Michele

L = Lemon Meringue

Found this amazing tulle dress designed by Giambattista Valli and used Cassel's Curved Photo script on it. Filter Forge helped me create the background paper using Textures: Techno: Brushed Metal. Not wanting to go back into FF, I sharpened the background using Adjust: Unsharp Mask to make the effect more pronounced. I also used Cassel's Smooth Overlay script to make the paper a little more interesting. (You'll probably have to view it full size to see the details.) The flowers are a scatter from AnnieCDigitals and the font is Kunstler Script.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trish, A1C is a blood test for diabetes.

I think my A1C is off the charts now, Trish! :)

I = Ice Cream Cake

TRISH!!!! Great to see you here. We've been missing your cakes, but we've been missing you more.

There's much more space than indicated by the rectangle. Check it out to see if it will meet your needs. The longer you use PSP, the fewer notes you will need. :)

I played around with Filter Forge last night, too. I copied a piece of the dress to a separate image. Then I used Filter Forge: Distortion: Frosty. Can't remember how many different settings and PSP effects I used until I got the one I wanted to use for the background. I always wish I had more time.

 

The original fashion illustration is from Sunny Gu and the font is Dancing Script.

Helen, that blanket is gorgeous! FYI, you can click on Image Information and make your notes there. That way you always have your notes in the actual file. (You can click on Image: Image Information or Shift I)

Love it, Minka. First time skiing I tore a ligament on the bunny hill. Shame, shame.

Thanks for the kind words, ladies.

 

I wish I had been on those trips with you, Ann. It must be breathtaking to see it in person.

T = Tiramisu

I knew this would be your challenge, Sue. Your word art is wonderful.

I used one of Corel's shatter collages and found the wonderful pics on Google. Combined a couple of backgrounds from PixelScrapper. The string element with the beads was also from PixelScrapper. I wanted to create some tags or labels with the locations for each pic, but I ran out of time so I went with plain text. The font is Brush Script MT which is a system font, I think.

 

 

You are very welcome, Ann & Mary.

Thanks so much, Sue and Ann.

 

Sue, I don't know how I do it, either. Sometimes they're not very good, but I share the "scapbooky" ones that I'm proud of here in the Campus.

 

Ann, the text cutter is an option you can choose when you use the text tool. It creates a cutout of the text from the layer beneath the text layer. It creates a new image of just the text cutout with a transparent background. It also shows as a separate layer on the original image. That's the one I typically use. There is a cutter preview option that shows what it will look like before you actually cut it. I hope that makes sense. I made a little pic that might help. If I didn't explain it well, here's a link to using it https://help.corel.com/paintshop-pro/v23/en/official-help/index.html#page/Corel_PaintShop_Pro%2Fcreating-a-text-cutout-filled-with-an-image.html

Clever use of the flairs, Corrie.

My daily gaming theme today was Awesome Autumn. In order to get the colors I wanted I combined a gradient with a background from Pixel Scrapper (now Digital Scrapbooking); the flowers are from AnnieC; the font is Autumn Embrace Floral from Creative Market. They are all freebies I had in my arsenal! The illustration was found on Google. I used the text cutter for the titles and applied inner bevels and drop shadows. Would have done a more interesting outer frame, but ran out of time. These daily pics are sometimes exercises in "how much can I get done in the amount of time I have left?"

Do you do an entire Advent calendar, Sue? I would love to see that!

E = Epidemiologist

Love it, Sue.

Z = Zumba teacher

LMAO, Chris!

 

 

What fun, Anne!

 

 

Thanks so much, Sue. Your encouragement is always appreciated, my friend.