Rene Marker Posted January 23 Posted January 23 On 1/23/2025 at 9:49 PM, Julie Magerka said: Yes, I saw that too. Also Marisa Lerin at DS and I think someone mentioned the Lilypad too. That says a lot about Photoshop and the users there who might be switching. Expand Angela Toucan at The LilyPad has tutorials in their forum. She also has a YouTube channel. She actually uses Designer to scrap, not Photo but a lot of the commands are the same. Some steps might be different though. 2 2
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/23/2025 at 7:59 PM, Corrie Kinkel said: I didn't know which icon to use, the ❤️ or the 😄, so here you have them both! Expand ...and I gladly accept both of them with a happy warm heart. 4
Cristina Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/22/2025 at 11:30 PM, Julie Magerka said: My happy place is studying mixed media layouts and learning the skills to create them, in PSP or Affinity. Right now, I default to PSP b/c I don't have to flounder around as much to find the tools/techniques I want to use. Eventually, I will become "bi-app'd"...fingers crossed. I have always been fascinated by crumbling, fading old barns that survive in our rural landscape. I haven't taken that many photos of them, but I did this one last year in a nearby county. Then I saw a layout on OScraps which featured a barn and lots of Anna Aspnes design elements worked in, and I had to give it a go. This is the result. There are many brushes, artsy transfers, textures, elements, etc. from aA used in it. Expand Wow, Julie, this is fantastic! You have really mastered this style, which I also love! Repeating myself, I love to browse through the different threads and see all the wonderful work everyone posts here. It's a moment of relaxation while drinking my morning coffee and before running the errands. Edited January 25 by Cristina 4 1
Cristina Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/20/2025 at 4:09 PM, Sue Thomas said: Playing catch up. The majority of you will know that I am not a fan of plaids. I tend to go for more subtle plain papers, anyway I decided to create the latest plaid tutorial in the blog. I also often go back to basic tutorials, which I find most appealing. I used the stencil tutorial, which is an old one in the creative scrap. Expand Sue, I also seldom use plaid, but I liked this one very much. The photo and bird are stunning! 3 1
Cristina Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/23/2025 at 8:14 AM, Susan Ewart said: Lab 10-6 Alphabet Beads Nettings (2) Honeycombs I really enjoyed this lab. I have always liked honeycomb shape and now I have one in my patterns folder. I like how the alphabet beads come together after all the "cutouts". How do you come up with these things, Carole? A co-worker sent this image to me which I found amusing. What I find really funny is that there is such a thing as "spear-wielding snowmen" in the world. I took liberties from the National anthem (stand on guard for thee) and the old Hinterland Who's Who commercials. They were 60 second public service announcements profiling Canadian Animals, produced by the Environment Canada Wildlife Service (according to Dr. Google). I used Caster Serif Font and Arial Rounded MT. the background is Riley B Graphics and I blended the honeycomb pattern into it as well as the text. Expand Susan, I love the layout—the colors, the subtle honeycomb pattern, the stamped-type title, and, of course, the image, too. 😄 3 1
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 8:26 AM, Cristina said: Sue, I also seldom use plaid, but I liked this one very much. The photo and bird are stunning! Expand I agree, this plaid is real looking. 2 1
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 8:36 AM, Cristina said: Susan, I love the layout—the colors, the subtle honeycomb pattern, the stamped-type title, and, of course, the image, too. 😄 Expand Thank you Cristina. I got lucky with the title and journaling by using a blend mode with a starting mid-grey text. 2 1
Sue Thomas Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/24/2025 at 8:26 AM, Cristina said: Sue, I also seldom use plaid, but I liked this one very much. The photo and bird are stunning! Expand Much appreciate your words. As I said I took a strip horizontally through the blue Jay, and either side. To make the blue squares more prominent. Edited January 24 by Sue Thomas 3
Sue Thomas Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/24/2025 at 4:45 PM, Susan Ewart said: I agree, this plaid is real looking. Expand May I start by giving a short lesson? All tartans are plaid, but not all plaids are tartan. Tartan are plaids with a name to identify a community. Plaid is an old Scottish word for blanket or wrap. They are both patterns, a fabric and a garment for wearing. I added a very small blur, and lowered the opacity a touch, in order to get that fabric look. I tried adding a little noise, but undid it, as I didn't like the effect. I am delighted, that you thought it looked real. Edited January 24 by Sue Thomas 3
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 5:16 PM, Sue Thomas said: May I start by giving a short lesson? All tartans are plaid, but not all plaids are tartan. Tartan are plaids with a name to identify a community. Plaid is an old Scottish word for blanket or wrap. They are both patterns, a fabric and a garment for wearing. I added a very small blur, and lowered the opacity a touch, in order to get that fabric look. I tried adding a little noise, but undid it, as I didn't like the effect. Expand I did not know the difference between Tartan and Plaid, that is really interesting. I should know this since I have a Scottish last name (my dad's side, his father was the first Canadian born generation I believe). 4
Sue Thomas Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 5:20 PM, Susan Ewart said: I did not know the difference between Tartan and Plaid, that is really interesting. I should know this since I have a Scottish last name (my dad's side, his father was the first Canadian born generation I believe). Expand We live and learn something new every day. Lol That is quite the claim to your Canadian history. You must have a clan tartan pattern. Something to look into. 3
Cassel Posted January 24 Author Posted January 24 My husband's family is from Scottish ancestry. They have two tartans: one for wearing (casual) and one for "fighting". They are very different in colors! I should look for them and take a pic. Ane the creed is "aut agere aut mori", (which means Give me action or give me death). My son has it tattooed on his arm. 4 2
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 5:26 PM, Sue Thomas said: We live and learn something new every day. Lol That is quite the claim to your Canadian history. You must have a clan tartan pattern. Something to look into. Expand I am getting more interested in that, of course not part of my father's side remain, no one left to ask. I do remember this coat of arms thing we had (I was 12) but I do not know what happened to it. Too many moves and some things get lost or toss'd. 2 1
Susan Ewart Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/24/2025 at 6:25 PM, Cassel said: My husband's family is from Scottish ancestry. They have two tartans: one for wearing (casual) and one for "fighting". They are very different in colors! I should look for them and take a pic. Ane the creed is "aut agere aut mori", (which means Give me action or give me death). My son has it tattooed on his arm. Expand This is so cool. My best friend married a guy of Scottish ancestry (his parent came from Scotland) and they've since moved there on an ancestry visa. It has got me to thinking about my dad's ancestry (it's only my ancestry by adoption). That's neat that there is two tartans. Like sports team with 'home' and 'away' uniforms. Edited January 24 by Susan Ewart 3
Sue Thomas Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/24/2025 at 6:25 PM, Cassel said: My husband's family is from Scottish ancestry. They have two tartans: one for wearing (casual) and one for "fighting". They are very different in colors! I should look for them and take a pic. Ane the creed is "aut agere aut mori", (which means Give me action or give me death). My son has it tattooed on his arm. Expand I'm familiar with that phrase, it's Latin. Translated it says action or death. Essentially meaning do or die. I believe it' is the Barclay Scottish clan's motto. Edited January 24 by Sue Thomas 4
Cassel Posted January 24 Author Posted January 24 On 1/24/2025 at 8:10 PM, Sue Thomas said: I'm familiar with that phrase, it's Latin. Translated it says action or death. Essentially meaning do or die. I believe it' is the Barclay Scottish clan's motto. Expand You are 100% correct. My husband is a Barclay. 4 1
Sue Thomas Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) On 1/24/2025 at 8:25 PM, Cassel said: You are 100% correct. My husband is a Barclay. Expand Well I never. I didn't know that. I don't think you have ever mentioned that before. Well not to my knowledge anyway. My head is full of information which I have accumulated over the years. Edited January 24 by Sue Thomas 5
Julie Magerka Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/24/2025 at 6:47 PM, Susan Ewart said: I am getting more interested in that, of course not part of my father's side remain, no one left to ask. I do remember this coat of arms thing we had (I was 12) but I do not know what happened to it. Too many moves and some things get lost or toss'd. Expand You might be surprised what you can find online by doing a little sleuthing for clans and coats of arms, etc. That's what we genealogy types do quite a bit of. 6
Rene Marker Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/25/2025 at 1:31 AM, Julie Magerka said: You might be surprised what you can find online by doing a little sleuthing for clans and coats of arms, etc. That's what we genealogy types do quite a bit of. Expand Yep. Genealogy is so much more than just tracing family lines. History of the times is so integrated into it. For instance, my great-grandfather Marker was from a county over 30 miles from my town where his wife was born and raised. They got married in 1892 and knowing history, you can guess that automobiles were not that popular at that time. At least the average person would not have owned one. She had no family in his area and he had no family in her town (which is the town I still live in). So the question was how did they meet in order to eventually marry and have a family. Once I learned about his job, it made sense especially when I found out more about her mother's life. He worked for the railroad and was stationed at a switching station in my town. My great-great-grandmother was a seamstress and had a shop located in our downtown and some research on the history of the railroad switching station gave me a possible answer to our question. Great-grandma Daisy would walk to her mother's shop (the story is she helped her mom at times). On that walk, she passed the switch house. A handsome young man seeing an attractive young lady walk by every day would surely be interested, right? Daisy and Frank got married, ended up living in the house Daisy grew up in after her parents died and had 8 children of their own. Researching the history at that time enabled me to fill in their story. One of my favorite subjects in school was history but it took me until my late 30's to get interested in the genealogical side of history and that was only after Mom showed me some paperwork her mother had done in the 1950's researching her ancestors. 2 3
Susan Ewart Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/24/2025 at 8:36 PM, Sue Thomas said: Well I never. I didn't know that. I don't think you have ever mentioned that before. Well not to my knowledge anyway. My head is full of information which I have accumulated over the years. Expand I'm really impressed at your knowledge. 2
Susan Ewart Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/25/2025 at 2:12 AM, Rene Marker said: Yep. Genealogy is so much more than just tracing family lines. History of the times is so integrated into it. For instance, my great-grandfather Marker was from a county over 30 miles from my town where his wife was born and raised. They got married in 1892 and knowing history, you can guess that automobiles were not that popular at that time. At least the average person would not have owned one. She had no family in his area and he had no family in her town (which is the town I still live in). So the question was how did they meet in order to eventually marry and have a family. Once I learned about his job, it made sense especially when I found out more about her mother's life. He worked for the railroad and was stationed at a switching station in my town. My great-great-grandmother was a seamstress and had a shop located in our downtown and some research on the history of the railroad switching station gave me a possible answer to our question. Great-grandma Daisy would walk to her mother's shop (the story is she helped her mom at times). On that walk, she passed the switch house. A handsome young man seeing an attractive young lady walk by every day would surely be interested, right? Daisy and Frank got married, ended up living in the house Daisy grew up in after her parents died and had 8 children of their own. Researching the history at that time enabled me to fill in their story. One of my favorite subjects in school was history but it took me until my late 30's to get interested in the genealogical side of history and that was only after Mom showed me some paperwork her mother had done in the 1950's researching her ancestors. Expand Rene, this is so interesting to hear about. Your words make me see it in my mind. Doesnt if give you goosebumps to know these people were walking in the same places you walked. My friend who moved to Scotland was telling me about an 800 yr old castle they went to. I got goosebumps reading about her doing that. I asked if she thought about what were people doing on that very day 800 yrs ago. Who lived there, who was walking around outside. What were they doing. It boggles the mind that people were living there at that time. 4
Rene Marker Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/25/2025 at 5:12 AM, Susan Ewart said: Rene, this is so interesting to hear about. Your words make me see it in my mind. Doesnt if give you goosebumps to know these people were walking in the same places you walked. My friend who moved to Scotland was telling me about an 800 yr old castle they went to. I got goosebumps reading about her doing that. I asked if she thought about what were people doing on that very day 800 yrs ago. Who lived there, who was walking around outside. What were they doing. It boggles the mind that people were living there at that time. Expand We had a speaker at a genealogy meeting last year that the focus of her talk was about looking into history at the time of the person you are researching. Her examples were quite interesting and because she had researched history, she actually found out more about the person she was researching that would probably not have been found as easily. And, she found some other interesting stories about other people that actually led to her researching them and they weren't even a part of her genealogy. My cousin is writing a book about our church's history. It began in 1833. Official church records were started in the 1880's. She has decided to include little snippets about what was going on in history at various times. She was telling me about something while we talked on the phone once so I started googling while we were talking and found a book that had a lot of info on the subject. Told her about it so she bought the book (she loves books, she was a librarian). After we hung up, I kept going down the rabbit hole on that subject and actually learned some very interesting info about my town. I never knew that we had what was called an "interurban" which were small electric trains that traveled between small towns in our area in the early 1900's. I learned about the routes and suddenly a piece of the puzzle of my dad's parents fell into place. I always wondered how Grandpa met Grandma when she lived 15 miles away (around 1919/1920). It dawned on me that he took the interurban to get to his job then walked to a small diner for lunch. Turns out Grandma worked as a waitress at the diner. We had heard the diner story but never knew how Grandpa actually got to her town since he didn't have a car. 3 1 3
Michele Posted January 25 Posted January 25 Unfortunately for me, being descended from Eastern European Jews, I'll never be able to track my genealogy. 😢 5
Julie Magerka Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/25/2025 at 2:01 PM, Michele said: Unfortunately for me, being descended from Eastern European Jews, I'll never be able to track my genealogy. 😢 Expand That's so true, Michele. On my father's side, where there is Ashkenazi DNA, it's been a struggle to locate records of any kind. So many of them were lost for many reasons. I have even hired pro researchers in the area in Europe and they came up with nothing. Sometimes, no answer is all we can get in family history. If Henry Louis Gates Jr. would take on my family tree, we might get more. 🙂 5
Michele Posted January 25 Posted January 25 On 1/25/2025 at 2:08 PM, Julie Magerka said: That's so true, Michele. On my father's side, where there is Ashkenazi DNA, it's been a struggle to locate records of any kind. So many of them were lost for many reasons. I have even hired pro researchers in the area in Europe and they came up with nothing. Sometimes, no answer is all we can get in family history. If Henry Louis Gates Jr. would take on my family tree, we might get more. 🙂 Expand Every time I watch his show, I wish I was a celebrity. 5
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