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Well I thought I posted this but something went haywire somewhere, the fonts are Alpha Kids and Bolditaschool

Lesson 7. Thank you Carole.

DAY 7 - a bit late but I wanted to finish it For the background, I did the dots at 100%. Then I decided it might be interesting to do another layer, in a different colour, with dots at 50%. I like them both so used them in the background. My image was just something that I liked that I created using the Kaleidoscope tool. Then, I thought it might be interesting to remove the image and have just a paper at 3600 x 3600. I am including the picture of that as well. Thanks everyone for the great work you have done. Thank you, Carole, for hosting this. It has been fun.

P52 Week 7 Font is Agatha (Creative Fabrica). Ugh, I had two fonts called Agatha. And only one would show up in my drop down. Of course the wrong one. I had to turn off the wrong one in my font viewer for it to see the other one. This explains why when I load some in the font viewer I don't always see it. I see that it's loaded and says it's activated, but I actually have to scroll to it and activate it. It's a little annoying. At least I figured out what's happening. I downloaded this one font 3 times thinking I did something wrong. It's called "Christmas something or other" and I have several with that name. It now explains why I only seem to be able to use one of them. the "W" has the same hook as on top of the t-cup handle. Purely coincidental, I only just saw it now. And the shadow I put on the magnet is way too small, it looked huge when I was doing it. I'll have to go back and fix that. I even wrote the numbers down and didn't believe my own writing. I used a gradient background and added a texture. I also added a texture to the rasterized fonts and frame so it would look like it was printed on the paper. Probably the texture will be lost in the lower resolution. Nice to get back to this project. I had forgotten how I did some of the steps and had to remind myself.

I think scripts in PSP like AutoTuber, Gridmaker, Vector Tube, Vector Paint and Vector Spiral. And I agree with Susan about the magic wand, that is such an important tool and easily misunderstood.

I know I'm a litte early, as it's anyones guess what I will find to photograph in the next few days. There isn't any doubt in my mind that this photo is going to be weeks 8. White-tailed Hare. North Americans call hares Jackrabbits. They are not rabbits. They belong to the same family, different species. They are are extrememy difficult to find, as they blend in well with their habbitat. From dawn til dusk they sit motionless, regardless of what mother nature throws at them. (-24c this morning) Like many animals they are capable of sleeping with their eyes open. Of course they are nocturnal. I will be able to observe this one from the kitchen window, using bincoulars, as it is cwtch down, out in the stubble, where we have moved snow from the yard. I stumbled across it whilst out tracking their movements last night in the snow.

Lesson 6 has been completed. I used a mask called ps_marisa-lerin_328956_blend-it-7-photo-mask_pu from https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/ This was such an fun lesson learning how to make the magic background paper.

Lesson 7 Bree serif is the font Datestamp from Cassel Text translation: I have learned "Zo gaat de molen"(A oldfashioned Dutch song for young children) to my granddaughter (just 2 years now) Singing aong is still a bit difficult, but the movements with the song, she can do.During our last visit to the Open lucht museum in sept. 2023, we took more mill photo's and put them on our digital photo frame. Every time she sees a mill, she starts to sing and move. And we sing along with her!" It was fun to do this course again (Except the linoleum) , it reminds me to paint shop more often, because you forget some techniques or handy short cuts 🙂

Yippee Lesson 5 is finished.

Mwuah........Maybe the photo doesn't fit the background, the linoleum maybe better for mats, or there's something else, but I don't know what I don't like much. Datestamp script from Cassel, font is bree serif Photo is my own.

@Cassel: Thanks again for hosting this great workshop!!! 💓 Masks usually do have some sort of presence in the layouts I make but painted masks were never a real focus. I see changes a comin'... how perfect they are on smaller pages, like my 6x6 album or even 7x7 or 8x8 , as sole features really. I made a repeat pattern, it is rather transparent. Graphics Marisa Lerin, Jessica Dunn, myself. Times New Roman, Baskerville Old Style, Myriad, Headline, Dancing Script. Spread 12x6

Thank you, Marie-Claire! You're not late, I celebrate all month anyway. 😉😊

Week 7

Week 6, In Leuven, the city where I live, almost 2,000 Chinese live. To celebrate the Chinese New Year on February 10, the Chinese association 'Nihao Leuven' put together a colorful dragon of up to 10 meters long for a dragon parade in Leuven Center. He is joined by two lions.

Here's my childhood toy, a wooden red sled built by my grandfather, Emil Hagquist, who emigrated here from Finland in the early 1900s. I was born the year WWII started and there were no commercial children's sleds to be found in the stores as all the manufacturing was devoted to the war effort. This is an etching created by my daughter, Debbie Lennox, who actually played with this sled. Note, there is no steering mechanism; you had to drag your toes to steer. 😉

thank you ... getting colors to go well together is one thing I really want to understand better. Maybe someday 🙂

In week 3 I showed a photo from a little container with bulbs partly covered with snow/ice and this is how they look now. They are in full bloom despite all the rain we are getting and today when I took this photo it was dry with better light for a photo. There are still raindrops on them and those haven't had the chance to dry because we have had more rain for the rest of the day.💦☔I don't think I will have a better chance on a good photo because we now (it's evening here) get storm as well with warnings in place.

Season 1 was half reality TV personalities and the other half everyday people. There happened to be one reality star that most of the everyday people knew and they were fans. They ended going along with everything she said they were so starstruck by her. The final 4 ended up being 2 of the reality stars and 2 of the everyday people. I've heard about drama post filming between the winner and the other 3 because the 3 all felt they were betrayed. Don't want to give away too much though! Season 2 is all reality TV personalities and I'm enjoying so much. Watching people from competition reality shows (Survivor and Big Brother) go against those from other types of shows (like several "Housewives" and a couple others from other shows under the Bravo channel umbrella) and a few from other shows (including a former Bachelor and a pro dancer from Dancing With The Starts) has been interesting. Heck we even have John Bercow, former House of Commons speaker on this season (he is hilarious at the roundtables).

I can remember you mentioning that you have hares where you work. A friend of mine who lives in Saskatoon, have a lot of them at the local park, which are out and about during the day. I rarely see mine active during the day. They leave plenty of evidence behind after their nightly activites, for me to find.

They are well adapted to their environment.

I can see why you stumbled across it! It is so well hidden in the surrounding snow heap with some traces of darker straw/old grass that have the same color of it ears and nose.

Chris all the best and I hope you will feel better soon!

I followed the lessons a tiny bit 🙂 Last week I had a very small operation. They placed a voice prosthesis after I had a laryngectomy in june last year. And after that I catched a nasty cold. So in very nearby future I start with making masks learned in this workshop. I looked now at the most beautiful works from you all.

Day 7 here's a diff version I was in the shower, just about to go to work when it hit me to color the blurred raster layer. I used the Ctr A, Ctr F , then flood filled like we learned in the last Q&A. I'm not sure if I did it right as I'm doing it from memory and it merged with the layer below it (the one I selected). I'll have to go re-watch that. I used that because it was blurry so it would use all the pixels. since I wanted a copy of the orig. blurred layer, I undid it, then made a copy and hid it. then did the select all, float, flood fill. then i turned the black layer back on and really cool was the black kinda of stuck out past, and I lowered the reds opacity so more black could come through. Supposed to be like glowing embers about to ignite. What looks better? I did get a color showing through the G but it looks interesting to me so i didnt try to take it out.

Susan, you worked a lot in this workshop to edit all photos with the PencilSketch2 script and then edit further until you achieved the desired result. Very nice !

Day 7 I made it! This too me a long time to futz around with. The keyboard keys was a separate photo that I merged in, the zigzag and lightning bolt are brushes (the zigzag might be from Corel?). And guess what I found out....the diagrams from the pencilsketch2 are also brushes I have. that way I could add them where I wanted. I ran the script several times, changing the edit of the photo each time. that gave me lots of hatch to choose from and I used a mask to get the best of the city buildings (computer circuit boards). The "moon" is the disc from inside a hard drive as are the other elements, except the upper left "cloud". the red flare is a brush too. the font is Avalors (CF) and I duplicated it, turned the bottom version to a raster and blurred it. the font itself had a humongous stroke, by accident of clumsy fingers, and left the tiniest space for fill so I went with it. the keys were taken off the keyboard (that my work was recycling) and lined up as it was, I didnt leave enough space between. I took forever (and the cats got banished because they'd undo my work as fast as I was doing it). tonight I'll get started on the Build a Kit. I see everyone has started off with a creative bang! Thank you for the workshop Carole. I pushed myself more in this one.

The font for the title at the bottom is Broadway and yes, it is my birthday today.

We had the 4 days of carnival this week and I went to watch the parade. Unfortunately the weather was not great on that day, with a bit of sunshine it would have looked so much better. Carnival is always a colorful spectacle so I used more colors to enhance my layout and I filled the week seven with a color otherwise it wasn't readable. If and when I have some free time I'll remove the streetlight on the left.

Week 7 Milder weather and a lot less wind so the crocuses have begun to appear. It’s great to see some colour again.

This past week we have had snow, and blowing snow. Once again the landscape is blanketed in the white stuff. A delightful White-breasted Nuthatch. Nuthatches are short tailed birds which walk up and down and a round tree trunks and limbs. The ones I have here, and enjoying the suet, sunflower seeds, and peanuts.