What are you working on (in March 2020)?

[Cristina]

Annie, the page is lovely, and "Pink Robin" is a beautiful bird. The stencil flower came out very nice, and you did a great work creating all the glitters. Great job, my friend!

[Shirley]

Thanks Carole. I still haven't quite worked out the reasoning of  the" hide all"..."show all" options on the mask button., like when and why  to use which one.

[Annie Tobin]

Dear Cristina, you are always so sweet in your comments which are always greatly appreciated. Hugs.

[AprilDawn]

Cristina.. going by your photos your trip looks interesting and i hope you had a wonderful time.

 

Trish ...such a lovely memory page you have created of your son

 

Minka... your projects look great

 

Michele... i am sure your friends would have been delighted to receive those beautiful birthday cards.

 

Annie... your pink robin page is beautiful.

 

well done to you all !  and best wishes,

 

Dawn.

[Minka]

I had a bunch of things to do today ... but still found time to play! As I said, I am not a scrapbook person, but as long as I have been doing psp - it's amazing to learn new tricks. I went back and played with that plaid again. Well, many times actually, and remembered Cassel telling us you could keep it open and apply different colors underneath. Loads of fun and using the same plaid - getting a zillion different looks! I tried out all kinds of them. LOL I do remember her saying it was addictive. Yes, ma'am, it is! Not sure why I never thought of doing that before. Go figure. Thank you to everyone who said nice things regarding my attempts. Appreciate it. I, too, snagged one of those glitters and played with it. Mostly today I was playing with plaids and blurs. The plaids below were the same plaid ... just different colors underneath. Then tried some blurry backgrounds. Just generally having fun. Was trying to figure out how to make the blurs more variegated.

[Cassel]

Shirley, the idea of the "show all" or "hide all" simply means that you will start with a white mask where you will add black to block areas OR you will start with a black mask and add white area to "show the layer through".

[Annie Tobin]

Minka, your tags are adorable, well done my friend.

[shutterpixi]

Michele - Both your cards are lovely, but I especially was drawn to the one you did for Anne Heller.  The look is classic and I appreciate your explaining what it took to produce it.  Like you, I've learned a lot from posts with details on how a look was achieved, and still do.   Well done!

[shutterpixi]

Annie - The Kingfisher page is lovely and the birds colors really make the page pop.  Your pink robin is so pretty and nicely showcased with the glitter.  Great job!

[shutterpixi]

Trish - Your Mother's Day page is beautiful and you did a nice job with the St. Patrick's Day papers.  Like your International Book Day page, too.  And what a fine tribute for your son!

[shutterpixi]

Cristina - Wonderful Road Trip page!  It's perfect atop your map background!

[Bonnie Ballentine]

I haven't had much computer time lately. I have several pages waiting to be resized so I can post them. Here is a quick page (by Carole) I threw together last night. Thank you Annie for using it and reminding I had it!

[shutterpixi]

Minka -  Love the "through-the-cherries" image!  Very nice work on blurring the background -- very well done and gorgeous results!

[shutterpixi]

Annie and Bonnie - Great job with your quick pages!  You've done well, and have shown that that's a great opportunity for lots of possibilities!

[Annie Tobin]

Thanks Shutterpixi, your comment was very much appreciated. <3

[Annie Tobin]

You have done justice to the quick page Bonnie, well done my friend. <3

[Dorothy Donn]

Colleen:  In response to your #1 question  I use textures for chrome and silver. Just open a texture in Paint shop Pro and  I park it aside.  Then go into your material palate and use the pattern, then you can play with the settings to make it bigger or smaller, twist and turn it etc. Then you can use the selection tool to pick the area you want the chrome etc and flood fill it with the texture.

 

The other suggestion is Super Blade Pro. It takes longer but it performs well in small areas for me like on  jewelry trim.

 

I sure hope these suggestion helps you .

 

 

 

PS some samples for flooring etc.

[Dorothy Donn]

Colleen:  PS  My Favorite gold texture for all things Egyptian

[Dorothy Donn]

Playing With old and new filters and got one result that is strange but fascinates  me.

 

What do you think?

[Michele]

I'm so impressed by everyone. Sorry I'm not making personal comments like I usually do, but I haven't been feeling my best.

[Annie Tobin]

Kinda looks like a butterfly emerging from water ... quirky! Keep playing Dorothy! ;D

[Annie Tobin]

Have missed you Michele. Hope you get better soon. Bodies, who needs them eh! ;D <3

[ScrapRic]

A quick example of "Color Focus" (thanks for the tip Cassel). This is my grand daughter at her 3rd birthday party.

This was done using Paint Shop Pro Ver 7 by deleting part of a monochrome top layer...

[Shirley]

The car the dogs are in is a hot-rod.  My nephew is mad on restoring vehicles.

[Annie Tobin]

Hi Scrapbook Campus Friends.  Yesterday I made two alphas - upper case, lower case, numbers and punctuation.  The papers I created myself ... the check was from following a Cassel tutorial.  The cross stitch outline on the check alpha was also made by following a Cassel tutorial that created the stitch to convert to a picture tube.  The pipe cleaner outline was from a picture tube purchased from Creation Cassel.  The steps followed involved finding the font, using the background material and no outline, converting to path, selecting the picture tube, script Vector Tube, adding a small drop shadow, converting the vector to a raster, adding an inner bevel, merging visible and voila!  The fonts used are Hobo - blue check and Ravie - bright stripes.  Thanks for takin a peek!