effort to create the leather tag of St. Basil Church in Moscow was actually quite simple. I found a drawing of the church on the Internet. It had a wide outline that was continuous and all the same colour. I used the Background Eraser to clear the sky. Then I picked the outline colour and flood filled the entire inside with it. Once it was all the same colour, I saved it as a .png file and used it to make the tag.
I liked the Day 4 challenge because it called for an image that was simple and focused. I always remember a photography judge telling me that simple is best. There is little to distract the viewer on this day’s image, hopefully it gives you a strong feeling.
While travelling in Russia every church we saw had these beautiful onion-domed steeples. Very ICONIC, you might say.
Thanks for the suggestion on the grey structure. I have saved the components of that image and will try your suggestion.
I had enjoyed learning to create the leather tag. I had to try it a few times to get a good result and in the process got very familiar with the 3D cut-out and related features.
Now on to Day 5
