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Text on a path challenge. My first post in July. It was far to windy today to go kayaking, in fact it was blowing a hot gale. I decided to take a leaf out of the horses book, and stay indoors. They were happy to stay out of the sun and wind in the stable with their fans going full blast. Circle Text, text on a curve. I used the wood frame using the mitred corner script which I created for another project. The background paper is the photo extensively blurred. I cloned out the bird and log first. Created a flair button to go inside the circle text.
Text on a path Campus challenge. There has been a baby boom this year of Ground Squirrels. These were born under the slab stones around the garden. They are about a month old, and haven’t long emerged for their nested burrows. I used 3 photos. One photo had three squirrels in and the other had four. Created masks. An adult is in the label. Text on a path, and reverse path. For the corner frame, I used the ellipse tool, duplicated and rotated, to write in the 4 corners. Used the pen tool for the border lines.
Karon, thank you for your very complimentary words. I’m delighted you enjoyed viewing them, in addition they gave you food for thought. You are doing really well with the lab. Beautifully executed layouts, it’s obvious a great deal of thought has gone into them. Looking forward to seeing what is posted in July.
An ecard I made for a friend, it read Happy birthday, with a few personal words. Using the same fonts, I change the wording to post on here. The last Monday of June 2021. Good morning! Scalloped frame, rope tube wove through the holes, with an Iris flower slipped in the rope. Cassel’s custom brad script. Using two colours blue and white, with the foreground gradient, I created the background paper, added blur and some noise, and outer trim. One of the 5 pairs of visiting Tree Swallows. (male).
Dearest Annie, as you are entering winter, we are entering summer, the longest day has been. it’s exactly the same here, our Spring is always so short, in fact we tend to go straight into summer, a very short Autumn, and then before we know it the longest season, winter is upon us again. Chickens, I love love chickens! They are ever so entertaining, how on earth are you going to get anything done, they will consume a great deal of time, in being entertained by them. A fresh free range egg for breakfast, you really can’t fault it. Lol xxx
Another month is drawing to a close, and once again the forum has been vey active, with beautiful, diverse, creative pages, of great inspiration. It’s always a pleasure to scroll through the pages. I look forward to seeing what posts July will bring.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! It’s Friday again. The days, weeks and months are flying by, before I know it winter will soon descend once again. Meanwhile I make the most of what Mother nature has to offer. I was up around 4am, the coyotes were howling all around, so I got up, and created this page, while listening to the Owls, and the coyotes, then a fox chipped in barking. I found this quote some time ago. I’m not the best at expressing myself on paper, but I feel this quote is quite fitting to this group and the campus. Perhaps, possibly to be used as our moto. The butterfly elements are included in a font called My butterfly, which I textured, and then used the sculpture texture. A different take on the negative label. Out of bounds. I used an adjustment layer to lighten the background photo, after I blurred and used 2 layers using colours from the photo, lowering their opacity a little. For a relatively simple LO, still lots of techniques used. For the word art, I used the warp mesh tool, and text on a curve.
My dear Annie, thank you ever so much. You are always so kind with your comments, I really do appreciate them. If you would like the barcode file, which is in psp format you’ll have to go to the facebook page to download it. These magazine covers are quite quick to create. Thank fully I don’t have to crop, edit, or frame the photos. I’m with you on the shadowing, I always have to take a second look to make sure I have done them right. Again, thank you ever so much my dear friend.
Here’s the last one for now, the temp is already 33c, and calm. A quick bite to eat, and I’m off to the Lake with the Kayak, to see what I can shoot with the camera. Hoping you are all having a lovely weekend. For this magazine cover I created a new barcode. If anyone would like to have it , I’ll post it in the files. Everything are on their own layers, so it can be easily edited to your choosing. This beautiful bird migrates, and like all native sparrows they are song birds. Male White-crowned Sparrow, taking a drink of water from one of the bird baths.
Here’s another magazine cover for children. It was Ann who planted the idea, in her comment on my bee page, to quote her ‘ buzzy way’. Selected the photo, and used the word buzz. For those that are interested there are loads of text tutorials in the creative scrap. I combined a couple of them for the word art in this page. A tri coloured bumble bee on a Speedwell flower. There are, in fact, over 800 native species of bees in Canada, but the western domesticated honeybee is not native. I could have used some bevel and drop shadow on the text, but to be in keeping with a magazine LO, I decided to leave it as is.
Here’s something I haven’t done in a while. The beauty of creating a newspaper or magazine, you don’t have to worry about shadows. I revisited an old tutorial as I couldn’t find the bar code I created years ago. The fly is a realistic looking clipart. The beetle is an extraction from a macro shot I took, it’s an Aspen leaf beetle. It matches the colouring of the Orange Bluet Damselfly.
I agree, we learn so much about everyone’s homeland besides learning techniques. Australia like North America isn’t steeped in history like the UK or Europe. I find it all very interesting, and broadens our knowledge of the world. Still countries like Australia and Canada have such diverse cultures outstanding beauty and unique nature that they are often forgotten gems. Forgotten isn’t the correct word, but I hope you understand what I mean. So much of the world has been swallowed up by mankind.
What a delightful pleasure it is to browse through the forum, it’s filled with so much talent and diverse pages. Annie, you are always so kind with your comments on my pages, and photography. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have an appreciation for nature, you create wonderful nature pages that reside in your beautiful colourful country.
Thank you ever so much Annie, I always, very much appreciate your kind comments. I see that yourself and many others have been very creative in the travel tale challenge. A wonderful trip around the world.
I’ve been quiet of late on here and in the campus. As I’ve been in my element, crawling around on the ground shooting insects. Then spending the evenings buried in my books, and my reference cards IDing them. The ground squirrel babies are now out and about, some are no bigger than a mouse, ever so cute, same for the hares, birds and fox cubs that reside in and around the house, yard and fields. In time they will be showcased and posted for you to view. Meanwhile this is a shot I particularly like, the flower is called Snow in Summer ( Cerastium Silver Carpet). Tiny delicate flowers with silvery leaves. Nothing very elaborate. Word frame. I wove the vine around the frame . I used the Kaleidoscope tool for the background paper using a photo of the flowers. Macro Photography,
Fuchsia flowers. For a change I used the close technique to create the frame, along with effects, textures, blinds, horizontal and vertical. I will use this in a future project
Anne, and Annie, wonderful patterns using the kaleidoscope tool. I really hadn’t thought of trying that. Same goes for Lynda’s bricks. Cool work ladies! You have inspired me!
Colour palette challenge. It was a bit of a challenge for me, finding photos that would work in harmony with the colours. I found these two photos, which has a hint of all the colours of the palette in them. Including a hint of orange on some of the ducklings. I used Carole’s ribbon factory, knotted ribbon, and custom brad scripts. I found a png of the duck sitting on a nest, selected it and deleted from the label. Carole’s corner punch. To add a little whimsy to the LO I tilted the label, giving the impression the one screw was holding it in place, while the other screw had been dislodged. I intertwined the ribbon around the ivy. Mother Mallard duck with her 9 ducklings.
Hello all you busy creative PSPers. I have been preoccupied with door activities of late. It’s only now I’ve had a chance to visit the campus. What fabulous pages you all have been posting. An absolute feast for the eyes, and inspiration.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It is the Welsh name of a small town on the Island of Anglesey, off the North Wales coast. It is usually shortened to Llanfair.
Translated it sort of means ” St Mary’s Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave”. Yes, I can pronounce it correctly, if anyone is wondering.
Annie, as always I really appreciate you viewing my pages and commenting on them. Thank you, a million times. Mother nature certainly is wondrous.
Susanne, you will find the Mesh tools directly under the pen tool in the left side tool bar. There you will find the Mesh Warp, and the Mesh brush tools. If you are a diamond member in the campus you’ll find tutorials in the creative scrap and the lab on using these tools. The rolled edge tutorial in the creative scrap, and lab 8-6 tube tutorial is a good one to start practising with. If not I can give you simple instructions to get you started. Look at the Yellow Warbler page I posted, and the word Warbler. The tool distorts text, and paper etc evenly.
Lynda, Annie, thank you ever so much for your kind words, they always mean a great deal to me. I see that I have posted two pages twice, I do apologize, I tried to delete them but I couldn’t. So much going on, Summer has arrived!
We had the first rain of 2021 yesterday. For months I have watered the flower beds twice a day every day for hours on end, not only for the plants, but to provide mud for the Swallows and Robins to make their nests. I hadn’t seen any insects until this morning. Many of the Chives and Hesperis flowers bloomed, and out came the insects. So did my my macro lens. I was chuffed to bits, to say the least. Here’s one of the many shots I took of many species of insects. This little chap is only about 6mm long. In Europe, these flies are called Hover Flies. I am a huge fan of Carole’s corner punch brushes. In this project I used one of her edge brushes to create the frame. Using the magic wand I was then able use different colours. I created the inner chisel frames. Background paper is a photo of the flowers.
Thank you Susanne, my pages aren’t complex, and filled with elements, which means they don’t take to long to create. It takes much longer to take the perfect shot, than it does to showcase it. I must say you did an absolutely cracking job on your out of bounds page. It also blends nicely with the kit you used. You’ll be hooked on using that technique. We’ll done indeed. You are so right, it is so much fun.
I love these native perennial herb flowers. I used one of Carole’s gold chain tube for the frame, as it matched the 2 colours of the seeds of the flower perfectly. Extraction of the flower. Negative label.
Meet one of my new friends, one of this year’s Jack Rabbit youngsters. He/she love the dandelions in the yard, the dandelion disappears in not time. Although they are called rabbits, they are actually hares, like the snowshoe hare they turn white during winter. I have quite a few of them, all ages, and I have called then all Bobtail. Out of the blue this name popped into my head one day. From a watch with mother children’s programme, called Rag, Tag and Bottail. Rag was a mouse, Tag was a hedgehog, and Bobtail was the rabbit. Strange the things we store in our minds. I used to watch ‘Watch with mother when I was a child, the programme ran from 1953-65. Does anyone else remember these programmes? Giving my age away now! A simple frame.
