Susan Ewart

Oh Corrie, I'm sorry to hear about your husband. I hope he's feeling much better, much sooner. Your photo is beautiful and perfect for this time of year, this would be such a pretty Christmas card. Nice font BTW.

I love this Sharla and I love the trees in winter too. Such wonderful graphic shapes.

I love the MOM layout. So beautifully done. A photographer in her element, how awesome that is.

Oh Wow! thanks Gwen. That's a much quicker way to find it. Funny how I use certain items in that drop down list and don't even notice the other items. I need to take off my blinders. 😪

Your "Sunny Day" layout is outstanding! I love it.

Thank you Corrie. The feeling is mutual. We all did it together and it was so fun to open the forum and see what your weeks looked like. It's neat to see the glimpse into your daily lives. Next up the Build A Kit 2025 where for sure this time I will stick to a much small kits(s)...hahaha I added the 's' knowing my little kit will balloon into a mega one. I'm looking forward to it. I hope we get lots of people joining us.

In in Canada too, most of them are on Mondays, which I work and w do some of Mondays' work on the Friday and then work Monday too. I do not like long weekends as they are actually shorter than regular weekends. Of course Christmas, New Years and Canada Day are date specific and Easter is a Friday holiday here.

I actually had a few extra. I had wanted to do all the project in tea cups but didnt have 54 (2 is for the jokers) in total, so that's when I did tea pots and sugar and creamers. Tea cups are little works of art I can afford. Still, I have too many and did cull them, but I need to do it again and again. Maybe just keep 12 or so.

Week 48 I used the Vector tube around the frame and had to use the trick of objects>Convert to Path. I love that. Background is two papers from Riley B Graphics (CF) blended. then I added a half tone effect (using the random button), then added a texture. Small shadow on the "Week Forty-Eight", just enough to make it stand out. Left 2024 black and less noticeable on purpose. The rope is a cass rope picture tube...I need more picture tubes. they are really handy and you can never have enough. I did tweak the color after the fact to match. Fonts are Soulmate Garden and Arial Black (CF & Windows). We are almost there. I'm blown away we've been able to do this and make it (hopefully) to the end.

WOW Jannette! Amazing work!

I checked it and it shows that PSP deletes clipboard data on exit. Now I know where to look for it, thanks for mentioning it.

Wow, good thinking on this one. That really looks cool to see him sliding down the word.

Thank you for explaining that. I'm glad I figured it out, it really was a headscratcher and it took two days to really see what was happening. All me and not PSP, it did it's job, I did not.

So very sweet. it's cuteness overload!

What a great idea to add the outlines. I should have done that with mine as it's so very readable.

I love the green paper in the middle, the design is so cool.

Lesson 7 I started out with the template and then deviated from there. The sunflower is extracted and is the what the front side looks like (as compared to the back side on lesson 6). I didn't even know it was growing in the sunflower patch until I went down to the end of the yard and saw two of these odd looking fluffy sunflowers. Font is called "The Metal," not sure if It's Google fonts or Creative Fabrica. the background was a gradient I added texture to. The frame is beveled and was a pattern in PSP. I find the word sunflower not that readable and the big sunflower is quite distracting. I wanted to see how this would end up. PSP behaved beautifully for this layout and any epic bouts of stupidity was all me. Thank you Carole, for another wonderful workshop. I had forgotten most of what we learned in the workshop.

Actually, I never knew you could do that. How do you do that? I do constantly clear the temp files and do a disk clean up on the hard drives. then I'll do a reboot. And before the masterclasses and Q&As I clear the browsing cache. Thank you for the info about the clipboard. I'll start doing it once I learn how.

thank you Daniel for the congrats. I'm humbled by it. I think I'm the owner of the mistakes this go around. although 2023 has it's issues, some of "my" issues are actually me! 🤔. It's great for seeing the blend modes and it's for this reason I keep using it. It would be nice to use the right click and move a selection, but there is a work around (edit selection tool) that I don't mind using. Best would be to keep your current one(loaded) and load 2023 and try it out. Ann isn't having a lot of the issues some of us are having and you might not either.

Me too. I wont give up on it because I love how you can see the blend modes in real time. I do have 2022 as a back up, if need be.

Here is my shadow problem solved. It happened again today. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but for sure, it's something I did. That paper does extend past the edges and I was squishing it down, which I did not do with yesterdays paper, yet it still did the same thing. when I delete, the extra the bounding box outside the image is still there, yet it deleted the paper on the canvas. Later, I checked the box again and it was gone. PSP is playing tricks on me.

Lesson 6 The Vector Tube Script is very cool. I must remember to uncheck creating on separate raster layers. I used a kit by Jessica Dunn; Reach for the Sun Mini Kit (DigitalScrapbook) Font is Wonderbar 2.0 Photo is mine and it looks like the sunflower if pointing me in the direction of the sun.

Lesson 6 this sunflower (which is bizarre looking from the front BTW) looks like it was telling me which way to go. And it looks like it's toward the sun and warmth. Which is what I could use right now as we had a dump of snow yesterday; 8-9 inches and more expected today. Shoveling season has begun. Font is Wonderbar 2.0 (Creative Fabrica) I used a mini kit for the papers by Jessica Dunn (DigitalScrapbook) called "Reach for the Sun." the background is a gradient yellow and I didnt add elements as I liked the clean lines of this template.

I found the layer that was causing the problem. I brought a paper onto of the grey paper holding layer. Used the magic wand, selecting outside, then went to the new paper I brought into the layers palette and hit delete. It shows in the layers palette it deleted. I made a duplicate, hid the new paper and made a texture on the duplicate. But when I stretch the canvas I can see the pick nodes way far out as if it didnt delete it at all. And I had deleted the grey holding layer (this is the bigger of the square shapes- darker pink). I brought that layer back in and just shadowed that one so it normal looking now. I still couldnt delete the part of that layer even though it shows in the layers palette and on my layout that it did cut the rest of it off.

I am using 2023 Ultimate and I do have saved workspaces, but I messed them up too. My icons came back and I haven't tried doing another layout to see if the weird shadow is there again. At the end of the year I think I will do a fresh install. I'm sure it was from my clicking at a crucial time it was doing something in the background. If it keeps doing it I'll finish the year with 2022 and then do a fresh install. It's been acting weird. When it opens the workspace and I open an image the image opens on the screen and then it hesitates for about 5 seconds before it allows me to move it. This is even when opening a blank image. A new year and a new install will be the trick I think.