Dan Greenwood

Day 5 - My signature "dish" is pizzelles. I used Carole's cookie alphabet for the title.

Day 4

I guess this would fall under the achieving category, since I taught myself.

So, I replaced the background with sparkly blue.  Anyone think it looks better?

Here's my first try at "mischief." I wanted to use an actual street map of my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana.  But I think all of the lines make it look a bit too "busy."

43 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

I love this Dan.  I grew up in a card and game playing family.  Reading your layout brings back my own memories.  

Thank you.  I learned Euchre at age 10, then Royal Rummy, and was proud to be able to play with the adults. So, I grew up like you did. 🙂

Here is my second lesson.

1 hour ago, Daniel Hess said:

Good to see another Dan here.

I saw there were two templates, and because flowers didn't seem to fit, I chose the other one.  To choose the text outline, I first selected all of the stars and rectangles, and then inverted the selection. Then, I unselected everything outside of the story page.  Finally, I condensed the selection to where it looked like good spacing to me.  The poem box was a pain, because putting text in it kept the text horizontal. If I rotated it, it kept the angled shape. So, I copied that rectangle, pasted it as a separate image, used the straighten tool to make it horizontal, selected the inside, cut out an approximate of where the star would be, placed the text in it, merged visible, and pasted it back into the layer it came from - of course, rotating it back where it had been. Whew!

Hi, classmates!

We went to the Indiana Motor Speedway to view the eclipse. I just used a point-and-shoot Canon camera, but it has a 40x zoom. I got this during totality. (It's not as good of quality as the original, so I could post it here.)

After trying various things, I decided to complete my calendar pages by making the calendar larger and adding holidays in red and personal dates in blue. Here's an example from January.

6 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Monique, my goal is the less the better! So, I actually beat you! LOL

I just counted and I have 3,281 fonts.  My name is Dan and I'm a fontaholic.

For this page, I chose a picture of me on the actual African Queen, from the movie. That boat has been all around the world, so the background is a map.

I'm here. I haven't done this before, but I'm looking forward to it.

Before I viewed 4 Tips to use with Text on Path, I tried to make text flow on a flag. I ended up just tilting each word separately, and it doesn't look very good. But the card itself, based on the art of Mary Engelbreit, turned out well enough to give my wife a smile.

I downloaded Dozi's brushes, as suggested in Grunge Magic and I was mesmerized by the odd shapes. Using Dozi's Background 5, I just clicked it once, then clicked again next to that image, etc., until I had a pattern. Then, I copied and pasted that pattern repeatedly, until I had filled a page. It reminded me of some sort of energy field. So, I used the page I'd created as an overlay to a garden scene. I made the garden very bright and saturated, since I wanted it to be other-worldly. Then I adjusted the opacity of the energy field overlay to show that there's a barrier, but so it wasn't obscuring the garden. I call it Garden Seen Through Dimension Rift! Of course, I had to shrink it to fit on this venue, but I hope you can get the drift.

14 hours ago, Cassel said:

Can you point to a class, a tutorial, or a blog article that you used to make this project?

Not specifically. It took all my knowledge of Paint Shop Pro to even be able to do it!

Just now, Dan Greenwood said:

 

Just now, Dan Greenwood said:

 

Just now, Dan Greenwood said:

This was a tricky card for my wife's 70th birthday.  I had to deconstruct two pictures and then reconstruct them into one, which was cut to appear on two angles of the card.  Here are different views.

This was a tricky card for my wife's 70th birthday.  I had to deconstruct two pictures and then reconstruct them into one, which was cut to appear on two angles of the card.  Here are different views.

I have a running inside joke about monkeys with Alyssa, my oldest granddaughter.  So, this is a pop-up card, where the mouth opens. I don't do scrapbook pages, per se, but I use Paint Shop Pro constantly, to make gifts and cards for my whole family.

Thank you for all you do!  I don't know how you learned to do everything you do, but I really appreciate it!