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Day 4 was really easy thanks to Cassel’s Scattered Photos script. I ran the script resizing the photos as suggested and adding a border. I chose not to add the shadows when requested as I was’t sure whether I would leave the photos where they were. After the script ran I did some adjustments to size, rotation and placement, trying different things until I was happy with it. Very quick and easy.
I chose some of the photos from the studio tour I did in 2013, an absolutely fabulous experience for someone who is a Harry Potter fan and also interested in sets, props etc. I think the tour has changed since I was there, I would love to go back and see it again. I would thoroughly recommend it to everyone, even if you are not a Harry Potter fan just seeing all the background stuff was amazing.
I used the colour of Gryffindor house for the background, the quote was from a set called “Harry Potter” which I got years ago but I don’t know where from. The font is ParryHotter, found in a few free font places. I had a few other elements but decided I didn’t want to clutter the page up.
I took a day off the challenge to play golf so am a day behind.
I have really enjoyed looking at all the pages. Lyn Lou I loved your photos of London, took me back to visits as a child. Jan I am so glad you included the first verse of the poem, most people start at the second and it completely changes the context.
Here is my Day 3, memories of a visit to Singapore in 2013. I had a few problems lining the background photo up on different pages so ended up doing it on one big one.
What wonderful work everyone is doing! I love your birds Jan, we don’t get parrots in our garden, only a few Galahs, but we have been lucky enough to have a visit from a Wedgetailed Eagle and a Goshawk – unfortunately they don’t hang around long enough for photos!
Annie your flowers were beautiful.
I struggled to think of something for this one, I have zoo photos but I didn’t want to do the same as Cassel and the shape of the template was difficult for me. Then I remembered some of the interesting statues and other art work I have seen in my travels and came up with these 2 pages. I couldn’t resist the “Loaded Dog” photo so changed the template to suit. The background colours were from the Snake Gully Emu, and I added a grass texture to the lighter one.
My husband is out all day playing golf (in the rain?!) so I took the opportunity to work on Day 1 of this challenge. I have decided I will probably have a travel theme running through my pages, a bit of Australia and a bit of England, as most of my photos are places rather than people.
First day showcases Tasmania, a wonderful place to visit although a bit cold, especially in winter. Also you have to brave the ferry across Bass Strait which can be a bit daunting! I thought I would have problems finding enough photos but there are still a lot I could have used, these are representative of what you can see in the “Apple Isle”. The ship is the “Lady Nelson” docked at Hobart, it was interesting seeing her as the Information Centre in Mount Gambier (where I live) has a replica of the “Lady Nelson” outside (Captain Grant was sailing the Lady Nelson when he discovered Mount Gambier).
I like using templates but I find a lot of them are mainly designed for portrait photos whereas I take mainly landscape. Being able to join blocks together helps.
What very nice pages everyone has done, lots of colour and different layouts.
My page has used the Lab 6-12 Layout with a couple of changes (two medium photos instead of 1 one large). The photos are of a weekend we had camping to celebrate our friends’ joint 60th Birthday & 40th Wedding Anniversary. The truck element was a metal wine rack which was their present from the family which I adjusted the saturation so it was more visible. I changed the gingham square to green to suit the photos and the font is Foglighten 07.
It was a great weekend only marred by the me going for a walk and ending up badly breaking my ankle!! I always said “walk” was a four-letter word!
I have joined the challenge too, it will be good to see what everyone posts. Sue I love your birds, it will be very interesting to see more of them, that page was really nice.
Dawn I got the idea from a blog post from Cassel on the Convertio program, I get a lot of .eps files in free downloads and although they will open in PSP they are not vectors. Converting them to .wmf lets me open as vectors and I can then change things.
I haven’t been as creative as Wanda (Sue) as I’m not very good at that sort of thing. I did try something different though – I had a leaf in an .eps format so I used Convertio to convert it to a .wmf file which opens in PSP as a vector shape. I then changed each layer to Stroke and No Fill, which gave me the black outline. From there I followed the tutorial to make the Preset Shape. The two pictures are of the original image and the Preset Shape in outline and with a green fill.
Here is my page for this challenge. When I saw the photo I thought the old shed looked a bit isolated and the perfect place for “strange” things to happen. I found a photo of Moondyne Joe which I thought could be made to look like a ghost, so I extracted it, added it to the photo as a new layer using the screen layer style, and then changed the photo using the Aged Newspaper effect which I tweaked by adjusting the saturation. The newspaper background was from a DSP kit Charming Victorian Garden. The newspaper itself and the story are, of course, completely made up – fake news if you will!
And finally
Z = Zebra finch – these little birds are very common in outback Australia, you always know there is water nearby when they are around.
We seem to have got stuck a bit and the month is nearly up so I thought I would finish the game off!
Y = Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo
My offering is a mixture of vanishing and appearing! Friends of mine, who we shall Dee & Pete for convenience, had a phot of their car, caravan and Dee which they liked. The problem was two-fold – there was a big dirty mud patch in the middle of the photo, and Pete wasn’t in it! I took a photo of Pete to match Dee, and used the Magic Fill and Clone Brush to get rid of the patch. Very pleased with how it turned out.
That is absolutely beautiful micfin, what a lovely way to honor your friend’s memory. The simplicity of the project is perfect, and I love the use of just one colour as a highlight.
Here is my page for this challenge. It was very interesting to visit this tree a few years ago, I don’t know how they could live in the tree with two babies, although I suppose it may not have been quite so open 150 years ago. Even the cottage would have been very small for 18 people!
The green element is of course the gum leaves, held to the photo with a 4 hole button. The ribbon and bow tick two boxes. The black & white photo was one I took myself, with the saturation turned right down, then I used the Photo Effects Time Machine to get the frame.
As always I like to tell the story of the photo, I hope you all enjoy reading it.
Dawn that is a lovely page, I also love the song of the butcher bird, it is so clear and musical.
This month’s theme has really challenged me – which of the very many bird photos I have should I use for a page!! In the end I decided to tell a little story of something that happened quite a number of years ago. I found a photo online of the trousers convicts used to wear here in Australia and used that to make a background paper, than used the Text Cutter feature to cut out the word “GAOL”. In the same way I used a stock photo of the corellas to cut out the word “BIRDS”. I also selected the arrow from the material and used it to make both a directional tube (using Cassel’s script) and a brush – I ended up using the brush. I used a freebie mask for the photo of the corella.
If I have time I will do another page or two.
Finally got my last three pages finished.
Day 5 was fun, I used an overlay to get the background paper (Cassel’s blog) and a flower brush on the mask. The car & caravan are freebies from Manu Designs. The RUSL25 number plate on the car is a personalised plate I bought for Russell for Christmas in 1993 to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the day we met, I nearly changed it to 50 in 2008 but didn’t. It is great fun having total strangers calling him by name after looking at the car!
Day 6 took me a bit longer. I used the photo of us by the helicopter for the bokeh, which I found fairly easy to do. I have also done it just using the Brush Variance pallet and not separate layers, which was easy as well. I had most problems trying to decide what colour background to use, still not sure about the blue.
For Day 7 I did the polkadot background as per the tutorial, gave the dots a bevel and a bit of a blur, then used Cassel’s Corner Punch brush to highlight the corners. I also used the same frame as before, just changed the colour to match. I had most trouble doing the text. I had a tutorial for wire text using SuperBlade Pro and tried that but it wasn’t very nice, so went back to using the sculpture effect. I wanted silver and that wasn’t too easy to find a texture, I ended up using felt. The font is Saginaw, which wasn’t as spread out as Love Notes.
Thank you Cassel for setting us this challenge, it has been really good taking part and seeing what everyone has done. Some of the tutorials I had already done (Diamond Member) but it still a bit of a challenge to do them again, and there were new things to learn as well. Everyone who has taken part has done some really nice pages, and I have also come to know people a bit more personally through seeing the things they love.
Looking forward to the next challenge!
Here are my Day 3 and 4 pages, still trying to catch up. Day 3 shows the two of us after Russell won his Championship (I had been his caddy) and the individual shots of each of us with our trophies. The background kaleidoscope pattern was from a small square I picked under the verandah and then the layer was reduced in opacity to make it more subtle. The two individual photos were quite different in colour so I used the sepia toning to match the background and make them look the same.
Day 4 was fun trying to make my own mask. I used the background from Day 1 which I thought was interesting without being overpowering, and the words of the Beatle’s song said everything I wanted to say.
I have been using Springer font on the pages, until Day 4 when I used Variane Script for the song and Maphylla for the red words. The heart was from Escale Amoureuse.
Now on to the others.
Having had a nice week away I have finally managed to start this challenge. These are my first two pages. I don’t have a lot of photos to choose from, we don’t tend to take “people” photos, but I will work with what I have. I use masks a lot, I find them very useful and a lot of fun, but I don’t make many for myself so that will be interesting.
It has been really nice looking at everyone’s offerings, they really showcase how even very inexperienced people can use PSP with a little bit of help, and Carole is extremely good at giving that help. Another little challenge is trying out my schoolgirl french from many years ago on the posts from our french speaking participants!!! Thanks Carole for translating the information about saving masks.
Great quotes and lovely photos Dawn, the first one looks like WA wildflowers. Love the silhouette effect Sue, was the background made from the photo? Isn’t it interesting how so many of these quotes are put on sunset pictures, not just by us but common online too, must be something to do with the glorious colours you can get.
I have done a number of photo collages for my golfing friends when they had a “zero” birthday, and I remembered this quote I had used on one of them so I thought I would use it for this challenge. Funnily enough the photos were taken only a week apart, during our Wednesday competition day – Lyn must have trying to out do Lynda!
The background, wordart and elements are from two sets I got from Digital Scrapbooking Place (Tee Time and Golf), the tees are a PSP tube and the My Girl Filmstrip frame was from Designs by Shelley. I coloured the wordart as per Cassel’s tutorial.
Dawn I’m glad you liked the card, I forgot to say that the elements were from a set called A Mother’s Love Combo (DBTHans). The poem I found online.
My mother died in 2005, two days after her 94th Birthday (she was born on 11th November 1911!). I had been lucky enough to see her in the July of that year. As a sign of sympathy two of my friends gave me a Mother’s Love rose. We dug a small bit of garden and planted the rose at the approximate time her funeral was taking place in England (10.30 pm our time). Two weeks later my sisters took her ashes to where my father’s ashes were – and would you believe that on the same day the first rose actually bloomed! Each November I now have a wonderful display of roses to remind me of my Mum.
Throughout my life I have made life-changing decisions based on not wanting to look back and say “if only ….”: emigrating to Australia as a 22 year-old with my husband of 18 months, not knowing anyone, not having a job and only having very little money; moving from Adelaide to Mount Gambier to start a business (unsuccessful as it turned out!); and more recently giving up work and buying a caravan so we can travel around this great country of ours. Too often I have heard people say they would do this or that when they retired, only to have ill health or even death intervene, so we are doing things now while we can.
I found this quote from Mark Twain which summed up our thoughts exactly. The photo is of sunset over Lake Argyle in Western Australia, one we took while on a sunset cruise on the lake. The font is Maphylla, I used special characters on the capitals.
Dawn and Gail, I am still thinking about this challenge but love what you both did (really laughed at yours Dawn!) and they have given me some ideas.
Dawn I was very sorry to hear about your Mother, 98 was a grand old age. I thought you might like this:
Thank you Michelle and Cristina, I always appreciate your comments.
Michelle I loved your frames, they match the photo and elements so well.
Looking at your photo of the Cemetery reminded me of the Magnetic Termite mounds in Lichfield Park, Northern Territory: there are hundreds of them, all facing the same way, and all are fairly thin so look like gravestones. My photos didn’t come out too well as we couldn’t get really close to them, but I think you get the idea. The termite tube I made using Cass’s Directional Tuber script and a picture of a termite I found on-line (don’t know if it is the right one but they all look a bit the same anyway!). The holes in the title I did with a deckle edge brush but they are a bit small so you can’t really see the jaggy edge.
