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I have not had the time that I hoped to have this past week to devote to this excellent mask workshop. When I did work on it, I spent ages trying to figure out how to make the plaid. Somehow I kept missing a key element in terms of the settings when going from the sample to creating a square. However, I finally succeeded. I will upload the result which as you can see does not involve any masks--next time, perhaps. Thanks Carole.

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.

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.

Day 6 Flower: Marisa Lerin, digitalscrapbook Text : digitalscrapbook

And now my lesson 5. I really don't remember how long it is since I made a frame, so of course I exported it as a frame for future use.

Marie-Claire: I use One Note all the time because it is the only place in a computer where I can be scatter-brained and not worry about saving things to separate folders. Each page can be a topic and go on forever. It has a useful Clip-to-It feature that I use to snag illustrations that otherwise I would not be able to save from the internet. One Note allows the clipped item to be copied or saved as a file, separately. I think of the program as a giant whiteboard and at the end of the day can just close it. Nothing has to be saved but will be there when I reopen it the next day.

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.

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

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!

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

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!

And staying with the cornwall theme here is my lesson 2

Yes it's called snipple I don't know where I got it from but as with 90% of my font collection it was a free font. Thank You

Did you have a long weekend this week? Did you do anything interesting this weekend? Let's chat!

Hi Your all so cool, wanted to say I once lived in Cowbutt Really its cabot but we all from the blackfoot tribe only said Cowbutt not infront of adults. Be we knew where we lived LOL

H a p p y B irthday Yours and your cats are so lucky! Happy your there MS Ann Sebber. Your so Awesome and love your work/art Scrapping things. ?

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

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

What a beautiful dog! Like the lay out too?

My daughter, Laurey, took me to dinner Saturday for my birthday. I turned 82. Sounds like a good number! My two cats are mad at me because I've been feeding the calico stray that now, of course, keeps showing up. And I suddenly have tons of Red-winged blackbirds, grackles and cowbirds who have joined the party at my feeders. I just got news yesterday that Beth is going to open the theater for the season on March 31. Originally it was slated for the 17th but she says she doesn't trust the weather and the place is impossible to plow out. The company that hosts our website and sends out our email blasts has changed its software to now I have to learn that! Aargh!

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.

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

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.

I finally got around to doing this, so here is my lesson one, sweet memories of my visit to Cornwall to spend time with my grandchildren

And this is the Extra 6. And I've got to go to bed. Good Night!

And now Project 6. My linoleum started out green, but I used Hue Saturation Lightness and changed the color. Title font is Aryaduta (CF). I extracted the chess pieces (only the white ones - I used Brightness and Contrast for the black pieces (duplicate copies of the white ones). Fun with the curled ribbon made with a script from Cassel. This mask is the one I talked about in the previous post - I made it with the watercolor brushes and some interesting twiggy brushes around the edges. I inner bevelled and drop shadowed the title. The white swirlly things on the paper in back of the masked picture were made with a brush I had made earlier playing around with the fancy squiggles and things that come with some of the fonts. I had forgotten how you made linoleum. I think I will play around with that again when I finally finish this workshop. One more project to go.

As a person who can't sew I'd love to see any creation you make. If you have Christmas fabric I'd love to see a Christmas doll. And my all time favorite thing to have would be a Rainbow-Butterfly-Unicorn-Kitten. Not as garish as this guy, but sometimes, you just need one.

I guess rag dolls might be something I could do too with all that fabric! Now, I just have too many ideas. Which ones to do??

I made my own clothes for my 2 children when they babies and toddlers. Of course back in those days boys and girls were dressed the same when babies. I used to make Viyella nighties and vests for them. Also I knitted all their matinee jackets, using the Blackberry stitch, as it is my favourite stitch. I ordered a hand made personized rag doll for the youngest granddaughter for Xmas. I'm in the process of crocheting a hat and matching scarf and mittens for her. As an Easter gift. I suspect the cost of the postage to Wales will be far in excess of the wool. But Hey, you can't put a price on making something yourself.