What are you working on (in December 2024)?

[Cassel]

It is a new month and new projects.

Show off what you are working on in November 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 it in .jpg format before posting it (if you are creating a double page, you can resize it to 1000 pixels in width if you don't want to post the pages separately).

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 anyway).
• 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 anyway.

[Ann Seeber]

Happy December from the Nashville Zoo. It's Sumatran Tiger Time! The new, red logo (upper left) is for Critically Endangered species. Nashville is very active with a breeding program. My granddaughter, Jackie Thorpe, is a zookeeper there.

 

Edited December 1 by Ann Seeber

[Cristina]

On 12/1/2024 at 12:40 PM, Ann Seeber said:

Happy December from the Nashville Zoo. It's Sumatran Tiger Time! The new, red logo (upper left) is for Critically Endangered species. Nashville is very active with a breeding program. My granddaughter, Jackie Thorpe, is a zookeeper there.

 

Ann, you have created a lovely calendar about those beautiful animals all year round, and December is no different. 🙂 

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I haven't had much time to work with PSP this month, and the little I am doing is finishing Lesson 7 of the Text Workshop and creating things for our Christmas.

But I love to come by here and see what everybody is doing! 

 

[Anne Lamp]

The challenge on PSP maniacs is lens flare and I made this for that sight and figured I might as well post it here too.

[Cristina]

6 hours ago, Anne Lamp said:

The challenge on PSP maniacs is lens flare and I made this for that sight and figured I might as well post it here too.

Anne, beautiful sunset photos!

[Julie Magerka]

The layouts I've worked on recently have been mostly personal ones for birthdays and anniversaries, and I feel most of them are not that suitable to post. But I kind of like this one for an anniversary, a 65th no less!

The background is an image of a canal in Venice blended with an Anna Aspnes transfer and some other stuff thrown in. The anniversary couple have been extracted. They had dinner at an Italian restaurant and used their mural wall as background, so I replaced it.

[Julie Magerka]

On 12/1/2024 at 6:40 AM, Ann Seeber said:

Happy December from the Nashville Zoo. It's Sumatran Tiger Time! The new, red logo (upper left) is for Critically Endangered species. Nashville is very active with a breeding program. My granddaughter, Jackie Thorpe, is a zookeeper there.

 

I hope places other than just Nashville are working at keeping these beauties alive and breeding.

[Ann Seeber]

33 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

I hope places other than just Nashville are working at keeping these beauties alive and breeding.

That's the mission of any accredited zoo but I focus on Nashville since my granddaughter was welcomed into their program. I'm learning a lot! They are beauties, I agree!

[Cristina]

13 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

The layouts I've worked on recently have been mostly personal ones for birthdays and anniversaries, and I feel most of them are not that suitable to post. But I kind of like this one for an anniversary, a 65th no less!

The background is an image of a canal in Venice blended with an Anna Aspnes transfer and some other stuff thrown in. The anniversary couple have been extracted. They had dinner at an Italian restaurant and used their mural wall as background, so I replaced it.

Julie, this is a lovely layout, and I am sure the couple will be delighted to receive it.   I love this kind of layout, with transfers, overlays, and the "other stuff" that was thrown in!

 

Edited December 12 by Cristina

[Cristina]

This is the place card I created for this year.    I started creating place cards for fun in 2014 for our Christmas dinner and have been doing it ever since.

Papers and elements are from different DiHiller's Christmas freebies.

Font: Hot Mustard BTN

 

[kasany]

Warsaw Before Christmas. Photos taken by Jacek. Template - .psd from PhotoEffect https://effectphoto.blogspot.com/?m=1

[kasany]

1 minute ago, Cristina said:

This is the place card I created for this year.    I started creating place cards for fun in 2014 for our Christmas dinner and have been doing it ever since.

Papers and elements are from different DiHiller's Christmas freebies.

Font: Hot Mustard BTN

 

LOVELY, very original christmas tree:)

[Jacques]

For my part, I got back into painting with Corel Painter (nice hat, isn't it!)

[Michele]

And I thought we just had a bad connection! LMAO

 

[Jacques]

I also made my "Elf" style alphabet (using a scipt)

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

2 uur geleden zei Jacques:

Van mijn kant ben ik weer gaan schilderen met Corel Painter

Toevallig heb ik Painter ook weer eens open gemaakt. Ik had er tot nu toe nog niet veel in gedaan, Ik heb er ook niet veel tutorial' s over gevonden. Maar met de paper workshop waar ik nu mee bezig ben, hoop ik daar wat leuke achtergrond papieren voor te kunnen maken. Wat ik uiteraard wel zal vermelden bij het inzenden.

[Corrie Kinkel]

21 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

The layouts I've worked on recently have been mostly personal ones for birthdays and anniversaries, and I feel most of them are not that suitable to post. But I kind of like this one for an anniversary, a 65th no less!

The background is an image of a canal in Venice blended with an Anna Aspnes transfer and some other stuff thrown in. The anniversary couple have been extracted. They had dinner at an Italian restaurant and used their mural wall as background, so I replaced it.

Julie a great layout and I love the use of those blend modes and other stuff 🙂 

[Corrie Kinkel]

7 hours ago, Cristina said:

This is the place card I created for this year.    I started creating place cards for fun in 2014 for our Christmas dinner and have been doing it ever since.

Papers and elements are from different DiHiller's Christmas freebies.

Font: Hot Mustard BTN

 

Cristina nice idea to make place cards for the Xmas dinner, I hope your family/guests like them too and have kept them; they get a whole collection this way!

[Jacques]

Another thing I do and that is important to me is after watching a video of "Cassel"

I redo all the steps with my own images (as much as possible),

translating into French and adding screenshots of the steps.

Even if the video is less than 60 minutes, I can take 2@3 days to make my summary

(included a partial copy of "PaintShop Christmas 8" in French of course :))

Link available until 2025-01-31

Mon tuto.pdf

[Ann Seeber]

5 hours ago, Jacques said:

Another thing I do and that is important to me is after watching a video of "Cassel"

I redo all the steps with my own images (as much as possible),

translating into French and adding screenshots of the steps.

Even if the video is less than 60 minutes, I can take 2@3 days to make my summary

(included a partial copy of "PaintShop Christmas 8" in French of course :))

Link available until 2025-01-31

Mon tuto.pdf

Wow, that is awesome, Jacques! If I was Carole, I'd hire you! 😄

[Susan Ewart]

On 12/12/2024 at 8:00 PM, Jacques said:

Another thing I do and that is important to me is after watching a video of "Cassel"

I redo all the steps with my own images (as much as possible),

translating into French and adding screenshots of the steps.

Even if the video is less than 60 minutes, I can take 2@3 days to make my summary

(included a partial copy of "PaintShop Christmas 8" in French of course :))

Link available until 2025-01-31

My tutorial.pdf

I don't read French but I know a great tutorial when I see one.  Yours is FABULOUS!

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

 

 

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AjrKBrc9MLjLmMQvdmbQm8AmgpFkhQ?e=GDZjAZ

 Zodra ik tijd heb ga ik het bestuderen, ik heb het gedownload.  

Edited December 14 by Jannette Nieuwboer

[Ann Seeber]

We are having a family party today to celebrate the engagement of my grandson, Brad and his sweetheart, Livia. I made a little layout for them. I feel I need some instruction in modifying masks. This one from Cassel, is too much on the right side but whatever I did to it made it worse, so I left it alone. 

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

Ik ben even niet met PSP bezig, omdat ik na een alarmerend telefoonbericht vanmiddag naar het tehuis van mijn man ben geweest. Hij was ongeveer drie uur niet meer aanspreekbaar vanaf het begin van de lunch. Ik heb daarvan 2 en half uur naast hem gezeten en heb rustgevende muziek afgespeeld via YouTube. Ik merkte dat hij daar rustiger door werd. Ze hadden hem pijnprikkels gegeven of er nog gevoel aanwezig was. De verpleging had hem op bed gelegd. Na 3 uur werd hij weer wakker. Het moet een soort coma geweest zijn. Achteraf vertelde hij dat hij alles gehoord had en ook de pijnprikkels gevoeld had alhoewel dat niet erg pijnlijk was geweest. Maar hij kon niet reageren. Uiteraard was de arts gealarmeerd, maar die kon er geen aanleiding toe vinden Maar hij houd hem goed onder controle. Alles wat opgemeten kon worden was goed. Misschien wat onder de leden. Ik ben daarna ook nog een anderhalf uur bij hem gebleven en toen wilde ik weer naar huis want het begon al donker te worden. Toen hij weer wakker werd ging er een zucht van verlichting op, ook onder de verpleegsters, En natuurlijk ook bij mij. En zo gebeurd er plotseling iets wat je leven op zijn kop zet.

 

 

[Jacques]

15 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I don't read French but I know a great tutorial when I see one.  Yours is FABULOUS!

Carole is quite capable of making very good tutorials. Go see the one from "PaintShop Christmas 8"