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I like this challenge, it's not a lot unlike the scavenger hunt, or bingo challenge, which are my favourite challenges. I'm not accustomed to using buttons in my pages. Nor do I have any button scripts, hence I made my own. I don't have the folded corner, or folded paper scripts either. The paper was folded, but when opened out, you still have the fold. The knotted ribbon, is one of Carole's scripts. The frame is my own, made especially for the photo.

I love when new challenges are posted. They give me focus and get me trying layouts for a reason. This has the Hallowe'en theme b/c the photo of my grand-nephew was taken then last fall when he and the girlfriend went out. That accounts for the dripping blood marks on her neck! Using buttons and folded elements is difficult for me. I never know where to put the darn things. The black button on the photo was placed to hide a clock on the wall!

I'm making an effort to participate in more challenges and for a change everything is mine. I used cass's brad factory and filigrane scripts. It's my first 1-2-3 challenge so I hope what I did qualifies. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

I combined Carole's flowery spring frame with the flora font, added my great-grand Magic with a little linoleum as a background and two corner brushes and came up with this. I sort of thought the font would look a little puffy on its own but mine didn't so I helped it along with one of our title lessons from March.

here is my day 6, I am not so good in Journaling so I made a small selection und copied the text from Wikipedia I used the open book script, airbrush paper script and the curved photo script

Figured it out - decided on folded hearts and a bow. 3 buttons and a frame round out the requirements. Here's my daughter, Laurey, top left; granddaughters, Ilana & Jackie, bottom right. All the decor is from my stash; frame from PSP frame. Edit: I forgot to mention the background is a PSP gradient called Nature Glow and I added some noise for texture.

Back in the day when I was learning to make webpages I acquired Note Tab Plus as an alternative to the Windows Notepad. Note Tab numbers the lines so you can find your place in the code. It also has little scripts of its own to automate repetitive tasks which made things easier. I still use Note Tab. It's a Swiss product and I always had the free version. I don't code any more. Left it behind when I transitioned to Dreamweaver for webpages. Honestly don't miss it. Not my favorite thing.

I'm entertaining those thoughts, but still still a litte frightful of coding. Not in the 'grizzly-bear-chasing-me' frightful, more like when I'm stretching on the floor after I workout and i turn my head...and....THERE IS THE MOTHER OF ALL SPIDERS STARING ME AND LICKING IT'S LIPS. Spider lips are the worst!

I COULD show you some of my tricks if you want, although you have to not be scared of code!

Thank you Cristina. I does look much better apart than together. Here's one that I clicked the wrong button when I was mirroring (or flipping? the other half) and I liked the shape. it's the same starting label shape but me clicking the wrong button and ending up with a happy accident.

Many, many thanks Cristina. I suppose being minimalistic, with some fine details, could be my signature.

I combined four or five different backgrounds including an old swirl I had made; erased some areas, used negative image on one, and played with the blend modes and opacity. The font is Rambutan from an old $1 deal from Font Bundles. Using the text cutter is a fun difference sometimes.

I have always steered clear from using pre made frames, including the psp frames. I create a one of a kind frame for each photo. All to often I see frames that are not of equal proportions, or if they have been rotated, the shadowing is wrong. The majority of my frames are used only once. Personally I enjoy creating unique frames. Carole now has a frame script, for convenience and time. Also she has 2 frame materclasses.

I would strongly discourage you from doing that as it will distort when used in various situations: if you have a square frame to start and use it on a rectangular image (or vice versa), the proportions on the edges will be inconsistent if you have a frame of a certain dimension (say 1000x1000px) and use it on something larger (say 3600x3600), it will become blurred This might need a blog post as you are not the first one thinking that.

I combined the April Front Challenge with Lab 6-8 Stripe Ribbon Custom Label Cross Stitch I didnt like my Stripe Ribbon so I put all 4 together, merged and made a couple layers and used it as a border with a blend mode. The Custom Label; I saved the two parts before putting together and ended up using that version with the Flora Gardent font for the challenge in between. I hummed and hawwed with the edging, if I should omit it from the text or continue it. I tried just the top and bottom of the 'E' but it looked unfinished, going around the th outter edge looked weird, so I just closed it all up. the shadow needs work on the offset so it makes it hard to see. I believe the pictue tube leaves are Carole's. The tag is KMRD-My Fathers Study Tag 01. The Cross Stitch I used as two stitches to hold the tag on. The photo is mine I found while cataloguing shoot dates. I had passed it off as a bad photo, but thought I'd see how much I could do. Adjustment layers were used and I made selections and used the Adjust option on the top of the tool bar for selections (3 different ones in total). Does anyone know if you can make separate adjustments layers for selections, would I need to group them so the adjustment doesnt affect the whole photo? I used a texture layer on the backgound to simulate reptile skin. second font is Funky Grim (CF). This was fun to do and a surprise at what I did with the photo. Cant wait to get better at the photo editing/adjustment layer part of it. Again, I must add, my monitors are very bad so i really have no idea what anything I do looks like.

Marie-Claire, Michele and Corrie, so different and so nice layouts! I love the Flora font and tried to do something too, I assembled some pictures of mine and used the "cass-WordFrame5" script.

By mistake I had downloaded a 3D flower mandela with 6 layers, colored and in png format. I had now clue what to do with it but decided to "assemble" the flower to give it a try before deleting it. The normal shadows didn't give a good result so I tried shadows without an offset and a blur and opacity from 100% on the backlayer to 40% on the toplayer and the little heart has a slight bevel to let it stand out a bit better. I choose a frame from the frames inside PSP and used the Flora Garden font with different colors. At least I had fun making it!

And that is quite ok. Knowing what to do and when is great.

The whole class is $60. As for non-English in coding, you might be surprised that most of the commands are actually using English words as the language is Python and it is English based. Have you ever opened a script in Notepad? And of course, you might still want to rely on ready-made scripts. I have over 15 years of experience in scripting, so even though I started with that same exact course, I have learned more since. But, at any point, if you change your mind, you know where I am!

Cristina, I'm so glad you are back at it. I know about a creative slump. It is my norm to start any creative project and go through phases of liking and hating it. Often having to set it aside for days (months and years too). it's frustrating to sit down to create and there is nothing. When I do photography (if I'n not in a current project) it takes me a while shooting to get warmed up. My creative juices arent like tap I can just turn on, more like a slow leak that takes time to become a bigger leak. Often doing something as far removed from photography and layouts gives me inspiration...as does the campus (in a big way). Want some really cool ways to make paper, I just watched the master class A Beautiful Mess. It's really good and it just has you playing around with effects/techniques. I highly recommend it. Sometimes creating with nothing in mind is a good place to get inspired

Exactly!!

Last one for today. I am having so much fun playing with my old and new scripts. I made a flower paper using the seamlesspattern script. I am not that fond of the paper but it is part of my learning process. I love the script!

I am not very good at scattering which is why I purchased the scatterbrush script. After experimenting, I created a star scatter to use on the glitter papers that I made in my kit. The original image was 500 by 500 px, made seamless with Effects and put on a new raster layer above the glitter paper. I added the pattern and changed the blend mode to dodge. The script was just what I was looking for to make scatters.

I can't say I have a favourite yet, but I am just starting to play with some of the scripts I have. It seems to me that these Slats scripts work best on large photos. I downloaded one from Unsplash to test them out. I don't really do enough layouts to give the scripts a good old workout!

This thread made me realize that I had already purchased the raster to mask script. I used it on my flower pictures. They are all from flowers in my yard. I also used the seamless pattern script to make the letter fill and the scatter script for the border. The font is Amen which was on my computer. It is not as clear as I would have liked it. The background paper is a solid paper from my kit. Most of the masks are from brushes except one.

That is often a motivator for members. I often use buttons either in clusters or in corners, a bit like they are holding the photo. But that is far from the only way to use them!

I am not sure what the original size is for the pre-loaded frames, but notice that in the preview, you can see if they should be square or rectangular, vertical or horizontal. I think the PSP frames are a good way to go fast for someone who does not know better.

this time i bought lot of wonderful things not all used, Airbrushed Paper - PSP script Contact Sheet - PSP script Open book - PSP script Stack'n Cluster - PSP Script Color Paint - PSP Script Curved photo - PSP script Paint Splash - PSP Script Pop Art - PSP Script Split Photo - PSP Script Watercolor - PSP script Netting - PSP Picture Tubes Skyline 2 - Picture Tube Spiral Binding #1 - PSP Tubes Colored Pearls - PSP Picture tubes

Scatters can be many things including paper or metal. They can be translucent or not. If I use a scatter there are times I don't even use a shadow. But for the most part I use a very small offset (maybe 1, 2 at the most). The opacity is usually 50 or lower with a blur of no more than 10. But there are times the the scatter item is thicker so the settings would need to be adjusted just like adjusting for different types of flowers or frames.

The question is not whether the scatters need a shadow but what shadow to add. Anything that might be made of paper or such would require a shadow, but when you are talking about translucent elements, that is trickier. Maybe you can get some details in the Shadow Challenges Master Class. However, you are probably on the right direction with reducing the opacity. Remember that the more translucent something is, the less shadow it casts since the light goes through more.

Absolutely, Rene. It's why I left it to the "experts" and, now that our business has a professionally done site I'm much happier.

It's all about baby steps and keeping it simple...at least that's what I tell myself. and walking away when you need to, because sometimes that's just what you need. With PSP and the Campus you always have a creative home to come back to.

Susan, It's so good when we have a happy accident, isn't it? So many times, I struggled to get something I liked, so I stopped creating layouts... I haven't done it anymore, as whatever I'd created was not to my liking... Very slowly, I am back to working with them... The Build-A-Kit Workshop helped during the no-creativity layout phase.

I cant even imagine how you do scripting and keep it all straight in your head when you are doing it.

I do like the broken frame effect. A great page. Try making the black button smaller, to be in proportion and place it on the young man's T shirt, as a Halloween pin.

Here's today's pic for my gaming group. Used a bunch of layers and effects. The florals are from Marisa L at PS/DS (I wish I had more time when I do these so I could be a little more creative instead of using other people's work). I picked Brush Script MT to keep it simple and to match the width of the silhouette.

Yes, Blend modes are great for coloring surfaces where you want to keep the texture as is.

Hi All, Loved every one but a Few I have never got to run, just cant get there but I thought the mask maker one would be my favorite and I could make pages for my pictures but never have been able to run it I have go to revisit it but its hard especially this last weekend on the Birthday Discount days to not buy, I want to buy the one what puts a picture on pages so build pages to make my digital scrapbooking. And the new one I seen that makes texts into Pictures but I bought so much I dont know how to do so need to hold back but trust me Its hard, I love so much in our Store ?

My scripts were a mess when I transferred everything to a new computer. I had purchased scripts that I never downloaded. I now download all my scripts onto the desktop. After I have opened them and placed them in the 2023 scripts folder, I then save both the zipped and unzipped into a folder on my external hard drive specifically for scripts. That way if one is missing in 2023 or other version, I can recopy them. Because of this thread, I discovered that I had the script raster to mask and had never used it. I have been playing with it, and I love it!

Being the resident fontaholic, I would be remiss if I didn't participate in this challenge. I took the pic I made for my gaming group today and adapted it to this challenge. The Honeycomb font and clip art are from CF. The font on my original is Abongia which was in the Absolute Font Collection bundle from CF, too. I believe it might still be available for the next day or so.

Carole's script Scattered photo's helped much ? Font Imprint shadow The pictures were taken in the same Dutch museum.

Couldn't find where to post so I'll post here. Carole, I hope you had a simply marvelous, happy birthday. You are so special to all of us in the campus. Hobbits give gifts on their birthdays, but I know you are not a Hobbit. Thank you for your gift. My favorite script of the ones I purchased on your birthday is the folded flower one. I will post my flowers.

I resized this to 1200 pixels and it was still too big...so here it is at 1000 pixels.

Day 3 East west, home's best is the translation. Pictures taken at a Dutch museum. Masks made by myself, the font MT imprint shadow.

Marie-Claire, I have worked on this a little since your post, as I wanted to do something like it, too. Etsy has digital diaries, and they have social media planners, regular planners, and calendars that start on Monday as I believe most European calendars do. BUT be careful! Some (most?) are .pdfs designed to be used in special software or with online Google Sheets. I bought two, and I now have two useless .pdf files since I do ‘t have canva and I have Lt figured out .pdf in Google Sheets BECAUSE GOOGLE HAS LOCKED ME OUT! This is probably temporary, but it needs to be brought to people’s attention if they are using Google sheets or doc. soooo, my idea is to make a table in MS Word with 7 columns. Many rows. If you want more Columns. Use legal paper horizontally. On Etsy, they have little squares for “things to be grateful for”, “things to work on”, and general YGG stuff. Just put your own days of the week, etc. then save and copy n paste for the rest of the months. do your own numbers for dates. copy n paste for other years? To decorate, use the settings with the dog icon to get your stickers and so forth layered where you want them. One thing I had been looking at was by Just Jaimee at The LilyPad. Look up her weekly templates (two pages facing each other). (They might be too raggedly for you.) Cindy Schneider from the Sweet Shoppe has a number of templates, too. And she has a lot of good ideas and monthly or weekly templates with appropriate colors.. and finally, there is MS Publisher, but you have to have MS Office. even an old version. This is what I would prefer, but for one thing: at any given time in the future, Microsoft could disable access to .pub files. And they could do it any number of ways. I’m distrustful, but if you plan to PRINT, then it would be ideal IMHO. I would love to hear what you decide and see a more or less finished product when you finish a section…a month or week, I guess. I am still enamored with those calendars of Marisa Lehrin’s.

I just ordered a canvas print 12 by 24 for my daughter for Mother's Day. She loved the file that I sent her. The only online shop that I could find that let you customize your size is Easy Canvas Prints. I will let you know how it turns out.

Here is my photo project for Assignment #1 of the Double Page Workshop. It is in Memory of my Dad "Digger" Don Carey who passed away in July of 2003. This July will be 20 years since his passing. He was a wonderful husband, father, and Grandfather. He was married to my mom for 40years before he passed away he raised 3 great-kids (myself and my 2 sisters) I am the baby of the family and the only boy.(Aren't I Cute LOL) The baby in the last photo is his only grandchild my oldest sister's daughter. Sorry I'm a little behind on the projects but it's been a busy week. Hope everyone enjoys this as much as I have enjoyed viewing the rest of the projects here.

Suzy, I liked to learn new software, when I knew something I wanted to learn something new again. But that's different now. I don't have as much patience as I used to. And can barely keep up with what we all learn here on the Campus ? I had seen this blog post before Suzy, but just like you, I'm not going to start with new software anymore. Rene, As for one note, I've seen that you don't need office for it, but what I don't like is, if I understand correctly, that everything is online. I don't feel very comfortable with that. Suzy, Rene, my intention, is also, when I have found what to use, not to use it as a planner to document events and other things

One Note is a free Windows app. Don't have to have any version of Office to have/use it. I've started using it again and have set up a notebook for Scrapbooking. I am working on getting all my notes from various places into it. So far my PSP tab in that notebook has the most information in it.

Marie-Claire, A long time ago I did that thing where you took a picture every day and put 7 of them together in a LO. Scrap 365 I think it was called. It was hard! But I love looking at those pages! Now that I’m even older, I want to add health stuff. Documenting, “When *did* we get COVID? Was that 2021 or 2022?” I saw this digital planner (it’s a blog post with a link to an Etsy store) and was captivated by it, but I’m not up for learning more software right now. https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/blog/april-2023-sticker-freebie My idea on this was not to use it as a planner, but documenting what has happened. i have heard of One Note, but I don’t pay for MS Office 360, just an old Version of Office, so I don’t think I actually have access to it.