What are you working on (in October 2024)?

[Mary Solaas]

Lab 13 Mod 5. did'nt really want to do this, but finally tried out the fringe paper.  Made several of them - three in Mardi Gras colors (which I used for this layout), two  in Halloween colors and two in Valentine colors? The picture was taken by my daughter and is actually after Mardi Gras but in February. The font is from Creative Fabrica (where all my specialty fonts are from) and is called Adventure Island ScriptRough. The mask I got sometime back and might have been from CF or NicePng.

[Julie Magerka]

24 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Lab 13 Mod 5. did'nt really want to do this, but finally tried out the fringe paper.  Made several of them - three in Mardi Gras colors (which I used for this layout), two  in Halloween colors and two in Valentine colors? The picture was taken by my daughter and is actually after Mardi Gras but in February. The font is from Creative Fabrica (where all my specialty fonts are from) and is called Adventure Island ScriptRough. The mask I got sometime back and might have been from CF or NicePng.

You might have been reluctant to do it, but the layout works so well! Love the colours.

[Julie Magerka]

Just playing around with pieces from the Anna Aspnes freebies. And wishing my fellow PSPers a Happy Thanksgiving (well, the Canadian ones anyway).

The only bit I "created" was the beaded string effect. It's an idea taken right from AA. I used her strings and the alpha beads come from Marisa Lerin (I started making my  own and then gave up!). Oh, and the text is something I made some time ago, just added the Canadian flag to it.

Edited October 12 by Julie Magerka

[Corrie Kinkel]

1 hour ago, Julie Magerka said:

Just playing around with pieces from the Anna Aspnes freebies. And wishing my fellow PSPers a Happy Thanksgiving (well, the Canadian ones anyway).

The only bit I "created" was the beaded string effect. It's an idea taken right from AA. I used her strings and the alpha beads come from Marisa Lerin (I started making my  own and then gave up!). Oh, and the text is something I made some time ago, just added the Canadian flag to it.

Wow, I like your playing around!

[Corrie Kinkel]

Something totally different and not what I make often. This card is for my very dear friend who will be turning 80 in a couple of weeks. It is just a miracle she is still among us and I have sent her a card every week when she had chemo with a lot of complications in the early days of the covid pandemic. She is doing well but has a lot of side effects from the ongoing treatment. She always loves birthdays with all that comes with it like pendants, flags, garlands around her chair, balloons and so on. Of course I could have made a nice card with some flowers but I have sent so many like that to her that I wanted something different this time.

I have a couple of balloons in my stash and changed the colors to my liking for this card. Duplicated each of the recolored ones, put 80 between the two layers and reduced the opacity of the top balloon. In my stash are some translucent balloons with confetti in them, so I made confetti with cass-ConfettiMaker script also round and in the same colors. That confetti in a smaller size is inside the text too. It will be a double card with my logo on the back, probably with a small balloon as well. My birthday wishes will be handwritten inside. I sincerely hope she will like it.....

[Ann Seeber]

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Something totally different and not what I make often. This card is for my very dear friend who will be turning 80 in a couple of weeks. It is just a miracle she is still among us and I have sent her a card every week when she had chemo with a lot of complications in the early days of the covid pandemic. She is doing well but has a lot of side effects from the ongoing treatment. She always loves birthdays with all that comes with it like pendants, flags, garlands around her chair, balloons and so on. Of course I could have made a nice card with some flowers but I have sent so many like that to her that I wanted something different this time.

I have a couple of balloons in my stash and changed the colors to my liking for this card. Duplicated each of the recolored ones, put 80 between the two layers and reduced the opacity of the top balloon. In my stash are some translucent balloons with confetti in them, so I made confetti with cass-ConfettiMaker script also round and in the same colors. That confetti in a smaller size is inside the text too. It will be a double card with my logo on the back, probably with a small balloon as well. My birthday wishes will be handwritten inside. I sincerely hope she will like it.....

Wow, clever and beautiful, Corrie. I wish it was MY birthday!! 😉

[Michele]

12 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Something totally different and not what I make often. This card is for my very dear friend who will be turning 80 in a couple of weeks. It is just a miracle she is still among us and I have sent her a card every week when she had chemo with a lot of complications in the early days of the covid pandemic. She is doing well but has a lot of side effects from the ongoing treatment. She always loves birthdays with all that comes with it like pendants, flags, garlands around her chair, balloons and so on. Of course I could have made a nice card with some flowers but I have sent so many like that to her that I wanted something different this time.

I have a couple of balloons in my stash and changed the colors to my liking for this card. Duplicated each of the recolored ones, put 80 between the two layers and reduced the opacity of the top balloon. In my stash are some translucent balloons with confetti in them, so I made confetti with cass-ConfettiMaker script also round and in the same colors. That confetti in a smaller size is inside the text too. It will be a double card with my logo on the back, probably with a small balloon as well. My birthday wishes will be handwritten inside. I sincerely hope she will like it.....

This is simply fabulous! I love everything about it. I'm impressed with how you were able to add shadows to the transparent balloons. I end up adding a shadow and erasing the part that's under the transparent part. How did you do it?

[kasany]

On 10/8/2024 at 9:20 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Another Steve Biro photograph, which puts me in mind of Sue T. He got this shot in 2019 after many attempts over the course of some time. This image went viral and he became quite well-known across the world. You can google Bruce.

I kept it really simple since the photo is so stunning.

Great!!

[kasany]

Fall's colors. Shot taken by Jacek in a local park. Used recent described by Carole tool /BTW fine tool/.

[Anne Lamp]

Autumn magic. Font is today's free one from Creative fabrica . (Fire-Boys-28596705). The background is from CF - Watercolor Mega Halloween Midnight Blue Bundle from last year I think.  The campfire is from Watercolor-Campfire-clipart-63727433. I liked it better without the shadows on anything for this one.

Edited October 13 by Anne Lamp

[Corrie Kinkel]

10 hours ago, Michele said:

This is simply fabulous! I love everything about it. I'm impressed with how you were able to add shadows to the transparent balloons. I end up adding a shadow and erasing the part that's under the transparent part. How did you do it?

Thanks and I had two layers for each balloon with the 80 in it and shadowed the back layer with a very light shadow almost but not quite a reverse shadow with a low opacity. Balloons, at least mine are translucent and that means to me they will cast only a very light shadow. But to be honest I was surprised to see the result I got because it worked as well on the confetti balloons which only had 1 layer. You just have to give it a try and think what kind of shadow balloons will give in the real world 🎈

[Cristina]

On 10/11/2024 at 10:06 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Lovely Cristina and we are fortunate that Julie shared that tip with us. I'm still unpacking all the goodies and I used some alredy.

Thank you, Corrie.

Julie showed us the way to this precious freebie, and thanks to her, Anna Aspnes probably gained many new subscribers to her newsletter!

Edited October 14 by Cristina

[Cristina]

On 10/11/2024 at 4:43 PM, kasany said:

Last summer Jacek's trip. It's been a very early trip. Letters made by Carole. 

kasany, I like very much how you used a photo as the background.  Did you use a Blend Mode or other technique to make it look like this?

I also love the other photos, especially the sunset ones (or sunrise?).   No matter how often we see it, I think sunrise and sunset are magical.

Cassel's Alpha fits the theme perfectly; I have used it a few times.  She has tons of beautiful Alphas as freebies.

[Cristina]

On 10/12/2024 at 5:04 PM, Mary Solaas said:

Lab 13 Mod 5. did'nt really want to do this, but finally tried out the fringe paper.  Made several of them - three in Mardi Gras colors (which I used for this layout), two  in Halloween colors and two in Valentine colors? The picture was taken by my daughter and is actually after Mardi Gras but in February. The font is from Creative Fabrica (where all my specialty fonts are from) and is called Adventure Island ScriptRough. The mask I got sometime back and might have been from CF or NicePng.

Your persistence paid off, Mary.  It came out great, and like Julie, I love the Mardi Gras colors, too.

[Cristina]

On 10/12/2024 at 5:33 PM, Julie Magerka said:

Just playing around with pieces from the Anna Aspnes freebies. And wishing my fellow PSPers a Happy Thanksgiving (well, the Canadian ones anyway).

The only bit I "created" was the beaded string effect. It's an idea taken right from AA. I used her strings and the alpha beads come from Marisa Lerin (I started making my  own and then gave up!). Oh, and the text is something I made some time ago, just added the Canadian flag to it.

Beautiful, Julie!

The beaded-string title is just lovely.   Sue has also created great layouts with them in the past, and Carole has some Alpha-beads scripts in case someone doesn't want to create them themselves;   I have two of them.

[Cristina]

On 10/12/2024 at 9:44 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Something totally different and not what I make often. This card is for my very dear friend who will be turning 80 in a couple of weeks. It is just a miracle she is still among us and I have sent her a card every week when she had chemo with a lot of complications in the early days of the covid pandemic. She is doing well but has a lot of side effects from the ongoing treatment. She always loves birthdays with all that comes with it like pendants, flags, garlands around her chair, balloons and so on. Of course I could have made a nice card with some flowers but I have sent so many like that to her that I wanted something different this time.

I have a couple of balloons in my stash and changed the colors to my liking for this card. Duplicated each of the recolored ones, put 80 between the two layers and reduced the opacity of the top balloon. In my stash are some translucent balloons with confetti in them, so I made confetti with cass-ConfettiMaker script also round and in the same colors. That confetti in a smaller size is inside the text too. It will be a double card with my logo on the back, probably with a small balloon as well. My birthday wishes will be handwritten inside. I sincerely hope she will like it.....

Corrie, that is a lovely card!

I can only imagine how comforting it was for her to receive your weekly card, expressing that you were thinking of her and sending positive thoughts. The psychological side plays a big role in recovering.

I like the title very much and love this technique of adding confetti inside a Text that Carole showed us in a Text Workshop a couple of years ago. 

[kasany]

2 hours ago, Cristina said:

kasany, I like very much how you used a photo as the background.  Did you use a Blend Mode or other technique to make it look like this?

I also love the other photos, especially the sunset ones (or sunrise?).   No matter how often we see it, I think sunrise and sunset are magical.

Cassel's Alpha fits the theme perfectly; I have used it a few times.  She has tons of beautiful Alphas as freebies.

Dear Ladies /Carole and Cristina/  I used PSP 2023. I  found there SHAPE CUTTER and used this tool. A heart-shape was in PSP-SHAPE-PRESETS, Jacek's shot was  in my folder PHOTOS. Do you need more explanation?

[Julie Magerka]

Because it's October and I just enjoy this month so much, I have to keep making some layouts to showcase the colours around.

The photo is mine from last fall at the dog park in town. The papers in the background are from Jessica Dunn. There are Foto Glows from Anna Aspnes behind the framed image. The frame is a cluster from Melo Virjhof at Digital Scrapbook from a while back. And a bunch of other bits and bobs from my Autumn stash.

Edited October 15 by Julie Magerka

[Mary Solaas]

This picture is on the wall of one of our favorite restaurants. It is unsigned - a print of a painting. I just started playing around with it and how to display it. Decided on doing a vertical format this time. the picture is in a mask from Jessica Dunn - April 2024 challenge mask. I put a cream color mat behind it and a frame around that of Cass stitching. The background is made up of 4 layers - white, bluish purple, picture, overlay of RileyBgraphicsLondonFog7 from CF and colored a bluish purple using HSL and blend mode of multiply. the other layers have different blend modes as well.  Several of you use your "logo" on your layouts. My daughter was telling me that my graphics designer daughter-in-law had said that everyone needs to put their initials or logo on all their work. Maybe it's time for me to develop one.

[Susan Ewart]

2 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

This picture is on the wall of one of our favorite restaurants. It is unsigned - a print of a painting. I just started playing around with it and how to display it. Decided on doing a vertical format this time. the picture is in a mask from Jessica Dunn - April 2024 challenge mask. I put a cream color mat behind it and a frame around that of Cass stitching. The background is made up of 4 layers - white, bluish purple, picture, overlay of RileyBgraphicsLondonFog7 from CF and colored a bluish purple using HSL and blend mode of multiply. the other layers have different blend modes as well.  Several of you use your "logo" on your layouts. My daughter was telling me that my graphics designer daughter-in-law had said that everyone needs to put their initials or logo on all their work. Maybe it's time for me to develop one.

That's a good idea to have a logo.  

[kasany]

Recent taken   shots by JK and my recent PSP tools which I was playing with.

[Mary Solaas]

@kasany really love that layout.

[kasany]

40 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

@kasany really love that layout.

Mary, glad you love my work:). I must say 'It's been a fast action' JK's walk, rain and sun in the same short time.  Pics had to be presented;)

[Corrie Kinkel]

4 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

This picture is on the wall of one of our favorite restaurants. It is unsigned - a print of a painting. I just started playing around with it and how to display it. Decided on doing a vertical format this time. the picture is in a mask from Jessica Dunn - April 2024 challenge mask. I put a cream color mat behind it and a frame around that of Cass stitching. The background is made up of 4 layers - white, bluish purple, picture, overlay of RileyBgraphicsLondonFog7 from CF and colored a bluish purple using HSL and blend mode of multiply. the other layers have different blend modes as well.  Several of you use your "logo" on your layouts. My daughter was telling me that my graphics designer daughter-in-law had said that everyone needs to put their initials or logo on all their work. Maybe it's time for me to develop one.

Mary the picture you are using is made from a very famous painting of a caféterras by Vincent van Gogh. It is called "Terrasse du café le soir, Place du forum, Arles" and that is in France.

[Corrie Kinkel]

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

That's a good idea to have a logo.  

I have a logo that always goes on the back of my cards, maybe I should adapt it to go on my other work as well. Whenever I have time I'll give it a try, but that probably will not happen very soon 😢