Jeni Simpson

Rene, any chance of a link to the tutorial. I can't find it at The Lily Pad, yet.

Corrie, I, too am a newbie with Affinity, although PSP is a programme I have been using for many years. I began in a Rootsweb genealogy group, using PSP9, with a Canadian, of course, who had done quite a bit of scrapbooking. She was teaching us to create family pages, or a scrapbook sometime in the future. Sadly, she fell out with the leader of the genealogy group, and left our new gene-scrapping group. However, we continued with scrapbooking tutorials we found online, some of us joining the Campus, although not to the extent of becoming paid subscribers. There were many groups out there teaching PSP, and we joined those. I went on to learn tubing, and HTML, although never comfortable with that aspect, I did enjoy tubing. I must go back through comments and type them out so I can be a better user of Affinity. I loved this new, to me, programme, even though PSP is so familiar to me. Thanks, everyone for your input, as usual, it is invaluable. Thank you, Carole, for taking the time to learn and to teach us Affinity. I think, when I see a sale, or become wealthy, I would love to purchase the Photo2, if it is ever sold separately.

Day 11 Project 5 This was an interesting one, I wasn't sure I could manage it, and it wasn't so bad after all! I used Jessica Dunn's Cranberry kit, because the colours seemed to match my photo, although one of the papers I re-coloured. The clip I used came from Tammy's Songbird Scrap Designs So Thankful kit. I didn't bother re-colouring the clip because my brooch has some blue in it. Last year, I bought a brooch I wear on a black jacket. I love this brooch and she get compliments every time I wear her. I found out the brooch is called a Dancing Lady Brooch, and she comes from Australia.

Carole, thank you. I tried to snap them, and I also tend to align visually. I don't think I was able to snap, for some reason. I tend to get a bit impatient when things don't work as I wish, and just do whatever works, in the end. The word 'SWANS' took some time to do, the colouring wasn't a problem, and the kerning was. There was too large a space between the W and the A, so I duplicated the word, erased the letters after the W, ANS on one layer, and the letters before, SW on the other, then merged them and created the shadow. The photographs were in ellipses already so I used an ellipse to cut them out of the background. The swans come in 3 sizes: the Large is 27cm long, 17cm wide, and 18cm high; the Medium is 21cm long, 12.5cm wide, and 14cm high; the Small is 15.5cm long,10cm wide, and 12cm high; In inches, the Large is 10.6 inches long, 6.7 inches wide, and 7.1 inches high; the Medium is 8.3 inches long, 4.9 inches wide, and 5.5 inches high; the Small is 6.1 inches long, 3.9 inches wide, and 4.7 inches high.

Project 4 Day 9 Many years ago, in New Zealand, we had a company, Crown Lynn, that created ceramic dinner plates, side plates, and dessert bowls, as well as cups & saucers. I think most households would have a crockery set in their kitchen cupboards, I know we did. These sets have become rather expensive items now, sold in Thrift Shops, online, etc. They also made some beautiful swan vases. I loved the photographs from the gallery and am not so fond of the vases. A couple of years ago my art class went on a tour of art galleries, art studios, and museums. At the Eastern Gallery, in Gore, was an exhibition of the Crown Lynn swan vases. There were some stunning photographs, as well as a few swan vases set around the gallery. I took a few photographs of these exhibits. I have used the kit, suggested by Carole, by Tricia from True Heart Digitals. The swans.

Surely they have heard of Shirley Bassey or Tom Jones?

Day 7 Project 3 I chose to stay at a lovely cottage, in Riverton on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand, for my 70th birthday, a few years ago. Riverton is a lovely peaceful town, settled by Scottish settlers including my great grandparents, who married there. I loved the decor of the cottage. There were lots of blues with some pop of colour here and there. The kit is Homecoming and the Sept2024 glitters.

Our language is similar to yours, Sue, and I type using either UK or Australian English. I'm always getting hints to alter my text, and I choose to ignore it. Funnily enough, when I was in the US many years ago, I was asked what language I spoke. When I said English, I was told, you don't sound English! It wasn't long before I realised the person meant accent!

Project 2 On our travels around the farm, in December, we came across a few cows, with the odd bull amongst them. These cows had an amazing view of the Clutha River across the road from the farm. They were curious and came towards the truck, although not too close, they were used to the truck and more used to horses during mustering time. I used Nellie Bell's Lion Kids papers for the three papers, and Jessica Dunn's pail and barn from her Charlottes Farm kit.

Day 3 My first project. Using Jessica Dunn's Behold Autumn and Behold Spring mini kits, Autumn for the gorgeous colour of the background, the strip was colourised to fit the paper used as background. The Behold Spring mini kit had the hearts and the branch. I recently travelled to stay with friends at Mt Hope Station in Roxburgh, Central Otago. On the second day, our friends took us over the hills to the mustering hut about one and a half hours away by truck. The first buildings we saw was this ancient cottage set beside an orchard.

Cindy, do you mean sighting? The text needs to come to the top so we can see the full word.As it is, it looks like 'a Rare Signing' and I think you mean 'A Rare Sighting'

Sharla, what an interesting photograph. I love quirky things and this scene has that element for me. The page is simple, lovely, and cool for me enjoying summer, finally!!!

Thank you, Carole, I will keep going, I'm interested in learning what I can. I had the same problems as others when I started with PaintShop Pro, I was used to working with Photoshop and CorelDRAW in my workplace. PS was relatively easy to convert to PSP, I also started on an AppleMac and had to convert everything I learned to Windows 3.11 OS. I found the colour picker quite useful in Affinity, I didn't seem to have any trouble with it, although I couldn't work out how to slice my sandwich. I will need to watch a few videos to get comortable with things! Carole, I sent the rego to a friend, hoping she might join this bootcamp, to see what Affinity has to offer. Oops, forgot to say, thanks for this link!

The Sandwich I am way behind, I have a very ill housemate, and taking care of him is taking up my time at the moment. However, today, I finally started with Affinity. Here is my sandwich and a cup of green tea.

Euka, what a wonderful idea for those who wish to do the workshop and are time poor. The page looks great and I do think it works well.