Corrie Kinkel

I love this one, kit conveys the feeling of that moment when the sun is rising! Simple but perfectly executed.

L = Latitude

I'm flying in 13 days now and the weather here is very nice as well. In California it is much warmer and I will need lots of sun lotion because the sun there is much stronger compared to the Netherlands. Silicon Valley is at the same latitude as North Africa! How long are you staying with your family?

That is what I wanted to mentioned but you already did. I have used that one many times if I needed such an effect because it works behind a window as well.

Thank you for this tip. Lately I too worked most of my time the for the Build a Kit, but in between looked at some Affinity Revolution tutorials. I like the way how she (Ally) explains everything; it reminds me a bit of how Carole teaches and perhaps that is why it feels familiar. This tutorial I haven't seen, but when I have time I certainly will!

B = Beautiful

So cute and a lovely story about your dog. I was never one for having or playing with stuffed animals, not even a teddy!

Lovely color combination with that gradient coming from the top left and you made it to the end! Well done you🌻

I used the 4th row down: diamond template, engraving, corner shape, linoleum pattern and plaid paper. All the papers and elements are mine except the cluster which was a recent freebie from MysteryScraps - SpringUnlocks. Some of the elements were easy, I have the rock engraved with my name which I use sometimes. I didn't have a diamond template and made it and saved it for future use too. The corner cut shape I once did but I couldn't find it, so I did it anew and made a frame out of it with a bevel. I used my admission ticket script once again to put the name of the plant in the photo on it. It is flowering abundantly on my patio at the moment.

A very lovely page and it is good to see you back!

I tried this and I can put text inside a vector shape and hide the shape, but when I wanted to save it I got the message: "an error has occurred while trying to save the image as a psp.image". I got that many times when I tried to do it a bit differently. On another trial I could save my image as a psp.image but when I duplicated the text and wanted to convert that duplicate to a raster layer it went into the long line of text which I always get with a selection layer. So far I don't think this will be a solution.

Very nice! My granddaughter started this way too and has now a black belt 1e dan at age 15!

These color combinations makes it more attractive IMHO and I love your humor 🤣

The letter G had me puzzled for a while and the word "grater" didn't came to mind. But then my eye fell on this copper guild mastermark that is in a small holder in our "office" - just a room but we call it our office 😉 It has a diameter of only 4.4 cm and was issued in 1780 to a relative of mine on my mom's side of the family. In those days there were guilds for the trades, like fishmongers, butchers, bakers, masons etc. You started as an apprentice for a master of the guild and after a couple of years when you were ready, you had to deliver a piece of work, your masterpiece that showed the guild that you had learned all there was to learn. If the guild approved you got the master title and a guild mastermark to prove it, which allowed you to start - in this case - your own bakery. On one side of the guild mastermark is the name of my ancestor and the word "Mr Bakker" (Bakker meaning baker) and on the other side is a windmill and stalks of wheat.

Lovely and you are a very proud and adoring grandpa.

Interesting idea and something to test. I'll give it a try later this evening and report back.

Ann I have made a note of this work around and will see if I can use this in 2023 the next time I want wrapped text. But like Susan my text already goes to a long line when I duplicate it.......... Maybe this time it will behave😉

Nice brushes! Have a nice trip to Scotland and come back with a lot of new photos for your projects.

Alas that never happened to me, it still doesn't work and I don't use that wrapped text any longer in 2023. Only for that I go to 2022 or to Affinity.

Ann sorry to hear you got the same problem with the wrapped text as a lot of us have with 2023 😭

Bye Doska, I have loved seeing your work and all the best for your future.

Always a pleasure! 😘

I will give it a try, but maybe it has to wait until I'm back from my trip. It is starting to get a bit hectic and I have promised my husband we will do a couple of things before I go.

Thank you for sharing how you did it, both are fantastic and for me maybe an idea to follow.

Lovely Spring feeling and my photos of crocuses (with is the plural according to my dictionary) are almost identical.