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Time flies: My third grandson is already 4 months old.

Nature's Eye. My fractal, a frame of the pic - PSP.

For the Template workshop week I have decided to use a recent holiday to Croatia to showpiece some of the photos whilst I was there. The background layer is a photo of mine rather than a paper. The scallop edge is a fill made from a pattern created from the pavement area of the main photo. The text panel background is a paper from Marisa Lerin's Picnic mini from Digital Scrapbook called Vellum Piece 2. I kept the grey panel underneath as it seemed to work better.. I left the bubbles from the template as they blended with the colours in the main photo. Typefaces are Impact and Ink Free. Seeing examples by others above I am a bit confused as they don't appear to be the same template that I used for PSP. ? Two questions from mine are: 1. How to align two separate text layers with each other. Objects/Align horizontally but what order do you select if this is the right method? 2. How to smooth the outline of the circular photo as it appears jagged.

Here is my day one.

OK, I guess I'm up first with my interpretation of the sketch. It's for Easter. I used an illustration that I came across online that just caught my eye and my heart. Illustrator is Michael Sowa. It is posted on Beautiful Illustrations, a FB page. Lots of elements from my stash. At least it got me motivated enough to make a layout as sketches are meant to do.

I always have a difficult time deciding on photos to use and finally decided to use another rugby photo. I choose this photo since David had both feet off the ground which is normal for a fast runner. The background is grass from PSP texture effects. The lined paper is from my 2025 Build a kit. The ric rac is from Carole's script. The bokeh effect is from a Adobe brush imported into PSP. The font is an OFL font called Silverblade and has an AE gel style applied. I also remade the circle as a vector so that the edges would be smooth, converted it to a raster and used the clip to it script to make a mask. The circle frame was also a vector outline converted to a raster layer and beveled. I didn't add any shadows to the dots or the bokeh layer.

Easter, spring, garden, the Easter brushes from the store are fun to use🙂 As you can see in this Easter project 🙂

Not new, but I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

I bought Affinity photo the other day, installed it. It immediately did an update, now I have version 2.6.2. I have started to familiarize myself with it. I started with the Start here with Affinity tutorials. Here is one of my pages. I will use predominantly Affinity for this workshop, along with PSP.

Last weekend 8 of us went to the beach (brrr) for a ladies weekend. While there we competed in a pickleball tournament.

The first layout Sue did is not a template from this workshop. She stated it was from Affinity tutorials and she posted it before the workshop actually began. The non circular layouts are from templates available to Diamond members for this workshop.

And a blessed Passover to you, Michele.

Happy Easter - here's a blast from the past...

Yes, pickleball is pretty much everywhere.

Pickleball is a realativly new sport...just a little over 50 years old. It is a paddle sport, similar to tennis and badminton, played on a smaller court with a plastic ball and paddles. It's a fun and social game that's easy to learn but can be fast-paced and competitive. It involves hitting the ball over a net until one side fails to return it or commits a rule infraction. Google it...it is very popular...fastest growing sport in the world...or at least, the US.

Template 1 Using Affinity Photo 2.6 About 5 kilometres from where I live, is a farm where Muriel, the farmer's wife, started creating a garden during her pregnancy in the late 60s. The land was farmland, and Muriel wanted something to do whilst stuck at home, so she created Maple Glen, a beautiful garden, nursery, and bird sanctuary. For this template, I have used Elegant Autumn kit by Jessica Dunn and her Autumn Dew mini kit. Itsadzoke and ItsadzokeS01 by Gluk are free [PU & CU] at 1001 Fonts.

Thank you.

Yes, as far as I know, 7 days is the default trial period. I will double-check with my contact at Affinity to see if I can still offer the 90-day trial that they offered in January.

I'm not very active here at the moment, but will try to do all lessons 🙂 I haven't really looked at Affinity yet, so will use PSP 2023. Will there be an Affinity course again soon? 🙂

I have just signed up to the workshop too and will be using PSP only. Hoping to have the time this week to keep up. I haven't been very active using PSP recently so hopefully can get refreshed with it.

I'm looking forward to this, and I will be using Affinity Photo.

@Jannette Nieuwboer Yeah - at first glance it looks like an upright piano.

I'm in too, I will use Affinity

my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. Ik dacht eerst dat men gezellig rond de piano zat, 😂 maar toen ik de foto wat vergrootte zag ik de oude telefooncentrales. 🎧

Me, too. My family and I lived in Rutherford, New Jersey, and our phone number was Rutherford2-2032J. (The J indicated it was a party line.)

Wow, this is so cool. I remember party lines, we had one in the early 70's still. I remember how bad my one brother and I were. If we picked up the phone and other people were talking on it, we'd be snickering and they would be telling us to get off the line. And we'd laugh. We got caught and boy, did we ever get in trouble. We never did it again. I find the concept of a party line so bizarre. Talk about no privacy. I really like the background of your layout, it has the feel of that time period. I agree, looking to the past in turbulent times is comforting.

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short. The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house! I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

I have two varieties of daffodils in my flower bed. The daffodils in the circle are pictures that I took of them in various sides. The center cluster is from Adobe Express. The bottom is a photo from my garden that I made into layers and merged in Photoshop, edged with one of Carole's edge brushes. The from is Carole's photo circle script. The side plaid is from an experiment in FF that turned out well. The font is from a CF and called Juicy Snap Solid. I made the daffodils from AE into a tube and created the pattern fill.

Finally got a chance to do something

Today's freebies from C F inspired this. The background paper and the middle pic are from today's free downloads. I did add the Osprey and the splash on the pond. The font is also today's free download called SPLASH.

I watched a 6-minute video from Affinity Designer, and I should have viewed this one before creating the Mandala, as it explains more about the Pen and Node Tools. So, after this, I could tweak the Mandala as shown in the video.