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Jackie (on the left) and I have been friends for over 20 years but this was our first time together since well before Covid. I was a real blessing to see her again and catch up! The rose on the table in the center photo is repeated on each of the photos. Actually, this is one photo. I separated each of us into our own photo.

@Cassel: Here is another one following the project 2 layout suggestions. I used to make a lot of layouts like this, wonder what got me off track... I think it is a great way to make a page. 12x6 inches, all graphics from my All You Need, font (on jc) is Chelopace

Scenes from the 2022 Balloon Festival in Albuquerque, NM. To be truthful, this pic does not capture the colorful event very well.

Day 7 Project #3 Used 1 paper from site provided “DSF March 2013 Blog Train – Designs by Marisa Lerin.” Glitter also from site provided and paper from Nellie Bell. Pictures, flowers and rainbow strip from Bing search. Fonts are BankGothic Md BT and Vivaldi with a small bevel applied.

Project 2, but I don't know what day! Guess I am on a spring flowers theme. I took this photo this past week when I visited a garden that my fellow Penn State Master Gardener's maintain, at the Outdoor Discovery Center. I'm not able to participate in gardening activities right now, because I am in 'recovery mode'. The weather has been tempting me tho! I used part of the same kit I used on Project 1, and the same fonts. I tried rotating the background paper so it would look different, but it just looked odd to me, so I used contol + Z and undid it. I also used part of another kit called Dandelion Wishes. I loved seeing the crocus blooming at this garden. Either the chipmunks steal the ones I plant, or the voles eat them, or both....but I keep trying...gotta feed the wildlife 😉

here is my very simple layout with the template, gradient and title

A day late, but yesterday I was feeding my addiction for layered fonts. For the bottom papers, I used a cpjess kit call cherish mini, and the hearts from cpjess cranberry mini. I couldn't find stripes to match so I created some using the cass stripes2 script. The bone is from Creative Fabrica with an added texture that I created on AI and recolored. The photos are my own. The glitter was created using cass glitters B script to match my colors. The font from Creative Fabrica is Rainbow which I used in my Kit and recolored to match. The arrows are my own.

My project 3. I was aiming for a midcentury modern-ish vibe. Supplies myself, Jessica Dunn, Sharon Dewi Stolp. Fonts are Georgia on date and Cuciniere on title. @Cassel: Yes, especially in a PSP WS, lol!!!! 💕😉. I have been playing with them, not enough it seems tho. I find EC gives me what I want faster. The layouts so far are the most elegant recipes ever! An absolute fool proof way to a great layout. Many thanks. Many great examples here in this thread. Fab recipe!

Project #3 For this layout I used the kit cpjess-Vintage Blooms (Jessica Dunn) with glitters from my stash which have a color similar to one in my photos. I had to cleanup the photos, after all they are from 2008 and taken indoors. Instead of the glitter outline of a butterfly I used a paint splash from the kit. I have some elements like the butterfly but those didn't looked right on my page. The admission tickets are done with my own script and the font is Berlin.

Bootcamp, Day 7 Project 3 I chose 3 images, sized them as per instructions, and altered the alignment to fit them on the page better. I will try and create one where the images are all sitting the same way. Papers and elements by Janet Kemp. Font is Gill Sans. Jeni

As always, you are profoundly complimentary. I reciprocate, by saying I profoundly appreciate your words, my dear friend! For nice clean circles I use a vector shape (circle), then use selections, from vector object.

I used photos from different shops to show my toys fonts are cassel stitches3 LipstickScriptSSK Arial

I made this for the challenge on PSP Maniacs'

I decided to do a follow up page to the one I did for the mating hares. Once again I have used Carole's punches, simillar colours too. Now that the snow, and snow banks are slowly disappearing as the sun warms up, it's lovely to see one of my resident hares out feeding during daylight hours. Rather than use borders I used the selection tool, select selection borders, delete Instead of round I went with oval for thw photos. Although I use square layouts, I much prefer to use rectangles. We now live in a digital world, a far cry from when I was a child, when we didn't even have calculators. It doesn't matter whether you area a pro, amateur, use a pro camera or a phone. For me photography is far more than pressing a button, but in the ability to weave a narrative through pixels. Immortalizing the fleeting beauty of a moment no matter what it may be. Using the powerful impact of PSP to tell the photos story, by showcaseing them.

I'm in need of real colours around me these days. Saw this image online and it touched me b/c I love those primary, primitive colours in art or photos. Not much of that around here for a while. I used the spill (or split) frame technique (again). Background paper with sparkles added, and simple text. Glad to get a layout done! I have been to Newfoundland and it is absolutely breathtaking to see. We did the trip on motorcycles many years ago.

As I read what you ladies have written I thought, "I could have written that!" Cowboys and Indians...yes! I also played with marbles and yo-yos.

DAY 7 - My fantasy Viking River Cruise. 😉 (For the new members; I"ve done this before with a fantasy trip to Gabarone, Botswana, Africa.) I mostly used the kit Carole offered, True Heart. The gold leaf is from Nellie Bell. The title font is Belisha and the journaling font is Franklin Gothic Medium. This color scheme is a bit of a departure for me as I usually use bright, primary colors or deep tones.

Not only a gorgeous page, but very poetic words. ❤️

I posted the challenge in the bootcamp, not realising they are two different entities. Here, now, posted in the correct place, I hope. Jeni

Sue you put into such lovely words what photography is all about, much better then I ever could or maybe only in my own language. But I totally understand and agree with what you are expressing and you are able to show it in your layouts to us all to enjoy!

I admire your tenacity in persevering with the jpeg. I opted to create my own slip it in effect. As for rotating the photo area, I can not stress strongly enough, never ever rotate anything which has shadows which can not be removed, in a jpeg or png. Oh well, we are constantly learning, through trial and error.

Me, too, NOW! 😁(Not at the time, though 😞 )

Yes, marbles and yo-yos!

Sue, that's a beautiful layout! Just by looking at it, we can feel all the attention you give to details and techniques. Great work, as always.

Golly, Julie, you beat me to it! My childhood seems to be identical to yours, even in the same era. Fun story, my mom also dearly wanted me to play with dolls while I was outside swinging lassos. She was deeply disturbed when she found my only doll strung up on my bedroom doorknob with its neck in a hangman's noose! In later years when I was less horse crazy, I found the American Girl doll in a store, but she refused to get it for me, afraid I'd repeat my action from years earlier, I guess. 🤠🐎

Always time to ride again 😉

I totally hear you. I have learned in the past few years to back away and not engage in conflict that just isn't that important (As a child I was the temper-tantrum Queen!). I'm trying to save my words ("those" kind of words - we all have them) for really important situations. Thank you about the tip. I was making Photo Prongs today (12 of them) when around prong number 6 to 12 I saw a little something weird on the prong (of course AFTER I was done). Ugh, I had switched one the steps with another one which cause the issue, took me some time to figure it out. Yup, any and all tips are important...so is following the steps in the correct order!

What a wonderful photo! So lovely. Great layout as well 💕

Ann those colors go so well with that photo!

Oh Rodney, that makes my heart beat faster! I was an HD rider for many years and just love this!

And project 2 under the belt. I like the keyboard shortcuts as a timesaver.

Again, I appreciate your words. In fact this time you mamaged to curb the length of your comment, by quoting more of my words than your own. 😉 ❤️ Gone are the days when words used to flow freely for me. Though, these days I do have my moments. A tip, when using the technique, make sure you delete EVERY layer which is bleow the photo. In order to get the right effect.

Day 3 Learned a lot.

I did get the day 4 mail.

I apologise, I didn't realise the challenge wasn't part of BootCamp. Receiving the two in the same email confused me. This is all new to me. I have fixed the shadow that was missing on one of my images for Day 5. Jeni

Hopefully, this image is okay for this project. I used a snowflake brush I had in PSP, and covered my background with that, instead of adding any elements to my image. Where I live, I am lucky, because I have such beauty on my doorstep. Thanks Jeni

Should be plain sailing, once you download and use the corrent file!

As I commented to Cristina's words, I deeply appreciate your, and many others within the campus family for their exceedingly inspiring, complimentary comments. It’s an absolute pleasure for me to share my photography, through showcasing them with you all. As I have said many times before I am very much an amateur photographer, learning and improving as I go along. I have learnt to think more about the elements of an image which will make them more appealing to myself and the viewer. Showcasing them isn’t any different, in my layouts, first and foremost the layout must not take presidence over the image, whilst still making it appealing to myself and the viewer.

The folder I downloaded didn't include the psp file either. I couldn't work out how to use the jpeg either. What a relief, as I thought I was having a mental block. Especially after seeing what Ann and Corrie had posted.

@Michele - go to Carole's blog post here

Julie, what a lovely work!

Did you create all 12 from scratch? For many elements, you can create a template, save, and then create others to your liking, colour, size, orientation etc. Remembering to save each one first, to enable you to keep the template in tact. It can be very frustrating when you have put a lot of time into doing something only to find something wrong, and unable to work out what you did wrong.

@Barbara Caulton Nobody will get bored of puppies' photos! Keep them coming! @Jeni Simpson Great consistent shadows now. @James Thomas Welcome to the bootamp. With projects every other day, you should be able to catch up. Great projects 1 and 2. Good shadows. And yes, keyboard shortcuts can really save time! @Rodney Boyd In order to help me know which project you did, can you specify which lesson you are showcasing? @Ann SeeberWe are traveling with you! @Corrie Kinkel It is fun to see you use your scripts! @bina greene I don't know if the photos were already the same size but they are great like that without any distortion. @Linda J Walker Great use of the pain splashes. If you want to up that one notch, you can use the technique to have paint/writing on different surfaces, explained on this blog post. It is not essential but something to keep in mind. @Bonnie BallentineIt looks like we know all your friends by now 🙂 Keep them coming!

Well Julie, I grew up in the same period as you and we just got the first tv's and only one channel but we got some of the westerns as well and I watched them with my dad too.

Yes, it does, just checked 🙂

I'm guessing...about 30 t0 40 feet away. I was using a 200MM lens. I came upon deer again today and they were much more cautious. I was wearing a red jacket. Yesterday I was wearing a medium blue shirt.

Day 5 project 2. Puppies again, this time the pups having just emerged safely into their new world, Mum settles with her fur babies for a well deserved rest. I again used one of my favorite sites Nit Wits for papers and the paw print

These photos showed up in The Hudson Valley in Pictures yesterday and I couldn't resist as I'm related to Louis Bevier through my father, Harold Terwilliger. His grandfather was married to Sara Bevier, a great-granddaughter of Louis. I've never been to Huguenot Street but a trip is planned! My "template" was just a .jpg so it took some maneuvering to create the "slipped-in" look. Thank goodness for promoted layers! I had to stick with the plain background because of that so I did a colorization and added a texture. The title font is Belisha. I created the brad from a piece of Huguenot art and one in my stash.

This is going to sound really daft. I downloaded the freebie. I had a complete mental block, not knowing how to use it. So I decided to do what I always do, and that is create my own slip it in. You will often see the slip it in technique used in many of my pages.

I had a little free time this evening and made something for this challenge, a very nice one too. At the moment a lot of the early bulbs are in flower and the photo I used was taken yesterday on a sunny day. I know I have often lamented about the rain we were getting, but now we have sunny days as well! The cluster with tulips I had made for another layout but it fits here too and the daffodils came from ????? Font is Austin. Enjoy my colorful spring!