Connie Collier

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 ...

Goodness, I finally managed to finish Lesson 4. When I did C-R-A-C-Paste, I still ended up with filled in shapes, so I added "Reverse Contour" after I'd pasted the cut-out shapes onto the main cup. That worked, but I'm not sure why! I must have been messing up a step.

I must have started the video and ploughed ahead before going back and reading the instructions! No problem with the download AFTER the fact. ?

Lesson 3 homework - I missed the zip file, so I used a picture tube as a start.

This is my Lesson 2 homework - I can almost taste the old fashioned glue on the back of these.

Yes, thanks - I guess I was doing the right thing after all.

I can't figure out how to select two nodes and change them together as shown in the first part of Lesson 2 (red label). When I do select them and change the type to "Symmetric" and "Cusp" they don't stay that way and I don't get any handles to manipulate. I can do them individually without a problem. Curious.

Another piece of homework: I made the colourful arrow first, then changed a copy to black for the shadow.

I've always loved using the vector tools in PSP, but I could sure do with a ton of practice. Onward!

Thanks Carole - I wanted to try the hexagons to see if they felt a little too theme-y, but I liked them. Funny, I forgot the drop shadows at first, so I redid the page before I posted it, but didn't like the effect, so I took them out again!

My Day 2 spread - the photo is from pexels.com.

I love everyone's pages, what lovely photos! I couldn't cobble together enough today to do a double spread, but it's a start. And I sure need lots of practice transforming those psd files ..