@Cassel I just checked, and you were so right. Both things I hadn't even noticed. Day 2 the main image was set at 84% opacity, and Day 1 I had totally overlooked enlarging the shadow. Many thanks
Here is day 4. I struggled getting the brush to work properly. In Carole's video it looked so easy to paint in the mask, but it took me ages to get rid of the outline of the photo.
And Carole, I'll check on those things you mentioned, thanks.
Usually Affinity has a fabulous sale on Black Friday, and it's usually 50% off. I know it is quite a few months away, but i"m sure it'll be worth the wait.
And here is the last template. I didn't put any embellishment on it because I didn't think flowers were appropriate and I couldn't find anything else that I thought was relevant. But no doubt I can always add to it later.
And here is Day 6. The blend mode I used for the pink paper was Passthrough. I rather like it. It's so good to learn these things that I would never have stumbled across on my own. And it's fabulous to learn about the reverse shadow. I used that a lot with PSP and now it's great to be able to do it in Affinity.
As always, we learn so much with Carole's workshops.
@fiona cook the stars are an embellishment that I found, and I just placed it between the layers. As Carole has now pointed out, I need to move the stars on top of the stitching layer though.