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This was one of the dingbats in today 2/26/24 free font on Creative Fabrica. " House-Plants-29702631" I used one of them and put it on a wood background and did the cut out the way Cassel showed us how to do in the recent workshop. I thought it turned out pretty so I am posting it.

I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks! I do not remember PSP being this hard 12-15 years ago when I was doing digital scrapbooking Anyway here's day 4.

I haven't made anything with it yet, I've had the script since yesterday and am experimenting, I think this is such a cool script! me and Poncho, a photo of a horse that I took on one of our walks, and my daughter, years ago when she still worked as a tour guide

I have also played with the pencil script here are my photos the last one I used also the watercolor script

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.

here is my day 7, day 6 is not finished yet

Week four and the start of the Tulip season! 🌷 Tulips are now widely available in the shops and I bought a bunch. It will take 3 or 4 months before they will be in bloom outdoors; the ones we can buy now are grown in glasshouses. The start of the season is always on Tulipday, which is the 3rd Saturday of January and is celebrated in Amsterdam on a square in the city center. There is a huge display of tulips and when the official opening is over, people can come and pick a bunch of tulips for free. I have never been there because it is not where I live. I'll buy them in a shop, but it always gives you the feeling that Spring isn't that far away!

Yes, it comes with 34 brushes!

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 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

That wonderful illustration is by Elsie Julia Miller. I don't love the finished product (ran out of creativity last night lol). But I wanted to share how to get a great background paper by using Cassel's Painted Background script. It takes colors from the original pic and, using one of five painting methods that you pick from, creates the paper for you. I think I used the Sponge option. The fonts I used are Varsity Team (from 1001 Fonts) and Brilliant Signature (from a CF bundle).

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.

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.

Good morning, here I'll show you my further progress in my PSP training in the new German forum. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to publish my own training tasks elsewhere (at the moment sign tags) despite many credits on the picture (the artists who gave permission to the forum can only be shown edited in the forum), but my own frames around my own photos, which can I show where I want. With frames you can easily get into a routine with PSP. Unfortunately there is no filter. With filters I always have to save in .psd and then insert the filters into PI. I can't even insert the "Filter unlimited" into PSP because many filters are integrated.

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"?

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.

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

It's been a while since I had time to create a new one. (They've been repeating themes from 2017 so I've been repeating my layouts with a few adjustments.) The background paper is a chevron from PS/DS by Sheila Reid to which I added a Gaussian blur. I used the Andrea Bilarosa font I got in a free font bundle from CF and the flourish is from my collection of scrapbooking "stuff." 🙂 As you probably already guessed, the illustration is by Hayden Williams. The best part, and the reason I wanted to share this, is Cassel's gimp trims picture tube. I used one to frame the illustration and the layout.

Jacek loves mountains. He often goes there, Once I've seen a template, which I use here ( coz I created it with PSP). I already know to see/watch many templates, don't copy them at once.

I'm really not happy with this layout, but it is what it is! Lab 11 Mod 9: requirements: water droplet (2 on the ground); cloud (made 3 and they are shown); umbrella - had fun with this. In addition to the water droplet, I used the tutorial for the droplet to make water drops and made a pattern of scattered raindrops (water drops) and then an overlay for a 12X12 paper. I used the overlay on the background paper and scattered the water drops coming down from the clouds; and put a water drop in each of the droplets. I also made a "Puddle" which is what the boy in the silhouette is standing in. Don't remember what the font name is.

Really nice, Anja! I especially like the one with a little touch of color.

@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.

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.

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.

Lesson 5 done! I found these photos of Kingfishers on Pixabay and they reminded me of the Kingfishers that regularly visit our pool. They are beautiful birds.

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.

Template 7 (extra). Done. The two pix were taken (top) last night and (bottom) this morning b/c I was impressed with the colours in the sky as the sun set and rose. It always makes me think of "Red sky at night, sailors' delight" and "Red sky at morn, sailors be warned." But it didn't work that way this time. We had a cloudy, damp, and chilly day with some rain. So much for those old sayings I guess. I didn't change much in the template and added not much except for the little suns as elements. I'm not a big flower lover (at least the scrapbook kind, the reals ones are lovely). So I usually change them to something else. Fonts are two different ones and I don't recall their names.

Workshop Template 5 Diamond. I think I am tired out and there is still 2 more project day templates to go. Thinking about the theme (pictures, etc.) is now the hardest part. I texturized and colored the 3 small papers (that was fun) - I used "tiling" under effects>texture effects for the first time and I like it - gives me some ideas for making ribbons. I played with the Change to Target tool on the flower element in the lower right corner. Interesting that this time there was no TITLE layer. I guess the journaling tells all.

Very nice with that dark background!

I'm not happy (again) with this layout, but it is what it is! I haven't kept all the different techniques I used on each of the elements, pictures, font, papers; but, I did use different blend modes, and I began to take off when I changed the hue>saturation>lightness on the background paper (which was from a marisa lerin kit) and then played with the blend modes and opacity - which worked with what I was trying to do. I played and played and played around with trying to figure out what to do with the elements in the lower left corner and ended up with a doily since it is round to balance the round paper in the top right corner. Of course, you can see that I also played with the placement of the picture layers and placed the title at the top.

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.

Day 7 Before we got the cold and snow I noticed that the mahogany bushes in my neighborhood already had big fat buds and I have a couple of photos from another year where they are in flower. They mostly flower somewhere in January/February at least where I live. I wanted to use those photos for day 7 and used the diamond template but I rotated t because my photos are landscape format. When I work on something else I often start with a template and rotate it to give me what I want. The colors were a bit of a challenge because the colors of the photos are vibrant and I didn't want to overpower those with vibrant colors of the papers. I couldn't find a kit to my liking so I used what I have is my stash where I store all kinds of things that I find somewhere, mostly for situations like this. So most of it I can't attribute to someone. Besides that I changed some of the colors as well. The doilie is from Marissa Lerin in the kit Fire and Ice and the font is Hobo.

Lesson 3 done!

Lesson 3 done!

Day Four: Photos I took of a local sunset. The background is a flood fill with added texture. The font is ‘Ink Free’.

Day 3 I used my kits. Font is Forte.

Day 2- We haven't been out and about to much lately so I just went through some old photos. The kids are my son, Dominic, in red, my grandson, Tony, and his sister, Haley, my only granddaughter. When I say old, I mean old. Haley is now 20, Tony is 25, and Dominic is 36. It was a fun day in the preserve in back of our house in Crystal Lake.

And here is my Lesson 2, though not totally happy with the curvy text but practice makes perfect! My photo...

Finally got started so here is my day 1

Day 3 template. Kit used: cpjess-tomorrow-folder-mini for the 3 patterned papers; I colorized and texturized the 2 small papers; the font I used was Brailganta Script (Creative Fabrica); I made the tag in back of the title from a preset shape which I texturized. The picture is from another Jessica Dunn kit. I did colorize the stitching and innerbevelled it.

Lab 11 Mod 10. Requirements: argyle pattern: background paper; triple spiral: doubled it in the lower right corner and single one in upper right corner; slide frame: the 6 photos are displayed in the frames. I used the layout template (modified) from the module. the title font is Lionteen (I'm pretty sure it came from Creative Fabrica). Strange thing again in working with this layout: I tried to duplicate the "Houghton, MI" and put it on each of the frames, but it wouldn't work - I got a blank each time I tried to copy it and move the copy to the next frame, so I had to do a vector for each of the frames on the top and the bottom. Couldn't figure what went wrong.

Recent JK's trip to the mountsims, I created a mask, used a handweitten font.

OKay - here it is with the change that Ann Seeber recommended.

Template by Dear Friends Designs at GingerScraps...A Year In Review...2018.

My Year in Review - featuring family photos. The center strip is Jonah's new teeth!

I am working on a friend's Canva project and made this table of contents. The light bulb is a black preset shape which was altered with vectors. For some reason the Canva clipboard misaligns the one top text, but it looks good in the presentation. Canva is a whole other learning curve, and I'm not ready to indulge. I am only using it because of my friend's presentation. Thanks Carole for the great vector lessons!