Masks Workshop 2022

[Sharla]

Enjoyed creating a mask in this tutorial - for me it felt easier creating one than adapting one. I used one of the water colour brushes suggested and a kit from digital scrapbook. The photo is one of mine taken on a local walk.

[Guest Guest]

here is my result for Masks Workshop Lesson 4

[Marie-Claire]

(#72427) what is the name of your dog again? (#72429) I think I recognize those paw prints. Are they one of the freebies from the blog? (#72453) That background is surprisingly subtle and lets the edges of the mask show very well.

 

Carole, the name of my dog is 'Poncho'

Indeed, the paw prints come from your blog

For that background, I selected a square from the white wall at the top of the windmill with some of the shadows added. With brightness and contrast I adjusted the entire background so that it wasn't too dazzling or too dark

 

I should add some more explanation, but it's often late when I upload my work, and then I've messed around so much to get the desired result, that I can't quite remember what I've done ?

[Marie-Claire]

Lynda #72117 Marie-Claire, Love what you did with this lesson. Are these your photos, they are lovely.

 

Lynda, I notice I haven't seen your message.

Thank you, and to answer, yes so far I still use my own photos. But they will eventually run out. We haven't been on vacation much.

The pictures I take now are only on our walks with the dog.

So always the same environment, and our dog is very much my model. Unfortunately, there is not much diversity.

[Marvin Fojtasek]

My lesson 3 project.

[Ann Seeber]

I revised the font for the heading, using Bring Heart this time. Hope it is more readable.

[Anita Wyatt]

Here is my revised Mask Workshop Day 1 project. Thank you Carole for the tip to enlarge my photo so it will look better with the mask.

[Sherie Dracup]

Hi,  With the picture I chose, I did not have any brushes that kind of matched, so I opened a blank canvas, did the mask as per the video only in black, then I found a wine bottle and glass in Berna's Playground, Saying Goodbye Freebie.  I used the hue and saturation to make the elements black, then merged with the mask.  I then did the instructions from Lesson 1 to turn it into an actual mask, then added my photo. The frame and grape element are from a free mini I downloaded from Digicats called Rosario's Pizzeria.  The wordart was from The free Ultimate Quotes Bundle 3, which I am sure I downloaded from Creative Fabrica.  I guess I could have made brushes from the elements, which I did after with the wine glass, and it was easy to do.  After making it I realized I probably should have used the hue and saturation to darken it, as I would have to darken it afterwords, unless I wanted it to be faded as it shows in the pic.

[Cassel]

Sherie, (#72533) if you wanted, you could create a brush tip from the wine glass and then use it around your mask. It would be quite unique!

[Lois Duckworth]

CAROLE

 

Re:  Lois, (#72469) what background did you use for that page? It matches perfectly with your image.

 

The background was made using a colour from the image and adding a texture (not sure where I got it from) to it with a soft blend.  I then added a page frame overlay that I obtained from Digital Scrapbook using a burn blend.

 

 

[Lynda DiGregor]

Marie Claire,

 

I totally understand. We have been house bound since last March and it gets tiresome taking the same photos day after day and there are no kids running around now. We did get some beautiful ice crystals on the trees the other day. Looked like jewels. Fortunately, I have a lot of pictures from previous times.

 

Your dog is beautiful. Reminds me of my grandparents collies.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Lynda

[Lynda DiGregor]

Everyone is doing such a great job of sharing. We are going around the world, seeing beautiful children and pets, great homelands and travels.  With Carole as our host, we are learning to make all those things standout with her great PSP lessons.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks to all,

 

Lynda

[Lynda DiGregor]

OK, I'm ready with lesson 5. I made a two page scrap with several photos of our most recent RV travel. I used the colors in the balloons and sky to make the plaid and lesson 5 for the masking technique. I arranged the photos and merged visible to a new layer then made the mask on all the photos at the same time. All the photos, except the sunset were taken from the truck  (tow vehicle). That was fun!

[Lynda DiGregor]

Anita,

 

Love your train and your zeppelin … so cool!

 

Lynda

[lavada vance]

here is day 5 the hints you gave me yesterday helped with the brush variance stretching it was the answer thank you..

 

[Theresa Di Cesare]

Hello Everyone,

 

 

 

Just had a look at your Mask projects they are fabulous.

 

I signed up for the Quick Pages and the Mask Workshop but time hasn't allowed me to get right into it, but I have just started the first mask project. Hopefully I can finish it this evening and post it on the forum. I can't believe how far behind I am.

 

There really are some lovely creative pages on the forum.

[Lynda DiGregor]

Carole,

 

In answer to your question "Did you use the kaleidoscope tool to create the large background pattern?" Yes I did. It was actually a mistake. It took me a bit to figure out the smaller kaleidoscope backgrounds.

 

BTW Great respect here, I don't know how you look at everyone's creations and comment on each one personally. It is a great talent. Thanks

 

Lynda

[Sharon Cope Carriere]

Masks Workshop Day 4. I like creating Masks and paper with brushes. I pulled my colors from the photos themselves.

[Sue Thomas]

Day 5.  This winter has been a winter for owls.  I have never seen so many. This one  caught a vole to dine on.  I used  a watercolour splatter brush. The word art took me a little longer to  do than the  rest of the page.

[Julie Magerka]

I have tried to work on Mask assignment #2. It has been a distracting week for me with deadlines all around for other work I do, and a vet emergency (that worked out, thank goodness). I continue to have so much trouble with all the steps to convert to  a mask. I have spent too much time on it already, and just gave up on the plaid part. Wouldn't work for me at all! This is as far as I got, and it's a mess, but I know folks here are kind. I will continue to practise!!!

[Ann Seeber]

Here's my Masks-Day5 - Logan-Yum! Followed Carole's video pretty closely; used a gradient for the background and applied a leather texture. This was the day of great-grand Logan's first birthday, in the morning, during breakfast at home. The title font is Mama and the smaller one for "yum!" is called Milkimo Cheesecake. I created a square frame with rounded corners and filled it with gray and applied a bevel.

[Connie Collier]

Lesson 5: never give up! At first I did everything wrong with this one and had to solve endless mysteries with my layers and tools. It's so easy to get lost. This is where I ended up - I forgot to add a final frame of some kind and decided not to use any drop shadows.

[Ann Seeber]

Julie, beautiful city and layout well done. So sad in the news :-(

[Ann Seeber]

Connie, that's beautiful! That carved pole is magnificent!

[Guest Guest]

Here is my result for Masks Lesson4-Extra

 

the bear is from here: https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/03/02/20/04/polar-bear-2112248_960_720.jpg