Julie Magerka

Just gotta keep working on these. Not for any lesson design, just for fun. My initials and then a snowgirl to remind me of nice crisp cold weather which I am craving right now!

Yup, cats! They're in charge. Nice shapes too.

Yes, CTRL+Z is my best friend too.

In Carole's comment after her comments to us, she suggested making a letter from a rectangle. So here's mine. The easiest one I could think of (maybe letter I would be easier.) It's supposed to be the letter L but it could be a black boot for a cartoon character or perhaps a boomerang? Just wanted to try!

Oh no Jnet! Losing all your passwords will make so much work for you, and on top of a move! I am sorry for you.

It seems to me that PSP is better suited to working with rasters. If I decide I am going to be a Vector Artist (fat chance), I would need a different program. But I like that I can do a little bit of vector work at least within PSP. And that's good enough for me!

I remember now, from the last Vector Workshop, that the leaf design made my eyes glaze over! It was just too much node-work for my skill level. This time, I managed the nodes better but I did something wrong b/c when I fill in the shape with a solid colour, the three cutout parts in the middle get filled in too. I'm just too pooped to figure it out right now. But hey, I did the outline! Don't have to get an A every time, right? I will try again if I can get some direction on what I did wrong. Update: just read Carole's note (after her comments to us) about not using a shape with holes! Which is what I did.

They don't just multiply, they seem to change from one node type to another or be unavailable to work with. They are diabolical!

Didn't have a lot of time today to work on Lesson 2, but wanted to be on time. We have temps in the 100s (F) and my A/C went kaput yesterday. It has been fixed but it knocked me sideways to endure high indoor temps. The poor dogs too were listless. Just played with a few shapes. I have NOT mastered those (#@^$*) nodes - my shapes are often a bit wonky - but I refuse to let them beat me ultimately! I will prevail! (Ha)

B = Boysenberry

Sure, colour is nice, but it works just as well without.

This time around (my second at Vectors), my heart actually resembles a heart! The first go-around it resembled a molar! The arrow went OK too. Maybe not either is perfect, but I'm OK with how much smoother I was able to manipulate the (#@%^&) nodes. For some reason, Carole's explanations this time seem more detailed and I can follow without feeling that I have a blazing headache! 🙂 But let's see how it goes....

I can read ASL! Love back at you! That's a lily but not sure if Asiatic or Oriental.

Just hang in Randy. You will see how it's done in the workshop. Carole will set you straight.

I'm eating my fill right now of cherries, the luscious dark ones from the US.

T = Tamarind (love the flavour in Thai food)

Oh, a first birthday. He might not remember, but the rest of you will. Adorable card.

Here's the fisherman.

OK, it's kinda hard to post anything after Susan's masterpiece. She aced it! I too have been making "cards" for some folks since they send me photos and I get all excited and want to use them in layouts. But mine are quick and simple and yet the recipients seem to appreciate them (or they're just very polite!) One is a friend fishing in Montana; one is my great-nephew's high school grad; and the other is for a cousin's birthday coming up. I will add her name later below the flower. Oops, I'll have to upload the fishing pic separately. I exceeded the limit.....I have been using 2400 x 3000 as canvas size and resizing down, so they become 600x750.

O = Olallieberry (really, google says it's a fruit, and it's been around since the 1930s!)

You knocked this one out of the park! Beautiful!

All of life seems to be a trade-off sometimes. 😃

Bless Mrs. Tate! I had a teacher like that too in grade school, grades 5 & 6. She read to us every day after lunch. I can remember King Solomon's Mines as one of the books. I was so hooked!

Those thumbnails in the Layers Palette are pretty small so I still like to type in a quick name for some elements that are hard to see. When I use a lot of elements, it can get very difficult to figure which is which. I use abbreviations whenever I can to save time. e.g Flr 1, flr 2, etc.

That is so pretty!