Jeni Simpson

Euka, what an amazing country you live in. It is so vast and beautiful. I have never been across to West Australia, although my brother lived in Geraldton, now in Kalgoorlie. It is great being able to travel from my lounge, nowadays. I posted a reply before and found it had 2 quotes attached to the one reply, so deleted that to take less room.

The architecture is stunning, I can envisage the skirt swirling, it is so beautiful.

Yes, they are, Ann. They grow like weeds in my garden.

Template 2 Diamond A sunflower from my garden, taken a few years ago. It is probably the last time I grew these stunning flowers. They were taller than I am. I love their strong stems. Kit is Jessica Dunn's Reach for the Sun mini kit, fonts are Benilla Calligraphy and Asking Ladies Bold.

Template 4 Affinity 2.6 Gethsemene Gardens was an interesting garden created in 1957 by a Christian couple on their Clifton Hill property high above Christchurch. After many failed attempts to sell the gardens, and sadly, with the passing of the husband, Ken Loader, the property has since been subdivided and sold. The gardens were offered as a venue for functions, and Noah's Ark, opened in 2004, is still being used for this purpose. There were prayer gardens, a small church, scriptures spelled out in shrubbery, a nursery, and Noah's Ark. The kit used is Rachel Martin's PS September 2020 Blog Train, and the font is Niagara Solid.

Ann, the Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kosovo is beautiful. I can understand having so many photographs of such a stunning building.

I love PSP, and when it was mentioned that PSP would not be updated, I did Carole's Affinity Workshop and enjoyed using that programme. I still use PSP, however, when there is a chance of creating using Affinity, I go for it. I am also enjoying learning heaps in online tutorials for Affinity. It is different, and I enjoy using Affinity.

Thank you. I love them, whether large or small.

Carole, if you are talking about the Tulips template, I added a drop shadow to the word tulips of opacity 70%, radius 6 px, and offset of 12 px. What would have been a better choice?

Template 3 Still using Affinity Photo. 5 kilometres from home is Triflor New Zealand, an agent for Triflor Netherlands. Many farms dotted around the area grow bulbs for Triflor. I noticed one field just outside our village yesterday, with bulbs recently planted. https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/people/how-a-southland-tulip-farm-grows-a-blooming-business/ The great advantage of living in a rural area is the community spirit. Every year, in October, the local Presbyterian Church holds a Tulip Day out at Triflor in Edendale. Triflor donates the bulbs, and the church takes the orders and payment. The customers pay around 80 cents per bulb, which goes directly to the church. Kit used is Jessica Dunn Spring Day mini Fonts are High Tower Text and Bargetta Script

Template 2 I thought I posted this one last night and I've been back on the pages and haven't seen it, so here goes. Apologies if it has been posted before. Using Jessica Dunn's kit Coastal Spring and the font Gabriola. I probably could have placed a white frame around the photographs. This young penguin wandered close to me, although I did zoom in a bit, so not this close. They are an endangered species, so I quickly left after snapping this photograph of the wee soul. It is the tiny Yellow-eyed Penguin, supposedly the tiniest of penguins. They are nesting on the Catlins coast, about 1 hour from where I live.

Deana, it took me a while to work it out, but once I managed to 'get' it, I found it helpful. I used another one for years that was brilliant, but unavailable now.

Thank you, Christina, I too, love Lynn Grieveson's style, I have been looking at her work since you mentioned her.

Euka, I keep Nexus font open, and the fonts all show up in Affinity for me. I open the viewer each time I open Affinity, so that they can show up.

Do you export your project to a jpeg? You can go File > Export and there you will resize to 600 pixels and choose jpeg. Then you are able to save as a jpeg.

I love the kit you have used here. It is great to see Olivia smile in this photograph.

That photograph is beautiful, so clear, so shiny. The colours you have used look so good, too. When I lived in Sydney, in the 80s, I got a great view of the Opera House out my window, where I lived, in both Cremorne Point and Kirribilli.

Template 1 Diamond Using Serif Affinity 2.6 This photograph shows our village taken from a nearby hill with about as much snow cover as we would ever get. We are heading towards Winter down here. I left the white dots as would be snow. Kit is Jessica Dunn - Snow Place Like Home from Curio Pantry, I used 3 of her papers, the other two were recoloured, to match the papers used. Fonts are Cute Rita and Magical Feather.

Carole, I did the Affinity Bootcamp, and have followed a few Affinity tutorials. I am finding the Bootcamp tutorials helpful here, also there are Serif Affinity and YouTube tutorials and I joined Affinity Revolution. If I'm unsure what to do, I research, hence opening those Bootcamp tutorials again, and opened Serif's manual for Affinity.

Oh, yes, I watched a video on YouTube. I had not heard of this sport before you mentioned it in these forums. Sounds like fun I see we have a pickleball association in New Zealand, probably in the North Island.

Template 1 extra, the Facebook Header I have used another photograph from Maple Glen gardens. One time I was there, a Black Swan stomped across this bridge, angry that I had ventured too close to his mate's nest with her cygnets. Luckily, this wasn't the case when I took this photograph For this template, I have used the papers of Marisa Lerin's blog train kit for DSA February 2014, suggested by Carole, and re-coloured the scattered blobs to suit. .

Bonnie, I am curious, what is Pickleball?

Template 1 Using Affinity Photo 2.6 About 5 kilometres from where I live, is a farm where Muriel, the farmer's wife, started creating a garden during her pregnancy in the late 60s. The land was farmland, and Muriel wanted something to do whilst stuck at home, so she created Maple Glen, a beautiful garden, nursery, and bird sanctuary. For this template, I have used Elegant Autumn kit by Jessica Dunn and her Autumn Dew mini kit. Itsadzoke and ItsadzokeS01 by Gluk are free [PU & CU] at 1001 Fonts.

I'm looking forward to this, and I will be using Affinity Photo.

Module 7 I found a kit from LouLou called de souenirs de vacances. The colours were nice and bright, while the photograph is very earthy tones. The Moeraki Boulders are a mysterious and weird group of 50+ boulders on the coast about 3 hours north of my home. There are many stories of their origin, some quite wild, some scientific, yet the wild ones get lots of favour. The elements in the cluster came from Sand & Beach kit from Elif Sarin of Digital Scrapbook.