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Ralph and I played in a pickleball tournament with no skill levels and no age groups, meaning we played all players regardless of their skill level or age. Ralph is almost 20 years my junior and we played a 20 year old and a 16 year old. I was by far the oldest player. We won the bronze medal. Template: MFish, You Did It 04.

Nathan's Dairy Bar...a favorite and much visited place. CD digital scrapbooking template 339 (Chantahlia Design).

This plant volunteered in my yard. Blue is my favorite color so you know I love this one. I learned so much making this layout. Bees have pouches on their legs to store pollen. The pollen of the Chicory plant is white. This flower is actually is many flowes...each petal is a flower.Chicory opens with the sunrise and closes around noon. Template 239 by Lady 22.

A little late but here it is. I was really surprised to look up and find this girl so close and willing to come closer! Fonts: Arial, Alphebet Soup Tilt BT (Curiousity), Sloppy Hand (wild and wonderful)

What about old-fashioned handy work after all the talk on Copilot, Spark, AI etc...... I wanted to make something were the text touches the frame and creates a kind of bounding box were you can put a photo, a paper. first I made a template with the Dutch text of happy birthday and the spaces in between are mask layers, so I can use it again with different photos and colors for a totally different result. Then I made a card out of it for my cousin who adores butterflies. I'm going to experiment a bit more with this technique, I like it

I found these photos on Facebook that were posted by Social Island Farm. I do love the black dirt fields of Pine Island/Goshen, NY. This is announcing a festival for this weekend. I used Carole's Hanging Photos script. The font is Cambria with a stroke. The background is part of one of the photos enlarged to full size and with 57% reduced opacity.

I love this. I have been creating these to. I want to create more with generic sentiments (happy birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year etc). It's fun to decide which "counter"(the enclosed space in a letter such as; p, a, b, e, q etc) space to add or subtract when you select the top and bottom portions with the magic wand. That butterfly and the flowers works so well with your template/mask.

This is beautiful, Corrie! Great idea to use the Vector Spiral Script. I am slowly catching up with the comments and all the work posted... They are so inspiring!

Bonnie, what an amazing experience! So close to this beauty... really a special moment.

I love this, Susan! So many details and techniques... great job!

What a beautiful girl and an equally special and beautiful moment you got to have with her. I love the layout and the border is perfect for this layout.

I've also used NightCafe; you can get free credits daily. https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ Some of the creations there are amazing. There are many style choices that, for me, are very confusing. Some of the creators share their prompts which is very helpful.

Trying out Bing Copilot's Designer mode, I created a birthday card for my grandson-in-law, Corey, who is married to Jackie, my zookeeper granddaughter. Corey is into horticulture in a big way. His gift to the attendees at their wedding was a small succulent in a pot to take home. Sticking with Anja's gnome theme, my efforts created this. Prompt -- A steampunk gnome in cheerful colors, his eyes hidden under his pointed cap, wishes Corey, 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY', the sun shines and there is an abundance of plants and flowers, signed Love, Nanny.

I have also made some Seahorses with copilot, you all can copy the prompts and try yourselve, everytime another picture , Prompt -- a dream landscape made of wire in the aquarium. Algae zone, mussel bank, mud bottom. Seahorse, wire art, --

I played a bit with this prompt on Copilot Designer A gnome in cheerful colors, his eyes hidden under his pointed cap, wishes Michele, 'GET WELL SOON', beautiful flowers on a green meadow enliven the background, the sun shines in the cloudless sky , I used the german prompt, I added for the second one - Traumlandschaft in Stein - Pietra Dura Technik at the beginning of the prompt,

Time to get back to the labs - also I have the final layout to do for the Alphabet Challenge from 2022. Those blue water drops are there only because it is required for this lab module. But I guess they are ok. The fish going in opposite directions on the background paper are also required. I made 2 fringe mats and used this one cause I like it better. The other one I'm not showing because the fringe is large - kind of reminds me of the fleece pieces that were fringed - something the fabric shops were promoting several years ago. I might put a baby blanket pattern on it and use it for a baby layout sometime in the future. I used some elements from Pixel Scrapper and my own elements created in a previous lab for the cluster on the mat. Used one of the labels made in the vector workshop from last year for the title tag. The brad is from Pixel Scrapper also and probably Jessica Dunn.

Thank you and it was you that gave me the idea to give this a try and I must say I like it; so thank you 🥰 The hardest part is to find a suitable font in my growing font collection. I found: not everything works well and it is a bit dependent on the language I want to make the card in. I will make more different generic templates like the one did for this card. With other colors and photo/embellishment it will look completely different and it is handy to have a template in case I need a card in a hurry!

I liked this technique so much, but I haven't yet had the opportunity to try it. Since the first time, someone (sorry, forgot who was) posted here, and later, when everybody tried their hand and created beautiful layouts... like this one, Corrie!

Spark is good, but you have to know what you want and be able to express it. Anja really has the knack to get something glorious out of it. With Spark, I got my Andy Warhol cat that I love, but I had to work at the wording to get it. Use Anja's wording with Spark and see what you come up with!

hahaha, love that...."neverending"

I have worked with the lessons separately, but I will post here just one file that includes all the 3 other techniques (Text on a Path - Vector Tube Script - Cut a Vector Object) Text on a Path - I also added the "Text on a Circle" technique. I used Instant Effect Pen & Ink for the photo and Layer Styles Outer Glow. Vector Tube Script - I used cass-Pearls Tube. Cut a Vector Object—I drew a rectangle frame and cut it into 3 parts. I wanted to try something different so that I could choose a different color for every section of the frame. I cut the vector object in the original layer and duplicated it three times, deleting the unnecessary vector parts in each layer. Then, just ran the script as shown in the video. As always, this is a great workshop!

I checked the file and still don't know how/what I did, but definitely not correct. So, I redid the lesson with the same graphic, and here is the new one.

Playing with make ropes and strings

Copying a chicken from CF

Beautiful Anja, love your color scheme!

Pssttttttt..... I have a template for Canada with the individual provinces on it. It is still available at The Lily Pad. The designer also did one for the US and I used it for a layout I did in April documenting every state I have visited in the first 68 years of my life. Since I can now start working on my travel dreams, I will continue to fill it in the next few years.

Thank you Susan, at the moment I tend to use soft colors instead of very bright ones. By the way we had a couple of summer days but tomorrow the weather is changing to rainy and cold days again...... I used this week's good weather to take a lot of photos from the plants on my little patio for future use. The plants were so happy with the sun, as we were.

Finally got to lesson 6.

What you do, Ann, is what a friend of mine on a farm does. She is 85 and keeps saving feral (barn) cats, feeding them, then one by one taking them to be neutred/spayed to keep the population down. I help by doing some of the driving and buying food and treats. I would love to take one or two (since I lost my kitty last summer), but I have my hands (and budget) full with three dogs (2 older). Hats off to your big 🧡!

Actually, I'm now feeding seven outside cats twice a day so any hunting they do is a supplement. We just trapped four of them: 3 boys were neutered and returned here. I have a "cat cabin" filled with straw on my front porch where I feed them, so they do have shelter even though the porch is also covered. The leftover female, Brandi, is still too young to spay so they're putting her in foster in hopes to domesticate her as she's quite friendly. I still have 3 more to trap including a surprise twin to Brandi that I'm calling Randi. It looks like i may have been feeding both all along and not realizing there were twins in the mix. Predators are mostly raccoons that do threaten newborn kittens. The rescue moves fast when they hear of a litter. No coyotes, thank goodness! I remember your neighbor's cat with the "sexy tail" from the last vector class! LOL

Good ideas. Echo and his brother Zeppelin have been part of my backyard landscape since their owners moved in. While I don't like it (especially when they try and attack my cats through the window screen and Zeppelin sprayed my downstairs window - with white frames, that are now spotchy yellow!), that they hunt in my yard and use it as a giant litter box (I dont care if they "go" in the bug hotel....the bugs probably think it's a feast), I want this to also be a cat-safe yard as we have lots of coyotes around here. And the neighbours are great people. We usually just knock on the window or go outside and call his name and he knows it's time to go home. And I don't have weed...that's the main takeaway for me. You'd almost think I planned it this way. 😁 I love what you are doing, it's so awesome that you take action and care for these disadvantaged cats. It's sad to think they have to survive all the seasons, the predators and manage to feed themselves. I'm glad my girls are safely inside! the world outside for cats is scary.

on this topic, I'm involved with TNR which is Trap/Neuter/Release of stray community cats that can never live indoors. When teaching kittens (who are able to be domesticated when they're young) to use a litter box, it is recommended to first use organic potting soil, which is similar to being outdoors. I know most cats prefer to be clean and I wonder if your local cat would use a litter pan instead of the garden if it had garden soil in it? They tend to prefer the confined space, which is why they love kids' sandboxes, too. You could add sand to it, and that might even be better and keep the cat out of your garden. Just slowly nudge it away a little further every day and before you know it your garden will be cat-free!😽

I like what you do with the layer styles. You have good control. I find I'm usually having to put it so low in the settings, wish there was more fine control on them.

This is great. All those cool details you added. I especially like those 3 cutout lines near the bottom. So clever. (BTW, I've learned to live with some "weeds", easier than pulling them over and over. A garden that is too manicured doesn't attract enough insects. (That's my rationalization.)

me too.

Here the sketch I did. Pretty much followed the sketch. The three photos are mine (one was extracted- yellow dandelion). The little tag was a vector shape I made in the first Vector Workshop. I made frame by promoting the background layer and gave them a bevel. the lines below the tag are the effect>cutout and i used a vector ellipse shape to have tapered ends. It's the first time I made something I could use "Selection from Vector Object". The background paper is a photo I did of dandelion seeds on a black background. I first did negative image, then used a blend mode, then I think I used HSL and reduced the opacity or something like that. the bottom tiling is a CASS punch (cass-Edge12), then a small inner bevel and small shadow which made it stand out more. Fonts used are Adorn Copperplate on the tag and Amanda Sunshine for the quote. Both from Creative Fabrica. My text tool was acting very strangely today. I couldnt move it or resize it, it would just jump back to where it was. Also I used cass-screwheads picture tube for the screw on the tag. I'm not sure about the quote. I couldnt find any color that showed up well against the busy background. I tried the paint behind technique but I did a dismal job at it so I used a layer style so the quote would at least be readable.

So beautiful Corrie. I love those soft tinty colors. At long last summer has arrived for you. I think we had our two days of summer and now it's fall, with constant rain.

Yeah, I love it, too!

I'm glad you are starting to have fun with those #@*&# nodes! I love the fringe one!

Jour 5 - premier travail et plus haut le deuxième my curve was made from the ramp

Lesson 7. I copied the vector layer, removed the stroke and added fill and texture but have made the mistake of adding this on top of the inner bevel! Not sure how I could have achieved this properly.

Lesson 6. Text used 'Mister Earl' but it is an unusual character 'F'. The Picture Tube is 'Confetti' which I made look thicker by reapplying the Vector Tube script.

With the text on circle exercise, I got muddled up with where to double-click. To Reverse Path double click on the actual circle path (not the layer). To get the text to go under the circle, double click on the object text path Layer (not on the image) and select all.

So sorry not to contribute before now as have had unexpected family commitments and only just managed to catch up. The first lessons I found quite tricky but got into it from lesson 5. Although the text on the path with the cat got bit distorted even if I changed the size of the text.

Completed lesson 7 A little confused using vector lays duplicated each looked the same. Decided to rename the layers from the start which made things much better. Then rearranged the order in which was done first, slicing the path then applying tubes seemed to work ok for me. Anyway got the idea after a few attempts, practice, practice. Quiz, I got 8 / 10 Can I ask regarding #1 how many different icons are there to identify the different types of vector objects. What little icons and where are they? I am sure this must be simple but not sure what you are asking here, I thought about Cusp settings etc, I guess a senior moment.

Randy great that you enjoyed the workshop and even greater that you will be able to use what you have learned. When you use it you will getting better in doing it and discover new ways to use it differently.

Jeni, I was not adventurous last year and even this year I started out just re-learning the lessons and had fun when I got further along. I'm surprised it makes such a difference. As a Diamond member we can have access all the time. I think I should go back to the lessons every 3-4 months.

Lesson 6. I'm going to have to work hard on this path business. It seems that I've forgotten a lot! With the Globe of the earth, I had to put another circle around the outside of the globe as the maps of north and south america are also open and thus a path. The leaf was interesting - made the leaf last year in the vector workshop and using it as a path this year, I fooled around with different picture tubes and finally settled on the stars. The letter - I had already worked with it several days converting text to a path and this time no problem. I used a string created earlier.

And lesson 7,