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Sandra, you created a fun double page, well done.
Laurie, thank you for your kind comment on my pages. I always appreciate them. It’s quite rare to see Moose out in the open, they prefer treed and wet marshy areas, especially when the weather warms up. I hope you get to see one in person, I always feel privileged, and humbled, when they grace me with their presence.
Carole, thank you ever so much for your compliment on my pages. Praise from you means a great deal to me. I had to create pages to do these magnificent animals justice.
Corrie, well done, a beautiful, lively colourful page. I love the addition of the beads, in matching colours to the photos used.
Some of you will have seen these pages, which I created for the first Challenge I did in 2018. Hard to believe it was that long ago. One year I documented the life cycle of the ladybird, all four stages. Egg, Larva, pupa, and adult. They are at their most venerable, while they wait for their spots to change colour and harden, which can take up to 2 hrs. Macro photography.
It looks I’m going to be the first to post day 1 of the Double Take Challenge. Taking into account that I didn’t need to create the masks, as I have done this challenge before. I did modify the pages to suit the photos. The cow and now a yearling Moose visit the trees out back occasionally, I also see them around and about, they really do cover a lot of ground with their long legs in search of food. They stayed for 3 nights and 3 days, when I took these photos, and hundreds more during that time, on the 30th March -1 April. I didn’t invade their space, and through their occasional visit, the mother had grown to tolerate my presence, and appeared to be quite comfortable having me around. Always keeping a large tree between them and myself. It’s common sense to avoid females with calves and yearlings, as well as bulls in the Autumn rut. We have Willow trees, which they are very partial to. Where we live, they don’t have any predators. Only humans, and over the years their numbers have decreased, yet the conservation officers continue to issue tickets to hunters, to enable them to hunt them. Along with loss of habitat.
Annie, thank you ever so much for your very kind comment on the Pelican page. These are the American White Pelican. As for the keeled plate on the upper mandible, I’m afraid I can’t give you an answer. Other than, I think it may be an indicator to the maturity of the adult breeding male and female Pelicans. Non breeding, and immature birds, don’t get the plate, and their plumage is tinged with brown.
Laurie, I now see Carole pipped me to the post, so to speak, we must have been replying to your question at the same time. ?
Laurie, your layers will be raster. When you create masks, the mask layer will open as a raster layer. If you are going to create rectangles or circles using the rectangle/ellipse tool, they are created as vectors, so you’ll have to promote them to a raster to change them into a mask.
Wonderful pages by everyone. Michele, do you ever use adjustment layers? All your work is awesome. I love the framed page. Next time play with adjustment layers on a similarly framed page.
So many wonderful pages created, each one very different. Nice to see lots of different techniques used. Well done everyone.
Colour palette challenge. I created the frame around the photo using two of the colours. I also used paper templates. The dots was a paper, I coloured them, erased the bulk of them, to fill a void. Of curse through using inner bevel and texture, it does alter the colours slightly. After searching through my photos, this photo was one of many of my Pelican photos which had two of the colours from the palette in it. Hundreds of them gather at Gardiner Dam, they will move on to their breeding grounds further north, but will return in the Autumn for about a month, before making their long migratory journey south. I took this shot this time last year. They haven’t arrived yet this year, but they will!
Annie, thank you ever so much for your kind words, even if I say so myself I was delighted how the page turned out.
Not being a huge fan of patterned papers, I use textures a lot, they give a subtle effect, often using a little noise and or blur. Well done, I love the texture papers you have created.
Everyone has been so busy creating, wonderful pages. I’m slowing down, as the weather keeps improving, I spend more and more time outside.
Lynda, that’s cool, I do like it. I have some nice swirly brushes, where I’ve created something like what you have done, to use as an overly, and erase the areas over something, like on a and around the subject.
Lynda, thanks for the kind comment on the LO. It was feeling very much like Spring, until it snowed yesterday, now everywhere is white again. The Autumn photo, is one of the last pics I took before I put the kayak away for winter. 17th October 2020.
Hi Lynda, that is the colour palette site I found. The hex codes and RGB codes are accurate too.
Mary, thank you ever so much for your kind comment on the photo and LO. I took the burgundy colour for the tag from the willow bush in the photo. I attended the live webinar, but didn’t need to watch it again, I was already familiar with the techniques Carole used to colourize the background papers. What I didn’t know, not being a proper scrapbooker, is that there were template background papers available. I haven’t had a problem with flood filling, by not closing layers. I just made a suggestion thinking that it would help resolve those that are having an issue. I look forward to seeing what you create with what you have learnt from the webinar. The power of the selection tool!
I have already commented in the campus, saying what an interesting webinar it was on Sunday. I had previously framed the photo, it was waiting in the pending file to be showcased. I did learn that I didn’t have to change to the dropper tool, in order to change the colours. I found the elements, and the papers on pixel scrapper, found a site of colour palettes, which gave the hex codes and RGB’s. Something I never use. I duplicated the ribbon, flood filled and used a blend mode. I did the same for the leaf. I used the hue sat lightness on the frame tag. The techniques Carole used in the webinar, I use in many of my pages. For those that have been experiencing problems flood filling, may I suggest that you close any flood filled layers, in fact close all the layers except the one that you are working with. It may help with your issue. I haven’t experienced that problem myself.
Beautiful earth tone colours you used Annie. I agree it was a very interesting webinar. I did learn one useful tip, and that was to hold down the control key with the flood fill tool selected to change a colour instead of changing to the dropper tool. All the techniques demonstrated can be used in so many other ways, not just colouring templates and elements.
Karon, thank you ever so much for your kind comment. I enjoy your pages and the details that go into them. Very well done indeed.
Michele, I have all of Carole’s jigsaw scripts, I use them frequently, they are also so much quicker than creating them ones self. I feel to get the best out of the jigsaws, I tend to use them on landscapes. Although they can be used on any image.
I couldn’t believe what I read in Carole’s newsletter, 80 posts in what are you working on in April, already! So many wonderful pages, and elements. An absolute feast for the eyes. Well done all of you.
Anne I have that bow script, it’s one of 3 that I have, and it’s my favourite bow.
Michelle, I absolutely love both the pages, as for the Solid Satin page, you did an exemplary job. Personally, I wouldn’t change the belt story page, not even the background.
Annie, Once again thank you. I feel that after almost 7 months of winter, myself and everyone else long to see the changes that Spring fetches. There isn’t any happy medium weather wise here, with two extremes, 30 below 0r 30 above. Spring is very short lived, and so is Autumn, winter and summer dominate the seasons. Like the UK, you have a more moderate climate. I do like your watermark, it’s quite unique. I do have a water mark, rarely use it. For the cards that I print, what I create on the back isn’t really a logo, but a creation of endearment for the recipient of the card. Also when they look back on their cards, years down the road, they have the date for reference.
Corrie, very nice logo. It’s bright and cheerful, I love the alternating pastel colours of the flowers.
I do mine differently, each one corresponds with the front cover of each card. For example the fox was on the front cover, so I used him in the logo. I always like to date the cards too.
Wonderful to see and hear the birds arriving. The landscape is finally starting to green up. Used the photo of the goose, which I cropped to be framed, for the background paper, cloning out the goose. I used fonts for the decorative borders.
Annie, great cut out edges. Even better if they are done as masks.
Very nice work Mary.
Laurie. A day in the garden is always a great day. Lovely page. If I may suggest, perhaps you forgot to do the shadowing.
Cristina, thank you so much, the wrapped frame technique gives an interesting twist to a plain frame. It’s wonderful, as the temps rise more and more birds are arriving, hibernating creatures are stirring.
Annie, of course, I remember that tutorial. With hundreds of tutorials it’s hard to keep track of them all. Your cut outs are awesome. Time for me to revisit some of the older tutorials I think. Thanks for the reminder.Thank you ever so much for all the kinds words on my pages. I really do appreciate them, and they mean so much to me. I don’t log in daily, I really should though, as I always have a lot of catching up to do, so many wonderful, varied pages to absorb.
Lynda, your page is powerful, and beautifully executed.
Ann, your pages are always full of bright colours, not something I would do myself, but I always love what others do.
Anne, A beautiful vibrant page, yet it’s not overwhelming, in fact its vibrantly subtle, if you know what I mean. The colours of the birds colourful feathers stand out over your layout. Great job. I love the punched heart edge, is it a brush?
I was absolutely chuffed to bits early yesterday morning, when I saw the first of the ground squirrels emerge, by the end of the day I had sighted 7, dotted around the yard. We still have snow banks, even though I have started to filled the bird baths, they still freeze at night. Saying that the temp went up to 20c yesterday and again today. I did the framing etc last night, added the word art while having tea and biscuits for eleven’s this morning. Another beautiful twist to add to my repertoire of framing my photos.
I had an update. I get notifications asking me to update. I make sure I close all programs, especially PSP before I click OK. I am given choices, choose a time or just click OK. As it has to shut down and restart. All is working well, even psp 2021 ultimate.
You have captured the essence of the birds. I love that you chose a rope colour that is in the feathers. A fabulous job on the rope text, and the frame wrapping. As for the horse shoe, well it would pass for a real shoe. I have several of Carole’s rope tubes, they are ever so versatile. I like to create my own background papers, no two are ever the same. Yours is great, you could even colorize or use the hue saturation, lightness on it, to be used in a different project. Well done. I agree, I often weep when I see or read about the wounds that are inflicted on Mother Nature, which she has to endure. It’s going to take more than a plaster to prevent her demise.
Annie, thank you ever so much for your continued kind comments on my work. I’m always trying to find new ways to showcase my photos, if it wasn’t for Carole, and everyone who participates in sharing their pages, I do believe that I would struggle for inspiration to create pages. I have many emotions, one being sad, every time I see litter which is discarded from vehicles, and when I read that the government is now allowing farmers to cut their grass for hay earlier, and the ditches. As birds will not have the time to raise their young in time. And the list goes on and on. I look out across the Prairies, and all I see is cultivated land, or prime land locations being gobbled up and turned into concrete jungles. Once the native grasslands have been broken, it is nigh on impossible to restore them. The birds of the open Prairies have to contend with herbicides, pesticides, heavy machinery, they already have a challenging life, without mankind putting its 4 penneth worth in. I read how mankind has saved birds and mammals from extinction, and they make such a big thing of it. What irks me the most is , we should not have allowed it to get to that point in the first place. Mother Nature is constantly sending out SOSs, and we are not not taking a blind bit of notice. I fear the damage to our planet is almost irreversible now, unless we instantly dramatically change our ways. We have conservation areas, where dedicated people are working hard to keep the habitat as it’s meant to be, but it’s a very tiny percentage of what all mother nature’s creatures need to thrive. I find the insect world tells me a lot, as their numbers, and species are dwindling dramatically every year.
