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For the day 7 workshop, I used a picture of my grandson, David, playing rugby in Las Vegas. He is the one running over the guy on the ground. He is currently coaching the women's Las Vegas rugby team that has made a splash by winning all of their games so far. I deviated from using my kit except for the star. Rugby does not really fit the art deco style so I used a sports kit that included rugby from Marisa Lerin. I colored her background paper, originally black, to green. The colors in her kit for rugby coincides with David's Las Vegas team colors. The background for the wavy section is a RB 80's gradient with the opacity lowered. The text is GuinnessExtra Stout in honor of the boys always drinking stout. All the other graphics are from the kit, including the WordArt which I modified, but the words are hers. They are perfect, but I never would have thought of them myself. *I had to edit the first one because I forgot the shadows. Psp was working very slow until I shut it down and ran Norton Utilites to clean out the junk files.

Day 6 Outline with Tubes The pickleballs are so small. Here is just the title...resized to 600.

Here is my Workshop 5 made with the kit: Mimosa story by Malo Scrap by Malo Scrap I made my big possible!

I have been fooling around with the various techniques and am quite excited to use them in future. Thanks. Below is one of my pages.

Lesson 7 Spring is in the air, except for the snowfall yesterday and today. The font is: Wish Apic (Creative Fabrica) I used flower picture tubes Photo's and papers, elements I made. Thank you for another wonderful course. I learned something new in every lesson. I really like that transluscent look in the titles we did that on. And being able to separate the letters and work on them on their own is the favorite technique I learned.

I'm not too happy with the rendering of my letters on this last day .... I think that the photo chosen is not ideal, with the dark on the J of JEU (game). Or maybe the chosen font??? mystery ... but I did several tests and I admit that, oops, I believe that I do not like this effect at all, sorry. All the other technical proposals, I really loved, but there ... I can't seem to like the rendering. It's just a matter of taste LOL. But the technique is not to be ousted. I will definitely do more tests. Maybe I'll find another way to use it. all credits on my gallery

Finally finished my day 7 project. I started over on it several times! I decided rather than one picture to do individual letters with separate pictures. This is my grandson when he was small. Not sure where any of the papers are from. I got the elements from Pixel Scrappers and the round star at the top was made from a paper by Marisa Laren. This has been a fun week!

Day 5 : it's not really a scrapbook page, but I didn't like everything I tried, so I tried something else ? Template : Carole Cassel Instead of papers, I used on the bottom layer the effects - texture effects - soft plastic on the second a blend mode The font is Poplar Std

Day 7. I used photos I took yesterday out a window during the high winds. I didn't take the time to get all the settings needed to actually show the motion of the shrubs but figured these might be good photos to play with for this challenge. I used an old kit by a retired designer from 2012 and a template from Scrapping With Liz. I deleted all elements from the template and just used papers and an arrow from the kit. Font is Yard Sale.

Day 7 I don't think I will use this feature much, or only with specific photo's. ? Gill sans ultra bold is the font I used ? The kit was miz-London town Odd that with resizing the shadow on the red mat looks very black but with the original size it looked ok, well I think it was ok?

Day 4 I used Cassel's template. Papers : digitalscrapbook , commons_sharon-grant Font : Goudy Old Style Title Font : Hobo Std

Day 5, Overlapping Text. This a layout completed some time ago...I am so far behind and even though there is no pressure or time line...I am dedicated to completeing this workshop.

Day 4 Text On A Path...easiest time I have had doing text on a path. It usually takes several tries. This layout was completed fairly quickly. Not sure I should have used a path on top and bottom...it did give me more practice.

Day 6 of Titles Class. Almost time to get to the water again

Still working on it. This is workshop 5. The text is Bauhaus 93; the Christmas hat and the star are from Cassel; I'm not sure, but I think the gnome is from Creative Fabrica. I extracted the "Santa Stop Here" sign from another picture of the tree. The scene is from the Germantown (TN) Civic Center Christmas Santa Party for the kids. Yes, Santa was there and I even have a picture of me with Santa!

Here's my final project for the Text Workshop. A bit of a story. When I was in 7th grade my parents had bought their annual Irish Sweepstakes ticket and, for once, they won! The way it worked, thousands of people bought tickets and the hospital (charity behind the game) committee in Ireland drew a ticket for each horse in the Grand National race. If you we assigned a horse you automatically won money, and of course, if your horse won, you got more. So, our ticket was assigned but did not win the race. I think my folks got about $1000 which, in 1954, was enough for a new car! (First new car they ever had.) It was a fun time! My font is Bungee Inline. The photo corners are from my own kit. I made the plaid from the horse photo colors. Cassel's curved photo script on the ticket. Interesting techniques using vector texts as shapes.

As I said before, I did not do a page for each day, but here are the Titles I created to practice each technique. If I finish any more pages I might still post some if I am happy with them.

I have not done a page for all of the days, but have at least practiced each technique show. Thanks Cassel. Here is the page I did for day 7.

Day 7. I found several fun graphics on Pixabay but kept running into shadow problems. I couldn't use the eggs because the shadow angle was wrong for the layout. The font is Thanks Bunny. It has lots of fun glyphs.

Carole: Thank you for a great workshop! I think someone said they did this one in the past, but it must have been before I joined, as these techniques are all new to me.

Day 7 and I'm a bit sad that the workshop is finished, but now I can go ahead with the Build a Kit. I have to admit it is a bit busy with 2 workshops at the same time and yes I now I don't have to finish either of them in a specific time but it's addictive! Maybe I should plan a detox period! I have loved seeing all the different layouts, mostly done with the same templates and techniques, so inspiring! For this last one I used a photo, taken in a gardencenter of a bunch of mixed orchids standing on a table and I used it for all the words. The strip on the template is a bit smaller otherwise it was to prominent and I wanted to use that striped paper for contrast to the lighter colors. Again some butterflies and an extracted orchid flower. The font is Bumble. I have done this workshop as the Wise Words Challenge as it was called 2 years ago. It was my first challenge after the basic Scrap Course and I have to say I have learned a lot since that day from the masterclasses, challenges, tutorials from Carole and by looking what all the other members are showing.

Day 3 Text Wrapping Short Sandy on the left; Tall Sandy in the center; Bonnie on the right. There was no way I know to get me out of the picture. Tall Sandy is tall...about 6 feet. Short Sandy is short...about 5'4 or less. Once we had 3 Sandys in our pickleball group. When Sandy 3 arrived the immediate question was, "What will we call her?" She told us to call her Fat Sandy. No way! We ended up calling her Sandy D. Even though Tall Sandy has moved away, she and her "Sister", Short Sandy stay in touch. Tall Sandy stays in touch with several of her Virginia Pickleball Friends. That's one of the things I love about pickleball...lasting friendships!

Here is my Workshop 4, I had a lot of trouble doing the curved text but finally I got there. I took papers and elements from my mini kit Summer Sizzle in BNB blog train: My blog:Digiscrap Angelhaze

Day 4 part 2? Text is better now in a wave, all the characters you can read instead of pressed into each other?

I wanted to post my project for day 6 and saw Corrie mentioning she forgot to add a shadow to the rope , I haven't done that either, but do you think it needs a shadow in my project? I did a shadow on the paper behind my dog, that's all.?

All of you guys have done such inspiring work, I love all the pages but I have to admit that "Penny being Penny" is my favorite. We have always had cats and I love them to death and I can tell by the pictures that Penny is something else. I got caught up in a Scrapbooking summit and didn't get anything done. I'm also taking a machine embroidery digitizing class and that is keeping me jumping. Spreading myself to thin for a almost 75 year old (3 more days). Keep up the good work and maybe I'll get something done some day.

???arf jealous LOL no but seriously .... I'm not doing anything extraordinary. I'm just lucky to be part of the Creative Team of 2 designers and I've always said "Nice Kit = Pretty Page". Just a question of feeling to make a page and that's it. Good management of elements, papers and shading. ☺️ And since we are in the confidence, I admit that I am a little, even "a lot envious" of your knowledge on Paintshop .... how happy I will be to know all these techniques that you have . So I'm always and always learning to improve at least the few techniques I know )))) And I'm very grateful to you for sharing your learning. I admire your patience and generosity. So many designers, who keep their knowledge, with the aim of always selling more .... So knowing that I can buy absolutely nothing (I made a promise to my husband, and I always keep my promises) I am really very grateful to you. Thank you for everything.

Fixed it. Thanks for the catch!

ok, you got me laughing at #4 - more like Text on a Peak! LOL

Your words are so spot on. I will take a detox time too and turn my attention to my new camera. It was busy this past week with two workshops running at the same time. Once it's done we'll be craving more...after all, it's an addiction. But what a great addiction it is.

If you save your favorite shadow settings as presets, just have the separate layer box checked when you save it. Then you don't have to worry about it if you use the preset. And if you tweak the settings of the preset, that box stays checked so you will still have your separate layer.

Monique I always add the shadows on a separate layer, for the reasons you said and for editing them if I see that they aren't looking good! I once had to start almost all over with a layout by not doing this! ?

I do it, also, Michele. It ends up with way too many layers, so I merge each down once I'm happy with it.

Day 6 and I'm caught up. Now to catch up in the Build A Kit workshop. I really like all the templates we've gotten and this one I especially like. I love that free Vector Tube script. I got it a long time ago but had no idea how to use it until today. What a great tool to have in the virtual toolbox. I used the who photo (creative fabrica I think) as the back ground. Putting a duplicate above each layer and used the magic wand and deleting, as we learned from the start. The moon photo is mine and the font is windows Gill Sans Ultr Bold, one of my favorites of the "fat" fonts. That still makes me laugh to see that..."fat" fonts. I used a gradient for the base paper.

Day 6. As you can see I didn't use the template. I used a photo from last year, as I'm yet to get a shot of one this year. I thought I saw one on Wednesday, and then this morning I saw one at the top of our drive. It's a bit early for them yet. Slats script. Text on a path using my own vector arrows. Cassel's bead tube around the word Squirrel, and the dingbat corner elements. The label is mine, the gold element is also a font.

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.

OMG! I love this. I worked on Race Horse/Thoroughbred breeding farm. I still love horses. He is a beautiful horse, I alway loved the bays over the chestnuts Have you ever seen the movie Pharlap? And the one called War Horse, it broke my husband and I to see what this horse went through. If we'd known (particularly the barbed wire scene) what we'd see we'd have never watched it.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Well, I did complete workshop 6 and will go on to 7 today also. Not too happy with my last couple of layouts - however, the different ways to use text have been interesting. With this one I used a pattern in the letters instead of a color - it was interesting resizing the layout - the zebra pattern didn't want to resize; so I had to close the jpg and then call it forward again - and this time the zebra pattern also resized. The ribbon on the tag is from PS - Gina Jones; the rest of the elements are my own. I think the font I used for the Zoo was something Big Chunk.

Carole, yes, it looks like I forgot the shadows on Penny's layout. Off to fix it. Thanks for the catch. I worked forever with the pickleball outline. That was as close as I could get it. I did have it set to continuous. I changed the size of the balls and the step multiple times searching for a solution.

I have presets too, button, papers (thick and regular), reverse (for papers), ribbon, string etc. And yes, I tweak them pretty much all the time. I think it was in the Basic Course that I got some cheat sheets for shadows that came with the course. I also try and make notes of shadow settings in tutorials, lessons, workshops and see if it works for my layout. If it does and I dont have a preset for it then I'll make one. One thing I wonder if say I'm constantly changing a preset to the same, can I re-save the preset with the new "starter" settings. I should look into that.

Bonnie, your text at the bottom is far to the left, did you do that on purpose? I love the way you did the text at the top, it suits the ladies well!?

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.

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.

Carole: I just watched the video for Day 6, and you say: "for this particular template, if you are using it, you can rotate your title to match the line, but I can tell you that it was an angle of five degrees." My question is how do you know it was five degrees?