Rene Marker

Again blended a flood filled layer with a texture (ps_elif-sahin_79380_dear-old-dad-paper-texture-02_pu). This time using Color at 100. Font is PT Orchid Bold. The mask was done on the lightpost photo. The brick photo was added to a layer below and the mask altered to show it as well.

I have to say that using masks is getting ingrained in my brain since I'm doing so many at once. I actually started working through the Mask Workshop in the past workshops in the Diamond area over the weekend. That helped to refresh my memory on doing them. I had not completed last year because of the computer issues so those layouts I did I labeled as 2022. Then started 2023 layouts on Monday. That has really helped me get the steps down. Here is the 2023 extra mask for Day 3. I again blended a texture using burn at 100 (ps_elif-sahin_196131_gold-textures-texture-07-template_pu) with a flood filled layer (color 123-150-67) for the background. This is my 5 year old Havanese, Peyton, enjoying some sunshine on the patio.

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.