Jeni Simpson

Congratulations, Lynda and Ralph. What a lovely journey through time in this page.

Hank, that is where Affinity comes in. Carole has some tutorials for using Affinity. Some of us have used Affinity for this Template workshop, and, you can find some tutorials there.

Template 7 Affinity 2.6 These two little sweethearts are a friend's grandchildren, Poppy and Ruby. Poppy was so happy to hear she was getting a new baby, she happily gave up her nursery and helped redecorate for her sister. Kit is Billie Irene's Collected Curiosities 2, and the fonts are Kirsten ITC and Scarletta Script. I think this is the last one for me. Thank you, Carole for the fabulous tutorials, templates, and comments. It has been amazing seeing everyone's wonderful ideas.

Template 6 diamond Affinity 2.6 This photograph was taken one evening in the hills overlooking my area. I have used Janet Kemp's Elegant Autumn kit and the fonts used are Mocha Cherry and Mocha Cherry Inline.

I love your cats, Ann, and black cats in particular. I hope Beauty finds a furever home so as not to upset your own three. My one and only black cat had charcoal stripes and only survived to six months; she was an angel.

Thank you, Ann, there is something special about coastal shores; the air is so refreshing.

Template 5 Diamond Affinity 2.6 A couple of years back, I stayed at a lovely cottage near the coast. The decor interested me, and I managed to snap a few photographs of items that appealed. Kit is Jessica Dunn's Coastal Spring papers with her Nantucket Feeling elements. The paper strips were colourised using colours from the striped paper. Fonts are Castella and Billie Olivia

Are you all eating worms out of the Tequila bottles? I don't see plates of food on those tables

Template 4 Diamond Back at Gethsemene Gardens, where we see the Ark, and some of the animals on the Ark. I wasn't sure how to deal with the brush in this one, and knew I would probably use it as a mask, and using the blend mode of Pin Light. The kit is Jessica Dunn's Autumn Bramble from Curio Pantry. Fonts are Believe in Yourself and Beauty Sabila Script

Template 7 Diamond Affinity 2.6 I used a mix of various pieces of art I own to create this one. The small A5 size paintings in here are mixed media, pen and ink, watercolour, graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, etc, so I thought to add some splashes, where the circles were, from Janet Kemp's Memories and Tradition Paint Kit behind the photographs, with Melo Vrijhof's Cosy Day Papers and small heart scatters from Esperanza Mixto. Fonts are Drive Winter and Florida Palm from CreativeFabrica.

Template 2 extra I used 2 photographs taken from the same place, taken for a panorama photograph. The Remarkables are, according to Wikipedia, named for the serrated peaks. I have used the Heartfelt Papers kit by Esperanza Mixto, and colourised the extra shapes.

FontXplorer is the font manager I used and loved for years. I tried searching for it and couldn't find it when I changed computers years ago. Hence now using NexusFont. I must check out Font Expert, thank you.

I have the script, although not sure I have ever used it.

I have all three and have yet to look at the other two, I tend to be trying to get accustomed to Photo at this stage.

Rene, thank you so much for your research on shadows. I have all my presets in PSP, however, in Affinity I was having difficulties, I think it is my laptop that needs renewing. My keyboard is shocking, it looks fine but so many keys take a few presses to register, and when I watch Carole using the sliders in FX, it drives me nutty, mine do not have such ease of use! When I type font, it shows as don't! Oh, BTW, I watched a guy this morning, from IAMRENSI YouTube channel, who says you can also slide the 'FX' from one layer to another layer, to get the same effects on both layers.

Thanks Rene, I joined Affinity Revolution, and I've done a few of the tutorials. Also, you mentioned the designer from the Lilypad who has tutorials as well. I'll check out that forum you mentioned here.

Template 6 Affinity 2.6 Ashlee visited Southland with her mum at the age of 4. With the two of them coming down from Christchurch, we thought we'd show them all over the Southland province. They were fascinated by the wildlife we have down here, and how close we could come to them. The Sea Lion behind Ash is safe so long as his mate is nowhere around, so sunning themselves amongst the beach-goers is common. With the mate around, just don't come between them. I have come across Sea Lions sunning themselves on the rocks or hiding amongst the tussocks, as Ashlee did in the lower photograph. The kit is Jessica Dunn's Coastal Spring, I used her Painted Papers, and the font is Lena.

Wow, Bena, that is great information. I have surfer friends on the Gold Coast, and my housemates in Sydney would venture out on boards into the harbour, but I have never realised there is that line, in Australia, of all places, one doesn't cross on a board. Although I have visited Rockhampton, I'm no surfer, so I didn't notice that line. It didn't occur to me why my friends in Townsville never talked about going surfing. Nor did I know about saltwater crocs! Thank you for opening my eyes!

Thank you, Carole. I have re-done the page, removing the shadow from the smaller text and making a larger shadow for the word Tulips, so it doesn't get lost again. I'm afraid I sometimes go back to the graphic designer in me when I put text on top of something, or mess around with elements, etc, forgetting it is a scrap page I am creating...I'll do better

Template 6 Affinity 2.6 Ashlee and her mum travelled down from Christchurch to stay with us, and we took them to many places around Southland. Ashlee was 4 years old and would start school in a few months. She had never struck wildlife on the beach before, so it was quite unusual for her to see the huge Sea Lion stretched out close to her. I have found them sunning themselves on the rocks, or, hiding amongst the tussocks, as she is doing in the lower photograph. If they are sunning themselves, they can be quite harmless, if you get in the way of him and his mate, you'd better watch out! Kit used is Jessica Dunn's Coastal Spring, and the font is Lena.

Template 3 Diamond When camping near this small lake, we woke to fog. There is something about fog, I think, that gives a mysterious look to the surrounds. I have used Jessica Dunn's kit River Fog. The fonts are Greater Works and Golden, both from CreativeFabrica. To give a foggyish look to the word fog, I selected a small scrap of one of the foggier-looking papers and placed it over the wording and lowered the opacity quite a bit.

Susan, they were tall, well above our six-foot-high fence between our neighbours and us. The fence in the pic below would be just below the bottom of the photo. You can see our neighbours shed in the pic.

I have lovely memories of the Kookaburra laughing. A wonderful start to the day, waiting at a bus stop in Sydney. We have the blue Kingfishers in New Zealand, although I have to say, since moving back to the South Island in 1975, I have not seen them.

Template 5, still in Affinity 2.6 The photographs were taken years ago, on different days, in Hagley Park in Christchurch, when I was living there. I have used Marisa Lerin's Change kit, and the fonts are from Creative Fabrica, Astrologer, and Active School. The paper in the circle was a problem. I wanted something not too strong and tried to darken it up a bit, and with the problems I am having with my laptop, it wasn't working, so I left it alone. I could probably have opened PSP and fixed it, but wanting to use just Affinity, I didn't. The ric rac is something I created many years ago when I first looked into scrapbooking, and did a few tutorials. The duck is a Papango, or Blue Teal duck. The roses were bunched up on a bush, the colours appealed to me. The thrush seemed to be letting me know he had first dibs on that water fountain. The koru, the shape of the fern on the right, represents new beginnings.

Susan, I am enjoying all your templates, your photographs show a great sense of style, and the colours you choose are perfect.