What are you working on (September 2022)?

[Cassel]

 

It is a new month and new projects.

 

Show off what you are working on in September, be it a scrapbook page, a collage, a tutorial, or anything else you want.

 

We are curious and want to see, learn, and get inspired.

 

These threads are quickly becoming a fantastic source of inspiration, support, and friendship. Keep them coming!

 

Remember to size down your image to about 600x600 pixels and save in jpg format before posting it.

 

Here are a few guidelines for everyone:

when you post a project, give as much information on your sources or techniques used. It will help others who are curious and would like to do the same.

if someone uses something that you like on their page, ask where they got it. Sometimes, you can go get it too and it will be better quality than trying to extract it (as it would have been resized to post in the forum anyways).

if it is something that they did from scratch, ask how they did it. It would be so helpful to everyone!

if you like a photo and would like to “play with it”, ALWAYS ask permission. Sometimes, there are some limitations and the person is not allowed to let others use it. Don’t get them in trouble. Usually, people are happy to say yes (if they can) when you ask politely. And if you get permission, you might get a better quality image than the resized image anyways.

[Ann Seeber]

New month, new Big Cat Calendar. For September we have a pair of African Lions. They are the only big cats that live in family groups and the male defends his territory and sires the new generation while a group of females do all the hunting. These calendars are from Cassel's yearly templates. They just need a photo and some color. I have posted a .jpg in the Files section of the Facebook group. It prints out at 8.5" x 11"

[cindy harris]

Ann  Hi  hey  can I give my daughter your calendar  I think she will love it  Dont want to share unless I ask thanks

[Ann Seeber]

Cindy: Of course you can share it with your daughter. I put a full size .jpg in the Files section of our Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro Facebook group. It will print on normal printer paper. Enjoy!

[cindy harris]

thank you ann going now

 

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

I am a bit late with the scraplift challenge in the last days of Augustus so I post it here. I had the flowerpaper in my stash and made the other 2 and the ribbon with the ribbonfactory script and I'm very glad I bought the raster to mask script. I know perfectly well how to do it but the script saves a lot of time. I have done this technique so many times that it becomes a bit boring! The photos are taken last weekend in the gardens of Appeltern (DE Tuinen van Appeltern), a very extensive area with many show gardens and materials and planting. Monique has once showed something about these gardens in a project too.

[Ann Seeber]

Corrie: That's beautiful! I can see your love of flowers in many of your layouts. When I did this challenge, I also used the raster-to-mask script. It saved a lot of time with those pie-shaped photos.

[Susan Ewart]

I love that Corrie,  I have being using them in a photo project, they arent nearly as nice as the ones you photographed.  I did not know anything about them, now I do thank to your layout.  I think i'll have to check and see if I have that Raster to Mask script.

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Very nice Corrie, my compliments too.

[Ann Seeber]

I've done a design incorporating a story, a sport and that same scraplift. The sport is Rodeo. I flipped the design from the last scraplift about Chicago. The Dutchess County Fair was here last week. It's just across the Hudson River from where I live.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Ladies thank you for all the praise, you make me blush!

 

Ann that 2nd layout for this scraplift challenge is as nice as the 1st!

[Lynda DiGregor]

Messing around with Carole's  MoneyBill. The letters that I needed were not part of the zip so I constructed my own trying to make them as close as I could. Here is my million dollar dog

[Ann Seeber]

The Tut/Tech Challenge is still up for August and since it's a new month I'll post this watercolor here. The most complicated part was the label.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Ann, beautiful and the frame makes the watercolor stand out.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

This is a scrap lift but I cannot remember where I found the lifted layout. Each of the saying is a strategy in pickleball.

[Susan Ewart]

Lynda, love Lucy, all pets are million dollar pets arent they.

 

Ann, I love your framed works, they look so real.  That is really pretty.

 

Bonnie, I learn so much and had to laugh at some of Wisdoms of Picklball....Get to the Kitchen/ Stay out of the Kitchen -hilarious.  I really love that Words of Wisdom, it's very pretty.

 

Here is a photo layout.  The top 1/2 is the actual top 1/2 of one of the three photo's used.  The bottom left and right magpies are two separate photo's and I lined up the power line.  They all kind of look like they are extracted but only the middle bottom magpie is extracted, which was sitting on the green corrugated fence.  I desaturated to make more of a black/white/grey layout and to match the magpies with the crows. I left a touch of blue in the sky.  My friend (since I was 12) is actually 57, the 7 is a joke on our age and also the days of both of our birthdays (7th - different months).  The extraction took a long time, there was stray marching ants everywhere.  It's the one bird least looking like it was extracted.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

Thank you, Susan. All of the sayings are actually strategies. The position of power is at the kitchen line and the game is won and lost there. However, you are not allowed to hit a ball before it bounces if you are in the kitchen, AKA, the non-volley zone,  so we say stay out. However, you can go into the kitchen all you want...just don't hit a volley. Pickleball rules are a mess and can be difficult to learn. When I teach people to play, I teach the rules as we play...

[Ann Seeber]

For lack of anything else I'm still playing around with the watercolor effect. Here's a photo from my Rodeo layout done up as a watercolor with a frame and a label. I'm also getting a lot better at making my own frames.

[Susan Ewart]

Oh wow! Ann, that is very nice.

 

 

[Ann Seeber]

Susan: Thanks for the kind words! Very much appreciated. :-)

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Judging by the fashion This photo was taken in 1900. My grandfather is on the left. luckily their grandfather was a Taylor. I did one of the tutorials from Carole's last live presentation. And an edge from the Bootcamp.

[Ann Seeber]

Jannette: I really like that style with the cutout letters at the top. Must try it soon.

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Thanks, Ann. It's not that hard. Only very precisely.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Ann, Very nice. I like the texture addition

 

Lynda

[Susan Ewart]

Jannette, that's wonderful.  I love old pictures like that and the cut out looks fabulous.