What are you working on (in January 2023)?

[Michele]

Thank you, Marie-Claire, Fiona Cook, and Suzy. I almost didn't post it at all because it was not "scrapbooky." I'm glad if I could help some newbies!

[Susan Ewart]

6 hours ago, Michele said:

Thank you, Marie-Claire, Fiona Cook, and Suzy. I almost didn't post it at all because it was not "scrapbooky." I'm glad if I could help some newbies!

Michele, I hope you keep posting your illustration type layouts.  I love the 60's-70's vibe of them and especially gratefull to see how you achieved it using "ingredients".  I think it's important to see all styles of layouts with PSP to open our minds to greater creativity.  You the know how it is, "we dont know what we dont know".  It's inspiring.  I have seen digital designs and often wonder how they were achieved, your explanation really shows how to look at individual elements and put them together in a cohesive package.  I love this group for the diversity of layouts.  Keep it up.  

[Mary Solaas]

Ran across this layout that I played with when doing one of the recent labs.  The window was "snowy window" and a freebie around Christmas 2021 and I removed the snow; the curtain top was something I was looking for to hide the top of the "netting" curtain I had used in that lab.  I'm not sure where it came from but was probably originally from PS.  All the rest is mine.

[Helen]

Hope this works!!  My second post for 2023. Here are a few pictures my amigurumi crocheting characters that I made last summer. I did many more and did donate them. I also made some for the children in our area to give out at Halloween. If I am not in here, I am crocheting. 

[Susan Ewart]

Pikachu!  So cute.

[Helen]

Thank you, everyone 

 

 

[Susan Ewart]

Lab 6-5

• Cartoon Words
• Burst Shape
• Halftone Pattern

Extra: Glitter frame is from the recent Master Class: Borders.  I used two frames (on 2 separate layers) that I was deciding between and then when i had them both on, liked that version best (happy accident).  Fonts are Grinched 2.0 from Creative Fabrica, fitting because the actual tree is very Dr. Seuss-like. Arial Narrow was used for the the date.  Photo's are mine.  

The "fur" boss was lots of help today, knocking my pencil off the desk about 10 times before taking it in her mouth and running away.  After a good chase I caught with her "stash" of her pencil and a pen I didnt know she had taken.  

it's really easy and quick to drag the photo's to here.

 

[Mary Solaas]

Next layout for the Chattanooga trip.  Papers and elements are my own.

[Susan Ewart]

How cool Mary.  I love old trains and train stations (and train museums where you can go tour really old trains that have been restored and set up as it would have been when it was new).

[Ann Seeber]

7 hours ago, Helen said:

Thank you, everyone 

 

 

Helen, I had a friend who made these. I still have a Humpty Dumpty Santa Claus! Charming ?

[Ann Seeber]

Mary, my husband and I both had fathers who were railroad men so trains run in the family. I'm really enjoying your documenting your trip and this one really strikes my fancy. Well done to effectively showcase so many photos at once. 

[Michele]

19 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Michele, I hope you keep posting your illustration type layouts.  I love the 60's-70's vibe of them and especially gratefull to see how you achieved it using "ingredients".  I think it's important to see all styles of layouts with PSP to open our minds to greater creativity.  You the know how it is, "we dont know what we dont know".  It's inspiring.  I have seen digital designs and often wonder how they were achieved, your explanation really shows how to look at individual elements and put them together in a cohesive package.  I love this group for the diversity of layouts.  Keep it up.  

Susan, your words of encouragement are both appreciated and inspirational. I'll try to remind myself to share other non-"scrapbooky" layouts.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

My friend, Michelle, at a professional pickleball tournament. Center court is behind her in the larger photo. She is posing with pro player, Lucy Kovalova, in the smaller photo. Template 94 by Lady 22, Bourico Casper. Word art from Creative Fabrica.

[MoniqueN.]

On 1/13/2023 at 10:25 AM, Michele said:

Never underestimate what you can do by combining several different pics to make one cohesive project. Removed a few backgrounds, recolored the abstract background, and the font is Airport. It actually took me a lot longer than I thought it would, mostly due to the different proportions of the originals and my OCD need for perfection. ?

 

 

What a nice old-fashioned look! Love it!

 

[Mary Solaas]

OK.  I've been playing around ((SO OCD)).  I couldn't make the curved papers with the pen tool UNTIL I made the path go around the sides of the layer to meet with the beginning of the curve.  Then I could make the magic wand select the inside of the path in order to color the "curved paper".  Then trouble with using the Vector paint script - maybe it had to do with F11 ????  I'm not sure at this point.  I also used the Vector Tube script to make the chain edge and the rope edge.  The scalloped edge was made with the Vector Paint script.  So here are my results.  The 2nd layout shows how I had to go around the edge of the paper in order to make the different colored pages (I pulled the edge made with the rope forward - that's why it is not actually on the edge of the page).

[Mary Solaas]

2 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

My friend, Michelle, at a professional pickleball tournament. Center court is behind her in the larger photo. She is posing with pro player, Lucy Kovalova, in the smaller photo. Template 94 by Lady 22, Bourico Casper. Word art from Creative Fabrica.

Neat use of the broken frame!

[Susan Ewart]

Helen and Ann, my mom also made them and I inherited them after her passing.  Mostly animals and even a "rubber chicken".  When my nephew had a baby I gave him a couple of them, including the rubber chicken because he's the clown in the family (just like his dad - my brother).  

PS, the chicken's body was crocheted around an egg shape, remember the nylons that came in egg shaped containers, I think that is what she used.  

[Anne Lamp]

The topic on PSP Manics is frost but I thought I would post it here also. Hawaii Dreaming on a cold winter's day. All photos are mine, Maui Hawaii, my living room window and cloudy sky. The font is Script mt bold. The frost over the sunset was done with the overlay blend mode.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

3 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Neat use of the broken frame!

Thank you, Mary...it was a part of the template.

[Julie Magerka]

4 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

OK.  I've been playing around ((SO OCD)).  I couldn't make the curved papers with the pen tool UNTIL I made the path go around the sides of the layer to meet with the beginning of the curve.  Then I could make the magic wand select the inside of the path in order to color the "curved paper".  Then trouble with using the Vector paint script - maybe it had to do with F11 ????  I'm not sure at this point.  I also used the Vector Tube script to make the chain edge and the rope edge.  The scalloped edge was made with the Vector Paint script.  So here are my results.  The 2nd layout shows how I had to go around the edge of the paper in order to make the different colored pages (I pulled the edge made with the rope forward - that's why it is not actually on the edge of the page).

Mary Solaas, I also got OCD about creating the curve shape. I managed to get the shape I wanted (many times), but then that was the end of it. No selection tool worked for me without deleting the actual curve. I will now try with your helpful hint: selecting all the way around the sides of the layer. That makes sense. Good for you for sticking to it! Well done.

[Bonnie Ballentine]

The 4 of us went to iFLY...what a fun day...full of memories. Template from Kim's Creative World, ALFLT, August, 2022. Does Judy look like she is having fun?

[Michele]

For today's daily theme I had these wonderful illustrations by Lorraine Dell Wood from her Flirty Hat series. I used a template from Corel and made it my own. In order to get the borders around the pics: 1) Merged each of the groups; 2) Selected the outside of each one with the magic wand; 3) Inverted the selection; 4) Select selection borders and flood filled.  I followed the Lined Paper tutorial in the Campus for the background. The font is RiotSquad, free from DaFont. I actually had a tough time picking a font and settled on this one as my deadline was quickly approaching.

[Michele]

18 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

OK.  I've been playing around ((SO OCD)).  I couldn't make the curved papers with the pen tool UNTIL I made the path go around the sides of the layer to meet with the beginning of the curve.  Then I could make the magic wand select the inside of the path in order to color the "curved paper".  Then trouble with using the Vector paint script - maybe it had to do with F11 ????  I'm not sure at this point.  I also used the Vector Tube script to make the chain edge and the rope edge.  The scalloped edge was made with the Vector Paint script.  So here are my results.  The 2nd layout shows how I had to go around the edge of the paper in order to make the different colored pages (I pulled the edge made with the rope forward - that's why it is not actually on the edge of the page).

I absolutely love this, Mary. Not being gifted with drawing skills, I have a tough time using the Pen Tool. Do you remember which mode you used?

[Mary Solaas]

Michele - I use point-to-point, connect segments, show nodes.  I use a tablet and pen (getting used to that).

[mireille]

Hi Mary Solaas

I see that you have correctly applied the instructions I gave you on January 5, January 6 and January 13/01 following your desire to know how to proceed to reproduce the side paper (section Forums The Lab Lab 13 - 01 Stencil design). You went through the point-by-point description that I’ve known for a long time as if it came from you. Thank you for quoting me.(that’s a bit of irony).

Edited January 16, 2023 by mireille