Rene Marker

Here is day 3. I did the kaleidoscope tutorial multiple times with various color selections. The last selection gave me a background I could at least live with. But when I had originally gotten frustrated with the tutorial, I had switched to doing a plaid tutorial. I chose #1. I ended up liking it a lot better with the photo especially after I did a blend mode of multiply at 100 to a flood filled layer with the color 103-40-39 (RGB). This will be the one I print. Now off to do the extra!

In between doing laundry and phone calls about a funeral this weekend, I managed to work on some more of the workshop. Day 1 Extra. I flood filled the background then did a blend on it with a texture from Elif Sahlin (#196129) at Digital Scrapbook. For the title, I duplicated the vector layer, changed the color, then rasterized it. I then moved the raster layer below the vector layer and using the pick tool, offset it a little from the vector layer. I also linked the layers so if I moved one, they both moved. For Day 2, I rotated the template 90 degrees to the right. I made the background paper using the Variegated paper tutorial. I made the Corner Cut out using the tutorial from Lab 13, Module 2. I filled the center with the variegated paper. The font is Tracy. I also did a blend on the Variegated paper with a layer of white below it. Day 2 Extra. I flood filled the background then blended it with a texture by Elif Sahlin (#196132) from Digital Scrapbook. Font is Tracy.

LOL, I went by the photos in the instructions to figure out which layer I needed!

Step #8 was to Deselect the floating layer which fused it with the mask layer

@Cassel, never posted it because I never finished it. PSP kept crashing on me because of computer issues. So I ended up not doing anything in the workshop last year.

I found my unfinished Day 1 from last year's mask workshop so finished it and did another one (I had computer problems and couldn't complete the workshop at that time). The Blue Jay is from 2022, the birds is current. Photos of the birds are from last week. They like to hang out in my one tree. One day I had close to 30 of them.

Here is another one that I just did from a freebie template by Fiddle-Dee-Dee. Kit used is from Bella Gypsy "Here's To The Ears" for sale at The Lily Pad. Cheryl (Fiddle-Dee-Dee) had the shadows already on this template as separate layers. So no shadows had to be added to the 3-D shape.

Based on the question about 3D extreme shadows for the Q&A, I have played with doing this. I saw it done at The Lily Pad in 2021. They included basic instructions for PS and PSE on how to do this but since the way PSP does shadows is different, I struggled with the shadow portion of it. Last night I played around and found a method that worked and looked a lot like the examples they had. Carole showed a different way of doing it in the Q&A. I had done an actual layout earlier today using my method. After the Q&A, I recreated the basic layout using Carole's method. The main difference is that I used a cut out file for my shape instead of a vector object. I used papers and elements from a kit called "50 States Ohio" sold at Sweet Shoppe Designs. The cut out shape of Ohio came from Scrapping With Liz's Ohio Cutouts sold at The Lily Pad.

I'll be there and will wing it as far as photos go.

I agree about tablets or phones but that seems to be where the best diary apps are. I do think One Note would work for what you want. You could set it up your way.

Look at the Microsoft free program "One Note". If you are familiar with using any Microsoft office program, you will see it is very easy to use. You can insert photos and even spreadsheets. You can add audio and video and there is even a tab for drawing. To use it you just set up a notebook. Within that notebook, you can add sections. And in each section you can add pages (think of them like a chapter). For instance, many years ago when I was trying to learn to knit, I set up a notebook called "Knitting". I have 2 Sections - General and Team Score Scarf. For example in the General section, I have 3 pages: 12x12 square, Mom's afghan which has a sub-page Afghans Bev made. I had found her notes on the pattern for an afghan she made so it is in there. Along with that she had a list of all the afghans she made over the years. I could include any photos I have of those afghans as well. I have other notebooks as well and find that this program is a good place to consolidate info from various places. The program could very well be used as a diary. I believe there is an app for it that could be used on a tablet or a phone but the good thing is that it also works on a computer. It will sync to the other devices. Most diary programs are for use on tablets or phones only, not a computer.

And, one of my absolute favorites using a large photo was done back in 2008 not long after I started digital scrapping.

Another one was from a scrapbooking retreat I went to in 2009 in Lynchburg, VA. The one and only time I had anything from Starbucks. Not a coffee drinker and no stores in my town.

I've used this style several times in the past. This was from my uncle's funeral in 2016. He was a retired firefighter and the procession from the funeral home to the cemetery went by the fire station.

I can never have overhead lights put into the bedrooms (my office was a bedroom at one time) or living room in this house. When my parents built it in the mid-1960's, they went all electric and chose to use ceiling electric heat. So there are heating wires running all though the ceiling. I can't even put a toggle hook to hang anything from in the ceiling because I can't chance hitting a wire. The 3 rooms that have an overhead light were installed when the house was built. I no longer use the ceiling heat since I have a heat pump but when it gets extremely cold (like 10 degrees F or below), I have to use the ceiling heat as a backup. So I live with floor lamps and table lamps. I do need to look for different floor lamps for my office. The ones I have are old with 3 lamps on each one. One of them has lamps that go out and won't turn back on but maybe a day later works just fine. I do like the triple lamps since I can use just one or two or all 3 to vary the amount of light in the room.

Check to make sure "Use All Layers" is not checked for the Magic Wand. What you are describing is what usually happens to me when that is checked.