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after a long week of work I finished now the layouts for day 6 and 7

Day #5 Working on this one I realized that I really need to add more textures to my supply in PSP, and practice the technique, but It was fun doing the overlap method!

Day #4 A simple path which can be used on future scrapbook pages, I have lots of pics from family vacations spent at The nearby pond! I dropped in a few butterflies so it wasn't so plain.....

Day #2 Managed to have some time to work on a few of the titles from the text workshop.

I saw now that I forget to post my day 5

The baby is me. Background paper from "Easter-Vintage-Watercolor-Easter-Background-59971939" Frame "SheilaReid_SV_whimsicalborder" Bunny in R upper corner. "Easter-watercolor-clipart-Bunny-26872833"

I looked over some tutorials inside the Diamond section, "Meli-Melo Paper" caught my attention and after the video I wanted to try it. It's really easy. I played a lot with the blend mode and opacity, results so cool!! I just used one picture to do my selections. Here the link for those who would be interested: https://scrapbookcampus.com/element-creation-index/meli-melo-paper/

I did the March Sketch Challenge. I used a kit called ps-rachel-martin_xanthe for any papers and elements. The photos are random from Mike Hindle on Unsplash. The font is Bungee Inline and I used the technique taught by Carole in the Text Workshop-Lesson 5 but this time I used a "fatter" font and added texture. I took the title from the name of the kit.

Happy Easter Friends:) I used here my fractal found in the past so I use it nowadays. Have fine holydays

Day 7. Done. The text says "marina" in case it's not easily readable. I find it's often a bit challenging to read the letters when they are cut out as pictures. The photo is mine of the lovely marina we have in our small town on Lake St. Clair (not a Great Lake officially, but part of the system). I really enjoyed this series of lessons and prompts. I used techniques I wasn't familiar with and got a bit improved in some of those. Thanks Carole. Having your templates was a great help as well. I don't do scrapbooking, but I do enjoy just creating layouts for birthdays or other things. Mainly, PSP helps me work with old photos to make them better quality for my history and genealogy projects.

Day 7. Template : Cassel Bug : A Bugs World-DBMagnolia (digitalscrapbook)

Trying to get caught up. Here is Day 6. There are many things that didn't work out well, but sometimes that has to be good enough. Photo is from my garden a few years ago. The cheerful and welcome little crocus. The title is done with a small colored ball and the vector tube script. It filled each letter entirely....oh well. I wanted colour, and I got colour! (I used American spelling on the layout.)

Here is my Workshop #6: Spring is here, this is the name of the song from Carly Simons, the scrap kit is Extraordinary Bundled Collection by Artgal Style and he title is made with the font: Showcard Gothic with a rose rope vector script.

Day 6. Template : Cassel Papers : Marisa Lerin (digitalscrapbook) Font : Simplefire (= monoline font)

I'm done in. Workshop 7. Changed many times, but this is what I finally came up with. I'll post it and then I have to restart my computer as I overloaded it working on this. The font is Dragon Kids from Creative Fabrica. The lower cluster is from PS - Jessica Dunn.

Finally completed Day 7. The photos are of my youngest grandson, who by the way, is now a teenager. Found this one, for some reason, hard. It is still not my best attempt but after two attempts, have given it a go. I am definitely not good at scrapbooking. Needless to say, I have learned a lot thanks to Carole. I have absolutely enjoyed all 7 Days.

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.

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.

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

a semless overlay I made for one of my mini )) i use 2 different hearts shapes and image kaleidoscope you can use it if you want, but only on PU (thanks )

It is very simple: cut strips of paper the height of the book cut little squares pile them up as thick as needed and glue one side (which will be the spine of the book) print and cut the covers on photo paper glue the papers inside the book trim the excess paper If I do more miniature projects, I might do more books. They are easy to make. You can use plain cardstock for the covers, or use printouts of actual books if you can find the images. Using PSP, it is very easy to do and resize to scale (that is 1:12 scale by the way).

Marie-Claire: How did you achieve those nice borders on the letters? Yours really stand out the most!

Many years ago I was on ArtGal Style's creative team so I have a lot of her kits. Although she retired all of them when PlainDigital Wrapper closed down and only moved her newer kits to her new shop at GoDigitalScrapbooking. She is a sweet person and still creates really nice kits! Nice layout.

WOW! It's a triple play! You covered one text workshop, the song of the month and the freebie, all in one! Nice - congrats!

Nadine: I know what you mean. I often feel so disappointed and dissatisfied with my layouts after I've spent hours on them! In the beginning, I think I have a good idea, and it goes downhill after that! But I think your finished project is great!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

That's a cute little critter that I don't think we have around here in SW Ontario. Always enjoy your pix.

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

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

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.

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?

Day 6. I have learned a lot but I know I still have a lot to go. Thank you so much Carole. This is a photo of my granddaughter when she was lucky enough to see and play in the snow. It is not something that we see too often here in Australia. I did have some trouble using the template, but I am sure it would have been something I was doing wrong. Still trying to learn all kinds of PSP things.

Day 4 project. I used Carole's layout with a few minor changes. Wings are from Marisa Lerin's Birdhouse In My Soul Kit. The background is from Marisa's Garden Party Paper Kit. The photos are compliments of my oldest daughter who is learning photography.

LESSON 4 - FOG - I hunted up 3 photos on Unsplash to illustrate Carl Sandburg's poem "FOG". The stars are from my new kit. The colors are from my kit's palette. The cat footprints were from a free site that Google found. I was pleased that I got the text on a path to work properly the first time!

Ann - love your idea for a tile. Makes for an interesting background.

Here is a seamless tile I made for my Snowdrops layout (posted in What are you doing...? ) I took a piece of the blue vase behind the flowers in the photo and used it to fill the background.

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'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'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.