Mary Solaas

I'm in, too. this is my first calendar workshop.

Thank you for the info. I love this picture.

@kasany really love that layout.

This picture is on the wall of one of our favorite restaurants. It is unsigned - a print of a painting. I just started playing around with it and how to display it. Decided on doing a vertical format this time. the picture is in a mask from Jessica Dunn - April 2024 challenge mask. I put a cream color mat behind it and a frame around that of Cass stitching. The background is made up of 4 layers - white, bluish purple, picture, overlay of RileyBgraphicsLondonFog7 from CF and colored a bluish purple using HSL and blend mode of multiply. the other layers have different blend modes as well. Several of you use your "logo" on your layouts. My daughter was telling me that my graphics designer daughter-in-law had said that everyone needs to put their initials or logo on all their work. Maybe it's time for me to develop one.

Lab 13 Mod 5. did'nt really want to do this, but finally tried out the fringe paper. Made several of them - three in Mardi Gras colors (which I used for this layout), two in Halloween colors and two in Valentine colors? The picture was taken by my daughter and is actually after Mardi Gras but in February. The font is from Creative Fabrica (where all my specialty fonts are from) and is called Adventure Island ScriptRough. The mask I got sometime back and might have been from CF or NicePng.

My Swan Sony for September. Just playing around with Olaf.

the next lab 13 module calls for learning to do fringe papers. Not sure what I will do with it, but I thought that Olaf (from Frozen) wanted to experience summer. My daughter got me a little stuffed Olaf with a hula skirt (since he wanted to experience summer). I thought that maybe I could use the tut for fringe to make a hula skirt for him. So I made an Olaf. This is my Olaf waiting for his hula skirt. I made the eyes in a previous lab. the toothy grin is mine as are the square buttons. the arms and carrot nose are from Pixel Scrapper - Jessica Dunn.

@Bonnie Ballentine I, too, want to wish you a wonderful birthday year. The 80's are good - welcome to the club. You still keep fit with the Pickleballl group so it should be smooth sailing.❤️

OK. I needed to see how to make shadows for something that stands out and up. I extracted a frog statue during my work on the Chattanooga trip. This is my take now on the shadow for that element. And now I'm finished with the Shadow Workshop and am ready to go on to other projects.

Back to finishing up the Shadow Workshop. This is Lesson 6 Tutorial. I wasn't going to do this one as it seemed to be so tedious. However, I plowed through. This is the result.

Tre one on the left looks right

@Daniel Hess I am interested in your nautical picture tube. Thanks - the link did work. t

@Daniel Hess I love the picture of "The Old Salt". Can't wait to see how you will use it. Love what you have been doing on the Campus.

Shadow Workshop - Lesson 5, Did not do the practice.

On to Lesson 4,

Well, I'm home. Trying to get back in the groove. Not easy. Back on the shadows. I'm not good at this. Still a lot to learn. Redid the Tutorial 3. Maybe I get a "C" on this. Definitely not more than that. I'll post the 1st take and the 2nd one I just finished. I really don't get the lifted corner thing. I did try the script, but I'm not happy with that either. The white background is done with the script. The top one is the one I did first.

My last Hurrah before the trip! I liked the April 2024 sketch challenge and used it for this layout. The background is a duplicate of the largest picture. I liked the progression from the largest to the smallest and thought of these pictures that Joe and Laurie took on their trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone this summer.

I've been behind in this workshop - WAY BEHIND! I've been getting myself, the car, etc. ready for the trip I will be taking with my daughter next week. I've kept all the stuff for this workshop in a folder that I'll be taking on the trip, but probably won't post anything until I get back in September. This workshop will take going over many times, I think. I've even thought of using a lamp to check out how the real shadows show on a flat surface. Well, might post results in September. Thank you, Carole. Really have enjoyed looking at the videos and everyone's take on the projects. All of you have given each of us much to think about. Love you all!

Day 3. I, too, need practice. I did as instructed for the 2 photos, but added on the top photo an adjustment of brightness because as the corner is lifted, the light is shining and brightening that corner - just a little bit. On the bottom photo, I adjusted the brightness downward as the only corner that will reflect some of the light as it is lifted is the bottom right.

@Cassel-- Mary SolaasHow do you feel about all those shadow settings? It was very interesting how you demonstrated it on the blue circles. Most of these settings I have put as presets in the shadow tool.

Lab 13 Mod 4: flower vines (pink one behind the 3 photos, purple one and yellow one behind the Easter eggs); Easter eggs (3 in the picture of the 6 I made); Easter chick. The font is LaBambaLET; the background picture behind the 3 photos is an AI I created with CF's Spark some time ago. The 2 background papers are mine created from labs. The title is inner beveled and shadowed. Shadows are the ones I have been using which I put in presets - learned mostly from Cassel.

Lesson 2 I used the same setting for the papers (10-10-90-10) and the reverse (0-0-90-10). I placed a white paper behind the picture in order for it to stand out.

My 1st lesson: On the practice: Paper: 10-10-90-10, Ribbon: 12-12-75-12, Button: 15-15-70-15, Scatter: 5-5-80-5, String: 15-15-65-15 The different items on the tutorial: Frame: 20-20-80-20, Button: 30-30-70-30, Brad: 20-20-80-20, Ribbon: 12-12-75-12 (kept the same setting as on the practice)

@Ann Seeber One of my favorites. I was a teenager (late teens) and had a part time job. So I manager to see so many musicals. All the Rogers and Hammerstein musicals from that time frame - 50-52 - Carousel, Oklahoma, Show Boat, and I loved Gene Kelley - so An American in Paris was one of my favorites. I loved Mario Lanza and so the first 2 or 3 at that time, and Howard Keel was another of my favorite male singers. Also loved Julie Andrews - her voice was absolutely the best - but I love Shirley Jones voice also.

Oh, you Fontaholics. I am a PSPaholic. Can't quit can't quit can't quit can't quit.......... Lab 13 Mod 3. Papers from my beach kit. I didn't like the distressed look, so I didn't do that part of the decorated metal charm. At first I didn't want to do any alphas in it, but I finally relented and did a few letters - enough to do SEA, SUN, FUN -- and I made a heart charm as well as the seahorse. The background paper doesn't show up so well in this size, so (as I took an existing paper and made it black and white) I will show the paper here and the heart charm.