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This is my other April (1st set). I had to work a square pic into a rectangle.

Slowly getting there. Thailand pictures suit my proclivity towards gold and glitter. Red seems to be a prominent color in many of the pictures. The background is Adobe Express AI, but I did make a few adjustments. The ornate frame just called out to me for glitter. The bottom picture is of the King and Queen of Thailand with my future daughter in law in the forefront. I used the same mask that I created on a previous page.

Here is my submission for this new challenge.

Here's another. These are two of our sons, whose birthdays are both in December.

Here's my July page, as an example. I used the Vervelle font for the month days, because it has glyphs. These are two of my grandchildren, whose birthdays are in July. Their favorite colors are pink and green, so I faded those colors as a background.

Here's my cover page. My calendar has friend and family birthdays. This is my wife and sister. But I had a challenge: The picture cut off right above their heads. So, I cut a thin strip above them, pasted above them flipped vertically, pasted the original above that, etc. You can see the repeating images above them in the mask. I don't think the result is too strange... The font for this page is Gigi.

Finally, the December calendar I once again used Adobe Express for the background with a few adjustments. The photo is from David, and I thought it looked festive even though Christmas is not celebrated in Thailand. The bottom picture is also from David and is actually a Gay Pride festival. I merged the mask and added color to the opaque areas and then applied a bevel. The nutcracker was made by me from an Adobe Illustrator tutorial for my Build a kit 2. I wish I could make backgrounds as beautiful as AE.

I'm obviously not going to finish this workshop anytime soon, but Carole, this is my first time and it is wonderful. You suggested that we look ay the QP Workshop tuts for ways to deal with the template. I guess that's what I've actually been doing as I had done that workshop several times. This is my April #2. The picture is one I took on a walk in our neighborhood the end of March 2020 - just before 'lockdown". Spring is always the most colorful time of year in Memphis. Fall has more muted colors, except for the sweet gum tree, the dogwood, and the bradford pear which have brighter colors. That particular year, the colors were really spectacular!

Almost forgot the "cover". Here it is.

That is beautiful.

Carole I'll do that, but it will take more time to finish my calendar, yesterday my mouse went broke and we didn't have a spare one anymore. I can use the touchpad of my laptop to navigate on the screen so I can read all the entrees over here in the forum and use my email etc but scrapping with only the touchpad is a no go for me. This week I'll go to the store to buy a new one and hopefully I can find one that is suitable for my hands. In the mean time I enjoy all the fantastic calendars that are shown here.

Thank you for the compliment! Pun intended - I play with complimentary colors a lot. In April, I picked an image with gold in it thinking my main color would be blue since yellow and blue are complimentary. Then I like to go slightly off from the complimentaries. Gold instead of yellow, rust instead of gold, slightly unsaturated and lighter blue than solid blue, etc. If I used bright yellow and bright blue it would be horrible but by sticking with that basic combination and making variations it gets interesting. I developed these ideas when I was making computer generated fractal art. Choosing colors was half of the process.

I finally finished October. The background is from Adobe Express just lightened a little. Photos are from David. Columbus Day clip is from Canva. I had to mark Columbus Day because I am Italian and my father would never forgive me if I called it something different. The little witch is from CF. I hope to fiinish today, but now I have to go and exercise.

Cover: I used an Adobe Express creation for the picture. I created the mask using one a cass preset piping shapes and the cass raster to mask script. The background paper is a tan taken from the image.

Marvelous !!

Nice job on all, Dan. I'm sure your family will love them!

I love your color sense. It really makes a difference with your calendars.

Yes, I discovered that also. I've had fun experimenting with a series of background mats, etc., to control the colors.

And my last two pages – a tree in its autumn colours for November and a Christmas flowering cactus for December

A sunflower for September and a chrysanthemum for October

Thank you, Ann!

@Mary Solaas Check your emails as Carole sent a correction that included the correct link. Didn't intend QPs. It is actually Lesson 8 talking about shadows on these pages. Hopefully this LINK will work.

The script I used is called "Custom Calendar" and can be bought from the Creation Cassel website. I didn't consciously change the frame colour on my November page. I simply used a large photo and placed it inside the mask group. I've just checked my PSP file and the frame seems to be taking the colour and texture of the background layer - I have no idea if that was supposed to happen or not...

I decided to make them a little darker so they'd match the golden colored bushes in the photo better.

And the Cover. As always, it was fun to participate in this Workshop. 🙂

November & December. More Corel clipart Autumn /NewYear freebies. For December, I used Cassel's Alpha Beads script again. I chose the square format, translucent instead of opaque beads, and slightly uneven beads. There are four versions of the Alpha Bead script.

And here are the next 2. I tried to have some texture on the background layers for just that little bit extra and each month has a clipart on the empty space that goes well with that month. It is time to go to sleep now, I forgot initially to include the months💤💤💤

Hurrah, I'm back in business! Today I was able to go to the shop and buy a new mouse. I have all my months done and am resizing for posting. As it is almost midnight over here I will post some now and the remainder tomorrow. I didn't want the month names to overlap the masks because I know that some of the recipients of my calendar will cut the photo from the page as the month is over and use those later for making cards. This is my 5th year of making a calendar and over the years I have used different ways of doing the date boxes, like bigger with a photo underneath, smaller with all the special days with colors or small elements, completely colored etc. I also know that the recipients do not want to write on the calendar and besides that not all the special dates are in different countries on the same date and not all have a second X-mas or Easter day. Therefore I made little mushrooms with the dates, just to have something different for this year; I only colored the weekend days differently.

Thank you, Susan! 🧡

Your colors and layout are so tastefully done. I love the boxes with rounded corners. What is the name of the script you use for that? Also I have been wanting to color the frame differently from the frame like you did for November. How do you do that?

Thank you.

Love how you did the date boxes.

Wow, this is perfect.

Thank you so much Cristina. I've learned so much in the campus from Carole and the members; from layout design to photography that I cant help but be inspired and improve. I love it.

Here are my September & October layouts. I thought the August photo I used was way too colorful for September (it would fit more the months of July/August), so I played with Effects>Photo Effects>Film and Filters. Again, I added Corel clipart freebies, which I have had for a long time.

Somehow I missed April.

Julian, I use promoted layers a lot as I can select an area, promote it to a new layer and whatever I do to it doesn't impact the original. Usually with these calendars, I'm able to isolate the frame for the photo and work on that, independent of the mask, though in certain cases, I had to slide the promoted layer up out of the group totally.

I'm in too and have done this before, but a refresher is always welcome!