Connie Collier

Your kaleidoscope complements the photo so well - it looks like the baby is asleep in a field of daisies!

And what a nice, realistic plaid it is, too!

And Lesson 7, too.

Thanks to the whole workshop, I was able to go back to Lesson 1 and do it easily - the first time around I was totally befuddled and kept getting my layers all mixed up! Now I'm going to have to break out my real art supplies to make more material to work with.

Lesson 6 is a small acrylic painting superimposed on the photograph that inspired it. My bubbles look more like rubble! 🤣

This abstract turned into some kind of cervid in my mind, so I made a deer-shaped brush to go with it for the exercise in Lesson 5. While I did use a mask to cover some of the main image, I didn't feather its edges because I wanted to maintain the strong, side-to-side movement of my "herd." Then I finished it with a layer of animals using the brush with a solid colour.

Lesson 4, continuing with images from my sketchbook ..

I'm in the mood for simple pages, but somehow I end up fiddling endlessly anyway! I like making the kaleidoscopes.

Everyone's photos are wonderful! Here's my Lesson 2.

And my Template 3 as well. Thanks for the complimentary script, it's very helpful.

Everyone's photographs are so wonderful. My pages so far:

And on the 7th day .. Thanks so much, Cassel! 🥰

Day 6 - it's dangerous to start adding new elements this late in the game because I'll want to go back and tweak all the previous pages. But I can't help it. The page needed a sprig. 🙂

Page 5 - the only alterations I made was to make the original mask a bit bigger and move the text around. And it took me forever to remember how to turn the text.

Oo, that looks like fun!

I really like the simplicity of these layouts. Here are my page 3 & 4.

And here's page 1, again with a simple gradient.

Loving all of these! Here's my cover. I hid the smaller frame and changed the larger one to a gradient of the two colours I chose for my theme, a soft blue and dark green.

I'm not sure what my magazine theme is yet, but here's page 2.

PSP 2021. I did download the Creative Content, in this case your lovely seed bead tube. Thanks so much.

Phew, Lesson 7! All the way through this course, I was having a heck of a time selecting a vector object. I just couldn't figure out how to do it. So I looked it up on the Corel site, tried a couple of keyboard shortcuts (notably Ctrl-Shift-B) and suddenly my PSP 2021 sort sprung to life and worked properly. Yay. Persistence pays off, I guess.

Lesson 6: I can see I need some more tubes. But I made do with what I had. What a lot of fun this has been and I've learned a lot. Thanks, Carole!

I'm still beavering away on Lesson 5. I love everyone else's work!

Back at it after a bit of a break - here's my Lesson 5 practice. Practice, practice, practice ...