Template Workshop 2025

[Marie-Claire]

Day 6
Day 6
Font : Mistral + MisterEarl BT
Papers + Elements : Digitalscrapbook Blogtrain February 2023 - DiHillerDesigns_Feb2023_Love Green + Fan Freebie

[Marie-Claire]

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Yay! Marie-Claire is back in the Campus!  So happy to see you and Poncho again, with beautiful layouts.

 

Thank you Susan, your message cheers me up, lately the inspiration is missing, and I can't stay on the same thing for long, which has never been my habit actually. What I like to do most is walking and taking pictures, and that is not going so well anymore, I think that is why.

[MoniqueN.]

3 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I haven't but now I'm putting on the 'to-do' list.  thank you.  I know when I buy it, I'll buy the suite because one day I might actually learn it...along with a couple other programs I want to learn.  I hope I live till I'm 150, because that's how Iong I need to learn them all.

Never too old to learn, but 150? 😄 But I know the feeling!🙂

[MoniqueN.]

3 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'm glad to hear you are back to a more normal pace.  I am going dark for the next week probably to wrap up the wedding card stuff.  After I get over the silly stomach bug I had (first time sick in over 7 yrs - I'm such a baby at it now).  I am looking forward to "normal" again and creating for myself and not for someone else.  

Hope you feel well soon! 🙂

 

[Deana Davis]

2 hours ago, Julian Adams said:

Yikes! That means instead of  $70, it'll cost $170. I'm a little short on cash and my car needs work. 😢

It is painful but if at some point you can get the bundle of all 3 it is truly worth it. 

[Hank Sobah]

So sad that there won't be more updates to PSP 😞 Hope there's a good choice for alternatives

[Jeni Simpson]

17 minutes ago, Hank Sobah said:

So sad that there won't be more updates to PSP 😞 Hope there's a good choice for alternatives

Hank, that is where Affinity comes in. Carole has some tutorials for using Affinity. Some of us have used Affinity for this Template workshop, and, you can find some tutorials there.

[Cassel]

28 minutes ago, Hank Sobah said:

So sad that there won't be more updates to PSP 😞 Hope there's a good choice for alternatives

Not having updates does not mean that it will stop working. I am still using PSP9, which was released over 20 years ago.

Although Affinity can be a great addition to anyone's graphic toolbox, it is not like it can replace everything in PSP! And if you use any of my scripts, they will NOT work in Affinity.

[gwen jewitt]

Day 6 using affinity2.6 Paper used Billie Irene Digital Scrapbooking changed the colour using blend mode,flowers by Rachel Martin, Jessica Dunn and Elif Sahin Digital Scrapbooking.

Can't remember where I got the images for the photos but they were called floral junk journal, font used Bergidan.

Edited May 8 by gwen jewitt

[Jean Naumann]

Usually Affinity has a fabulous sale on Black Friday, and it's usually 50% off.  I know it is quite a few months away, but i"m sure it'll be worth the wait.

[Susan Ewart]

On 4/30/2025 at 11:52 AM, Marie-Claire said:

Thank you Susan, your message cheers me up, lately the inspiration is missing, and I can't stay on the same thing for long, which has never been my habit actually. What I like to do most is walking and taking pictures, and that is not going so well anymore, I think that is why.

Those times in life are hard and it feels like you will never get through it.  I know the feeling.  What's the answer, I wish I knew.  I had a few years like that (unexpected pet deaths and two injuries - I like to workout and have a physical job it was hard) and I just kept thinking...this can't last forever.  It seemed like it did, but lately I've been getting my old self back.  I hope you turn corner and find away back too.  It's really emotionally hard to lose the things you loved doing, it's a feeling of being lost or in limbo.   

[Lynda DiGregor]

Day 5

We are going out to celebrate now... 🙂

[Jeni Simpson]

2 minutes ago, Lynda DiGregor said:

Day 5

We are going out to celebrate now... 🙂

Congratulations, Lynda and Ralph. What a lovely journey through time in this page. 

[Lynda DiGregor]

Thanks Jenny, It's been real....Got lucky the second time around.  🙂

[Linda Rexford]

Day 7, I finally got finished!  This was a bird feeder at one time and then the cats came along.  They decided it made a lovely place for an afternoon nap.  It's on a pole so they have to jump from the deck railing to get in it.  The bottom is screen so they get lots of air and shelter if it happens to be raining.  They are Shadow, Whitey (all white except for an all black tail, Eclipse, Patches and Shiner.

The font is Harrington, The background and clouds are from CF, the pics in the circles are mine and I made the butterflys in AD.  They are actually made with the letter B!

Thank You Carole, this was fun to do!

[AprilDawn]

Everyone has created such lovely template pages. Iam very behind, had a few bad days with health and to top it all off i had to get a new computer and transfer all my stuff. However  hope to finish this workshop, but it may take some time.

best wishes to everyone,

Dawn.

[Corrie Kinkel]

I have stopped responding to all the posts, there is way too much and I wasn’t checking on a daily basis. Being with my family is far more important in these weeks I am away. Three weeks is so short and coming Tuesday I am already flying home😪. Congratulations to you all for the great and very different layouts you did and making it through this workshop. When I am settled back in I have a lot to catch up on and I have a whole bunch of new flower photos to use. Carole I’m sorry to hear we will need Affinity Designer as well, for me buying that one will have to wait until it will be offered for a reduced price. My trip and some new appliances at home have been enough for now, but I will watch what you will be showing. See you all soon!

[fiona cook]

For me there is such a lot still to learn and practice in PSP that I have no desire to start up with another software package (re Affinity) so I hope tutorials and such like can continue in PSP. A big thank you to Carole with what you have to offer in the past and hopefully in the future on PSP.  It is sudden that there was no warning from Corel about the discontinuation and it is an unfortunate sign of the times re the employee layoffs.

[gwen jewitt]

 

Day 7 Template using Affinity Photo 2.6 Just made the deadline, photos are my own  the photo with the two plant pots are lettuce seed and a re-potted cabbage plant (just in case your wondering I have more cabbages) the photo below is one of many climbing beans which will be ready to plant out at the end of May. Papers, gloves and tree in a pot are all from Digital Scrapbooking. The watering can is from Free Pik and the font is Back to Vintage, thank you Carole I have enjoyed this task and learned so much more.

 

 

Edited May 2 by gwen jewitt

[Cristina]

On 4/30/2025 at 5:49 PM, Susan Ewart said:

Lesson 4 - PSP

Photos are  mine.  The crow is sitting beside the sun.  It was the summer of wildfires and the sun was a white orb in the sky that you could actually look at, very surreal.  the original color is actually a desaturated brown but I changed the color balance to give it blue hue to match page,

Fonts are: Carmina Blk BT (title) and Castello Signature.  Probably from Creative Fabrica, one could be from Google fonts that came with FontBase that I use.  

I hope to get to the last 3 lesson this week, but it's a busy one with a big (to long ongoing) project that will finish by Sunday.  

I love this, Susan!

[Cristina]

I'm also running late and haven't started Days 6 and 7 yet.

But I watched the videos and saw Carole's tip to add two Outer Shadows, one being used as a "Reverse Shadow".

Great tip!

 

Edited May 2 by Cristina

[Jacques]

I finally decided to try Affinity.

Since my 90-day trial had expired, I opted to participate in the Beta.

I downloaded this version and used the same code as for the 90-day trial.

Here I am with a 90-day Beta version (2.6.3.3273).

Papers used:
- PS_JanetScott_SD_Ddls
- PS_JanetScott_SD_DropsPpr
- PS_JanetScott_SD_PnkChev
- PS_JanetScott_SD_PnkChev

@CasselI was unable to change the color of the "Texture" layer.

 

 

[Cassel]

2 minutes ago, Jacques said:

Since my 90-day trial had expired, I opted to participate in the Beta.

That is a great way to work around the limitation, but I thought you had to have purchased it to be allowed as a beta-tester???

[Jacques]

2 minutes ago, Cassel said:

That is a great way to work around the limitation, but I thought you had to have purchased it to be allowed as a beta-tester???

Apparently not. I logged in with my account (the one from the 90-day version) and received the download link.

[Julie Magerka]

17 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I have stopped responding to all the posts, there is way too much and I wasn’t checking on a daily basis. Being with my family is far more important in these weeks I am away. Three weeks is so short and coming Tuesday I am already flying home😪. Congratulations to you all for the great and very different layouts you did and making it through this workshop. When I am settled back in I have a lot to catch up on and I have a whole bunch of new flower photos to use. Carole I’m sorry to hear we will need Affinity Designer as well, for me buying that one will have to wait until it will be offered for a reduced price. My trip and some new appliances at home have been enough for now, but I will watch what you will be showing. See you all soon!

That was fast, Corrie! It seems you were just getting ready to go!