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More from my gaming group this month. Remember...I don't pick the themes; the game does. LOL

 

Glam Gallery: When I found these gorgeous creations from Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen, I wasn't sure how to display them all. I took inspiration from Carole's new Cork script and her recent fasteners challenge (although I think it was technically a paperclip challenge).

 

Promposal Day: I had no inspiration at all for this one. I'd been dying to use Cass's Projection script and had lots of fun playing with it. I must have tried a dozen different versions of the script before I settled on what you see.

 

Puzzle Night: I purchased two of Carole's jigsaw puzzle scripts for this one. I ended up using the Puzzle6x6 script so I could move some of the pieces. The characters and backgrounds are from the game. The font is Fontsbomb Jigsaw, free from FontSpace.

For my gaming group today...used mostly freebies.

 

Fairytails font from Creative Fabrica (on sale for $1.50; couldn't resist. I'm a sucker for fonts with added glyphs.)

 

Bee Gnomes from Creative Fabrica

 

The rest is from ALFLT Mar 2021 Blog Train-Meg Scott Studio

Great stuff, everyone! So creative.

Thanks so much, Mary. <3

Thanks so much for your kind words, Lynda and Annie. They mean so much.

 

Lynda, you are tempting me with that mandala script. It looks like so much fun.

 

Anne, playing is the best way to learn, after Cassel's classes, of course. I have had more happy accidents than I can remember.

 

I LOVED my mustang, Minka. Ford might just want to use your page!

You've been busy, Bonnie. I can't believe you were able to train your cats!

Lynda, that mandala script looks like a lot of fun!

 

I've been dreaming of Hawaii for decades, Anne.

I wanted to make a background using the original pic (Hayden Williams, illustrator), but I didn't want the colors from the woman on it. I selected her from the pic, inverted the selection, and deleted her. Applied Effects: Image Effects: Seamless Tiling; duplicated the layer several times and moved the layers around so the blank space was covered; merged the layers. Then I applied Effects: Distortion: Displacement Map using the Canvas Course map. I'm sure there's an easier way to achieve this, but I make stuff up as I go, especially when doing the daily pic for my gaming group.

 

The font is Best Life, freebie from The Hungry JPEG.

 

Constructive criticism is always welcome.

It's so bright and cheerful, Minka!

Great work! I have to watch the Filter Forge replay.

S = Sing

I've never used that effect on a frame, Lynda. After seeing yours, I'm going to have to try it.

 

Love what you did, Julia. If you send out Easter cards, you're all set!

Annie, the game comes up with the daily themes; I have to come up with the pics. :)

 

Knick-Knacks...what a cute idea, Karon.

Karon, can we assume that is your lovely daughter? The layout is a wonderful way to showcase her. And thanks so much for your kind words.

 

Love your page, Laurie. I grew up in Brooklyn and live on Long Island, NY so I've always been near the ocean. Your pics bring me back to my childhood days spent at the beach.

That's wonderful, Minka. And I think whatever works for you, is what you should do. <3

Bokeh can be used to make interesting background papers. I think it enhanced the presentation of this picture by fashion photographer Andrew Yee. I used several different overlays and I think one layer is my own using a bokeh brush and adjusting the brush variance. (I tried so many different things that I just don't remember. LOL) I changed the color on some of the layers by locking and flood filling; also used various opacity settings on the different layers.

Oh, I agree with you, Lynda and Minka. With both sides of my family being Eastern European Jews, I don't know if we can go back very far with research. The records are really not there.

 

Great idea with those flags, Lynda.

 

Shirley, I like when people make tutorials their own. Carole is always saying they are just a guide, inspiration.

Thanks so much, Minka. No instant effects or filter forge. On Winter Run I used pic to painting; selected a piece of the tree, used it as a pattern, filled the middle layer with it, and applied gaussian blur. On Winter Love Fashion, I did a lot of selections and cutout effects. On Calm Indoors, I created both of the frames using the inner bevel tool and shadowing and used the blinds texture effect on the background.

 

Cristina, thank you for your kind words. It wasn't until you mentioned the colors that I realized they all had similar coloring.

 

I love your lab work, Lynda. My FB gaming group is dedicated to one game, City Girl Life. It's a life simulation game on par with The Sims. In fact, I owe The Sims Social on FB for sparking my interest in photo editing. Back when I was a member of a Sims group, the admin asked if I could help with pictures. I was absolutely clueless and started using free editors. Eventually, on the advice of a friend I bought PSP and stumbled upon the Campus. When The Sims left FB most of us started playing City Girl Life and I inherited a group. The rest is history. It was truly life changing for me. I absolutely love doing the pics which is the only reason I keep playing the game.

J = Jigsaw puzzles whether in the flesh or online. I find them to be very relaxing.

Great stuff, ladies!

 

Here are a few pages I did for my daily pic in my gaming group last month. Hope you like them.

Whenever I try to meditate, I fall asleep, Ann. I might try your one minute method.

 

Minka, can I come over and use your jacuzzi?

Great mandalas, everyone. Thanks for helping me out. I usually get the newsletter a day late (don't know why) so I had seen your posts before I read that it was in the blog.

C = Cards

I have been so scatter-brained lately. Where is the mandala? I love what everyone did with it and want to try my hand.

Minka, you have expressed so very well how I, and many of us, I'm sure, feel about the Campus. <3

 

I love your page. The window is fabulous and the colors are wonderful.