Susan Ewart

It's not an excuse at all Carolyn, it's life. Having many appointments or errands (or work) outside the home always seem to take much longer than you think it will. And they can be very exhausting, leaving you with no energy or time to do anything else.

Thank you Gwen. I took it as a challenge, since I'm laid up with a sprained foot I have more computer time. I have a tea cup or two from the last workshop and wanted to add more items to the the list. Next WS I'll add a creamer and sugar bowl maybe.

Lesson 4 I had some troubles with this one, as I usually do. Thanks to Jacques comment on the direction I was able to finish the tea cup, this time without reversing the path. I had tried for an hour. Couldnt understand why the tea pot went off without a hitch. I guess I lucked out and had done the path the same way on the tea pot (it's the one I did first and got all confident that I could do it), then came the tea cup where I went a different direction for the handle interior. I'm so happy to have learned that.

OMG! you are a GENIUS! I got it to work once, then the next thing I tried to make I could not get it to cut. So following your words I went back and didn't Reverse the Path and it worked! thank you so much. I couldn't understand why I got it cut out on the Tea Pot right away, but not the tea cup. I fought with this for over an hour.

Lesson 3 I have always wanted to accomplish the maple leaf in the downloaded supplies. This time around I think I did better. The other two I found at freepik I believe and thought they looked interesting. I did export them all. I wonder why I forget all about making shapes and exporting them after the workshop is over. I added a very small outline so they'd stand out better.

Sending you hugs and hoping for your health issues to resolve quickly. You have a great start to your bleeding heart. I can't wait to see it finished. Take care.

I think it looks fabulous. I like the veining and the texture.

Lesson 2 I added the outline so they are easier to see. although I like the outline on the two part label. the second one was just playing with the nodes, top one looks like a ducks foot 😅. Not the greatest shapes. Wiped out today, working with stars in my eyes and my foot elevated. I can be so dumb sometimes. The bright spot, don't have to go to work today ( I have a physical standing job).

It very cool to see them being used in a layout. I've made shapes for the past workshops and totally forget I have them.

Thank you so much Sue.

Lesson 1 I did use guidelines for the bottom heart on the right, I duplicated the vector to play with it on the left, pulling it down more at the bottom. the top three I was trying to make those uneven rustic kind of hearts. It's not easy. I'd get one area I didnt like and I tried all kinds of things but never got quite what I had in mind. The arrows, middle and top, are pretty much from the tutorial and the bottom one was me trying to do something wavy, I started with an ellipse just to see what would happen. I never did get the bottom part at left end the way I wanted it. I watched the affinity video and it looks easier or is it just that Carole makes it look so easy. I am looking forward to their summer sale, at least I hope they have one. I'll be able to spend the winter playing catch up with Affinity.

Wowzers! love the arrow going through and your heart is perfect. Wait till you see mine...😅

I"m in with PSP.

I'm in with PSP too! I can always use (read: need!) the extra practice.

They are so pretty. Lucky they are to have flower for so much time of the year. I really like that watercolor 2 Script.

I agree with Corrie. This song came to mind too, it seems humans are doomed to repeat past mistakes over and over. Even in everyday life I've found myself saying, why haven't I learned, why do I keep doing the same thing over and over?

Thank you Cristina. This is very helpful. I did watch "Katie the Creative Lady". they were good, except the loooong time going over her kit she is using. Her teaching is largely to sell her kits. I am going to look into the HTG course you mentioned, at least it will teach me where and how to use the tools. I liked the YouTube videos of his and it turns out I did see the Melissa Shanhun one as well, it was already on my bookmarks. I need to rewatch it because it was too long ago now. Your words are so right, "I dont need to learn the basics of scrapbooking, but how to do it using the tools PSE has." I should be looking at it from that point of view.

Thank you Donna, I have seen some of his videos. I like them. Was hoping for the beginning to end type. I have meant to look into the the paid version but havent had the time.

Thank you Cristina. I'm going to try the Melissa Shanhun's one to start. I agree fully, nothing out there even comes close to how Carole takes a rank beginner that never used a graphics program to making layouts in two short weeks in a bootcamp.

We spell it like that in Canada too.

I like this way too. I have done it before with some Lemurs up a tall tree at the wildlife park I visited often. It really looked good as the masks were a bit offset and it followed the not straight tree so fittingly. I have forgotten about this technique though, so I'm happy you brought it up.

I did the same (used two photos, 4 would make the photos too small - a challenge for me). These photos are out of this world awesome. Seeing it in person would be something.

J- miminal 'nuff said... hahahah, right, like I could just leave it at that. You all expect it, you all know it's coming Along with being a font-a-holic I seem to be a word-a-holic, a complete waster of words. There should be some word-police to stop my blathering-on-long-story posts. But there isn't, aren't you all so very lucky. 😜 And...wouldn't you know I clearly don't know the order of the alphabet. I've had this done for over a month before I realized I forgot about poor 'I'. this was the layout of masks, one to lighten up a part of the J, another to mask the J itself and then I add the background. I actually have 4 backgrounds in this mask if I ever want a J with another background (and who wouldn't want that?)

Letter I I'm back to trying to keep up on color practice and was inspired by playing with very impure acrylic inks touting themselves as Primary Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. The magenta has yellow in it. yeesh! And then there's me, mixing away and adding too much water as I was trying to get the same saturation...I failed, but it sure was fun overcoming the impure ink I had. All these hues were made from these three inks, and yes, even the black, known in this case as "hue black" as opposed to "true black- (which is a value on the value scale). The back light also washed out some of the hues and made Red, Magenta-Red and Magenta hard to tell apart - which is actually the case when sorting these ones in smaller increments of change. I'm adding this color bar so you can see what it should look like. The font is Wild Smith and this is a composite of two photos. I did extract the ink bottles to place in the frame, mostly to take up some space. I had wanted to do a circle but didn't have any suitable containers. I should point out that there is very few pure art media materials available (ink, paint etc), but knowing which way a color skews and how to counter balance that is most helpful. I learned from painters and polymer clay artists that if you have to add a bit of something to fix one hue, you should add it to all the hues you are working with so the palette works well together. I will invest in some high quality printer ink to play with.

Where do you find good PSE videos. Ones I found aren't so much scrapbooking ones, or they are just doing a layout to sell their products. I want beginner techniques, like Carole's bootcamp. Can you tell me if Affinity is as closely related in form to PSE as they say and that Affinity tutorials might translate across to learning PSE. But first I must face my fear of ON1.