Corrie Kinkel

Yes you are right, my photos although I have more, were way to big. That aquarium had lots of great display tanks with all kind of fish but the jelly-fish were the highlight!

Lesson 7 Yep I made it to the end, but this one was the hardest of all! I wanted to use these photos from my visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the biggest in the US which has a fantastic display of jelly-fish. The lesson was about changing a template with 2 photos into one with 4 photos. I think that by now I understand how to do this and in the end simply ignored it. I didn't use a kit because I have nothing that applies to an aquarium theme but I used bits and bobs from my stash with different adjustment layers, color overlays and a lot of blend modes to get something that gives me a somewhat coherent layout. The fonts are Ally handwriting and Arial. I have loved seeing all the work and ideas from everyone and I have enjoyed learning some new ways to use Affinity; a big thanks to Carole! I will certainly keep using it and already am looking forward to the coming vector workshop, but in the mean time I now am going to make a photoalbum from my trip.

This is a very original take on the letter I with things in your house! I love your play with the colors, even in your card!

I have no pets but my daughter in California has 2 dogs which I showed in day 2 of the Affinity Template Workshop. Because the family became annoyed with opening and closing the door for them my daughter installed a doggie door with a similar kind of flap as your screendoor. Their poodle is a full size poodle and just fits through that doorflap and after a day or two he understood how it worked and he uses it since them, even if the other door is open! The little one is afraid of the flap and he will go through when my daughter removes the flap, but although they live in California even there it can become uncomfortable and chilly with an open door. She researched the comments on the internet and there it was stated that a schnoodle will need a couple of years to get accustomed to such a doorflap. When I was with them I tried to learn him how to do it and with some treats I got him hesitantly to use it, but he flatly refused to come in through it and was patiently sitting outside with his little head a bit tilted and big asking eyes. I'm afraid it will not work in the near future!

Lesson 6 where I want to show the beautiful irises I saw in California. I used again the diamond template because of the portret size of my photos. And again Jessica Dunn's bundle Meadow. I love that one it so versatile, especially with flowers which I love to take photos of. For the textured paper I used the blend mode pinlight and the font is Astrid.

Well your wish is my command 😉. I just had to convert it to jpg, because for obvious reasons I have it as a png and a psp.image. At first I applied an emboss to it but I decided against it because now I can use it on almost any background and bevel or emboss as I think fit. All my photos are shot with my iPhone therefore I searched for a free image of one and found a font that I liked and erased some of the lines with a feathering. I didn't want something that is too overpowering or obvious.

P = Pattern

N = Nailpolish

Lesson 5 and I really want to do this workshop one after the other, just as if I was participating at the actual dates. When finished I can go on to make a photoalbum of my trip and get it printed. Again flowers from my trip from different spots, some I took one on a walk around the neighborhood where my family lives and some from a daytrip we took. I used a bright background, very unusual for me but somehow it works. All the papers and the flowers are from DigiDewi's Kumbayakit. Instead of the swirls on the template I used 2 hexagon rows that I made some time ago and I colored them with a gradient just to give that option a try. I kept the 3 horizontal papers just solid, all the attention has to be on the photos. I didn't use a title but just the vertical paper for a list of the names of the flowers. Before I went on my trip I had a conversation with Sue T and some others about having a watermark for my work, especially if I would want to use it outside of the campus and the result is in the bottom left corner.

Thank you and it is always a joy to get the composition well at least if it goes my way ........😉

Susan thank you and it is good to be back to scrapping! The photos I showed here are just a couple of the lot I took photos of.

Thank you so much!

Lesson 4 - Here I used some of the photos I took recently on my trip. Stanford University has a so called Arizona Garden with a lot of cacti and succulents. It is not big but worth while to see those plants outside in a more natural environment than a heated glasshouse. For the background I use a paper from the minikit Wintertropics by Jessica Dunn. The font is Cambria and I used a bevel on it.

Thank you, for me that is often the most challenging part and it takes most of the time.😉

Lesson 3 and because it is mother's day over here I used a photo of a rose😊 All the papers are from a kit by Chantahlia Design Be Encouraged and the font is Hello Christmas.

For lesson 2 I used 2 photos of my family's dogs. They are so cute and they remember me when I come to visit, even after a year! Dante is a poodle and the smartest; Koko is a schnoodle, a crossing of a schnauzer and a poodle, and the naughtiest. All the papers are from Jessica Dunn's kit Furry Cuddles, the title font is Berlin Sans and I used the adjustment layer HLS on the dark layer with diamonds to show the diamonds better. I wanted to use the adjustment levels as in lesson 1 but that didn't give a good result.

My J is for Jugendstil. Many years ago we did a city trip to Berlin and visited the Hackesche Höfe (Hacke's Courtyards). This is a building complex situated in the center of Berlin and is designed in Jugendstil (Art Nouveau). It was badly damaged in WWII but is beautifully restored now. A lot of the buildings have magnificent tiles and those are remade and we bought one; we are still sorry we only bought one.

I love to see another jigsaw puzzle fan! I have done so many and had an exchange scheme with my sister in law. But sadly puzzles are no longer for me, the strain is too much on my eyes and my sister in law died some years ago as well. During Covid my husband caught the puzzle "virus" as we call it and nowadays he exchanges puzzles with our daughter in law.

Thank you Ann, I missed the campus too! I didn't know that particular phrase but after checking its meaning I understand it.

I will post my results here too because I see the thread is still in use. I'm back from my trip, have overcome my jetlag and installed all the goodies from Carole's birthday sale. Now I can start with the workshop amongst a million of things that I have to do as well. This is a photo from the opossum that almost every night was sitting on the fence in my daughters garden. When they put the garden light on or use a torchlight it will freeze and stay put. This is a defense mechanism of opossums but alas it doesn't work in the modern world. Where I live there are no opossums, it was nice to see one. All the papers are from the Meadow bundle by Jessica Dunn, the font is Brellos and I gave the little balls a faint color and a little bit of noise with a very small shadow. At first I wanted to mirror my photo but that looked weird, so I mirrored the template.

I know how much you wanted to make it perfect and I'm glad the bride loved it, of course she did! Knowing your creativity and eye for detail that couldn't be otherwise. It is good to have you back here with new ideas and projects!

Congratulations to you and your husband for your 40th anniversary! It is a nice idea to make one page with the most important facts for each year and I hope you will be able to find photos for it and finish it. I don't think I will start such an album and if I do, I would certainly have many years with text only. I have trouble enough to make something for the timeline album, due to not having photos . I don't like to do pages without photos, but that is a personal preference of course.

Due to my trip I'm a bit late for the letter I, but I already had it done before, so now I'm back I just have to post it. The I stands for Imari porcelain and my parents got this wand plate when they had their 25th wedding anniversary in 1971. Imari is an old Japanese painting technic for porcelain. I suspect this plate isn't that old, because nowadays the technic is still used.

I remember my grandma still using those in the 1960th

H = Hand and Nail cream