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Calendar 2024 My boys July and August

Using vector shapes makes it easy to add gold borders using fonts.

Calendar 2024. And along came Pete, a NZ breed (Miradoll)

One of the festive gold framed tags, using floral elements from CF.

I found a use for Carole's latest script. Stacked wooden alpha. I've been creating gold frames, and gold bordered tags, decorated with festive clipart.

April🙂

I just counted and I have 3,281 fonts. My name is Dan and I'm a fontaholic.

After the "font" discussion back to my calendars and these months are almost done now. I didn't like the black date numbers and have changed them to a middle/dark grey color for all the months; the outlines of the boxes are very thin and I kept those in black to keep them visible. In the lesson from today was the option to color the boxes mentioned and I gave it a try but didn't like it. All my pages have a gradient and then some part of the boxes has a slightly different color than another part, which didn't look great even with the opacity lowered or a blendmode. But I wanted something to fill those boxes and it should not be very obvious too. After some trying different options I took the same photo as in the page and in the scripts I have inside PSP I choose the find all edges. I know how to do this manually, but the script is much quicker. After that I put the resulting image in the date boxes and played with the blendmodes and opacity until I liked what I got. More work now to do this for all the other months!

Finished, but will have a look at the calendar script I have from Carole, because I would like to start the week on Monday, so the weekend dates are next to each other 🙂

Sharing to show how wonderful Cass's Two-Toned Stitch Fonts are. I used them to make the border. I've had the fonts for a while now, but I plan on using them more often and not just for borders. (Lots of clip art and an alpha were used for this layout.)

I'm testing out how to fill the extra space. I do have some related photos, and in this case, I applied the Luminance layer filter and I like the monochrome effect.

March and April calendars... I made some changes, as usually happens after I have posted... Sometimes, seeing the pages here calls my attention to a detail I didn't see before, even after working with it for a long time. CREDITS: DiHiller (DigitalScrapbook.com): HAPPY EASTER - DiHiller_April2020_HappyEaster Corel freebies: Easter chick clipart

4 April's turn

Lesson 3 - May & June I really like these templates (I mean all the ones so far).

Fonts used are Yoshieka, Greater Amberjack and Arial.

September so far, needs a little picture at the bottom left. Font (🤣) is Charlemagne

Lesson 2 - March & April I am not keeping the backgrounds, they are stand-ins until I decide on a background I like. Since it's Vintage cameras I'll look for vintage or grunge type backgrounds. Hope it comes to me. I centered the months on the date boxes and add days-of-the-week along to the top. NOTE: yes, I see I posted the wrong March month before I centered the months. Oops. I'm leaving the boxes and will decide at the end if I changed them. I might add text beside for information about the cameras in the photo. And I might move the photos around to different months. I did change the size of the first letter in the Month like Carole showed in one of the videos (I've gone back and got the early months caught up) So many good ideas from everyone. I will be trying them out along the way. I especially liked moving the Month and adding days-of-the-week. Thank you all who did that.

I don't know where yesterday's post went (there must be gremlins again). @Shirley What breed are those boys? Siamese? I notice that when you put their names with a script font, the characters don't align properly on a couple of pages. Are you using PSP2023? I noticed that it does that with SOME fonts when there is an outline. You can tweak that by adjusting the Kerning or skipping the outline if you want. And don't worry about the order of the images. We can read! @Julian Adams That is a lovely picture you used for February. And the gradient for the background is very well set. @Michele I like to collect fonts, but I am now limiting myself to those layered fonts or with extra glyphs. I have enough of the other "ordinary" ones! @laurie solaas The only "fast" way to set guides to multiple pages is to code a script. It is easy when you know, but you can't RECORD setting up guides, so you need to code it (or copy/paste it from another one). So you are likely stuck having to set them manually. As for making more than one calendar, you will see that it is still easy to do. The biggest time-consuming part is choosing the photos! I love all those "quotes" that go with the months. Very unique! @Cristina I am working on a blog post for this coming Monday so it will still be soon enough for anyone to get it and use it for these calendar pages if needed. I am recoding it to adjust for PSP2023 (and an additional feature too). @Leslie Gifford Cook Don't worry. Nobody has actually finished ANY page yet since the tutorials will be applied one after the other on the same page so I would not be surprised if some people might be waiting to show their finished pages. @Donna Sillia That is an interesting tweak to add gems to the month! @Ann Seeber We are always going on a safari with your photos! @Corrie KinkelI apologize for giving you more work since my calendar dates started on Sundays and yours start on Mondays. @Anja Pelzer That was a lot of work for your April dates!!! @Jannette Nieuwboer Don't worry. You'll catch up. Keep up the great work! @MoniqueN. That little space will be filled soon! @Lynda DiGregor Did you replicate the technique from the Freaky Filter class with the same images? @Susan Ewart So many ideas, and only 12 pages to work on!!! 🙂 As for the notes, I so wish I could write prescriptions for the Campus. For some members, this is cheaper and better than therapy/meds (and in a serious way too). As for the size, it does not matter which one shows. Points and pixels are like inches and centimeters. It does not change the length of a piece; it is just a different unit. And sometimes, it is a little glitchy I find. I tend to always use Pixels for a unit because that is what I started with when I used the JASC versions, and then they added Points as a unit, but for me, I think in pixels. @Dan Greenwood We'll call you when we have our first FA meeting 🙂

I am so far behind because I keep going back and changing things. Someone mentioned a cass calendar script which I had to buy immediately and experiment with for a couple hours this afternoon.

Lesson 4 - July & August Not exactly a vintage camera in these shots but accessories to the cameras are important too. Okay, maybe not cases. Who uses them? I remember starting out and always used the case (on the SLR) and it would flop around and get in the way when I was taking pictures. They don't even give you those types of cases anymore, heck Canon doesnt even give you lens hoods unless you buy the "L" series lenses - after you mortgage your house to buy them that is!. The big case in the back is a polaroid 800 Land camera I forgot had. I might photograph it and switch it out with the other Land camera in month 4. I'm on a roll and having fun. Just got a text to head to work 2 hours earlier so my fun is over. Never enough time for PSP. Carole, as my teacher can you write me a note saying "Susan can't work today, she has important assignments to finish. Oh, and a question: In PSP 2022 if I open the calendar template and activate the Month vector it showed the size in points (32 points), and when I changed it to pixels is showed the correct pixel of 133. But, when I use PSP 2023 (which is what I'm using for the workshop) and activate the month vector is shows its in pixels and yet still says 32. Clearly it's not that size. Is it supposed to know and show the size in pixels once you double click on object ("T") layer inside the vector layer?

Although I made light of being a fontaholic, with a little banter, you took it as it was intended. I can also see it as an issue for some. We'll help as much as we can. Let us know the next time you get the urge to download a font, we'll try to find a way to restrain you from doing so. 😀

And Finally July!

Here are May and June.

Here is April.

I decided to be ambitious and try to complete two calendars: one featuring our Labradoodle Lucy and one focused on Nature. When I was a little girl, my mom signed me up for the children's choir at our church. The very first and only Hymn I learned from the experience was "For the Beauty of the Earth." Still today, it is my favorite church Hymn. The lyrics resonate deep with me because I love the beauty of nature. There is beauty all around us. We live full-time in our motorhome, and I am fortunate to be retired, in good health, and can spend time traveling the United States. Someday, I hope to travel around Canada as well! I love taking pictures, and all of the photos I post are my own. Here are the first three pages of my Nature Calendar set.

The script for the date boxes is really convenient and gives you many options to customize to your liking. But you have to understand how it works and read the instructions carefully. Because at the start you have to "draw" in a small box how your boxes will look. I'm very bad at drawing by hand but I discovered that I could use a preset shape too and convert it to a raster layer and merged it down so I had one little box with my design. After that I just follow the script. Good luck!

I've added it to my wish list. To use in my nature pages. They will look equally as great on anything.

1700+ Open Source Fonts (OFL) › Fontesk A good source for open source fonts.

Nice work

Monique, my goal is the less the better! So, I actually beat you! LOL

Lovely bright idea, I was impressed with the appointment box, great idea

If I'm not mistaken, this might be categorized as "hoarding." I sail right past fonts on offer; too many limits my ability to choose. I just looked at my Nexus Font and it told me I had a total of 659 fonts. That's more than enough!

Here are September/Rhino and October/Oryx. After seeing the video, I find changing the calendar grid and font colors much easier! (Lock Transparency!)

I'm behind I noticed. but here's March.

We need to start a meeting of Fontaholics Anonymous.

Calendar March 2024 Charli May and June

I started this page 3 nights ago, all that was left to do was to add a post it note, date stamp, and an alpha bead. All element tutorials can be found in the creative scrap. I think I have the titles of those tuts correct) My very first sighting and photo of this secretive bird will be a memory I shall cherish. I used the same technique that I used on the Great horned Owl. Created a mask, by using hide all, this time I added a frame. If the frame doesn't look right to you let me know

Thanks Corrie. I see copious frames, most decorated, which is where I get inspiration from. Same goes for labels. I choose not use the majority, as I like to create these using vectors. The edges are more crisp, also I can jiggle the layers around to create different ones.

I have these, use them a lot. Try using them on a vector shape, using the vector shape script. They really do jazz up a page.

Oh my, Oh my! This site was a new one for me and I have d/l more (Celtic) fonts! And now will change some of the calendars fonts😎

Heeeelp me....I need a 12 step program. Too much choice means not being able to choose at all, I know it's an issue. In some areas of my life I am analy over over organized and some, I'm a bloody mess. Your post gave me a good laugh at myself.

Cor Blimey! I'm aghast at the number of fonts some of you have. I genuinely feel we need to set up a Fontaholic support group, where we can help you to refrain from clicking that font download button. I see now that Michele isn't an isolated case. I see this is a real problem for some and it needs to be addressed immediately. I'm with Rene on this one. If I see a font which really catches my eye, I firstly double check to see if I have something which is almost identical, if I have, I leave it well alone. I have my favourites, which I use repeatedly in my pages. I think my disposition may have something to do with it, as I don't like, clutter, whether it's in the kitchen, in the office, or on my laptop. I think I may have over dramatized a bit, but I couldn't resist. 🙂

I'm in!

Installed 1115, according to Nexusfont, so I'm just a beginner compared to you 🙂 😄I have a lot more, but not everything installed.

I will be the looser of the club. 😁, I like fonts too (who does not do) but they must have something special for me.

Here are May, June, July and August. Not complete but started with backgrounds, photos and the Wakanda font for the month to keep it consistent. I have added a strip file I used for the 2022 Calendar workshop so I would be able to have the days of the week. I'm glad I kept it! In date order, the photos are the African Lion, the Cape Buffalo, the Honey Badger and the Caracal. I will be adding details as we go along.

Decided to play with Cassel's Echo Text Mask-Family Sampler. I played with various group photos, but this seemed to work the best. This is a great portrait of my granddaughter and her husband from earlier this year. It turned out like a Word Art comp. The font for the title and side info is Ravie. Now I'll acquire the script so I can customize it.

This one has been sitting for a couple of months. Template from ALFLT blog train...MsFish, October 2023.

A friend raked her leaves into a big pile and the neighborhood kids came over to jump in the leaves. Looks like everyone had a blast. Font is Apple Butter. Background is a blurred photo.