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On the contrary hares aren't mad in March. It's the courting behaviour of mating hares. As mad as a March hare is a British idiomatic phrase. There weren't enough hours in the day yesterday, hence combining yesterday's and today's text techniques on one page. Here are 3 of my 5 resident hares. After a wonderful display of the Northern lights last night, and early hours of this morning, the hares were very entertaining long after they were meant to retire for the day. Drastically resizing really does degrade my photos.

Day 4. Text on a Path. I like being reminded how to do text on a path. At first I thought my Text too was out-to-lunch because I couldnt highlight the text. Are you ready for a laugh...well, I had not put the paper in place of the grey holder spot so I couldnt see the text being highlighted because it was the same color. I put a temp paper in and there my text was, all highlighted and happy. The temporary paper (yellow) I kept and added a texture effect. The brown paper is from APJess-Furry cuddles (Digital Scrapbook) that I also added the Blinds texture. The buttons are from Digital Scrapbook - I forget who. Font is Stay Latte for the bottom and Mustard Med for the top, I cut it out of the top paper, using the magic wand to select the letters and then hitting delete on the paper layer...and initially forgot to hide the grey layer, another Duh moment.

This is my attempt at Lesson 5. I totally forgot to do the texture in the text but I still like the effect. Hannah loved the snow!

Day 4. Gardening projects of bygone days.

Here I am back at Lesson 3 still. Errands are done and now to play catch up. The fonts for the whole thing is The Blowar. Two of the papers (Brass, green metal patina) from Digital Scrapbook KMRD-Steampunk-brass metal, and metal patina. Photo by my hubby a loooong time ago, probably around 2006. Yup that's me in the yellow top, my one and only attempt at glass blowing. I already had a huge studio with Lampwork and Fusing glass that I didnt want to add more glass and more expensive equipment. What did I make? A nice 'horse hoof shaped blob of glass...that was supposed to be a nice round sphere. Much easier to work glass in a flame, or cut it up and stick in a kiln, for me anyway. PSP was acting very sluggish today, dont know why.

I really did not like the title treatment in my first try so I changed the color. I also gave it a little emboss using layer styles which work on a vector.

This time a photo of a native orchid in The Netherlands seen on a walk last summer. The background is of a plaid paper but with a solid paper below and the blend mode set to luminance, which gives a different effect. All papers come from my kit. Again I used some butterflies and a confetti tube by Carole. I don't have many bold fonts so I went with Gill Sans Ultra Bold and gave it a heavy texture, otherwise it wasn't very visible.

Have just finished Day 5. I think I am actually starting to understand a "little" of this. Will this is my attempt at doing a special Christmas Day with my Grandchildren. The two dogs at the bottom right are photos of my fur babies.

I have fallen a bit behind, so here is Day 4. I am SO grateful to have the templates provided to save some time. Thank you Carole. The photos are all from UnSplash, and the rest is likely all from Digital Scrapbooking. Not very spring-like here yet, so I think the poor robins must be hungry and chilly, and they've been around for a while now.

you have all done beautiful work, I am a little behind because the late shift, must work from 1pm to 9;30 pm and I am very tired after work so here is day 3

I am ready now with Day 4

Day 5. Rudy, my Siamese mix, who is blind in one eye. He has odd sleeping habits. The font is The Cat. The kit, Sweet Dreams by Melo Vrijhof, is from Digital Scrapbook

Day 5 project....this one took longer than I expected but I think I am finally happy with it. The papers are from Marisa Lerin's Oceanside Kit. Not sure where the anchor came from. I was really tempted to put a shadow on the Title!

Here's my Day 6 - I filled all sections with images and/or text. We saw this horse in person at the Meadowlands Racetrack in NJ. Everyone was so excited to see The Legend. I discovered they made a 90 minute documentary about him and the DVD is available for ONLY $100!! ? The sad part is that he was incorrigible as a young horse, so he was gelded and, as a result, was unable to pass on his talents to any progeny. The font I used for the title is Bauhaus 93. The vector tube script was perfect!

yay, Lesson 5 done and I'm catching up. This white magpie I think is the progeny of the famous St. Albert White Magpie. It lives in an area a bit aways from me. Last this guy showed up for two days. I think it's a baby as it looks like there is still a little bit of pink around the corners of it's beek (mouth?) and the eye looks slightly blue. Of course my camera was set to studion work and i had to shoot through really dirty windows with the sun haze coming in. the before of the this picture is quite bad, I'm surprised I could get this much out of it. This bird looks kinda of ugly up close and rather like a raptor (dinosaur), but when it flew up to the fence and I saw it's wing and tail spread from the back it was like a white Angel. I was just about to delete any photo's I got as I thought they wouldnt be useable, so I tried and this is okay. At least I have a record of this guy/gal. Fonts is Harlequin Extra Bold. Background is graident base originally from the around the eye of the bird and I chose the lighter color and then Foreground/background graident (is that what it's called, I can only see part of the first word in the gradient materials list). the rest of the supplies from Digital scrapbook, the following designers: MarisaL, cpjess, apjess (is this the same person as cpjess), Billie Irene, Elif Sahin and Gina Jones.

Day 5, a little bit of a tangent again but it's all fun and makes me look back on other lessons.

There is a replica Tara in Sharon, PA which we visited several years ago and stayed in the Rhett Butler bedroom. My photo is of a clock on the main floor and seems to be very art deco. I did use papers from my kit but made a small selection of the wallpaper for the striped background. It fits into my kit perfectly. The font is Broadway. Yesterday I received an email from Microsoft inviting me to try their new AI site, Microsoft Designer, which is where I made the roses which are also perfect for my kit. The blue paper has a PSP texture while the pink background has one of my pattern papers. I saved all of my papers not only as jpegs but also as psp images which makes it easy to change colors. I am very happy with the result except for the Title. I experimented with it, but it does seem to stand out the way that I would like it to.

A photo from Chuck Calio on The Hudson Valley in Pictures titled Quiet Time. The stars are from my kit of glitter star templates by Esperanza Mixto on Pixelscrappers. I used various effects on plain color fills. The title font is Before the Rainbow from the Freebie Challenge.

This photo was taken at a flower parade last year. ? Font color tube, the elements are from a design bundle called Funny snails?‍♂️?

Day 6. Below the left and the bottom paper I placed a second paper and used the blendmode to saturation (left) and darken (bottom) with an opacity to 90 - 95%. I like how I can get a different look with the same papers and it still has nice matching colors with everything in my kit. The font is Groovy Yellow and I have a rope tube in a set by Carole that perfectly matches the orchid.

Day 5. I used papers and elements from my Build-A-Kit stash. Font is Bauhaus 93 with 2 colors from my palette. Photo is mine from a visit to the cemetery where my parents are buried in October 2022.

Well, I'm only finishing workshop 4 and will have to quit now. The title font is AR CHRISTY and the journaling is Arial Bold. As you can see, I do love putting text on a path. Do love the pen tool now, but really will have to explore more with it.

oops not very inspired by day 5 ;( but I'll get back to it soon....here's my day 6 with a mini kit by me. All credits on my gallery )) Thank you very much for the template ))) love it !!! @Cassel

Day 6. Template is a really old one that is retired by Scrapping With Liz. The kit is Fired Up by Kristin Aagard available at The Lily Pad. I hid the journaling on the layout since it had personal information in it but the whole right side that is empty is filled with journaling. I used Showcard Gothic font for the title and the Rope tube.

My work 2. "Funny Company". My PSP had super fun with this work. Red color in the text/title is its fault, not mine;)

For Day 5, I used the template of the day, but with an Artsy style background, in line with the style of the title. @Cassel Thank you for the template)) All credits on my gallery.

I used this in the Random Challenge also. The papers are from my Build A Kit workshop. I also used for the first time Carole's corner punches. This was Corner Punches B, I think. This is the Day 2 lesson. I am way behind!

Day 5 is done. Those are acorns in case they are not very clear in the reduced size. Never use them to feed critters, but used 'em here! Photo taken not that long ago. Crazy weather lately.

I use the straighten tool to find out the angle of anything, the angle used will be in the tool bar.

Finally finished Day 6 project. Used another picture taken by my daugther this time at the Air Force Air Show in Nevada last year (she had so many good ones it was hard to choose just one). 3 of the papers are from Marisa Lerin's Air Force Papers Kit and the other one I made. The button was made from a stamp also from Marisa Lerin.

I didn't use a shadow but I did put a 2 pixel black stroke around my letters. It doesn't show much on the small version but looks good on the large version.

For No 6, I used a photo that was sent to me by my grandson who spent 3 months in Southeast Asia, sightseeing and playing Rugby. I made a background of leaves using one of my kit papers, changing the brightness and contrast to each section. The orange flower was made when I was going through my flower making obsession. The tree is a tube, and the pineapple was created using Microsoft AI. I included the pineapple because David informed me that Thailand has huge pineapple farms. The font is Showcase Gothic outlined with Cass gimp tube with which I fell in love when browsing the store. The gold layer is a RB 80s gradient.

Ah, thanks, Sue. That's what I was looking for!

Just exploring and learning about tools so no templates or designs. First workshop I've properly participated in, and I'm enjoying it. Did I see somewhere you can download the text as I won't remember it all later.

Absolutely love this, Susan. The winding road pictures are my absolute favorite - it's exciting thinking about what's around the bend in the road.

Gorgeous layout Susan! Love the colors, especially. I usually give my title letters the Effects/Cutout treatment and I think the result is the same with less work. I was surprised how easy the text on a curve turned out to be!

If handsome Poncho is in the layout it just makes me smile! And this one is too precious!

It will get easier with help from here and all the tutorials and labs. It's a massive program to master! I wanted to give up many times, but it's worth sticking around. :-)) And, for the first attempt, you've done such a great job! More than I could do when I got started.

This is the first time I have taken part in this kind of forum and I have totally enjoyed it. I have now completed day 4 and I am looking forward to the next 3 days. I am very new to this and realize just how much I do not know. I had trouble with adding photos on the template so had to change the way they should have been done so that I could complete the project. I will have to learn how to add photos the right way. I have attached a copy of the 4th day's project just to show that I am trying.

My brush work is actually corner punches by Carole. I hope that counts. Fun challenge once I got started on it. Thank you, Carole! Yes, I could be difficult as a child...still can be in the right situation.

Yes, it was probably cut on an angle but you can rotate to try to match the actual angle. Just did it on some layouts I was working on using the Pick tool. What I was working on was easier to rotate with the pick tool than the free rotate tool because it wasn't even a 1% angle. And, I wasn't trying to get an exact match, just wanted the photos to fit the spot better. Didn't want to cut off a dog's nose in one photo!

Yes, all is the same person ))) Jessica Dunn - Antebellum Press - ap- cpjess - apjess she change her designer's name several times ))))) She is "The Curio Pantry" (name of her blog) ?

"does this FAT font make me look fat?" hahahaha. Fat fonts is a funny term, but I find I dont have enough of them either.

I quite agree Mary. You dont realize how far you've gone until you look at your watch or your stomach starts to growl and you have to turn back.

What a daring (?) combination of colours, but I love it!??

What a beautiful layout! The background is stunning and the flower cluster is very nice.

Is it possible to align a vertically running letter string to a path?

Carole, they are not confetti; they are seed-bead tubes I created for the Buil-A-Kit workshop. I will increase the size as they are tiny, even in full size.

That is a striking plaid. I love it.

I'm calling this Day 2 & 3--I used my title for Day 2, on my Day 3 page. I'm not sure if that makes me efficient or a slacker ? I don't know why, but my text became a 'floating selection'. It took me a bit of time to figure out what to change, so it was a frustrating evening! I imagine there is some reason you would want text to be a 'floating selection', but I don't know why.