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My Card 2 follows on the flower theme. I used my photo of daisies to sample the colours from and decided to use it as a reduced opacity background over a plain background. Font: Babylone. The stripey frame was fun to see take effect. I took note of how to create a back but didn't do it as I tend to print off a design on paper and attach to a pre-folded plain greetings card.

I just love flowers and flower photography plus I have a niece's birthday coming up so the ideal subject. I changed the canvas to 1500 x1500. Used a Random Noise Effect to the scallop paper. The texture effect, 'Blind' on the strip is bold at 100%. The round element is 'happiness is homemade' by Marissa Lerin form Digital scrapbooking.com. The font I have used is also from Creative Fabrica called 'Babylone'

Templates I think go with producing Masks and useful for scrapbook projects for repeating and adapting styles. How about volunteer examples for the beginnings of chapters in the book from Scrapbook Campus scrapbookers similar to what Marisa Lerin produces in her weekly roundup for Digital Scrapbook.com

Wonderful, painterly photo.

I lIke the use of the bunting from the masterclass recently. Fits the bill. ha ha!

Thanks Susan for the encouragement. Sorry to take so long to get back to you.

I went back and had another go at the bevel and reset to default settings and it worked. Not sure what I had it on before but thank you for the suggestion Rene. I think you are right. It gives more of a realistic 3D effect.

I have registered too. I have been out and about lately so not been too active with PSP. I hope I can stick to the daily workshop and be able to contribute. Looking forward to it and sharing ideas as ever.

Hi Rene, I think I know what could be achieved by that...to make the frame look a bit like a tyre? I like the idea (and thank you for your interest) but am out of my depth on how to do it. I have tried making a selection and then using the Inner Bevel command but nothing seems to register. Any suggestions?

Now got rid of the corner of the image sticking out of the frame. Didn't notice at first because of the excitement of the technique working!

Then my imagination got going so I used a couple of my photos that I took in South Africa a few years back, one being of a painted, dilapidated, corrugated iron wall. The colours caught my attention at the time and it has been useful to use as a neutral background for other images. This time I made a rectangular selection strip from it (like a flat ribbon) and carried out the Circular Elements technique to make a circular frame around another photo that I took not far from the wall. Because of the irregular pattern of the paintwork, the circular elements join up line in the frame is not much of a distraction.

Thank you Carole for your OpenHouse. Although I didn't join in the interactive activities, I did manage to get into some of the tutorials. Going over ones I had seen before also helps to refresh techniques I find. It is bank holiday weekend here in UK so lots of other things going on for people but it is good to be able to self indulge with your PSP. The technique that really caught my attention was the Circular Element where you take a flat element like a ribbon and turn it into a circular frame. The first one I made as an exercise was using a ribbon from cass-RibbonFactoryC-Spring from Creation Cassel and made a circular frame to go around the thumbnail image of the ribbon pack.

Happy Birthday Carole and thank you for your inspiration and support throughout the year.

This is what happened for me. I re-read articles and some I wasn't familiar with so all good.

Black cats are beautiful. So slinky.

The most historic naming for one of our cats has been 'Pippy', a black and white moggie, rescue cat who lived 21 years. She was named after a soft toy dog of my Mum's that I have inherited, which was given to her by her father in the 1920's. The toy was named after a British cartoon character 'Pip' of 'Pip, Squeak & Wilfred' (Before my time!). We've had two cats named after our favourite English F1 world champion drivers, Lewis and Jenson. The latter was a huge cat and he had possibly the same condition as Carole's Pouce (Polydactyl) extra digit on each paw. Nearly all our cats have been rescue animals, even one of our Maine Coon pedigrees, prenamed 'Connie' who is currently ruling the roost. This is my photo of her created using 'Into the wild' mask from Jessica Dunn (Digital Scrapbook.com).

Me too but I felt good that the PSP ones were right. Must be flook or a good teacher!

A Brush Workshop sounds good. This Masks workshop, although I did it before, I have got a greater understanding this time around. Thank you Carole for all you put in to it.

Lesson 7. For my local woodland photo I ran a Corel freebie script called Gradient_8, which made the light flare stronger and brightened the colours overall. For the mask I used a brush tip called Shape7. The circular design was not solid like a dot so I filled the centre of the mask with a rectangular selection flood filled black. I needed to move my mask but made a silly mistake and didn't duplicate the Mask Group before Merging the Group so was able to move it but lost the layers for future editing. Duh! For the dotty background effect I used the same circular brush tip Shape7, Text: I chose a condensed font to replicate the tallness of the trees, called Mekanik. The words are from another verse of the poem, Trees, by Joyce Kilmer. Ann, I have just read that the poet died at the age of 31 in WW1. What a waste but what a legacy of words.

Great Ann that you recognised the quote. I forgot to credit the author with my design. I also hadn't realised their gender. How interesting. Thank you for spotting.

Hoping to look at this article too on Extractions. Thank you Carole and Susan for the suggestions.