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And lesson 4. I really enjoyed making my own mask.

Lesson 3 >>>>here I am bringing up the rear (again)! I was struggling along and then my PSP program starting acting up. Guess it was his way of saying "Aren't you finished yet?" Hope the little gremlin doesn't show up again---fingers crossed!

Playing with Carole's Offset Cutout template, I turned every layer to negative and came up with this. I subscribe to Nat Geo and they announced their yearly photo winners. This guy didn't make first place, but his work is the one I liked the best. I may keep this as a template myself to do more. Could be similar to Michele's Fab Divas series. The font is Wide Latin treated to a cutout effect. The journaling is from the magazine as is the logo. I turned the Raster 1 Shadow layer at the bottom into a mask for the photo.

I'll post a few of the many patterns I made during the mask workshop. Most were made either with the West Virginia layout, the ocean layout. Julia - love your perspective stripes - some of them remind me of a pinstripe suit material.

my lesson 3, been a while since I played with kaleidoscope

Day 6 Flower: Marisa Lerin, digitalscrapbook Text : digitalscrapbook

Day 5 Paper : Marisa Lerin , Digitalscrapbook Font : Fly Watercolor flower is a freebie, I don't know where this comes from anymore.

Day 4 Filmstrip Cassel Cluster : freebie connieprince.com Paper : Saskia Veldhoen on Digitalscrapbook, Commons Font : Sun Island

I forgot how much fun it is to make projects with a mask ? The Scotland sticker had a other colour originally, with the color changer and the opacity changed, it looks better.

I've been having fun playing with the "perspective striping" that was answered in the Feb. Q & A. This is just one, and I haven't used it for a layout yet.

This is my project 7. finally finished the workshop. whew!!! Had fun playing. The background is the combo polka dot - learned that in one of the previous labs I was doing. I put a "squiggle" from one of the fonts that I imported as a brush. (What fun!) And I used that squiggle brush in the four corners of the papers behind the mask. Ellie is the great granddaughter of my cousin that I visit every year in Illinois. She is a barrel of fun. The font is Arlington Script (the only font factory I go to is Creative Fabrica). I chiseled and inner bevelled the title. The journaling is in Arial (2 different sizes). The original polka dot was a deep pink with a white heart squiggle, so the polka dot part of the paper is in the luminance blend mode as the background paper is a deep blue green. Fun, fun, fun!

We have the cuckoo in the UK too. I miss their very distinctive call. Also cuckoo spit, which has nothing to do with the cuckoo bird, but liquid excreted by nymph of the spittlebug

An example of a seamless tile I did some time ago for a layout. Instead of that page I show the tile and a page filled with it. I have made a lot of hem with the kaleidoskop, or of plaids but as they are intended for a particular layout I stopped saving those and simply make new ones that suits the new project. I found that I never reuse those, so I save only the more generic ones.

Interesting to read about those birds. Over here we have the "Koekoek" or Cuckoo that lays its eggs in other birds nests.

Your dog is super here. You show it great:))))))))

Harmony, that is such an unusual font. Can you tell me its name? Great layout!

No long weekend for me. If the holiday is a Monday we do some of the work on Friday but still have to work on the holiday Monday. But Normally I have Thursday and now Fridays off. So, I get a 4 day weekend whenever there isnt a long weekend. Which is a lot more weekends than long weekends in the year. I did tons of mask fun with PSP this past weekend, like I'm sure a lot of others did too. The big cram session to get all the lessons completed.

Monique, I think we all have made this "mistake" and learned from it?

Harmony - you're doing great. Grandchildren are so much fun.

I'm finally getting a bit more confident playing with the settings, just found out why my floodfilled backgroundpaper had holes in it where the mask was. Floodfilling all layers wasn't such a great idea ? Uncheked, floodfilled again and it was right ?

I had so much fun doing this one. The dancers are from CF's Dance-Marathon-Watercolor-Animals-Set. I'm really getting my money's worth from my subscription lately! The font is Party Dance which, I think, was in my system fonts. I tried to add a texture to the background layer to match what was on the paint splotches.

Day 7 Fonts used : Kelly Ann Gothic----Adobe Fangsong Background created with the polkadot------3 different size layers Elements are from PNGTree Picture taken by me ...the Snake was on the rocks surrounding my flowerbeds ,luckily it stuck around long enough for me to take some pictures

That is my pick tool these days. I used perspective ONCE and now it goes to it every time, even when I'm using the pick tool set to scale multiple times in a few minutes.