Jeni Simpson

Thank you, Carole, it isn't turning blue, so I wiggle and jiggle until I see my photograph show in the layers palette. It is taking some getting used to, I'll get there, I know.

Day 4 - next page in double-page spread. I found mosses scattered on rocks, grasses, and in all sorts of places.

Day 4 double-page spread This was not so easy, finding 3 photos that worked together. I'm finding it fascinating trying to clip images to the photo placeholder...they don't, until I jiggle them around then, voila...there they go! I have no idea what I did differently! I realise, too, I have been using the copy text font, Century, in headings on pages 2 and 3! Duh!!! Because they are so large I have reduced them to 550 pixels, and will add them here separately.

Anyone searching for Harmony's Wavy font...here it is...https://anchorfonts.com/wavy-font/ @Ann Seeber @Michele

I'm doing all mine in Affinity. I plan to get to the PSP ones once completed in Affinity.

Day 3 Many cottages in Central Otago are made from schist, a stone quarried in the area over the years. Early settlers and miners used schist to build their homes. Central Otago is renowned for gold mining and was settled by miners who travelled from China and California. The ramshackle hut in this photograph is now used for mustering. Schist is a beautiful stone, and weathers well. Roofs, don't weather so well, as shown in my cover image where the roof is missing in action. I added an outline around both words and the outline around 'stoney' was so pixelated, I erased it. This doesn't seem to show in the yellow lettering.

Me, too, Donna, I was just thinking that when your comment came around.

I was young, and daring back then, in my 20s. We didn't go tandem in those days, a static line was attached to our chutes and we didn't have to do anything, except relax and roll when the grass jumped up at us! It is a beautiful, and peaceful experience, Diane.

Day 2 Another photograph was taken from high above Roxburgh. These cattle come down to the flat land when winter hits because it is cold and usually snowy up where they are.

Diane, I too, have watched these fearless bungee jumpers, many times. In Queenstown, there are places where people have jumped, on the Kawarau River, up off the Skippers Bridge, etc. My back is killing me, and I think from jumping out of perfectly good aeroplanes, so jumping from bridges, buildings etc, is not my thing!

The Great Artesian Basin is just 25 kilometres from Coober Pedy so their water will be pure and great tasting, I would think. I believe water is a problem in many places and Australia would have its fair share of water shortages during times of extreme heat, and, they do have extreme heat, often in some regions.

The video is not available in New Zealand, so I went to Mike Rowe's website and found it...haha, I can imagine that road to be dead boring! Same scenery for hours!

oops, I should have started reading from the top instead of the bottom, I missed your comment, Jean.

What a great idea, Eula and, such an interesting subject for me. I believe you have a typo on your cover page, should be Kalgoorlie, instead of Kalgoolie. I notice this because I have a brother and a nephew living in Kalgoorlie and working in the mines.

Thank you for the kit, Bina.

It certainly is an impressive sight, also Mid Dome which we saw in the distance of the cover shot.

I love this, the oddity you photographed is wonderful and so clean and clear, Susan. I feel like if I reached out I could touch it!

Day 1 Cover In December I travelled a few hours away to a place that is so different from where I live. It is a hot, dry area in the centre of the south of the South Island, only 3 hours away. I was up there this past weekend, too. My first page shows a photograph of a wonderful, old stone cottage that sits beside, what used to be, an orchard.

I'm in, and will use Affinity, mostly. Thanks, Ann and Susan for showing your previous layouts, they are lovely.

What a precious wee soul, Ann.

I did the same, yesterday, Rene. Thanks for mentioning them. I love some of the kits she has used, too. Might have to snag some of them. I also subscribed to the YT channel. I think what Carole has done with this Bootcamp has whetted my appetite for this programme. I might even get used to using it. And I love PSP, too.

Thanks, Rene, no problem. I may yet find it. I respect your wish not to share links to other forums.

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.