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I've made something in Particle-shop today. A castle in a bottle. The background is made of 2X the castle, one upside down and merged. Then activated Particle-Shop and the image was in. I blended the whole layer of the background to what you see by using several disciplines. In the end, I gave it some sparkles. And added the castle to it. Than accepted. back in PSP, I placed the background behind the bottle and the castle. Selected the bottle, reversed, and Dell. The bottle was finished. In the end, I gave it some sharpness. And so was my empty bottle filled.

A kit from Erika at ET Designs. I like a lot of her designs. All the elements come from that. I was thinking of losses and felt like making something. I'm not sad, just thinking of those who are gone.

YOU all have done so much here. My compliments to all of you.

I know, I know, this "game" is almost over but I won't give it up completely. A little bit frustrated because I ddin't manage to stay on it. At least Day 1, 2 and 3. Just a small correction, I added the wrong postmark a few minutes ago.

I had a photo obscured by haze, so I used the PSP tool to remove the haze, added a PSP frame, the cass-fence freebie, a couple of picture tube trees and ended up with this, "White-Tail Doe with Triplets." (Guess what? Markus showed up!)

Here's my "freebie" challenge layout.

A = americano is prepared by adding hot water to espresso, giving a similar strength to but different flavor from brewed coffee. Love the graphics for Y and Z

Y = Yawn, indicating a need for coffee... ?

Did you know this? Me not til today.? Maybe some of you do not know ider. I have a dingbat font that's called FRAMES. I never used it before cause there were always those strange window icons that popped up when I pressed the lowercase. But when I press the uppercase my frame pops up. Always learn something new when I'm doing "homework". In both situations, I typed hi.

I didnt know spare could be elegant. I have an "elegant" room in my house for company. hahahha, nothing I have is "elegant". I use the word "Spare" when it describes something extra and I use the word "Sparse" when there is not much of something. Like money is "sparse" these days, does anyone have "spare" money to send to me. Basically the two words look similar but to me they are opposites.

B = Books, a natural accompaniment to coffee! (and a cat! ?)

Z = zzzzz ~ snoring due to being served decaf instead of high test!

Oh, I would LOVE to see those photos in this project!!!!

Just signed up for this course. Locally there is a kite festival this weekend,( weather permiting )and I hope to be able to take some photos. So that will give me an article for my magazine.

I went through this (not as bad as Carole) when I made a product for the rubber stamp community. I had a commerical order from a stamp maker and she used solvent to clean the product I made which caused cracking of the product. When she informed me i asked her to give me a couple hours as I was going to go the the raw material supplier to see why this was happening, which turned out be the solvent (they were 45 min drive away). By the time I went there, had the meeting and got back home she has smeared me and my product all over the craft forums (I never saw it as I didnt follow them but was informed by a friend who did). So I sent out a return for refund letter to every client, and only this one client took the refund. Luckily, most sent me nice emails that they were happy with the product and were keeping it. I stopped production and that very client asked me: "So, can I make an order?". It was a relief to get rid of that, as it was labour intensive and took me away from my main source or income (silversmithing and glass art). Social media wasnt as big as it is now, what Carole went through was horrible. Especially the one who took credit for someone else's work. Strong nerves and the ability to keep calm. I think if I had looked at the forums where my client was bashing me, I would have acted in a bad way. I wanted to remain as professional as possible. Not always easy as it's a very personal attack.

Carole, I can only imagine how upsetting it was for you until everything was clarified. ? And the person who cried the loudest was the one who took credit for somebody else's work. One needs strong nerves to deal with this situation!

Page 5, and here she is with her Dad and the grandies. Her Dad's pet name for her was "my wee fluff".

This is a beautiful fall layout Julie. I love the punch, I bought them but havent even loaded them yet. They make a striking element. this layout is really well balanced.

What a horrible experience. That is one reason I rarely did commissions when i sold jewelry/glass. We used to say, nothing is unique, because somewhere in the world someone is doing the exact same thing you are.

In my determination to keep producing a layout regularly, I made this one. I did a "curved photo" from a tutorial on a photo I used for something else (likely from Unsplash or Pixabay), and then just started "playing around". I used a punch from Carole's new batch on the strip, added some other stuff and called it a layout. Fall colours and "busy" backgrounds are things I like.

Me too, Bonnie. I never thought of it as being "thieving" when I borrowed for lessons, just expanding my repertoire and paying homage to the original.?

Thank you Suzy. I don't think they own it now but I might be wrong. I should have paid more attention to the guides but was more engrossed with looking around.

Here is my contribution to this challenge. The photo is from a Biergarten we like to go to when the weather is nice and warm... not so much this year. I added Markus to the layout in a different way it is meant to be used, as I don't have a "real" Markus to take to places. ? I used a technique from the 2018 Popup Masterclass.

That is so delicate and pretty.

The discussion about "thieving" can be interesting and as Susan says, we all imitate in some way, and learning is about copying what we see (until we learn by messing up). There is a big difference between copying an idea to "play with" versus copying an idea and taking the credit. Many years ago, someone saw a new product in a store and she bought it, however, it was limited to 4 particular words, and she had no use for those words. She asked me if I could code a script to allow her to use other words and other fonts. I did. However, at the time, I didn't know who had designed the product I was recreating, and it caused a HUGE uproar when designers started calling me a thief because I "stole an idea" that one designer had created and it was very unique. They said I was just going to cause her to lose all sales because "everyone" would buy the script instead of her PNG product. That turned out to be a horrible week of name-calling in a very popular forum. That is, until one designer recognized the technique from an online tutorial. It turned out that the designer who claimed to have "created that unique effect" was, in fact, just copying it. She was using the same text, the same font, the same settings, and claiming it HERS and "never done before". In the process, *I* was called a thief. All that to say we all get inspired by something else, whether it is another digital project, a TV ad, a craft tutorial, or even nature! Being inspired is one thing. Taking credit is just something else.