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I think this serves for 2 challenges...DIY and April's Font Challenge...although a little late. The Blue-eyed Grass volunteered in my yard and I love it! There is also a white variety and I think we have a small cluster of it...the white is rare, they say. Blue-eyed grass is deer resistant and drought tolerant. It is a wildflower but they say you can buy it in nurseries. It should be planted in early Spring...I've missed that deadline for this year. Last year I tried to transplant it but critters dug it up. I hope to buy some plants next Spring.

Project 2 I get the opportunity to sing at a couple of Special Care Homes in my province. So I thought I would show my guitar. I don't take pictures of the residents singing along with me as there is usually a warning somewhere about taking pictures. The background papers were from suggested packs for project 1 and 2. I did change the colours on a couple of them. The Treble Clef was from Digital Scrapbooking. I cannot recall where I got the musical notes.

May DIY challenge. In order to retain the size of the small shape I opted to creating an out of bounds effect.

Late...but done... I have another font very much like this and I used it on a layout just before Carole posted this challenge.

In the April Q&A I had asked Carole how to make a Stencil effect. My idea was to make different papers with it. But at my first try, I wasn't sure for which project I could use such papers. My eternal problem is what shall I make as a project. So I just did something, and tried things out for several days until I finally came to something. I didn't use the stencil technique here to make a paper but saved it as a png. The alphas are a freebie from Carole, as are the screws. Of the photo, of course that is Poncho, I first made a B/W version, duplicated it twice, on the first layer the blend mode: overlay, on the second layer: screen and on the third layer I applied: soft light. Font is from DaFont and is : PaintyPaint 1 and a watercolor bruch for the stripe.

This was inspired by an article in The Washington Post about the healing benefits of the songs of birds. The article featured sound clips of the birds in the layout - meadowlark, bobolink, and woodpecker. The glitters were created using Carole's script Glitters-C. The papers and elements are from a kit, Celebrations, by Whispey D'Zines. The fonts are Spring and Ernestone, both from Creative Fabrica. I forgot to note that in the previous project, I used Carole's Smoothener script to eliminate the jagged pixels appearing in a selection's expansion. It did an amazing job.

My Project 3. I made the papers, the book cover images are from the books themselves, and the clip art is from freepik.

Project 3. I used the kit provided "Welcome Spring" from Digital Scrapbook and by DB Magnolia. And I used the orange glitters. Are you sitting down? Are you ready to hear this? I did not change the blue/white flower or the background paper. I did however change the glitters (darker) ?. I used the background paper twice, once for the background and once upside down for the mat behind the photos/glitters. I used the an extraction of the same background paper and added texture effect>texture> blinds, then added noise, then went back to try a different size blinds on a duplicate copy and accidently applied it again to the one with the texture already on it. it made it look more like stripes. Same for the bottom striped one, which I made darker. I used a scatter of little flower petals and changed the color to white (from pink) and reduced the opacity a lot. It might not show at this resolution. There was no metal element so I extracted a design (part of one) from a card in the kit and then changed the color and added an inner bevel, hoping it looks like metal. Fonts are: Shelly (title) and Robeek (quote). from Creative Fabrica or Google (as my font program came with google fonts as well). Quote: found on internet search "unlikely friends", but could not find who made the quote. it has "human" instead of "soul" that i added because, well, these arent humans. Photos: are mine from the the same photo shoot day, weird changing weather. The layout would have looked best if all the water was the same color as the one in the middle. I may swap out two photos from another photo day that has matching water.

Scrap Bootcamp: Lesson 5 - Yuba River Getaway - Daughter Deb took this panoramic photo as she enjoyed a getaway when she joined the California pipevine swallowtail butterflies who were sunning themselves on the rocks along the Yuba River outside Nevada City. The title font is Berlin Kitchen, the journaling font is Goudy Old Style. Background color fill with asphalt texture, photo mat wood tile01 pattern with hardwood texture. Butterflies are from internet searches for pipevine swallowtails. EDIT: Forgot to mention the stripe pattern; used the directions for making a plaid but stopped before adding a second, rotated layer. The colors are from the portion of the photo that shows on the far left.

Yes, I always love what you do with the Fabulous Divas, Michele. I'm still playing. Made an image of my Chattanooga Pallet - putting the colors in squares. Then I made a copy of the jpg and played with Kaleidoscope and at the last, played with a copy of it and twirled it, kaleidoscoped it and twirled it again and then kaleidoscoped it again. These are the results. I can't seem to get to making layouts and I need to finish my 2022 Alphabet challenge - S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Still a lot to do before I can make a photo album of it. And, then, there is the rest of the double page workshop that I didn't finish. My, my - my To-Do List is overflowing! LOL.

Here is yesterday's daily look for my gaming group. The fashion illustration is by Megan Hess, a wonderful artist. I used some elements from AnnieC's contribution to the SYHO (Scrappin' Your ❤️ Out) Lavender Fields Blog Train. One of her flowers worked great as a picture tube ~ created a vector and used the vector tube script to make the frame. The font is Palegina free from Creative Fabrica's 12 Days of Christmas-Beauty-Handwritten-Font-Bundle last year; the bundle is still available as the Beauty Handwritten Font Bundle of 43 fonts for $7. I added a white drop shadow using offsets of -10 and another dark one using offsets of 10.

Well, I finished the Chattanooga trip and have ordered it to be printed by Shutterfly. I have enjoyed looking at the neat layouts in the Bootcamp. So I can't seem to get back to created anymore layouts. I played today with Creative Fabrica's CFSpark and with Abstract Curves. Made some patterns in Abstract Curves, and played with AI in CFSpark by asking for the roadrunner and cactus plants. These are my results.

I'm late as usual, sometimes life is demanding ? The textis translated: Beautiful purple isn't ugly, that's why the text in the right corner has an odd font ? My first project:

I was going to say that it wasn’t Poncho at all - it was his great-great-great grandfather! ?

A truly outstanding page. textures, overlays and the blend modes, is all a matter of trail and error, to achieve the desired effect, but well worth taking the time.

Amazing layout, Marie-Claire! It paid back all the work you had!

@Bonnie and Sue, really fantastic works! Last week I thought of you both. I watched a short report at TV about Pickleball growing more and more in Germany and a bit history of it. I was a bit surprised because I never heard before about this german trend. Thursday, (holiday because of Ascension), there were documentaries (landscape and wildlife) about Ireland, Scotland and England. A special about Wales, that was so beautiful....I was virtually travelling .

@Sharla Next year, you might be interested in the Build-a-Kit workshop! It is all about creating coordinated papers and elements from all the tutorials inside the membership. You can have a look at that section in the private area for DIAMOND members to see what the participants did a couple of months ago. @Ann Seeber Nice way to display a panoramic photo! @Rene Marker Thanks for the tip. I don't have dual monitors so I would not have been able to help anyone on that topic.

Stunning! I love everthing about this. It looks like a photo from the 1800's. Really incredible, complex work. Thank you for the instructions. Very interesting to have different blend modes on the different layers.

Thanks for your comments Carole - all good ideas but I'm just playing at the moment. I already keep an image and summary of books that I've read in A5 folders with plastic inserts - just as an aid to remembering what I've read and listened to. Before ebooks and audio books it was easy - the books were on the shleves to see but these days a lot of mine are no longer visible in that way. What I don't do is record my thoughts and feelings about books - I rely on a feeling (and memory) being generated by the cover. Using books as a theme for this bootcamp is pushing me to learn how to do things differently as, apart from the book images, I'm trying to explore how to create papers etc..

The last one which was so much fun was skipped. Let me try again to upload it (I reduced the size to 500

Last layout for the Chattanooga trip. You all may remember the hexagon template we got probably last year or the year before. This is my first time using it (and I forgot I had the pspimage and made one from the png LOL). But I must say that it was good practice!

Mother Nature does purple wonderfully doesnt she. The color geek in me wants to tell you Magenta-Blue is what I call purple and of course Blue is Cyan + Magenta. So we should be loving Magenta for pouring more of itself into the mix to make that wonderful purple we all love. But, I wont be a color geek and tell you that. ?

Definitely one way around the limitations! I read often that working within limits tends to generate more creativity. This is a great example!

Q = questioning...Do you know your spelling words? Did you complete your homework? Is your room clean? What did you do?!

Thank you Susan, and now that you mention it, I hadn't looked at it that way ?

I know I responded before about this but I accidentally found a way to only get 1 screen when doing a print screen. I have always used "Ctrl+Print Screen" keys to do screen shots. Today I accidentally used the Alt key+Print Screen. When I did the paste as new image in PSP, it was only the one screen and the one I wanted! For me, that is the left screen (which is set as my main display in windows properties). As long as what I want to print screen is on my left screen I can use the Alt key. If it is on the right screen, I would have to use either the Print Screen alone or Ctrl-Print Screen. I tested both to see what I go with them as well.

I have again used a screenshot from an Explore live cam. I added a lighter paper under the horizontal text because I didn't think it showed up enough.

Love this. Just because you arent into layout making right now doesnt mean your arent doing something meaningful. Play is one of the delights that sparks creativity. Keep on doing what you are doing and the layouts will come when they are ready. I too feel like I'm behind in stuff I'm doing and taking a note from your playbook today I think I will do some photography and see where it takes me.

Great idea. what cool shapes you could make into brushes or tubes as well. Or a mask in the middle. So much possibilities.

Using the photo I displayed earlier, I toned it up and it's now the star of Wisteria Days. Title Font - Glamlips w/custom gradient, Background paper-Marisa Lerin (colorized), Photo by Debbie Lennox of her granddaughter Magic in Mendocino, CA. Detail font - Harrington, Flower - AFT-Love Life, Bird art - found in my birds folder.

Project 2: Duck Love...I gots it! Another photo from the same photo date and again I used the kits available in the lesson. I'm trying to challenge myself to only use what is in the kit/bundle, but allowing for color changes (absolutely everything was changed). Next bootcamp I will try not do color changes but will get to choose any kit, and only use items from that kit. That's my story, and I can't guarantee I'll stick to it because I probably wont even remember I said this. ?. I used a variety of ways to change the color in the papers/elements to match my vision and often using several on the same paper element. Even making a selection, feathering, and then changing the color of the selection. Good practice for me. Papers and Elements: Rachel Martin Designs; Felicity (Digital Scrapbook) Fonts: Adam Melda, Action Is (Creative Fabrica) and Arial Black (windows). Photo: mine

Hi @ all and thumbs up for all your creative layouts!!!! I come around here because I have especially today Annie Tobin - missed and well loved - in my thoughts! May 16th of the last year Carole announced with gread sadness that "Annie passed away probably in May" Cristina shared her last words in January for many of us who wished speedy recovery after her eye surgery "...you are amazing troopers and I accept your well wishes in good grace. It sure has been a trial and all I can do is wait … obviously I need to have lessons in patience which has never been one of my virtues, lol!" I had so many ideas to create a layout and finally I add this one even if it is not my best result. Annie used to say "Thanks for takin a peek my friends. ;D".....

Cristina - Really a WOW layout. I'm just playing again. Thought that that Victorian Enamel corner I had created earlier might make a nice touch on a photo. So I created a mask and then used it.

Here is the layout. I had to start from zero, as I got the message "Unable to open file" as I was almost finishing it in PSP 2023... I think it has to do with the text tool, but not sure...So I recreated it in PSP 2019 just to be sure. Credits: (1) Template: SwL_AroundtheWorldTemplate2 (2) Heart ps_janet-scott_33385_be-mine-brown-crochet-heart_cu.png (3) Carole: Basic background paper following the Lab5-09 Text paper tutorial, and a paper from the internet... Also used the Custom Coin script.

I should have given some details on my Mother's Day pic, but I was sad and missing my mom. Anyway, Cristina and Suzy: I used one of Cassel's edge punches for this project. I absolutely adore all of her punches, but the edge punches are so versatile. I had a bunch of layers as I had to do a bunch of cutouts. Thanks for all the positive feedback. ❤️

The 2nd page will be that DIY Challenge of the Glen Miller Gardens (a pond in the gardens). It doesn't match my running themes of the trip, so I include it here as the 2nd page which goes with the coloring, etc. of the 1st page.

I have been working on a congratulations for your new home card for my niece. I may have already posted the front. The inside was suggested by my husband since we were gifting them a Home Depot gift card. The tools are from Digital Scrapbook and the ribbons and balloons from Creative Fabrica.

Here ya go, Susan, you can make your own! But you should probably wait until Friday. Do any of these sound like your cats? Advice from a Cat always land on your feet disdain the unworthy meow softly enjoy a good nap in the sun be playful stretch often pounce on possibilities be frisky enjoy the hunt leave presents for your loved ones learn to chill be independent no one is purr-fect These came from a website - myadviceforlife

Finally finishing up the April Double-Page Challenge #6. Here is Shadow, one of the star black leopards at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, MN. She's quite a gal! I used the Vector Tube script on the title and the font is Ravie. The journaling font is Kleymissky. The background is my own Shiny Paper and the stars are from my Rustic Kit. The paperclip is from Marisa Lerin and I used the Open Book script with a gradient cover.

I am going over the Tags Masterclasses and just trying to create examples of tags. I haven't had time to apply to any designs. When I made the rectangular selections for the striped effects I used a ‘Feather’ value to blur the edges. My VectorPaint script did not work to start with until I realised, following the first Tags Masterclass, that after drawing the rectangle, I needed to right click on the rectangle image and ‘Convert to Path’. I didn’t see the ‘Convert to Path’ instruction in the latest Masterclass so I wonder whether it could be a difference in the versions of PSP we are running? I am on Ultimate 2021. My F11 key wasn’t working but I looked that up in View/Palettes/Brush Variance or Palettes/Brush Variance. Note to self!

First Bike Trip....this year.

So, here is my next Chattanooga Trip layout. The font is Academy Engraved LET and I filled the open areas with a pattern taken from the water of one of the pictures. The anchor element came from NicePng and the lifesaver element came from pixel scrapper - Jessica Dunn (One of my favorite designers).

I have another layout in my Chattanooga Trip Album.

Mary, I'm glad that I inspired you. I lost the license key when I changed computers, and I must tell you that their customer service was excellent. I received a reply within 24 hours, although the support is only for paid for versions. Try making a folder and pasting the 8BF file into it. Then direct your PSP file locations to that folder. That is what worked for me, although I have most of my plugins in a separate folder called "plugins64." It took me quite a while to figure it out. I used it with a shimmer paper with lines from Abstract Curvees for the background on the card that I am making, although my husband wants it to be a more colorful blue.

Carole - what is the advantage of having that as a plugin? I already have FilterForge and don't use it as often as I probably should - need to investigate it more, I guess. I have your script to create enamel elements and have been playing with the various scripts I have bought, not just on your birthday, but through the years. I'm going to post the best of the enamel elements I made. The ones I made with a flat element with no contours didn't come out except as a sort of tray, but they are nice too, so I guess I'll post them also.

I always start off with a Wildcat Calendar for the month. Here's May: The Sand Cat, a tiny, tough desert dweller. I also posted this on the Facebook group, Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro in larger format that will print landscape, 11"x8.5" I have mine on my refrigerator.