Corrie Kinkel

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.

Our brain works sometimes in mysterious ways!

This made me smile 🫠 and I wonder how do you come up with such funny ideas that are worked out to perfection.

That are lovely gardens and you show them so well!

Thank you and I think I'm going to emboss that icon with my initials added. I have been looking for something to put on my layouts that is not too obvious and this might do the trick. If time allows I'll give it a try. Dear Annie Tobin had a nice sign on het layouts and I have been searching on and off for something without copying hers that is.

Thank you and congratulations on you new granddaughter Gwen! Enjoy her as long as you are staying in Cornwall. It is just 3 weeks now and I'm preparing the last things. I have my birthday as well a week before I go, it is becoming a bit hectic at the moment.

Lovely folding, even without the F it is immediately clear it is a fox!

I know how you feel, it is a real danger isn't it! I have my external backup permanently connected with my laptop and every day at 11.00 pm my computer makes a backup. It only makes a backup of the files that are changed and it has been a real saver of files or directories that I had put in the bin and emptied that bin....... Now I have a daily routine to check my bin and empty it afterwards before I close the laptop. This way I easily can see what I have placed in the bin, this has reduced the "oh my what have I done again now" feeling. 🙃

This challenge became a kind of rollercoaster. At first I started in Affinity, but it didn't worked out well. The photo I choose was not suitable for what I had in mind, I had won the cass-Uneven Lines script and wanted to incorporate that in my layout but found it for this layout a bit too busy. In the end I duplicated the layer with the lines and rotated it 90 degrees and used it as a background under the part of the layout that I already had done. I wanted something to write the date and used an icon with a handheld phone. Afterall that is how I take my photos.😉