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Wow! Everyone’s been so busy and wonderful results. I’m still working on Day 5 (Adventure). But I will show you what I did work on – what Laurie referred to as “top picture”. I had started to work on that last year but was unhappy with the results and I was too new at that time to make my own papers. However, now I know how to do plaid paper working with colors in the photo, so this is what I came up with. OOpps! No shadows. So 1st pic has the shadows.
I will show you what I have been working on for my daughter. She wanted a picture to be cropped and made into a 5X7 to put in a particular frame. Since a square will not fit in a rectangular frame, I used scrapbooking skills (and Cassel’s corner punches) for the final product. As you can see from the original picture, after cropping to the main subjects against the white part of the background, I had to clone out the hand, bottle, etc. on the ledge in back of them. Oops! after that there was no top of the ledge to match the other side! So copy that side’s ledge and put it on the other side as a mirror image. So the 2nd image shows what I ended up with.
I just love these stories! – Burt’s New Squeeze is just wonderfully wild! -Love the robin heralding spring! And Annie Tobin I love your Mossy Frog. I have more fun seeing what everyone is doing.
I think I am on Day 3. Anyway, this is my response to “New Kid On the Block”. Carol, I think I will go along with your suggestion to do a book of the pics. My brother and I took a trip “on Route 66” beginning in St. Louis, not Chicago, ILL. to the northwest end of Arizona in 2014. He wanted to walk on the “glass bridge” over the Grand Canyon that is in that corner. This was on his bucket list.
I used the picture taken by another couple who were doing the Route 66 thing also. Background was from a kit by Marissa Lerin – the Good Life, Feb. 21 – also the bead scatter which I duplicated in the top right corner. The car was from my stash with the car colored black this time. The other element was from Marissa Lerin but not in the kit. I tried to keep to just what was shown in the tutorial, but I did put a frame on the background. I love color changing, so I changed the background color from light brown to a green from the picture. Oh, and I put a frame on the picture also.Lynda – really enjoy all that you post. Loved the picture of the flowers with the background of sky – I too take pictures of the sky and the ground and the street parking lot, etc. because I think they will make great background pics. Originally I was taking them for the work I do in Corel’s Video Studio but now also for Paint Shop Pro. I used to take care of the photos in PSP and then bring them into Video Studio to use, so learned some of the tools in PSP, but this scrapbooking with Carole is really challenging and I am learning a few more things to do in it and maybe to use in Video Studio too.
Michele – love your Fab Divas pictures.
Well, OK. Looks like we are all getting creative with the sandwich and the plate. I did also. Ann Seeber – how did you color the plate white and the edge red? I haven’t learned that trick yet!
I changed everything up: No meat or onions as I chose a cheese sandwich on toast with Miracle Whip (I like it better than mayo). I put coffee in the cup and changed the cutlery to silver (grey from the Cool Neutral color palette and adjusted it with hue 0, saturation 25 & lightness 15 and saved that setting as a preset); I changed the dinnerware to white porcelain (but note my msg to Ann Seeber – would have liked to change the rims to silver but I don’t know how to do that!)
The table cloth is white damask – pattern Corel 08-018 (I think it was called floral) and put a white layer underneath and changed the opacity to 46. Oh, the cheese was created on a vector layer – rectangle.OK. I changed my workspace to medium grey whereas before I had been using dark grey. I think I will try this change to see how I deal with it as we work on the Bootcamp project. I always use a ruler on my images and projects as it helps me get things in perspective. I changed the layers palette to floating – I had always used as docked but sometimes it gets in the way and this way I will be able to move it around. I am not sure what pictures I will use for the Bootcamp, but I had reserved quite a few when I was doing the Love Challenge and so I will probably use some of them that were not used in the Love Challenge. I am uploading 2 that I will possibly use. One is a view of the Route home to Memphis on a trip we took in 2007 and he other one is of Joe, Laurie & Lucy on a snowy day in 2019.
Michelle: really enjoyed what you did with the pic as the background layer. That’s some of what I would like to do with a picture. It’s amazing what comes out of all the stuff you can do with PSP!! Way to go!
Well, I guess I haven’t posted here as I thought I had. I’m from Memphis, Tennessee – center of the USA.
Sue, I just wanted to say that I really loved your project with the red finch – really beautiful. Thank you for your offer of your lace-edged mask. I am working on birthday and anniversary cards and it can really come in handy. Also, thanks for your description of how you did your mask. Can’t thank you enough.
Thanks to all of your for your beautiful layouts – I am really glad to belong to this group. I wanted to comment last night on each of your projects, but when I went to a previous page, my post had been deleted. Just want to tell each of you that you have some lovely designs. I remember Lynda’s Fresh Market which was wonderful bulletin board. I believe Minka had something also that i really liked before I lost my post.
March starts this Monday. What are you doing in February really brought a lot of people in including some of the Tut/Tech Challenge. I believe this post really belongs in that forum, but here I am just before going to sleep. Supposed to get my second Covid vaccine tomorrow morning early and i sure don’t want to miss it. So, Good Night, Ladies!
Everyone is having a ball in February. All the projects displayed are wonderful and show so much imagination (and expertise, I might add)!
I am finally finishing Lab 5, module 10 with experiments 1, 2, & 3: use polka dots, ribbon stitch tube & 3 fonts. The background I created in Love Challenge (polka dots), the Title font is Pristina, the description is Batang Che, the titles beside the graphics are Cursive Serif; the papers behind the graphics are: Cassel blue music sheet & Gina Jones Pretty Bird paper; the daisy element is from Pixel Scrapper Marissa Larin. The graphics: Composing & Arranging are from Readers Digest Christmas Song Book; Playing and Recording are free clip art from Clipart-Library.com; Listening is a picture of my record player. I again used staff, and music notes & symbols picture tubes from Cassel.
I’m back at the beginning – Lab 5 Module 10: create stitch brush, create crayon overlay, create picture tubes. So I did what was suggested except I cannot draw a heart even with the tablet!! so my stitch pattern is just a swirl or 2 or 3. I used Cassel’s heart mask-01 which was a freebie in the Love Challenge (had to go back to the directions in Day 1 of the Love Challenge to work with the mask, but I finally got it). Tubes were interesting to make and did not come out as I expected, but I went with what I got. I actually created 3 tubes all with hearts obtained from Pixel Scrapper: mostly Marissa Laren and one from Elif Sahin. The eyelets in the project were created from those obtained from Pixel Scrapper: Marissa Laren and Rachel Martin. The font for the title is Glamlips and for the description is Gigi.
Bonnie, Minka and Ann – lovely pages. Ann thanks for the hint on using brush in the corner and an underlayment in the same color to give a border to the whole page. Also loved your paper.
Minka, that is a really lovely page.
Bonnie, love the colors you used and the double frame with 2 small pics in frames.
Well, Day 7 is done. Yes, I agree – much learned. Saved this new mask which I found interesting. May use it again some time. Really liked the paper and saved it. Used Curlz MT for the Title and Segoe Script for the description and of course Arial for the date. Had fun playing with Carole’s Music picture tubes. Music is a love in this family and we play with friends as well. Thanks, Carole, for the teaching. I think I will play around with that plaid for more paper. Actually, I am sorry the Challenge is over, but I will go back to the Labs.
Day 6 – I’m doing Sammy again. This time it is Family Christmas party 2017. Sammy loves the camera. Enlarged the photo with 2021 AI. Softened the paper. Used the Paint Brush snowflakes and didn’t put them on a separate layer (that’s a baddy). Drew the frame with a paint brush (vertical line) and added a smaller snowflake in the corner. I did do the frame on a separate layer. Used Mama font for both title and date.
Sure do love seeing all the pages in this challenge. Everyone is so creative.
Euka Euka – so glad to see you back.
Carole, I did and this is the result. The problem was that the original photo was so large and we were just a small part of it. So, using PSP2021 and AI, I cropped us out and enlarged the crop. Took out the original and inserted the crop. Then I enlarged the photo and the mask and it does look so much better. This is the result.
Day 5. I decided to pick the picture of my sister-in-law who is also named Mary Lou. Earlier today I had almost finished it and then DELETED IT. Accidently of course. So I had to go back and re-create it. The circle mask went better this time and only has the flower brush used. I found the font (comes with PSP) called French Script MT. The other font used is Arial. Still like to put dates inside elements! Tried a tube, but it made the page too busy. Used the paint brush to make the inside frame. Had fun doing this. Again, another way to create a mask.
Well, Minka, the RV is Joe and Laurie’s. They take me along sometimes and this time was in Alabama at a remote mountain RV park – beautiful. The stars were awesome that night and so awesome that I forgot to get my camera out to take a picture of the night sky. My travel through the lower 48 was done by car – my Blue Baby and Blue Baby 2 with nights in motels. Still fun, but the ability to “camp out” with an RV is really great.
Love everyone’s explorations into labs and stuff. I have to agree with Minka. If you don’t use it you lose it! That’s so true for me, also. There is just SO MUCH!!! Isn’t it wonderful????
OK – Day 4 – I know I am slow. Enjoyed this session. So you can use any object as a mask. Hm. Anyway, I did choose a watercolor brush from the freebies and put the picture in the lower right corner. Played around with white and black brush strokes. Love putting a background around the picture so you get a better ides of the mask results. I have to play with picture tubes – I’ve restrained myself in the other days. I like putting the date in something so I chose to do it in a circle of leaves. Had fun. Masks are becoming easier and I do not have to look at the cheat cheat to remember the previous training for days 1, 2, 3. Think I will remember this process for using brushes or shapes as masks.
I love seeing everyone’s take – I, too, love travel – so have enjoyed the travel pages. And, yes, I do love children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and have used them in previous pages. Love seeing your pages as you focus on yours. The dress group of pages, Barbara, are really good – love the way you have showcased the dress differently in each page. Love using the old and the new relatives also.
Day 3 for me. Had fun with creating the paper – actually saved several papers as I was trying to decide on the one I would use.
OK – it took me all day and a few innovations, but I finally completed Day 2. The plaid was interesting. Saved the plaid image in order to add the borders and then put it in the pspimage as a paper. Decided to add the date to the clip. Added shadows to the elements (which I had filled with color) and the borders (after I figured out the French word for border) of the 2 pictures at the bottom. Really has been a learning curve this time.
Lynda – Always enjoy your take on a Challenge or whatever. My 2nd son and his wife also chose the Carpenter’s rendition of We’ve Only Just Begun as their song.
P.S. I forgot to tell you that I used the eraser tool to remove some of the mask covering the faces of my 2 sons on the right and left of the picture. Also used the eraser tool to soften the edges of the photo – which Carole had told one of us to do so that the edge blended in to the mask. This has been work – but it has been fun!
OK – I finally did Day 1. Wrapping my head around this “rig-a-maroll” way to get the mask to work. I guess that the previous training in templates was just sliding pictures into the spots provided. This, instead, is dealing with masks! Learning something new!!! Stuck to the tutorial but had to go over it several times to get my head to accept it!! Glad I joined this challenge as I am really learning something new. Followed pretty much the outline and this is the result. Boy I sure love all the freebies you gave us or steered us to!! Thanks!!
Everyone – you are doing a fantastic job and I love all the different takes on “LOVE”
Finally back to working in PSP Scrapbooking. New project coming up not in PSP, so other than Love Challenge, I’ll have to stop for a while.
This page: Papers and ribbon are from Cass_Fire-and-Ice; snowman is from Pixel Scrapper – Rachel Martin; Snowflakes and the holly leaves & berry are also from Pixel Scrapper – Gina Jones; I developed the frame around the picture following the directions from Cassel on creating frames; the frame on the background is PSP grunge snowflakes; the font is Century 725 Blk BT.
Whew. We don’t often have snow in Memphis, but this was a morning after a snowy night and I really enjoy the colors – they are calming.
