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I think it might have looked better if the layer with Lennon on it had a slightly lower opacity. I had already merged both of the images onto a new layer so even though I could have fixed it, I didn't have enough time to do it over. (OCD can be an asset or a liability! lol) I was really at a loss for the background I was going to use because I wanted the flowers to be the only colored elements. I played around and finally used the Mosaic-Antique texture effect on a recolored watercolor background and darkened it using a Levels adjustment layer. The font is Lucida Bright, a system font that mimicked the original mosaic.

Lab 6 Module 5 Experiment 2 - Element: Superhero/Comic Elements

Lab 6 Module 5 Lesson 2 - Burst Shape

Well, guess what? I have one more QP for the Day 8 assignment. I downloaded a few from Digital Scrapbook and this one is from Marisa Lerin called QP-Slovenia03. I decided to combine this with the Random Challenge to tell a personal story. The title font is Corlita Sans; the journaling is in Droid Serif. Behind the text I brushed some dark blue with a brush called cass-Dispersion2. The journaling is a bit small so I'll repeat it here;

I used various elements from my stash of freebies. Gotta love blog trains and free sites. The sun image was originally an outline that I filled with the reddish/brownish color. To do this I used the magic wand selection brush in Add mode on all the empty spots, increased the selection by a few pixels, and flood-filled it on a new layer beneath the sun. I also used the Change to Target brush to recolor the two hanging elements. The font is Dream Her, free from DaFont; I applied an inner bevel and some texture to the text to try and make it look like the sun.

Lab 6 Module 5 Experiment 5 -- Fun Font Find: Hanging Letters Font

Lab 6 Module 5 Experiment 3- Color/Pattern/Texture: Graph paper:

Lab 6 Model 5 Experiment 1-Title Work - Flag Alpha

Lab 6 Module 5 Lesson 1 -Cartoon Words

Well, I'll try again. Last 1. end of June. Both and QP and the pic are by Marisa Lerin.

Lab 6 Module 5 Experiment 4- Sketch idea: Lots of flowers

Lab 6 Module 5 Lesson 3 - Half Tone Paper

The prompt builder is the bottom of the list. it really helps. I've tried a number of the different Spark's: art, crystalloine which is a png generator, sketch which does black & white pencil sketches, pattern, and of course the prompt buillder. Sometimes it helps to be brief and sometimes the best results are when you get real particular. I'm going to post my Andy Warhol cat which I did this morning - just asked for a cat like Andy Worhol.

I found this site for open source fonts: 1600+ Open Source Fonts (OFL) › Fontesk

Well, guess what? I have one more QP for the Day 8 assignment. I downloaded a few from Digital Scrapbook and this one is from Marisa Lerin called QP-Slovenia03. I decided to combine this with the Random Challenge to tell a personal story. The title font is Corlita Sans; the journaling is in Droid Serif. Behind the text I brushed some dark blue with a brush called cass-Dispersion2. The journaling is a bit small so I'll repeat it here;

Thanks, Dorothy! If I wasn't in the mood to celebrate America's Birthday on the 4th of July, I am NOW! ?

Dorothy you have been really busy! I'm almost sorry I'm not American because the 4th of July is not one of my nation's celebrations?

Ik heb een penseel van een kwal. Ik werkte in het nieuwe frametool. Nieuw voor mij. Na meerdere verkregen een andere mogelijkheid. Ik plaatste de kwal in de vorm. Probeer vervolgens welke mogelijkheden er meer waren. Ik ging naar REFLEXTIE>EFFECTEN>CALEIDOSCOOP. Ik HEBT DE KLEUREN FFFF5 en C5dade GEBRUIKT. Gemaakt van een kwal. Het frametool heeft nog veel geheimen voor mij. Maar er is zeker veel mee mogelijk.

I used a qp that I downloaded a while back from Digital Scrapbook. The original file was a PSD and opened in Paintshop with layers. I could not figure out how to make the picture files into masks probably something to do with the PSD layout. The photos were sent to me by my grandson when he visited Southeast Asia prior to Covid(He made it home just in time.) The font is CallieHmk that I got when I installed the Hallmark card program. The palm tree is a tube, the map of Thailand is from Pixabay and added to the wood based on a Scrap tutorial. The shell is from shell pictures that David sent from Thailand. Escape is from a Digital Scrapbook kit.

Monique thank you, I once had that site and somehow lost it while transferring to a new pc some time ago and I couldn't remember how it was called! I must be getting old or have too much on my mind ?

English is my native language and still it doesnt understand me. The post from Mary earlier talked about something called CFSpark Prompt Builder. I will have a look for that. Maybe that would help us. it seems to be all about time doesnt it. Do I have the time to put into learning to "talk" to CFSpark or should I be concentrating on learning how to do something else I need to learn. Do you find if you try to learn it all, then you spread yourself thin and nothing really soaks in well enough. That's me. I can go off in many directions and then never really get anywhere. However, we should find time for play, with other techniques because good suprises often come out of it. Argh...my kingdom for more time!

I searched in my folders and found this QP, I used a photo from my DD, and added only the date

My attempt at this sketch challenge. The papers are from my stash, the font is Baby Bunny Script (CF), the daisy bunch is from CF and the bow is from Cassel. The pics are from Steve (of Steve's Rainbow) and his family as they vacationed last year at a cottage on a lake near Hardy, AR.

We are nearing the end of July. I'm going to post my QP Workshop layout that needed to have a story on it. Hope this will qualify.

We love to fish and so we started FISHO, I used Cassel Bingo Balls script and cass-Overlapped. Font Gill Sans Ultra Bold and Bodoni MT Black.

I wanted to have a go at this. I decided to go with the flow and use purple! Images all from online and only papers I made with some torn edges. Font is Bombshell Pro. I'm not that big a Coco Chanel fan, but I do adore some of the fragrances and have a few in my collection. I just couldn't think of another subject for the layout.

Today's daily look gave me the opportunity to use one of AnnieC's templates from a blog train a few years ago. I might have used it previously as I totally love it; she's one of my favorite designers. I found the woman's pic years ago while googling for another project. The font is Wanted Signature.

When I set out on this challenge it was with photos of robins and a totally different colour scheme but then I found my blackbird photos...

You're really cooking in the kitchen with all these great lab results and projects. Way to go!

I'd like that too. I dont use it as often as I want. I still have much to learn about PSP. It's hard to find the time to fit everying in that I want to learn.

So, I'm playing with Steve's Rainbow again. I took a section of the rainbow and played with Effects>Reflection>Feedback and came up with one I liked; put it on a larger canvas size and duplicated, flipped and rotated it until I had a pattern I liked and then made a background paper of it. Used Cass' Mask from Mask Workshop Extra 3. The font is Bluebell. Canvas frame is of course from a selection and inner bevelled.

It's about time. I was on Digital Scrapbook and noticed I had a picture there. Took me 1/2 hr to find it on my computer.

Thanks Suzy. I'm going to try this later. The original sketch from the 'net was much darker so I used Hard Light blend mode to lighten it up.

Yay! There you are!! Nice to "see" you, Susan! ?

I am looking forward to the class. Thank you for your comments. I think I had to turn it into a raster to use the eraser tool on it. But, yeah, Vectors make my head spin. We will take the workshop and tame them demon vectors. It is dizzying trying to remember when to convert to this or that. I hear the words from Carole but it isnt sinking in. I think we need to do it and struggle through the blocks that arise to actually "understand" it. My vectors were in making shapes and sticking them together. After the fact, since I used "spades" in the cards, it would have been cool to use spades (outline) where the little circles are.

Well, I like it plain white, so I wasn’t going to say anything here, but if you really, really want to, why don’t you put Eleanor on top on the texture? And the Eleanor layer gets “multiply” and it picks up the color and texture of what’s below it. I better add a little more to the above….what I usually do, because it might be too harsh on somebody’s face. Three layers. the bottom is full color, full opacity. Then your color or texture in the middle, and then Eleanor on top. You will change the middle layer of color texture to multiply, but also change the opacity slider or those texture marks will look like wrinkles on her face. (The bottom layer is 100% whatever color you want so you paper is opaque, not matter what that middle layer.)

Now that is really awesome, Susan! Yours looks just like it! The fading of a vector sounds like a real headache…any thing with a vector sounds like a headache…but I don’t think I could have even thought of it, much less considered how it would be done. I can’t wait for the class on Sunday! Maybe we’ll learn when to convert to a path, and when to convert to a raster. LOL!

You put it nicely. Learning is the key.

hahahaha. this is actually from 2018, in the hospital when my niece who just had a baby (c-section no less) had to get up out of bed to take a picture of me and Baby Luke. Worst. Aunt. Ever. I look the same, still crazy hair that needs cutting badly, but much more gray at temples. Ann has hinted I should add one for some time, so I'm seeing how long it takes for her to notice. I will try and get a new picture sometime soon.

Thank you. I tried doing them outside too, but seems like my creativity stops at the studio door. ?

Nothing wrong with that, if it's not working, move on and find something that does work. It's not giving up, you solved the problem of those textures and overlays not working, so you in fact learned something from trying it. I know it feels like giving up, but think of it as learning what isnt working often moves you back to what IS working. Dont we learn more from what goes wrong than what goes right. I do know all too well this part of learning is the unfun part of it

You got your beautiful dandelions in! Looks fab!

Hey, while I wasn't looking you added a photo! Nice to "see" you Susan.

I am watching this Australian Mystery series on utube and there was a scene with a cool design in the building (picture below). I wanted to try and receate the graphic version. I cant wait till we do the Vector workshop. I used vectors to create it and did some problem solving along the way. I'm happy with what I did this time. I didnt quite get the proportions right. When I know better I'll do better. I was playing with what to do with the background when I tried the gradient called "Underworld" so my theme was gambling in the underworld (too much watching the TV show Supernatural). I used the eraser tool to fade out the bottom as if it was descending to the underworld. It was the first time using the Custom Playing Card script from Carole. I LOVE IT. I learned to click "cancel" when choosing a photo and "cancel" again to continue the script and ended up with the layers of, white background and card number/suit. I put the same gradient on the card, lightened, and put my photo's on. I can see a lot of ways to use this script. My original layout was quite dark (my monitor is very light so it's hard to know what it looks like) so I lightened it up for the forum/gallery. My photo's of a recent studio shoot, fun with expiring dandelions. Font is Vanilla Right.

I love this and I quite like the white background. It's a high key layout. I also like the use of the three strips creating triangle which are very dynamic in the composition/design world. You could try a texture but it might not look so good with the sketch graphic. I think it would detract from the cleaness and mimimalist style.

Looks like Happy Birthday to Tennessee is in order. Look at how many double letters in a row is in this State. Now that's something to celebrate! I like the information you give in your layouts.

I was surprised to learn I won the Phrase Strips script! I had to play with it which took a bit of time as I made the adjustments to the script itself (as per instructions included) and needed some help from Carole. My deadlines for two projects are now behind me (other stuff) and I can get back to PSP time. I like the "idea" of this layout, but I'm not entirely pleased with the harsh white background. I had to leave it like that b/c I'm not much good at extracting an image and getting a transparent background (the sketch of Mrs. Roosevelt). If I changed or softened the background, then the borders of the sketch were too visible. It's a skill I have to acquire.... Otherwise, I'm happy with the phrase strips and how to use them. Thanks Carole!

Finally got to T in the Alphabet Challenge of 2022. Has been interesting. Could probably do a couple of double pages for each of the M is for Memphis and T is for Tennessee.

Leftover Scraplift from May - Six of my grandchildren (the ones who have significant others). The only one missing is Tyler-John who is unattached at this time. The title font is Baby Olivia, the background is color fill treated to weave texture, the curved paper is treated to a pattern using the sculpture texture, the flowers behind the photos are a ribbon called Butterfly Garden-clipart 15. Brad, on the top left, is new to my digital layouts. He and Alycia, top right, are twins.

Let's start with a new Wildcat Calendar for June. Here's the Ocelot, a medium size wild cat. Found mostly in Texas, Central and South America, and a few islands. They have been hunted for their beautiful fur coats and recently, females killed and kittens stolen for the sale as pets. That doesn't usually work out once the cat is full grown and they end up in shelters or worse. I'll post a full size image on our Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro Facebook group.