Corrie Kinkel

Sorry posted the wrong one that wasn't quit finished, the frames were not correctly crossing each other.

And here is day 5. When making the selection for the mask I used an octagon because of the shape of the mushroom in the photo. This photo was taken in the fall hence the leaves in the mask. The background is made of 2 papers that had the same colors as in the photo with the blend mode set to color and a slightly reduced opacity. After that an overlay with leaves, 2 frames with one over and under the other, thank you Sue T for that idea! The font is Chalk and Friend 4.

Another mushroom for day 4. I placed my photo to the left because the mushrooms came out of a tree at its base. When taking that shot I had to be carefull because that tree was on the very edge of a busy road, so I had almost no option but take it this way. It is a funny sight to see these mushrooms coming out of a hole in a still living tree. In the end they will destroy the tree. The background is mad with 3 layers, one a light green blended with a layer with some texture and on top of that an overlay with light leakes set to blendmode soft light. There were a lot of dry leaves around that tree so I put a borders with leaves made with a brush to the rightside, just as an embellishment. Font is Balerina with a bevel.

I had already decided that I wanted this photo to use somewhere in this workshop and this is the perfect mask for it. I played too many hours with the kaleidoskop, I forgot how addictive it is as I haven't used it for a while. With all new and exciting things to learn it is easy to forget the older ones. It is a simple layout because when I added some embellishments it didn't work out wel. I think that the photo and the name of the mushroom in bloodred is enough. The name translates in English as Bloodred Russula. To let it stand out I gave it a bevel and the paint behind let it stand out.

There was an item on Dutch television about these gardens not so long ago on a programme about gardening that I like to watch!

Day 2 Extra. In order to display the photo I wanted to use I had to rotate the page and relocate the little photos a bit too, otherwise they would have obscured the big mask. It was nice to make a plaid from the colors of the photo, I haven't done that for a while. Having scripts makes me lazy! The fonts used are Chocolate Sprinkle and Arial.

During the Love Story Challenge, what is now called the Mask Workshop, I just printed with print screen if I'm not mistaken and have referred to them many times since!

This is Day 1 Extra and I made a card for an upcoming birthday, so I won't post this on Facebook otherwise the card will maybe seen before the actual birthday date.

O = On line messages or cards for Valentinie

My theme for this Workshop will be mushrooms, I have so many photos of them and often choose flowers instead. I'll add the names in Dutch and and in Latin because I don't know all the names in English and Google nor the dictionary is that helpful for this subject. I didn't have much time today so it is a simple layout and a good rehearsel of the masking technique because most of the time I use Carole's Raster to Mask script.

I didn't want to make a Valentine page but the colors lend themselves to a love theme so much! Valentine was and still is not a big thing overhere; it mostly, at least with the elderly people, is looked at as very commercial. Just before Valentiine the flowers are much more expensive and they go down in price after that! It is getting bigger this days with cards and offers of chocolate etc. So I decided to make something with the things I love: flowers and photograpgy which must come as no surprise as you know me by now. I used the Heart Mask that came with this theme and 2 papers from Escale Amoureuze and recolored them to go with the palette. The photo of the Dahlia had much of the colors of the palette in it. Heartpunches from from Caole and the freebie tag from this week; I used the black one and colored it with a gradient made with the palette colors.

L = Letters

I love the red lips and the tiny splashes of red! It just makes a lot of difference.

B = Bouquet

Nothing fancy this time, I just finished making an Eastercard with a stencil. I recently bought PSP2023 and it took a while before everything was installed and customized to my liking. Then I decided to do a "spring clean" of all my files and supplies, because it had become messy in places. Now I finished cleaning (not my hobby btw) and I'm ready to go for the next Workshops. I was already working on the stencil and put it on a card from the Card Workshop, the backgrund is made of 2 papers with the blendmode set to overlay. The grass is from my stash just as the egg, and the lace wrap was a freebie by Carole.

Y = You are the only one for me

L = Love, what else

H = Hearts

D = Dinner

Anne thank you. Surprisingly it is not that much work, all the eggs are initially vectors that you can make bigger or smaller with the pick tool. So I made the big egg and 1 little egg that I duplicated as many times as I wanted to have eggs, then rotated them or made them bigger or smaller. When I had them all arranged it was just filling them. The set-up of psp is a lot more work, but I'm getting there. I already had a quick look around and that you can directly see what the blendmodes do on the layers is a big plus as I use blendmodes so often. The frametool needs more exploring.

Susan I don't know which version of PSP you are currently using but if it is 2021 or 2022 you can easely upsize with the AI mode as needed. I use it often and like the results

I just read that the Diamond members are getting new masks, so I'm pretty exicted!!!! Carole thank you so much for making the Workshop attractive for all of us!

Well here is my promised Easteregg as a stencil. I'm going to use it on a card, but I have time enough to do so later. I'm not completely finished with customizing and exploring my new PSP 2023, but I wanted to finished this one first. The little eggs inside the big one come mostly from my stash and some came from Carole as freebies and some I just colored. I think the bunny was a freebie by CF some time ago

Susan this looks great and the stencil with words is next on my list to give it a try and thanks to you I know now that I have to be careful in selecting the font to use!

Sue very nice, but now I almost don't dare to show - when finished - the one I'm currently working on because I had a quite similar idea for an easter stencil! Today I just bought PSP2023 so I'm still in the proces of customizing it, not everything goes automatic. Once that is finished to my satisfaction I'll resume my easteregg.?