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Last - Template 7 Diamond. All the papers and the brad group are from Cassel's Fire and Ice kit. The bow at the bottom is also from Cassel. The font is Violenty Script.

Template 7. The background paper, the 2 round papers, and the elements are all from my desert kit we did last year. The font is Wigglye from CF. The paper on top of the background paper is a picture from the same group as the 4 pictures that are dominant; however the opacity has been reduced, the underlying paper is white, and the blend mode is Multiply. The font was innerbevelled and shadowed.

I created this one for the challenge --- https://scrapbookcampus.com/invision/forums/topic/1634-january-string-of-words-challenge-2024/?vgo_ee=WImv8ZbX0V2OVMo7jXIFuXLkR8paCHociubarwrrq%2F1IzIbO6E4y%3Akyh5hX%2Fm7YnWp%2FA5862zDrk%2BGomvFGG%2F

I take it: pets. 😺 Here are my Ferals with better photos. I call the young male Thunderbolt and the adult is Mommy. I used a new kit from Gingerscraps called The Circle of Life based on The Lion King. The new word is: Valentine.

@Cassel I just want to say "Thank you!" for the 2024 Template Workshop. It proved to be a wonderful refresher course since I took the 2022 Challenge. I did learn some new things, used kits from other designers where I have been prone to use my own things lately (which isn't so bad I guess); that neat tool of using blend modes and opacity to produce new takes for backgrounds; also learned new things to think about from the other participants in this workshop. Thanks again.

"I take it" Children. NEW WORD -- Pets. (dogs, cats, fish, mice -------)

The mitts strung at the bottom really add a special touch.

Wasn't aware of that script. I like the effect. And the colours and the way you've used them are really great.

Template 6 Diamond. Because one of the pictures was horizontal, I had to change the layout somewhat. I colored and textured the 3 ribbons; that Winter Vibes font that was talked about and several of us downloaded it, the sticker and the mitten banner are mine as is the background paper. The Hot Chocolate card in the center is from Pixel Scrapper – Jessica Dunn (one of my favorite developers). The 2 hot chocolate buttons holding the mitten banner are from Pixel Scrapper – Brooke Gazarek. The 3 generations are from different families of mine.

Here is my take on day 7. I kept hem hawing about what to do for this one. I got lucky and got the picks in my yard this morning. The squirrels were really active today. Yesterday we had freezing rain from about 3AM to noon. I did not go anywhere.

I am glad to see those workshops being enjoyed by the participants, even though they are repeated. I guess the next workshop will be an easy one for you!

I just check it out and it's a cool script. I'd also add to watch the video, it's very good. Michele, does all those brushes shown in the video come with that script? that alone is worth the price!

These are perfect fireworks! They look like flowers with a stem.

Thank you. Check out the script in the store and you'll see the flexibility it offers. https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_9&products_id=476

Lesson 7 done! Cassel, that you for offering us this free workshop. It has been a thoroughly enjoyable course to take and your explanations are clear and to the point.

Day 7 I changed the template completely (started with the Diamond Day 7 template). the little tag is where the journal spot was and the title is in the same spot as the template. I did add shadows but they arent going to be visible, except on the screwhead. I originally wanted to use a label to cover up the alligator clip but thought it would look more "specimen-y" with it. the title and the outer frame have an inner bevel. Filled with a gradient (all the frames) and a pattern called Black Gold for the fill in the title. Fonts used: Herkings (Creative Fabrica), and Arial (Windows) Tag: my tag from the Vector Workshop (highly recommend this workshop!) Thank you Carole for another wonderful workshop. I'm always so delighted to re-remember the things I forgot from the last time through. I saw so many beautiful and inspiring layouts and often thought; "that's awesome, why didn't I think of that"?

Well here goes with my number 7 It is rather busy but I like it anyway.

My son and grandson having fun on vacation in Mexico Summer of 2006

Lesson 6 done! We have a flock of about 10 Hadedas that visit us every day and most times spend the day in our garden. They are large birds (about 76 cm (30 in) long) and very noisy. Their call sounds like their name HA - DE - DA. When they make a noise, don't even try talking because someone standing in front of you won't even be able to hear you. I love these birds.

Template 6. Changed the layout by moving the title to the bottom, moving the pictures up, adding a journal sheet, and removing some of the elements replacing them with my own elements. I had fun – and learned something new – to put a paper on top of the textured layer and working with the blend mode and the opacity of the paper layer. Great stuff!! The title is Annie Tobin’s font (she was such a wonderful lady) which I glittered and innerbevelled. The heart in the top left corner is from CF and I innerbevelled it. The bow I made with Cassel’s Bow 2 script. The Santa sign is from my stash as is the poinsettia cluster in the bottom left corner. The star tube is from Cassel. The pictures are from scanning 1991 35m prints. They were in bad shape and I used every trick that PSP has (well almost). I had forgotten about fade correction, but Cassel reminded us of that tool and I used it and de-noised it to the max and sharpening it to the max. The difference is amazing. That trip was special and finding it was such a gift. You can't imagine - as we went down the road into the town, it was dark - everything was closed up tight - no lights - off to the left at a distance was an oil drum that seemed to have a fire in it - something that the people on the road in the depression might have used to keep warm or cook food - the scene was really eerie. Dolores really wanted to turn back, but I just felt we had to go further. And then, when we turned that corner it was like Judy Garland opening the door into Oz - from blah to radiant color. I will never forget it.

I have had a lot of fun with this Workshop and learned so much. Unfortunately, for the next week, I will be without a Windows computer. I will miss working in PaintShop very much, but my daughter has a full schedule of things to do in Fredericksburg. I am hoping to get some great pictures! I made a quick roadtrip template. Thanks to our vector workshop, I was able to make a little car that sort of looks like our Toyota. The map is from Google. See you in a week.😪

Lesson 3- Bit behind but it's what I can do right now. Font is Villanesia and Yoshieka. Flowers are made with cass-folded flower1 script. Caspian is the first child from my second daughter's son and wife, Connor and Whitney.

I cannot agree more. Very nice layout, Mary, and a great story to remember.

A little actor in the family? Cool.

Hi Susan and all , I would like to say Thank you very much for the many hearts and likes among my few graphic works. I appreciate them and I'm really happy about them. @Susan Ewart yes, that was the wedding of one of our godchildren >10 years ago. I had a large, extensive photo book made for her and for us using my framed and scraped photos. I love to "weave" embellis (often a lot of erasing work, but it doesn't take much effort for me if the result is consistent)

I come from a long experience of quitting. Once I got into my 50's I decided enough of that! Thanks for the vote of confidence...I could have used you when I was younger.

I know, I feel the guilt too. At work one time (there is floor to ceiling windows in parts of the warehouse) we were working in front of the windows and there was rabbits with babies and we were so delighted at seeing it. Then, the ravens came and they were picking off the babies and dropping them from high. One staff ran out and picked up a baby but it passed in her hands. We were horrified. I love ravens and I love bunnies. I get the whole circle of life thing, but I don't have to like it or watch it unfold. I moved to where I couldn't see out the window.

Wow, wow and another wow!😍

SUBSET. You know, JK likes mountains. I use pics he sends to me, I use right now a mask 'Send Me an Angel' created by me in PSP.

I just wanted to say Thanks to Cassel for this great workshop. I have learned so much. I never ceases to amaze me seeing all the wonderfully creative and different takes everyone has posted from the same few templates. Well done everyone. I will be sure to keep checking in for a few days too.

As this challenge will generate a new prompt every month or so and we had the Template Workshop to do, I only now had the time to make something for this new challenge. I liked what Bonnie did and made a page for the city where I was born and lived my whole youth. A little detail that is not mentioned in the layout is the black and white photo which is taken by my dad some time after the bombing of the city center of Rotterdam in WWII. The photo to the right is of the same church and I took that one on more or less the same spot a couple of year ago. My dad passed the love for photography on to me!

L4corrected. btw, Carole, thank you very much for nowaday activity:)))))

Day 6. I think this is my favourite so far, I added a little extra to the texture layer once I had merged it by adding another raster layer on top, Using a picture tube to add 2 spiders then using the luminance blend mode.

Hi here is my day 4, getting a little behind, I can't sit too long as I have been getting migraines. I am also on a time schedule to get my Granddaughters scrapbook finished which doesn't help, so today I have managed to use the given template for a double purpose. I wasn't sure if it would work because the book is smaller and not quite square, but its all good so happy me.

LESSON 7 - A classic scrapbook page, hoping to overcome some really lame photos clipped from a video. A little more involved than I usually do but I think it looks nice. All the elements and papers came from a kit called True Heart Digitals and the fonts are am-index and flora garden. The top cat is a mature female (I think) and the lower one is probably her nearly grown (possibly male) kitten. They seem to act as a bonded pair. She hides under a neighbor's car when I come out on the porch whereas he is bolder and comes running, meowing at me for food. I now have a Cat Cabin on the porch with straw for bedding. I've included a promo photo of it here.

Day 7 The hardest thing about this for me was picking out all the papers because of all the colors in the photos. So, other than the main background paper, I decided to use all solids and added different textures to them. I like how it turned out. Carole, thank you so much for the awesome workshop. I came away with new tips from every one of the tutorials.

Lesson 3 done!

Day 6.

Day 6.

Here is my day 6.

Day 7 assignment done.... and not without some pain involved. I was concentrating on getting all the elements resized & placed between all the layers and I forgot to save a copy here and there while working. Near the end, my crop tool had a hissy fit and somehow cropped all the layers & I could not undo. There was nothing on the Corel website or forum except some instances of crop tools getting stuck. So, when in doubt, start again. The papers are from a kit by Aimee Harrison and also from Freepik. The top part of the text is part of wordart from Creative Fabrica but I substituted a real rolling pin with Minion font lettering on it. The photos are all snagged from the internet and I tubed several of them (sorry about that crappy shadow on the tarts but the picture was the last one that I tubed (for the second time) so I let it go since supper is now two hours overdue. Thanks to Cassel for a great workshop. I learned a lot (sometimes the hard way) but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Day 7

Day 6. Most graphics for the Greek challenge at DS. Zebra paper by Marisa Lerin. Font is Lust.

Lesson 7 Winter vibes is the font , All the other items are from my stash or Creative fabrica. The filling of the doily's is a pattern. For the first time I got a subscription for CF 🙂

Day 6 I used kits that I made and the font is World Series.

Lesson 2 done. The photos used on this page were obtained from royalty free websites, sorry, I can't remember the names of the websites. Thank you for the lesson @Cassel. Everything is so clearly explained. I took many courses during the '90 learning how to use Paintshop Pro's many features and your lessons are helping me to refresh my memory.

Day4. Outsige is fine but better inside. Not only Teddy Bear thinks so; ) Done without scripts but probably it would be easier with them;)

day 3 I made again my own papers with Quicktile scripts and I made the border around the photo with Stiches by Cassel day 4 here I made the paper with a color from the photo and added a wooden texture day 5 I used the Kit Introspective by Jen Yurko, the little tag is filled by me with the pentablet, I clipped a paper from the kit to the ricrac.

I greatly altered the template and made it into something else entirely. I wanted to really show off our lovely Rosie = AKA Rosalyn Grace. Also her dad hadn't made it into my projects yet, or her grandmom - Carole (my sister).

This is regular Template #4. I'm just keeping the templates as they are, not rearranging or changing much. It takes me longer to find an idea for the layout than to actually do it! The font is Lemon with some embossing added. The background paper has paintbrush work by ET Designs, and the images come from Unsplash, bless their hearts since I don't take many photos. Just realized I forgot shadows, regular or reverse! My bad.