Corrie Kinkel

C = Colorfull

I have stopped responding to all the posts, there is way too much and I wasn’t checking on a daily basis. Being with my family is far more important in these weeks I am away. Three weeks is so short and coming Tuesday I am already flying home😪. Congratulations to you all for the great and very different layouts you did and making it through this workshop. When I am settled back in I have a lot to catch up on and I have a whole bunch of new flower photos to use. Carole I’m sorry to hear we will need Affinity Designer as well, for me buying that one will have to wait until it will be offered for a reduced price. My trip and some new appliances at home have been enough for now, but I will watch what you will be showing. See you all soon!

I have those regularly!

The chocolates above look delicious, but my all time favorite is dark chocolate with up to 80 or 90% pure chocolate! I realize this isn’t to everyone’s taste, but that leaves more for me and my hubby or guests can eat the rest of the selection.

Sue I agree with you and I can see myself using it more than psp, it makes one’s workflow so easy and fast. Although I shall use much of the things I made before and import them as needed. I have all my abr brushes imported in Affinity too; I always keep the zipfiles.

Thanks, now I realize it is not my iPad that is terrible slow and not the WiFi in my daughter’s house which normally is very fast.

It is the same here in California and I didn’t expected it to be this cold. I am told by many people that last week it was the coldest spell they had for a very long time. I definitely have not enough clothes with me for this type of weather and am wearing many layers with some borrowed sweaters from my daughter. Luckily it is getting warmer for the rest of this week.

@Cassel Carole I send you that email which gave permission, I can see if I can find it and resend it to you

Very nice Anja, I just bought that script in the sale and it is great seeing it in use

Happy birthday to you Carole and my card for you is on Facebook, because I only took a full size card with me and I can’t post that without resizing.

I agree with you about how easy some things are to do in Affinity and like you I hadn’t heard about until it was mentioned by Carole! My 90 days trial version expired the day before I was starting my trip and I just had time to buy it, otherwise all the customized things I did would have gone. I had just the time to have a quick glance and everything was still there🙂 Your photos are great as always!

There is nothing amiss with reusing a photo, especially not if it is such a nice one! Seeing all the great projects I’m almost, let well almost sorry that I didn’t take my laptop with me. But I’m having a great time over here.

Bonnie I just read the other day that pickleball is now being played in some places in the Netherlands too, although not yet in my part of the country. If it wasn’t you that showed so much about this game I wouldn’t have had a clue about pickleball!

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

Thank you Ann and today I already did take some photos of the flowers in their garden and neighborhood when I made a short walk to clear my head after yesterday’s long flight.

Cristina thank you and in the meantime I have arrived safely and my family was very happy to see me including the 2 dogs and I’m delighted to see all of them.

Thank you Cristina and maybe you have heard about Hardanger, because when I was doing it there were many pattern books and the special Hardanger fabric available in Germany. We traveled to Germany a couple of times with our children, many years ago though, and brought back fabric and pattern books for my sister in law, which we shared.

Well it involves a lot of counting, because the patterns mostly go round and if you are suppoost to make a stitch every four threads of the fabric and you do one after 3 threads the pattern does fit in the end. It is precise work and if you make a big piece it can take many weeks/months to complete it, of course depending on how much time you spend on it.

Wow Rene that was an interesting find, especially the one with your mom's name in it. It is great to have a house where you can store and find things in the basement or the attic. When we moved house 8 years ago we had to downsize and got rid of many things including books.

The H is for Hardanger embroidery. It is an old embroidery technique from Norway and my sister in law was very skilled in this style. I have done it too but when I got troubles with my hands had to give up on it. I still have a collection of her and my work which I draped over a chair for this photo. I have one of the pieces on our dining table and change it frequently because I think it deserves to be shown instead of locked away in a drawer.

I'm planning to take a package of chocolate Easter eggs and I already have made a thank you card to go with it.

Thank you and hopefully I see some nice flowers, my daughter just said it is still green from last winter's rain.

Thank you I will and I noticed that when you fly back to Canada I will fly back too. I'm only staying 3 weeks because that is the most I can/will leave my husband alone. Maybe our flights will cross somewhere over the ocean; a strange thought.

I am in too and will use Affinity but when this workshop is taking place I'm in California with my family and I don't take my laptop with me. However I take my iPad and will be able to see the lessons and will do them when I'm back home and have overcome the jetlag. I know that as a Diamond member I can always see those lessons on a later moment but I'm just curious to follow the new lessons for Affinity and this way will motivate me to really catch up when I'm back. Of course I will have a peek here to look what you all are making and cheer you on if necessary!

For this challenge I used Affinity, I have to practice otherwise I forget what I learned so far. I made a repeat pattern with a square following the tutorial in the blogpost and intended to use it as a background, but that was to much and I put another paper on top of it. When I took the photo of this Primula on my outside table I used the spotlight setting of my phone, hence the title. I can't write nor scribble with the mouse of my laptop or with my finger on the trackpad, it looks horrible 😧therefor I used a handwritten font from Ally at Affinity Revolution. The mask is by Jessica Dunn and the doily is by Sheila Reid. The striped translucent tape is one I made some time ago and the others are from my stash by Marissa Lerin. I didn't had the time to make more from scratch because coming Monday I'm in the plane off to my family and I have lots to do before I'm ready to go.