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I have modified the file to include the string. Good catch again. If you want to re-download it, you can, but you don't have to.

OK, I gave it the "old college try".

I have my own shadows as a preset and they come from tutorials for different elements. My shadows for papers and photos are the same as in this lesson. I have no shadow on the chalk scribbles because even the tiniest of shadows makes that chalk a bit less opaque and it looses its texture. I noticed that when I shadowed the sequin scatter the shadow only appears on the outside of that scatter and not on the parts that are on top of each other. On the top right blue parts of the scatter there is a shadow on the left side which looks funny because all the other elements have the shadow on the right side. The settings for the string are offset 14,14, opacity 68 and blur 14 because the string is thicker than paper and thinner than the button.

Lesson 1 - Shadows often frustrate me....but I do recognize they are often needed. Not sure exactly what I used on the string, I tweeked it until I felt it looked right. Do you want to know the numbers? I would have to go back and check. And maybe I need to keep better notes as I work...

Nifty Cassel tips for settings values helps a lot so now I have updated my methods. The string I treated like thick card stock so 20:20:70:20 and the sequins thicker so 30:30:60:30

Since I've been using PSP for digital scrapping since 2008, I have set up presets for my drop shadows. I currently have 28 presets. Over the years I have learned and changed the way I do shadows. Which is to say that my shadowing on my actual layouts is quite different than what we are learning here. That being said, I did try to do the lesson as Carol presented with a few tweaks of my own. I used a basic shadow of 10-10-70-20 on the 2 papers. This was my basic paper shadowing for years. For the string I used a shadow setting of 15-15-60-15. For the button, I went off script and used a setting I got from a scrapper that is on the creative team at a store that uses PSP. It is 20-32-67-59. For the sequin scatter, I used a setting of 3-3-70-20. This gives a little definition but it still appears to be flat on the paper. For the ribbon, I used a setting of 15-15-50-25. With it being a thicker ribbon, I felt it needed a larger shadow setting to show depth. With the photos being on top of the ribbon, some depth needed to be added. On one of my normal layouts, there would be additional elements nearby in a cluster so I have no problem with the ribbon being under the photos. My setting for both photos is 20-20-50-20. Lastly is the chalk. I did nothing to the top chalk. But I did add a small shadow to the bottom chalk just to show the difference. That setting is 2-2-35-1. That setting happens to be the setting I use when using washi tape.

Here is my Lesson 1. I have to say that since I started here, I have saved Carole's shadow settings as presets. Depending on the color, size, etc., I tweak them as needed. I added the usual shadow to the photos. Having said that, I would not have photos on top of a ribbon. There would be a distortion because of the thickness of the ribbon. I didn't add any shadows to the doodle elements. I am already enjoying this workshop. Sometimes, I am unsure if the shadow I added is correct; this way, Carole will give her feedback immediately. Edited: " I would not have photos on top of a ribbon"—unless they were made of thin paper. In the layout below, I considered the ribbon to be thick.

Yes, all the tutorials in The Lab SHOULD be listed also in the Creative Scrap. Otherwise, there would be no way to know where to look when you want to create a particular element/effect.

Here is my first lesson. The instructions mention a string but there is no string visible for me. There is another raster layer at the top which was hidden. It had a completely finished page, including a string, but no way to shadow it. Also, there was another .pspimage file included labeled "Shadows-Lesson One-Tutorial.pspimage" which had the exercise Carole used for the demo but still, no string.

sames 🥰

Michele, I like the card, the illustration, and the colorful guitar picks very much. Many people would not imagine how many techniques were needed to create it.

Ya, that's what it is...it's a "Canadian" thing...🤪. You crack me up...and keep me honest. Here's my excuse: Due to economic restraints and cut backs here in Canada, we pay extra if we go over our allotted amount of keystrokes in a week. Justin Trudeau himself will phone me and tell me which ATM to meet him at so I can withdraw and hand the cash directly to him! OR..... Maybe I just like Mr. T. I pity the fool who doesn't spell T-cups/T-pots the Mr. T way!

Honestly, that button is fabulous! ❤️

here's the button close up, I made heart shaped holes.

Week 33 Tiny little T-pot, only about 7-8" tall, but oh so cute. Gradient background, with no texture because I just realized I forgot. I was so into playing with the netting! From the new book; Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy with PaintShop Pro. In the Scrap With Me - Scraplifting section, Project 2. The netting is really easy to do and tackling the warp brush is easy with the instructions in the book. I added a tiny bevel and the shadowing settings from the book (which I now saved in the shadow presets). Fonts are Neug Asia and Neuton from CF. I also added a small bevel to the three Vectors (should've made the outline thicker first) and a drop shadow. Forgot to add, there is a gradient on the netting, I think next time I wont do that as it looks like shadowy spots, it's distracting.

Week 32 This was the pattern my mom's t-set was, although this is not from her set. I got this many years later when I realized t-cups were little pieces of art I could afford. Fonts are Mea Culpa and Medina from Creative Fabrica Background is a PSP pattern that I added a very subtle round dot halftone effect to. The three vectors got a tiny outer glow layer style for a bit of contrast around them. It and the texture might not show up here.

Here's the first installment of daughter Laurey and granddaughter Jackie's vacation adventures in Salem, Massachusetts. I will be creating pages as they send photos documenting their Salem invasion. I used the cassel border script on the photos. The map of Salem background is from a Google search.

Jacek's activities. Many elements made Carole. Thankks for them:)))

Hi , I think we need a new folder inside the gallery for this Workshop I used mostly the shadows from Tutorial, on the string I used the Push-tool, I played with the blur and the opacity to get a nice look

I moved things around a little bit before I turned it into a jpeg so mine is going to look a little different.

I assumed it was too simple to simply add drop shadows so I added drop shadows for all elements except for the photos. For the photos I selected them, promoted selection to layer, filled layer with dark colour, changed layer transparency to 65, moved the layer down a level, manually moved the layer down & right to give it a shadow look.

Many of the labs are in the creative scrap tutorials. So you can find them referenced in both places! I actually have a spreadsheet that I have them cross-referenced but need to get it current... I'm a few months behind.

kasany, nice way to showcase many photos with this template and the cass-HangingPhotos script. I have this script too! 🙂

Julie, this is so cute. I don't have pets, but I've seen many times that cats loooove boxes. I recognize DiHiller's cats. 🙂 I have collected her freebies as long since I started here.

Corrie, this is a lovely and meaningful layout for your granddaughter, who is starting another important chapter in her life. I especially love the blackboard you created and the colorful elements from CF.

Just curious, why do you call them T-cups and T-pots and not teacups and teapots? Is it a Canadian 😉 thing?

Wow, thank you so much Ann. It's such a good tutorial too, easy for anyone to follow and get a cool button.

Julie, Corrie, and Susan, thanks! 💟 I agree about the lack of time. I see many techniques and uses of elements I want to replicate, but I am not a fast scrapper who can create one layout daily. On the opposite, and that doesn't work in my favor. But it's okay, one step at a time. 🙂 I've separated the photos for the Lab11-Module 12 and stopped there. I'm also enjoying the good weather, as we never know how long it will last. Another subject: About the paints, transfers, etc., I have so many things in my stash that I should go through them more often. There are some gems in it. Also, Carole's freebies have an array of wonderful elements, alphas, you name it!

Week 31 Slipped in corners technique from the book (Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy with PaintShop Pro) Scrap With Me - From Scratch section, Project 2. Lifted Corners from the script. Button, again from the tutorial called "Button". Background is a Background-Foreground gradient. I added a halftone (squares) to the gradient and a texture on top of that and I think a wee bit of noise. Fonts are Winter Story (CF) and Sorts Mill Goudy, which sounds more like a Google font, but I'm not sure. A pretty little delicate cup that I am keeping.

here is mine,

I saw this and thought I should be able to build something with all those pieces. Many starts and restars later this is what I came up with.

For my grandson's birthday. Some of my ideas and the text were inspired by my Hallmark card program. I used some of the fonts that were previously made, the Happy puzzle font from deeezy.com, 17th and birthday balloons from Canva and Techno font from CF. The waves were made with cass wave script.

Week 33 This was the moon in the middle of last week. I love the fact that my little camera picks up some detail on the moon surface.

Here's a birthday card I made today for my old boss from when I worked concert security. My goal was to create guitar picks to put my text on. I created a preset shape, added a pattern, and colorized each. After adding my text on each guitar pick, I used magic wand select on the outside of the letter, inverted the selection, and added an outer bevel on the pick level. Then I hid the text layer. It's not my favorite card, but it helped me practice some PSP skills that I don't often use, especially working with vectors to create the shape.

We have a door to the basement that has a cat door. It's translucent but not really see-through. It allows them access to the basement where one of the litter boxes are. One cat goes through fine, the other not at all. It's a swing door so we've had to use a chain going from the cat door flap to the door to hold it up so the other cat would go through it. The door to the basement is usually open as that's where the laundry room is and one of my studios. And even when the door is partly open they will go through the cat door and not just the people door. We also built floating shelves(with carpet on them) for them in the upstairs "cat room/ my husbands office" they are set in a ascending stairs that lead to the top of built in bookshelves, where they sleep and on the other side is two more stairs coming down. they will race through the house, up the cat stairs and down the other side. Other than cat trees by the windows we put a permanent shelf behind the couch which is in front of the living room window, so the cats can sit on the shelf (about 5 feet long by 8-10 inches wide) and watch outside. It is a very well used. And this older gentleman that delivers the flyers will stop and talk to the cat through the window.

No, not really. The originals are really elaborate...

I had always thought I would like to see Alaska and I am glad we did this. I think the cruise part would have been better if we were the the kind of couple that liked the entertainment they had available, but is just isn't something we enjoy doing. When we mentioned at breakfast on our Anniversary that is was our 50th. There were several other couples that said that is what they were celebrating too.

I've been going through the Creative Scrap Tutorials and trying to do some new ones (new for me). I just had so much fun with this one. Don't know if you can see it in the downsized image, but I used the fine leather effect for my belt.

I thought about giving the rope shadow some more dimention but I guess that may be another lesson tut so didn't want to jump ahead if that is the case so just gave it a basic shadow that was pleasing to my eye.

You've been waiting all month for the right timing! lol

It was a joy to look at and it will be again in 1 to 2 weeks if the rest of the buds will open. But just after that downpour it was looking very sad with most of the flowers on the ground. It is in the corner of my small patio and it makes having a cup of morning coffee very pleasant.

Now that is what I call a beautifu splash of colour.

I'm a bit early with my week 33 but I was very lucky with this shot of my oleander in full bloom. After all the rain we had it enjoyed the warm and sunny weather and had a lot of flowers. I took the photo on Tuesday morning and in the evening we had a sudden downpour and a lot of the flowers were destroyed and on the floor the next morning. Most of the buds survived on the plant so it will continue to flower but maybe not so abundant; we are already half way in August and that means less hours of daylight over here.

WEEK 30 = SUN AUG 4 for me. I'm just catching up here! Still delving into the ancestry of my father's family in Ulster County. The original 1698 Bevier house on Huguenot Street in New Paltz became a general store and the Bevier's purchased farmland in nearby Marbletown. This home was quite an upgrade from the New Paltz original. This 1740 Bevier house is now a museum.

Wow, he's a stunner. Those eyes! I love that tail, the colors are so beautiful.

The adventure I have captured here was our 50th anniversary vacation. It was an adventure from the first to the last day. The train ride to Dneali was fun, It rained the whole time we were up there though. We did get to see some wildlife but of course the mountain was hiding in the clouds. We did have a nice room and the food was good. We then took a bus down to get to our ship. This was our first cruse so that was fun. Good food and drinks and some beautiful sunrises and sunsets. At a couple of the stops we did do one of the tours. The pic in the center is from one of those, it was actually on our Anniversary. The last adventure though was the plain we were supposed to fly home in was canceled because of a bird broke the front window. What a mess that was trying to get all those people on to other flights. We wound up having to stay in a hotel another night and fly home the next day. Instead of having nice seats we were stuck in some really small ones and would not have even been sitting together if it wasn't for a really nice Airline employee doing some magic and getting us seated together. Creating this has been fun too (not) because of issues when I tried doing it with 2023. When I had it almost all finished, every time I tried to do something it would close. I finally opened both 23 and 21 and one by one copied and pasted every thin for 23 to 21 so I could finish it.

Grandson Tyler had an adventure in July with a singles vacation in Bali, Indonesia. The flight was very long but luxurious hosted by Qatar Airlines. He was delighted to be hooked up with 4 single women for the tours. This is just a template from my stash. The Bali logo is from a search which produced this on a t-shirt, and I added the date. Enjoy!

Week 31 I was taking some photos of allium flowers when this chap landed on one of them. I think it’s a European hornet but I’m not sure – he, or she, has a delightful expression.

Week thirty one . I can only ever add one image to each post. I've tried editing the post to add another image, but it will not allow me to do so. Anyway, I would like you to meet some of my many seasonal wild friends. Richardson's Ground squirrels. Many come to the call, for a treat. I do not attempt to touch or handle them. I let them come to me. Although they are very teritorial, somtimes they will share a treat. Which is quite rare. As it usually sparks a fight, with the dominant/older one winning seeing off the subordinate. The other image is of a baby, following in the steps of older ones. I'm unable to take shots with the camera as I can't operate it one handed. Using a tripod or monopod doesn't work either, as they won't pose for me in a specific spot. These were taken using my mobile phone.

Hi Carole, I am not sure if I am in the correct area, as I was not sure where to add comments, so I hope I am not tacking onto somebody else's comment. I found where to upload the images and kept that page open so I didn't lose where it was again. I did the Basic scrap booking course last week and wanted to let you know why I was doing it. You could probably tell I was not a scrap booker and my learning curve was huge. I had to keep going onto the internet to find free pictures I could use in my designs and then intently watch your instructions to find out the next steps. You asked what did we learn along the way from you, well.... Control L, never knew you could do that. Which too to use to re-size the image, Control Y (much the same as F4 in a Word doc), love that one saves so much time. To change a Vector to a Raster so further addition could be done, never knew that either. Creating a frame from a document, very clever, borders and flood fills and using scale instead of perspective, and using the materials pallet too. Yes I was on a huge learning curve, fortunately I already knew about layers as I have dabbled with that in Photoshop. You taught me so much that my eyes were sore the next day I did not go near the computer! Guess I should have blinked more often! All I really wanted to learn was how to use Paintshop Pro better than I had been using it, and I believe I have more confidence in using it now that is until I forget again. Thank you for teaching this old dog some new tricks, I loved everyone's designs and they opened my eyes up to what is possible. Previously I had watched you create Picture Tubes and I used some of those in the images I was creating too, Regards Kath