Corrie Kinkel

For day 4 I used the template from day 3; for day 3 I used the extra template for the diamond members. For a long time sports didn't play a big role in my life, my whole family had no interest in sports at all. Most of them, including my parents didn't have a car in those days and we all lived in Rotterdam, so we walked, used a bike or a ride on the tram. Maybe that is why I like to walk and I still use my bike almost every day, just to go get the groceries, go to the pool etc. I started swimming every week almost 25 years ago when there started aquafit and fiftyfit classes in our pool and I intend to keep doing that as long as I can. With a friend I go for a walk each week, although the weather is not playing along this year. 

For this page I made the title with 2 papers as was explained on day 3, where I didn't use that technique. The papers are from Wintermorning by DB Magnolia and the rest of the embellishments come from my stash. The title font is Bauhaus and the text is Bahnschrift.

8 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'll try this way, it's what I'm actually doing but soon as I go back to the original (to fix a spelling mistake) it goes to one line and especially when I duplicate the original goes to one line right away.  Did you leave the selection selected before duplicating?

I'm sorry in the end it didn't work when I tried to correct a typo that I had specially made because I wanted to test it. We have to hope that Corel will fix it!

5 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'll try this way, it's what I'm actually doing but soon as I go back to the original (to fix a spelling mistake) it goes to one line and especially when I duplicate the original goes to one line right away.  Did you leave the selection selected before duplicating?

Yes I did. Normally I do: make selection - type my text - deselect - duplicate - change to raster and at that point it goes to one line .

So now I did: make selection - type text - duplicate - change to raster - hide vector - deselect. To my utmost surprise it worked. Later this evening I will try if I can go back to the hidden vector text to change maybe a typo, or just alter a word. I sincerely hope it will still works. I'll let you know, but firstly I'm going to watch the opening of the Summer Olympics on the telly. 

I started this layout last saturday but with the story workshop and a very busy week I just finished this one. I wanted to make the lifted corner by hand, but I'm not entirely happy with it. Next time I'll probably go with the script that I have. However I used the cass-SlippedInCorner2 which I won last week! I tried all the different options but settled here for this one. Script is nice and easy to use, love it! For the background I made an overlay with raindrops. Somewhere on the net I saw an umbrella adorned with flowers and made this brolly myself, just as the watersplash. The cluster is by Jessica Dunn and the rain or shine text comes from my stash. The title font is Star Bright.

5 minutes ago, Cassel said:

It was brought to my attention that the quick-page for day 3 was only 600x600 instead of the full-size of 3600x3600. I have fixed it and if you wanted Day 3 quick-page, you can re-download it.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you I didn't use it but downloaded it for future use in case I need something quickly

I never was a very naughty child and as mischief is concerned I can't remember much else as ringing the bell at someone's house and running away before they could open the door. I think almost everybody has done this. But in highschool my friend and I had a narrow escape and were almost caught. Yesterday I was away on a daytrip, so I'm running a bit behind and I'm still working on this week's challenge too. This layout has a background paper called Periodic System by Melo Vrijhof, just as the erlenmeyer and test tube. I made the extra "periodic" tile because I saw it on line and it fits to my theme. The atom is from kissping and the chemistry element I found on Freepik. Title font is School & College Outline.

I have mentioned I have the same problem as others with the wrapped text in 2023!. I think that maybe I have found a solution. This time I made the selection for the wrapped text, typed my text and before I did anything else I duplicated the text and converted the duplicate to raster, which to my surprise indeed worked. Next thing was hide the vector layer and last deselected. I could resize to 600 for posting. Tomorrow when I do day 4 I'll try this again. But I wanted to mention this here already for others to test my theory.

5 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Story Time #2 - The Bird, a Thanksgiving tale. I will post the text here as I doubt it will be large enough in a 600 format. The title is an alpha from Sheila Reid, the fonts are Bremen Bold for the pheasant and Bell MT for the text. I used the template but added my own extras to it. I had a lot in a Thanksgiving kit that I had stashed. I used wood pattern for the background and the round frame. The photo corners were in the kit. 

Here's the text: 

Our traditional Thanksgiving dinner was always wild pheasant. My husband, Jack, brought home the bird and Debbie and Laurey were tasked with plucking it and I would stuff it with sausage dressing and roast it with bacon layered on top because wild game is not as juicy as a commercial bird.

The only drawback to having a wild shot bird was dealing with the tiny bits of lead birdshot that was embedded in the meat. We eventually solved that problem by going to a local game farm and purchasing a wild pheasant, freshly killed. I always preferred the taste of pheasant compared to a traditional turkey.

This looks delicious. Over here we didn't had that tradition of eating turkey for christmas, it was mostly rabbit. Later we tried turkey but I'm not a great fan of it, if not prepared correctly it so quickly gets dry. Pheasant I have never eaten, I don't think it is available here, never heard about it either. 

21 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Lab 7-3

here is an alternate version.  I took the gradient background and duplicated it then moved it to almost the top and added a blend mode.  I like what it did to the metallic elements.  they really look metallic now.  I still wanted some color so I selected the "red" diamonds from the background layer and promoted them to a new layer and brought them above the blend mode layer and lowered the opacity of them (they were red already). I also brought another duplicate of the background gradient above the playing card group and made a mask of the gradient (New Mask Layer > Show All) and used black to block the layers below that have the blend mode so the middle of the cards would retain their original colorful-ness.  

You did a fantastic job but I like this version better. The cards are a bit darker and look more used than in the first version where they are rather white. The metallic elements look great!

21 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Storytime #2. I used my own layout and brought in some elements/papers from the template. Had some trouble this time with text wrapping when I tried to edit. But finally it worked.

Julie I love carrot cake and had a piece today when I was on a daytrip with my cousin. I have backed them myself but not any longer. It is just my husband and me and hubby isn't a fan of carrot cake, so I eat it when I have an opportunity like today.🥕

15 hours ago, Cassel said:

@Linda J Walker Isn't it interesting all the questions we never think of asking when people could answer us?

@Susan Ewart I had never heard of the Cabbage Patch kids to mean adoptees. Something I learned today!

@Corrie Kinkel So is your name Corrie or is that a nickname?

@Minka Glasier That is a very appropriate theme for the topic! And great photos for your extra layout!

@Dan Greenwood That is a fun club you had!!! I bet you had many great game nights! I only learned about Euchre after I met my husband as their family used to play that all the time. In fact, tonight, my son was over and that is what we played!

@Donna Sillia That is an interesting way to use those presets. I would not have recognized them if you had not mentioned it.

@Gerry Landreth I bet he just relied on what he HEARD when your name was pronounced!

@Julie MagerkaHow old were you when you finally "liked" carrot cake?

@Bonnie Ballentine Yes, I remember. I called them "weather-brellas".  I had a few printed for my kids and myself. For those who don't know, it is a twist on the temperature blanket idea.

Now, let's see more posters. I know you are there!

My name really is Corrie and over here that is short for Cornelia, my parents only used my full name when they were very cross with me!

4 hours ago, Sharla said:

Week 29 No photo. Instead, a mini layout to remind me that I’d come to end of spending 100 days reading / studying Dante. The image is a book cover that I’ve altered a little.

 

Wow that is quite an achievement! No simple reading stuff as well.

My mom and dad together with my aunties and an uncle were very fond of the cryptic crossword puzzle that was in the Saturday edition of our newspaper. There was a lot of rivalry between the different families and most of my cousins were involved too. I'm by far the youngest of all and of course I wanted to be involved too. So my parents started to explain to me how I should think in a different way. There were much simpler versions and I liked the to solve those riddles and started to ask them to let me try their puzzle too. I still know how it felt when I could solve a riddle they hadn't: triumph! We used the dictionary and some other books to find the answers, a lot of pencils and erasers were in use and many telephone calls to the rest of the family. 

Lab 14-3 has a tutorial about seamless pencils which I had made and could use here. The old fashioned telephone we used in those days is from Digitalscrapbook.com and the lightbulb is by Melo Vrijhof. Font is Table of Contents and the rest of the elements comes from my stash.

6 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

That is a beautiful layout Corrie.  Good idea to tie this workshop with the All About Me challenge.  It will make a comprehensive book.  I cant even duplicate my vector when it's made in a selection.  It just automatically goes to a straight line.  I think I'll start using 2022 if I feel like I want to do wrapped text in a selection.

Yah it is a nuisance and I have the same problem. I use 2022 or type my text without the wrapped function, but I have to hope that I have no typos/misspelling. And both happen to me often as everybody can see in my posts😢

This layout was a bit of a difficult "birth" so to speak. I have done this workshop/challenge before and didn't want to repeat what I had done. I'm doing the AAM (All About Me) challenge as well and that is a bit overlapping with this workshop. I'm intending to print the layouts from the AAM and like to be able to combine that with the ones I'm making now. Firstly I had to come up with a topic for today and after some searching my stash and the net came up with the story of my baptism. When I started to work on the actual layout my PSP starting to misbehave badly and just before I was posting here I realized I had made a spelling error, which in itself was easy to correct, because I learned the hard way to always and always keep my text in vector format!!!!! I have a copy of the text in Dutch as well because I do the AAM in Dutch. For the background I made an overlay with the crosses which are a cass-picture tube from another challenge. The fonts are Arial and Arienne for the title. The cross on the left was made with a blend mode to get rid of the black version in which I found it on the net.

5 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I could not duplicate the vector without it going to one single line immediately.  I had duplicated the layout to test it, good thing I did or I would have had to re-type it all in.  I just converted to raster and counted my blessings it worked.  

Susan you have written before about you being adopted but this is the first time I hear the the expression Cabbage Patch Kid. In the older days we had a saying that a baby came out of a (red) cabbage, or was brought by a stork. So in a way this makes sense and was used elsewhere too.

13 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

I used the Diamond template, but did quite a bit of revising. I still have my original baby book and scanned the cover and the first page that was written by my mother. I made the plaid using cass-stripes 2 script and the colors from the front  page. The teddy bears are my own which were lined up using cass-repeat script. The title font is a layered font called Edith from CF. I recolored it and used cass-element stacking script and then the cass textcreator script. My birthday is in January so I used the garnets and garnet January from the Calendar workshop. The text script is called Domitian which is an open source font.

 

Donna what a lovely letter from your mom, something to cherish for ever! With a fair bit of enlarging I just was able to read it.

16 hours ago, Cassel said:

Here is a post from the user-to-user forum, that an admin had written.

We have been advised by Corel/Alludo that their server for Corel.com is being migrated and this may cause some disruptions. It will happen on 24 July at 9 pm US Eastern Time and should take between 1 and 2 hours.

They advise that users may experience the following:

Affected products: PSP, VSP, CorelDraw, Painter…

    -    Cannot launch the Welcome screen; limited number of users affected as we have the Welcome screen cached on Akamai.
    -    Cannot purchase items from Welcome screen.
    -    In-app purchase does not work or no purchase button available.
    -    If purchase button is available, it will not bring up purchase dialog but display error, “We are unable to process your request at this time, please try again later.”

 

So if something is not working correctly with your Home page or Welcome screen, don't panic and wait an hour or two.

Thank you I was worried because my PSP was acting strangely yesterday evening (my time) and I hope everything is oké now. I'll give it a try later today. 

15 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Here is my page for the Tut /tech challenge.   I create the page a week or so ago.  I added, by creating the  date banner, lifting some of the  pennants, also I added a ribbon, and lifted  one edge.  I replaced the date stamp with the  banner.  Head on over to the facebook  page, if you want to  see a  much less compressed layout, to see the details and colours in the photos.  I rarely edit my photos.  If I find there  is a need to, all I tend to do is  use the  brightness and contrast, and crop tools.  In this case the photos weren't edited.  Also, for those that may be interested, birds are like dog, they don't perspire, instead they pant like dogs.  For the past fortnight the temps have been in the high thirties, again today it is 37c, and hazy, due to smoke blowing  in. 

I have taken a look on FB and you really can see the difference with the more compressed version here. I don't do much on FB and keep it just for seeing what is going on with the Campus and post there as well as here. It is a handy alternative if the campus site is down for whatever reason. It is a pity that there is smoke coming your way again. My daughter in CA told me that the wildfires are starting there too. At least we don't have many of those, although the last couple of years which were hot and dry, have made us here aware that we can get more fires too but they are so far on a much smaller scale. When visiting Yosemite this spring we drove for miles and miles along a road through the Sierra National Forest that had only blackened trees without any greenery.

1 hour ago, Anja Pelzer said:

I have no photos from my first school, so I generated a Bing -  Background and 2 Bing Layouts and put them together, the books are from CF, and Font is Archistico

Amazing what Bing can do and you certainly can give a good prompt! I think, for me personally, I will not be using this feature very much and I will doing things the "old fashioned way".

7 hours ago, Michele said:

And Corrie wins the bragging rights! 🤩

I'm delighted! It was the mouth with the same smile from that little girl as you have on your photo here that made me think it had to be you!

11 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/441451292922964/user/1421371617

There has been a few posts since I posted the Mourning Doves, you can either scroll down as Corrie suggested, or click on the link above.

I too have been taking pics of Thistles. Your page showcasing this one is  awesome.  It would pass for a macro shot. Tremendous  contrasting depth of field too.

Sue thank you so much! I'm still amazed by what is possible with one of the newer iPhones, of course it took time and was a bit of learning curve before I could use its full potential. At the same time there are are limitations of what I can do opposed to a good camera, but I can live with it.

50 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

Yes, it's one in a series being installed this year. There were seven last year, six this year. At the official event, the mayor of the municipality and others will attend. For a small village, there will likely be a good turnout for the unveiling as well as the reception afterwards. I hope to have lots of pix to use as layouts after that! So beware.....😉

It would be great to see them and hopefully you have a lot to use in upcoming projects/challenges. I always like to have a good stash of new photos so I can choose what will go with a specific topic. Enjoy that day!

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

Hi Sue, I couldn't find any of your Mourning Dove photos on Facebook. Can you direct me?

Ann when on the campus site on FB you see to the right a square with the most recent posts, but you can see more , you have to scroll down for them

11 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

heading to FB now, thanks.  Enjoy the summer....we'll enjoy the fruits of your labour soon enough.

Sue lovely photos on FB and enjoy all your summer activities. I can hardly wait for  those new photos showcased in many new layouts.

Last week I took photos on a little meadow stretch nearby and this week I went there again. Last week the thistle wasn't in bloom but already had fat buds and yesterday when I passed there on my way to the station I saw its vibrant flowers from a distance. At that moment I had to catch the train but on my way home I had plenty of time to take a couple of shots.