Corrie Kinkel

I have been a bit MIA for the last days of the workshop and have had some time now to see all the great projects you all did, but it is way to much to comment on them all. I had to take photos on an event of my swim group and make an album out of it. I have just sent it off to the printers and keep my fingers crossed that it will turn out nice. Maybe I'll finish the workshop in the coming days as I have noticed that I'm not the only one that hasn't completed it yet.

Susan I think that temporary files and "klembord" are the same, this might be a language issue. In spite of being Dutch I use PSP and some other programs in English, so I don't have to deal with those issues.

I have been a bit absent here and in the Text Workshop because the co-ordinator from our swim groups had her 85th birthday. After our weekly swim class on Thursday we organized a buffet for her and my part was taking the photos and make a photo album plus helping where needed. The last couple of days I have been busy selecting the photos and making the album, which is now at the printers. I can't show most of those photos because of all the people in them, but I can show something of that buffet. I made a little cluster with the stacked alpha script for the 8 and 5 with a bouquet from my stash and have that on some of the pages in the album, so it runs as a theme through it.

L = Lament or Lamentation

Thank you and yes I'm going to print it. This format will print nicely and give me 2 cards from an A-4 satin photopaper.

A great layout and so you! You do the design elements of Anna Aspnes and Katie Pertiet justice and those fit your style perfectly.

For day 4 I used a card from the Mask Workshop - Extra 2b and a photo I took in Yosemite NP in may this year. When I took that photo I already thought X-mas card! 😃 It has text on a path and the 2 embellishments are from my stash. I don't think I am able to finish this workshop but that isn't a problem I have done this one before. The reason is I have a photo assignment and have to make a album out of it. The lady of our swimgroup has her 85th birthday this week and we decided to give her a surprise buffet in the cafetaria part of the pool. Everybody paid € 5 and one of the members is a cook and the pool director donated all the coffee and tea and the plates/cutlery etc. Today was the big event and I had to take all the photos, so for the next couple of days I'm busy to make an album that then will be printed and presented to her. If I was making this only for me I would take the time to finish this workshop, but now there is a little bit more pressure to hurry up. I'll have a look her what everybody is making and see you all in a while

Ann I like your new kitty but the wrapped text is a little bit hard to read in the color you choose on the busy background.

Daniel I recognized this great layout from the Tourist Spot challenge and it is very nice to see it again!

Due to a serious shortage of time I reuse this layout from the StoryTime Workshop that has the textwrapping. I liked to use that feature very much but PSP2023 has a big problem with that and although Corel knows about it there hasn't been a solution to it yet. The problem lies in the fact that you are not able to convert your text to a raster, it goes to a single line and disappears and thus you can't resize it for posting. Very annoying!!!! The only option to make text with textwrapping is to use an older version of PSP and then import it into your project in version 2023.

@Corrie Kinkel This is a card from the Card Workshop-7-Extra 2100x1050 which means if I make it a double card it will be a square. Printing on A-4 paper is very inefficient, it either is very small to get 2 cards out of 1 paper or when it is bigger you have to cut of a lot of the paper. Over here we don't have square fotopaper for printing at home; for photos it is rectangular like 5x7. Even when it might be somewhere it certainly isn't widely available.

Nice layout you did of my country!

Lovely layout Cristina and I see you like Anna Aspnes goodies too. I so agree with you on changing your mind because something is not coming out as you want it. For me it most of the time is a struggle before I get anything that I'm happy with......and yes it is time-consuming as well. Nevertheless I love it!

D = Deceased

Day 2 and another card ready, which I probably will use as an e-card because of the size. Even as a double card it isn't easy to print on A-4 or standard photo format. Again I used a wreath from my stash and I took my colors from it.

Now we have the Z after skipping the X and Y it will be okay to go to the next round with : A = Amen

Michele we skipped the X and Y too!

Mary I too forgot the sculpture effect and I hope I will remember a bit longer now because I actually like it!

Mistakes sometimes happen to be a blessing in disguise and give the most unexpected results! This is a very nice "mistake".

I'm in need of Christmas cards; it is already a bit late but my calendars took more time then anticipated. This is a chance to combine it. I used a card template from the last card workshop. The font is Gill Sans ultra bold but because this is a card I used a less thick outline and filled it with a cass-star tube. The papers and illustrations are from my stash and I have got them from Creative Fabrica a long time ago.

I like her art very much and am using it frequently too but I haven't bought anything in the recent sale. My budget for things related to scrapbook is dwindling fast and I suspect Carole will probably have something for Black Friday. Your layout is fantastic!

@ Ann I have changed the font to Arial, so I hope you can read in now! I'll post it in the Facebook group too, so maybe it is better readable there.

I like this idea to document a whole month, maybe I am going to do this after the P52 challenge because once I have done a whole year I don't want to do the next year as well. There would be much of the same to document and that doesn't appeal to me. I am lucky in a way that in our family we don't have people dying in december, just the opposite my 2 granddaughters are both born in december; one before and the other after Christmas. August is a month of remembrance for me because my mother and father both died in august only 26 years in between; besides that some of my in-laws died during that month as well.

Sterkte Jannette! Deze workshop komt nog wel een keertje, maar ik snap dat het soms fijn kan zijn om even aan de situatie te kunnen "ontsnappen".

Ann I agree now it is posted over here in a much compressed form. In full on my computer is is ok. So maybe I'll change it