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Here is the new Opera & Ballet Theatre of Kosovo featured on My Modern Met. The designer is BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group. No papers used, just colors and textures. The font is Eras. There are several spectacular photos featured so I will continue with this theme.

using photos from my girlfriend Melanie, the kit is Meow Party by CaroleWDesigns

Lesson 1 Template1b- PSP papers from Creative Fabrica and Digital Scrapbook. Font is Keshiki (CF). The dots have a very low opacity. The rectangle is a blend of a paper and a fill color. the photo is mine and a re-hash from the Magazine workshop (I'm almost done!). No time for new photos right now 😢.

Using Affinity Photo 2.2 - the photo is mine and the papers from a Gemini kit called Out of the Blue - the font is Mistic.

I'm using Affinity for these tutorials. The papers are all from Creative Fabrica and the font is Comic Sans (seems appropriate for kittens). This pic was from 2009 and Camo was the best momma cat!!

my template filled with Affinity , Kit Ilonka Designs - it had to be you - my Mom

Day 2: I created the photos with AI (via Freepik). The font is ‘Night in Tokyo’. The papers are from a bundle by Rachel Martin called ‘Ansel’. Project completed in Affinity.

Day 2 Templates

This is a photo that my sister in-law took a few years ago of Derby a town in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. i have used it before but thought to use it again for this workshop. Not toally happy with how the text ended up but it is my first go and hopefully will improve. Carole thank you for a well explained video i will have to keep practising on the text part. best wishes to everyone, Dawn.

Template 1 Diamond Using Serif Affinity 2.6 This photograph shows our village taken from a nearby hill with about as much snow cover as we would ever get. We are heading towards Winter down here. I left the white dots as would be snow. Kit is Jessica Dunn - Snow Place Like Home from Curio Pantry, I used 3 of her papers, the other two were recoloured, to match the papers used. Fonts are Cute Rita and Magical Feather.

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

Here is my day one.

Here's my version of Lesson 2 - trying to showcase the Kosovo Opera House. I dumped a few of the photo blocks and just used the circles. My text font is Elephant, journaling is Copperplate. Papers are from a jess-countryside mini.

Here my go at the 2nd template

Hello Carole, hello eevryone! Thanks for hosting this workshop, Carole. Here is my go at the 1st template, I just duplicated the circle twice and adjsuted the size a bit, but now I am thinking I want to have a second go with the template as is.

There is a botanical garden and animal sanctuary near me where I took this picture of one of the Flamingos.

Day 1: 'All things Japanese’ is my theme for this workshop – the images will be downloaded or created by AI. The photo in this image is one I created with AI. The font is Iskoola Pota. The papers are from a kit by Jessica Dunn called Winter Solstice. Project completed in Affinity.

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.

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.

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

The title font on this one was Wet Paint.

Here is my day 2 page. Carole, dropping photos, and papers into their layers is ever so easy, compared to in PSP. (masks) I stopped using the text wrapping tool many years ago in PSP, as editing the text within has its limitations, hence I do it manually. Applying shadows, is also a sinch and time saving. I don't use kits, what I do use, after discovering them in a masterclass are paper layouts. Otherwise I create my own papers, and elements. With practise, I can see myself replacing lots of techniques within PSP with Affinity. Which will allow me more time out in the field with my camera, and other outdoor persuits. Good to see the campus up and running again so quickly. Those gremlins, must have got overly excited at all the wonderful pages submitted. lol Sending you birthday wishes. Thank you for making us aware of Affinity, which I hadn't previously heard of. Along with the easy to follow tutorials. I have said it before , and I shall reiterate. Using the same template, every completed layout is uniquely inspiring.

A family story

Day 1 – Affinity I used papers and one element from the kit “Tastes_like_Summer” by Lynn Grieveson. I tweaked the color of the Edge Border using HSL Layer Adjustment (Hue-Saturation-Luminosity). I created the page, and only almost at the end did I notice a mistake I had made from the start. So, I decided to start from scratch since the layout was not complicated. At a certain point, I wondered if copying the layers from one document to another would be possible, as it does in PSP. I tried it, and it was even better! I copied the elements and the texts, and they were placed in the same spots I had in the first layout, rather than in the center of the page as they do in PSP. Font: Caneletter Script & Clumsy Blink

Day 1. I used Affinity Photo 2 to do this one. My friend and her husband just completed an amazing trip down to South Australia, through Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. This is one of the many art pieces that she photographed. This was taken in Cummins in South Australia. Some of the art photos that she has taken are just so beautiful.

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.

This is a scene from a holiday in 2011 when I visited our grandchildren while they were living in South America. The font used is Arabella.

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.

WIth templalte #3

Day 3 Very useful having the shortcuts and I have added a regular command to my toolbar for the standard paper element shadow. I must get used to using all these clever settings. The stitching layer design shape in the template is similar to the rooftops in my theme so I have taken a colour from the rooftop photo that I used as the circular element.

Day 2. I was unable to log in to either site yesterday afternoon when I tried (Campus or Creation Cassel) yet I could other websites. Strange. (Happy Birthday Carole for yesterday anyway). So a bit late presenting my efforts for lesson 2. Continuing same theme as I have lots of photos from Dubrovnik.

Day 2 - Affinity Again, I used papers and elements from the kit "Tastes Like Summer" by Lynn Grieveson. I added a date stamp that was created in PSP using Cassel's DateStamp#8 script. Fonts. Caneletter Script and Canastra.

and Day 2 - I struggled with this one trying to find suitable papers. That is always my problem, I waste far too much time trying to find the right ones. This is my granddaughter Bella, she loves posing for photos.

Here is my Day 1 . I used the Coffee Break kit from Sweet Shoppe Designs and the font is AR Delaney

Day 2 using PSP 2023. Our Friends continue their adventures through the Australian Outback. Their love the Water Tower Artwork and also the Wildlife. My friend loves photography, and her photo are a joy to see. We all look forward to their next adventures.

Day 2. My papers are from Creative Fabrica and Digital Scrapbooking. The fonts are Ravie and Arial.

Day 3: The photos were downloaded from Freepik. I adjusted the template by adding an extra photo, duplicating the stitching frame and sizing the leaves down a little. The font is ‘Night in Tokyo’. Project completed in Affinity.

Day 2 - I asked my friend, John, if a could use some of his photos from his travels throughout Italy. In response, he shared not only his Tuscany album, but also asked his friend, Robert, to share his album. As a result, I now have about 750 photos of Tuscany in my iCloud folder and used them for this template. The background is one of the photos taken at night and overlaid with a Tuscan grunge from Adobe Express. I created the border using Carole's repeat script of a preset shape with a Adobe Express gold style added. The title font is call concave tuscan and the journal font is black tuscan, both from CF. I added a watercolor leaf pattern to the background layer. Although I missed yesterday, I want to wish Carole a belated "Happy Birthday" and thank her for the gift certificate. I spent the morning downloading my favorites list.

Day 2 - Using the same kit by gemini Out of the Blue - Cape Leeuwin is in Western Australia and it is where the Southern Ocean meets the Indian Ocean - the lighthouse built in 1895 is the tallest on mainland Australia and still operating. It is a popular tourist attraction in the Margaret River region. Interestingly I have 3 font viewers and not one of them allow the fonts to show in affinity.

Template 1 extra, the Facebook Header I have used another photograph from Maple Glen gardens. One time I was there, a Black Swan stomped across this bridge, angry that I had ventured too close to his mate's nest with her cygnets. Luckily, this wasn't the case when I took this photograph For this template, I have used the papers of Marisa Lerin's blog train kit for DSA February 2014, suggested by Carole, and re-coloured the scattered blobs to suit. .

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

Went on a trip to the Balkans. Lots of driving, but all in all a great time.

Here is my Day 3. I used Infinity for the most part. The title was done in PSP.

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

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.

Template 2 I thought I posted this one last night and I've been back on the pages and haven't seen it, so here goes. Apologies if it has been posted before. Using Jessica Dunn's kit Coastal Spring and the font Gabriola. I probably could have placed a white frame around the photographs. This young penguin wandered close to me, although I did zoom in a bit, so not this close. They are an endangered species, so I quickly left after snapping this photograph of the wee soul. It is the tiny Yellow-eyed Penguin, supposedly the tiniest of penguins. They are nesting on the Catlins coast, about 1 hour from where I live.

A group of us decided to take a "girls trip" to the beach. Then someone said, "why don't we try to find a pickleball tournament while we are there?" And we did. We had a blast but it was cold...and rainy! In this layout, some of the ladies were in the restroom...it had heat!

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.