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Recent Jacek's trip in the mountains. It's been a first spring trip. He didn't see any snow during the trip. Used Carole's template, my own spring-paper, fonts-Spring 🙂

I wasn't finished playing with that Pencilscript (Susan I like it as much as you do!) and this time I wanted to see what the script would make of a photo of a mill. The mill was mostly a dark color and I like the result of the script very much. It very much looks like an old drawing and I need birthday cards for (older) men. I had used this photo for my postage stamps and put that stamp on the back of the card together with my logo. This card has happy birthday in Dutch and I did a German one too; there are a couple of guys I have in mind for this card in 2024! The font is Sonia btw.

Looking at the original book released by JASC (many years ago) called Scrapbooking the digital way, they have a variety of techniques but they come with a simple layout tutorial (like torn edges, cutting photos, etc.) So that might be what could a second book be, so the first one would be for the basics like layers, how to start a page (quick-pages, templates, scraplifting), the components of a page, basic photo fixes and some "scrap with me" projects. Then, a second book could be about more scrapbook projects integrating various techniques. Well, I am still brainstorming as I work on things. I also have a document where I move things around!

Black cats are beautiful. So slinky.

I might need that for sure! Maybe it will become an encyclopedia!

It might be hard when a writer is facing a blank page, but I can tell you that it is not much easier when you have TOO MUCH on paper! So far, I have these ideas for a specific How-to section. I might have to make it into separate sections as I already have almost 100 pages and that does not include the elements in blue, which would need to be added to this. PSP basics · How to link and group · How to use the Text tool · How to add text on a path · How to wrap text inside a shape · How to install/import brushes · How to use brushes · How to use picture tubes (chapter 10) · How to use preset shapes · How to use scripts · How to save your projects (there is a blog post) Scrapbooking how-to · How to colorize elements · How to shadow (chapter 10) · How to showcase lots of photos (chapter 10) · How to choose a color for a layout (in chapter 10) · How to fold a ribbon · How to use a paperclip · How to create clusters · How to use masks · How to avoid common mistakes (chapter 10) This is going to be a big book!! There is so much I want to include (and with your suggestions too), but I am pretty sure I will have to trim things down. So much to share, and so little space ;)

Week nine, chasing yesterday, in a mamnner of speaking. I was out shooting photos of what was left of the Autumnal leaves. This leaf caught my eye, as it had finally descended, landing onto a blanket of fresh snow.

Last day of February! I made a folded tree with rainbow paper. I wish that I could remember where I got the paper. I'm searching.

My current rescue kitten is Adira. Rescued from a very dirty and hostile animal "shelter". She'd not been properly weened, was caged with cats with massive infections - ear mites, eye infections, open wounds, and more. She weighed 1.1 lbs when I got her - we cleared up most issues within the first 3 months AND gave her the only home she will ever know. This is OUR forever home. Here she is at 1.5 lbs three months after her rescue. Her name Adira means "Strong", since she needed to be to overcome her beginnings. She's now 1 1/2 years and 7 pounds of active, intelligent, crazy Bengal Kitten madness. Previously I had an all-black rescue I named Margo Polo because she was always looking for a new adventure. When I first got her, she could not use her back legs; I thought she had a congenital issue or had been injured (the rescue had her for 5 years in a cage, and had no idea she couldn't really walk). With daily "therapy" of playing and massages she started using her back legs to stand, eventually walk, then was running around my apartment with the zoomies fully cat-possessed :-) Unfortunately after having her for 2 years, a vet visit found 8 cancerous lesions on her liver and I decided to euthanize her since her quality of life was quickly degrading. But - during her 2 years of freedom, she made the most of every minute. I had her trained to walk on a leash and she had a 15' lead that allowed her to explore the outdoors. GREAT cat. She found the "new" every place she went. My photo is of Adira at 3 months trying to sneak up on me while I was "reading".

When I read all this, you have to start not 1 book but some sequels as well!😉

I've had 4 dogs in my life. I always wanted one as a kid but since the house we lived in was a rental, Mom and Dad said no. When we moved into the house they had built in 1964, I got my first dog. Patches. Patches was a mutt. The husband of one of Mom's fellow teachers worked at a gravel pit and there was a female dog that lived there. A stray dog got her pregnant and she had a litter in October. We got to bring Patches home the day after Thanksgiving. She was brown with several patches of black on her back, thus her name. What I would give to know what breeds were in her because she actually didn't look like any specific breed. In 2000, I wanted another dog and knew I wanted a small dog. I found the Havanese breed and fell in love. Some dogs would make my eyes water and itch so I wanted a breed that wouldn't do that. I visited a dog conformation show and met some friends from an online group. One gal let me sit with her dog on my lap for over an hour and I had no reaction so I knew this was the breed for me. The next weekend I went to another show with a college friend and one of the breeders there asked if I had found a puppy yet. I hadn't even started looking since the breed was rare at the time. She said she had a male available. She sent me pictures of "Mic" and I fell in love. 2 days later I drove back to Toledo and picked him up.... he was now "Pepper". He was all black with a small patch of white on his chest. Within months I knew I wanted another one but waited awhile. The breeder had a litter in January 2002 with 4 boys and 1 girl and I wanted a girl. That girl ended up being mine. The breeder called her "Danielle" and then "Carmen" but she became "Paige" when I got her. I did get many comments when people asked me the names of my dogs. When they heard "Pepper" they would ask if the other one was "Salt"... she was a very light cream color! I had both Pepper and Paige until December 2015. By the fall of 2016 I knew I wanted another Havanese and told the breeder. She put me on her list for her next litter. That litter was born May 7 of 2017 and was 3 girls. Their momma was named Luna so she called this litter her "Moon" litter. The girls were named "Ash", "Cosmo" and "Willow". The breeder of the father of the litter had first choice of the puppies (to train for agility). I actually fell in love with "Cosmo" although "Willow" was a cutie as well. I ended up getting "Cosmo" who is now known as "Peyton". Peyton is a great comfort to me and those evenings on the couch while a watch tv with her curled up next to me are so nice. On a side note, Paige's father is Peyton's great-great-grandfather and although not as closely related, Pepper (besides being a half-brother to Paige since they had the same mom), is also related to Peyton. There are times that Peyton does look a lot like Paige even though she is a Red-Irish Pied color in the breed. She has more coloring to her when her hair is longer when Paige was a pure cream color. Here is a layout with photos of all 4 of my furkids.

Our first together dog was a chinese shar-pei, named sheng-si means raw silk. When you stroke the coat feels soft, but when you move in the opposite direction it feels very rough. Next 2 dogs (Shar-Pei) had already a name. Then we got a english bulldog, her name is Vaya. Sounds good according to my wife. And reminds on Vaya con dios. Later a 2nd bulldog, named Bentley, we can not afford the car. so we named the dog.

I can start with my current kitties: Adam, my black "Hauspanther" and Eve, my "Tuxie" (Tuxedo cat). Adam was adopted from the Warwick (NY) Animal Shelter after we lost Miss Kitty, who was a dark "Tortie", at the age of 20. Adam was already 2 years old when adopted and had spent his whole life in the shelter. We kept his name as he knew it and answered to it. They say black cats are always the last to be adopted, probably due to myth and prejudice. He chose me as I walked into their cattery, reaching out a paw from his perch on a tall cat tower. Eve was adopted 2 years later at the age of one from the West Milford (NJ) Animal Shelter. She had been picked up as a pregnant stray, had two kittens at the shelter, and was waiting for her "forever home." Eve was delighted to meet Adam, but he was not all that enthusiastic. To him, she was an annoying little sister! There was no fighting, but he avoided her, if possible. Black cats are usually very mellow personalities whereas, Tuxies are feisty. He managed to make her cool her enthusiasm by planting a paw on her head occasionally. 😆 Adam was initially brought to the shelter with a sister, named Eve. They were tiny kittens, just weaned. Eve was soon adopted but Adam languished. When we added the Tuxie to our family, we were sort of forced to rename her "Eve" to match him; plus her shelter name was not appropriate. They called her Mango. (Mango is actually a cartoon cat that is orange.) And she didn't respond to it as her name so "Eve" she became. I almost forgot the origin of his name. Adam and his sister were born in Pine Island, NY, and the local "mountains" were dubbed "Adam & Eve." They were really no more than hills.

How sweet it is. Of course I waved my magic wand and took away all the calories.

Wow, that is a beautiful photo, Sue. That snow is so clear I can feel the cold from it! 😉 Funny, I'm preparing my own Week Nine and it also features fallen leaves but with a little taste of Spring.

Susan I know! I find the script works its magic on so many different items as long as they have enough dark colors in them, or if you can change the colors to darker ones and maybe black and white too. That's something I have to try with another photo.

I love that as a problem simply because it means you have enough material for lots of books! See it is a large jigsaw - take all the segments and then keep on moving them round until the fit logically together and then divide it all into chunks (chapters and sections). I use pieces of papers and write out the headings and then just keep moving them about until I have them in a sequence that makes sense. Don't be frightened of changing your mind - just keep moving the pieces until it fits okay for you. When I think back to my first introduction to scrapbooking and PSP I really needed things to be quite simple and in small bites - the Bootcamp was perfect - so my view is that first book should be quite basic. Mention of things like how to create masks or even clusters would have lost me completely. You can include loads more in follow ups and even have an experts guide for those who have been doing it for a long time. By the way I think you mentioned that Tips and Tricks is 6x9 inches - my copy is the next size up. Amazon show the size as 17.78 x 1.14 x 25.4 cm or 7 x 0.45 x 10 inches depending on what site you're using. I suspect that size is probably large enough for this book, 6x9 would have been okay for Tips and Tricks.

Corrie, that windmill is perfect. This script is quite addicting. I cant wait to do some more photography specifically for this script.

Instead of a sequel, make the PSP how to a companion book to the scrapbooking book. Or put the more advanced scrapbooking/psp how-to in the second book. Kind of like when you do the bootcamp, the next logical step is the Basic Scrapbooking course.

The most historic naming for one of our cats has been 'Pippy', a black and white moggie, rescue cat who lived 21 years. She was named after a soft toy dog of my Mum's that I have inherited, which was given to her by her father in the 1920's. The toy was named after a British cartoon character 'Pip' of 'Pip, Squeak & Wilfred' (Before my time!). We've had two cats named after our favourite English F1 world champion drivers, Lewis and Jenson. The latter was a huge cat and he had possibly the same condition as Carole's Pouce (Polydactyl) extra digit on each paw. Nearly all our cats have been rescue animals, even one of our Maine Coon pedigrees, prenamed 'Connie' who is currently ruling the roost. This is my photo of her created using 'Into the wild' mask from Jessica Dunn (Digital Scrapbook.com).

Absolutely love your ideas and the result.

I guess I will start with the dogs I had before I got married. The first one I remember was Tiny that was a toy terrier I think. The 2nd one was Tiny Two a long haired Chihuahua., she was so small she would fit in my hand or a pocket so we had to name her Tiny also. Next I got another small mix breed. I couldn’t think of any names that would be good until I was giving her a belly rub a few day after getting her. On her chest ther was a big spot shaped like a heart and it even had what looked like an arrow going threw it, so Valentine is what me named her. Not long after I had her my Grandma’s neighbor’s dog had pups. We got one of those a fox terrier mix. That is the only time I have had two at the same time and the only male too. We named him Sandy because he was a sandy color. The next one was Candy, another small mix breed. When she was a pup she was black and I thought she looked like liquorices candy. She turned grey and white, but she was a sweet dog. That brings me up to my current dog Foxy. She is a Yorky/Pom mix. We hand not named her right away and she came walking into the bedroom and my Husband said she looked like a Fox Kit. We looked at each other and I told him you just named our dog. The only other animals I have had were horses and fish and I guess they are not really pets.

my mask lesson 3 It represents a lantern with an animated snow globe, as an outdoor decoration of a Scandinavian wooden restaurant, which is set up on our festival site from November to February.

Ah, I used the new template, also. Here is grandson, Tyler-John (28), just back from his first Caribbean vacation in Costa Rica all by himself! (He says he hasn't had time to develop any romantic relationships yet. 😉) I used the cass-datestamp9. The toucan bird is from a kit "Froot Loops." (Does he qualify for the Rainbow Challenge?) The background photo is from Alamy_MHKT6M.

It's a card for my fractal friend. She loves roses so there are many them Our Fractal Garden. I used Carole's template.

Maybe this will explain:

I was playing with the Pencilscript 2 and some photos that I took this week in our local gardencenter where spring has arrived! Of course a pencil drawing doesn't have to be in black and I changed the pencil drawing that the script gave me in the 7 colors of the rainbow. Then I used the Lab template 13-5 to display them alongside the original photo. The font is Fadilla.

Very creative work, Everyone!

Hi, here is my mask lesson 2 Photos and backgrounds by me, photo doodle MS Marisa Lerin

OK this challenge got me playing with the kaleidoscope using a a multi colored striped picture and then doing another kaleidoscope made from that saved paper. Of course that got me playing with a bunch of other setting and having a blast. Now back to work.

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.

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.

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