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This one is "Project #2".

Day 3, Project 1 I enjoyed playing with this one. My younger sister and I, not sure how old we are in this one, but it certainly wasn't yesterday I used a kit, Classy Mini, from Jessica Dunn at Curio Pantry. Instead of a scatter, I chose her string, changed the colour to copper then added picture tube hearts to the string, which I colourised.

Ma première publication!

Day 3 ~ When my favorite aunt turned 90, the family got together for a wonderful party. This is a picture of my cousin and his grandson. I used a kit by EmeraldJay from the PS September 2024 blog train. The fonts are 11S01 Black Tuesday and January Is Coming. And, yes, @Donna Sillia, I am now seeing my errors. 😄

My little sandwich with a rose to dress it up with!!

The background is a photo taken from the jetty to the island with a light blend mode (I do like the way the blend modes work in 2023!) I added in the 2 boats, seagulls and sprinkles. Another interesting day with 2023 and a full reinstall - and now thankfully everything seems fine again.

Day 3 and I did enjoy displaying this photo of our beautiful little boy, Bundy. He passed the rainbow bridge almost 2 years ago now and we still miss him every day.

Hi everyone! I'm running a little behind, but better late than never! LOL I don't do scrapbooking, but love PSP and have been using it since around 2003. I spend most of my day visiting with my online friends in IO groups where my friends and I make signature tags for each other. It's a lot of fun. I like to use scripts and have purchased lots of Cassel's wonderful scripts. She invited me to bootcamp, and as you can always learn something new, here I am! Here's a screenshot of my desktop. I'm a little stuck in the mud and have used the same setup for years. The baby in the screenshot will be the focus of my work during the bootcamp!!

You are not alone with that.

@Cassel I found an abr file called 20 Nautical Brushes quite awhile back and imported them. Using that and some guides installed, I "stamped" five of them onto a small image to create a pattern. See attached. I also used the brushes to create a picture tube that I called nautical scatters. I took an anchor and a life buoy (same one as in the pattern) and made five SMALL copies of each, then magic wanded each and filled with a brighter color. Then I exported as a picture tube. I was working on the project that you said required (and demonstrated) scatters. I'm going to do that picture tube again but use MORE of the brushes and make a more random picture tube out of them. When done, I'll zip the file and post a link for it on here for any that would like it. I've gotten the day/project numbers mixed up apparently. I guess if you count the Sandwich as day 1 then this one was day 2-single photo and the one with my granddaughter was day3-adventure.

@Cristina @Michele @Daniel Hess @Julie Magerka Thank you all so much for your encouragement. This is why I love this group. Everyone tries to help each other out.

Why do I see all my mistakes after I post my picture?😄

LESSON 3 - NEW FUR KID ON THE BLOCK 😉 This is the photo I showed earlier of Brandy guarding the aquarium with the White Skirt Tetras. (I made a flair button using a template from Marisa Lerin and a photo of the tetras.) I used the kit Carole offered cpjess-Behold-Autumn and I incorporated some cat accessories from the Gina-Jones-Every-Day-is-Caturday kit. I reduced the opacity a bit on the background paper. The title font is Bauhaus 93, the Fur Baby banner is from Gina Jones. The scatters are from the Autumn kit.

Actually, Day 1 was the PSP Workspace layout; Day 2 was the Sandwich; Day 3 is New Kid on the Block. Don't forget, this workshop goes for 14 days so it skips days between actual layouts. My email this morning from Carole said Day 4 was for taking a breather. hth

That is so true. I think I am doing good, then when I post my masterpiece, I realize I have so much to learn.

I use Canva which is not free. Canva has a free portion, but it is very limited. A friend bought mine for me because I was editing his book. My grandson who is a teacher gets the full version free from his school. Educators and students can get the full version for free.

Not better, Carolyn, just different from yours. Mine, last time, was similar to yours. You added a spoon for stirring your coffee, that shows initiative.

Carole, my psp google.io group do a weekly share and with that, I type in my search engine 'free png downloads' then the subject, eg 'slices of onion'. Many images come up and often, as with this exercise, many unusuitable,, but the odd one that can be utilised. Hope this helps someone who might not know how to find images.

Here is project 1 and I used the photo I showed on my screenshot. I have done this bootcamp a couple of times now and I found it difficult to keep my layout simple as I nowadays use more complicated techniques. So really a good exercise to keep things more basic which I seem to have forgotten. But I found some papers to make my background, hearts and scatters in my stash.

Leslie I have been making lace and like your spools and lace

Nice Michele you are at a picknick table too and you stirred your coffee!

Hi everyone, I seem to have missed the email for Monday (Day 2) but since I am a returning student I'm sure I'll make out OK. I just got a new laptop and am still getting things set up, but here is my attempt at Day 1 project 1. I am a woodturner so the picture is of some Lace Spools I was asked to make this summer.

Here's mine.

Carolyn, we all started somewhere, that is what is wonderful amongst this gang of creatives, and we learn from each other as well. Have fun, and you will find the learning gets easier.

@MicheleGreat sandwich. Will you share? @Leslie Gifford Cook Have you ever done bobbin lacing or do you just do the bobbins? @Daniel HessDid you make that background? It is interesting. I find that the scatters are kind of "lost" on that patterned paper. Have you tried them on a solid color? Did you try to make the second project? or a variation on the first one? @Donna Sillia Those scripts are going to be used often, I feel!!! They can be such time-savers for titles! @Corrie Kinkel Yes, simple can be hard when you know how to do not-so-simple but it is a good exercise to get back to basics. @Jeni Simpson Nice and delicate. Great layout. @Sue Welcome to the Bootcamp and the Campus. Looking forward to seeing your projects in this bootcamp. For those who might not have had time to finish their first project, don't worry, you will have an extra day to work on it, before you get the next project. And if you are registered and have not yet posted anything, jump in!

I have been playing with a pic I took of a corn field last year and added the full Corn "harvest" moon pick I also took. The frame is one I downloaded some time back but can't remember where.

My beautiful niece married the love of her life. The background and the gold heart is from CF. I made the frame and the stripes (cass stripe2 script with colors from the background). the hearts were made with the dingbat font "Heart Valentine" from CF. I filled each heart with a variation of the background using FF to make different patterns. I used layer styles on the hearts to make the darker outline. The scattered hearts are from my build a kit with a blend mode added. The title font is called "Modecque" from CF. I added a pattern and extrusion to the font. The lower case for the font was the same as the upper case but smaller. I made some of the text smaller using the pick tool and snap to guide. I used the following cass scripts for the title: alpha sheet separator; alpha file stacker; and text creator. Carole, the alpha scripts worked perfectly in . The title was done piecemeal in the text creator because I didn't want to have to keep resizing.☺️

That is such a great photo! Very classic seaman kind of image. Nice layout as well.

Carolyn, I join the others who are reminding you that you don't ever need to compare yourself or your projects with others! We all learn slowly, then get better, and develop our own ways of doing things and find our personal styles. It can take a long time, but it's so much fun along the way. I like to remind myself: learning something new is HARD until it gets easy!

Here it comes @Mary Solaas LOL. (2nd upload...I deleted the first one and subsequent post...wanted to lighten the background a bit). Now that I'm in the groove being registered in the class, this one is "Project 1".

Well, I and my husband have done many DIY projects in the almost 55 years since we met for the first time. Some of them took more time than we anticipated but nothing as long as your banisters did. I have done a lot of crafts but always finished my projects; it simply is against my nature not to do so. The only thing that I still want to do is scanning all the photos in our photo albums that are not digital, but that is a gigantic undertaking and somehow I can't get started on it. I say to myself; "yeah this coming winter I will!", but never get to do it; there are always more interesting things like scrapbooking that cry for my attention!

I've not been getting emails for these; I never officially registered...I've been going directly into the lessons via the Workshops Menu under Diamond membership. I guess I've jumped ahead. I'll slow my roll.

Our only "projects" so far have been #1-our Workspace, #2- the Sandwich/Table, and #3-New Kid on the Block. Where are you getting the other layouts? The 3 items I mentioned are the only ones released for this Bootcamp so far, as far as I know.

LOL. I've been trying to keep up ! I guess I've posted four actual projects so far and a screen shot of my dual monitor layout.

That frame fitted very well to the dark feeling of the photos!

@Daniel Hess I love the picture of "The Old Salt". Can't wait to see how you will use it. Love what you have been doing on the Campus.

My main hobby back in the 1980's was doing needle work projects like counted cross stitch or using plastic canvas and yarn. I did mostly counted cross stitch. I did a lot of birth samplers for the births of cousins' children or wedding samplers for friends. I got a magazine with patterns every month and they were usually quick and simple projects in series that were released over the span of several months. One of those series was for the 50 states. I made 3 of the Ohio (one for Mom, one for me, one for Grandpa). I made a Florida for Grandpa. Other states I made for gifts included Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. Then I got the bright idea to make each state and have a quilt made from them. My step-grandmother had done quilting and was willing to do it. So I started making the states in 1990 and got 13 of them done. Then I left the job I had (it was a 2nd shift secretarial job in a hospital and during slow times the tech and I would cross-stitch). Then I went back to school and got a different job. No more time for this hobby. Then my step-grandmother passed away. So I left the idea of the quilt behind. A couple weeks ago a scrapbooking designer friend kept posting about a cross stitch project she was doing and it got me interested in it again. So I dug my stuff out and found a sampler that was about half completed so I started working on it again. I also found that I had actually started my 14th state for the quilt and will work on it next. I do want to finish all 50 states and will have to figure out how to display them since I don't know anyone local that quilts. I was thinking of a wall hanging but I saw an idea yesterday in a cross stitch sub-reddit that really intrigues me. That person showcases projects they don't frame in a portfolio. So now I'm thinking of using a scrapbook for this project! As for DIY stuff like your project, I don't do things like that!!!

You did GREAT. I wish I had thought to put a stirring spoon on mine for the coffee. Your background reminds me of MANY picnic tablecloths that my mother would use over my growing up years. Keep it up !

The only person's work you should be comparing yours to is your own. It's not a contest, it's about learning and improving your skills. ❤️

Carolyn, welcome to this Workshop! We were all beginners at some point here. The most important thing is to understand the technique, and you did great, even adding a cupcake to the table!

Haha... I can relate to this! I am looking for the proper template to display 6/7 photos and still cannot decide which way to go. Multiphotos template, Scrap in Grid Masterclass... the list is long. As I went through the folders to find one template I liked, I realized how many times I started documenting one trip and never finished.

Day 2 and I realise there are so many that are better than me.

Well my first 'play' with 2023 did not go well - I think I overworked my pick tool as it refused to work after a couple of resizes - all it would give me was a red circle with a diagonal line through the middle. I checked and closed all open images, I ran uninstall and did a repair, reboot psp and pc ... still nothing. But now works as normal on other images just not my day 1 project. I am sharing lunch with a friend who prefers her sandwich in quarters, we have a pie and cream for dessert.

Gotta use only the "finest" wedding reception ready "Great Value" brand decorative paper plates, saucers and cutlery. And the sandwich would be a "Dagwood" version of Carole's club sandwich.

Day 2 Sandwich That was fun searching for everything for my setting and sandwich.

I now only eat whole grain bread, Arnie's" that is made in Michigan. There is only one place near me where you can purchase it. It is the best bread that I have ever eaten and fits right in with my diet. I made the bread with a texture from Canva. The pickles, ham, cheese, onion and lettuce are also from Canva. The silverware is from some that I made with vectors. The plate is from a previous Bootcamp. The coffee texture is from CF.