Susan Ewart

That's so awesome. Your dogs treat their toys better than I treated mine.

I haven't tried that. I should add that to the Q and A and how to make metal swirls like you used in the bootcamp tutorial.

I was happy with the gradient (Thank you PSP!) and didnt want to cover it with a paper so i just made the round rectangle selection and promoted the untextured layer so the gradient would carry through. I liked the result. I was thinking, how will I make it standout so I added a little bevel (thicker paper?). I'm glad to have finished the workshop, unlike the other workshops I did not finish. I'm am hoping the wedding stuff is all finished by the end of the month so can resume the workshops and projects I have started and ones yet to be started. You must be close to your holiday. I hope you come back with amazing photos like the ones you have being treating us to from your last holiday.

Project 5 This time I pulled a photo from my files, I think I shot these in October. I had another photo in mind but this one beckon me to use it. I made my own background paper with a gradient (looking like a beam of light on the flower) and for the rounded rectangle which I selected then promoted and added a small bevel. The squares I followed the tutorial and used scrapbook papers. Fonts: Briantone, Bricktown and Borensa (title, one of my faves) buttons: Melo Vrijhof button 04 and Billie Irene travel button 4 (DigitalScrapbook) frame: Marisa L gl21 frame 3 (DigitalScrapbook) Little squares: Janet Scott Dark yellow Fabric and DigiDewi Princess Paper Sparkle yellow dk (DigitalScrapbook) Photo: mine

This is so pretty. the petal looks neat tucked behind.

oh my gosh, this is really interesting. Again, your letter G fits perfectly with the story. Well photographed, I can see all the details and it is really detailed. The craftmanship of this Mastermark is unbelievable.

I've never seen a gold one, I love it. the cutout looks great (grate-r?).

What a beautiful layout with the mask and all the blending. This is a really cool looking bird.. It looks similar to the Magpies where I live in Western Canada.

Project 4 Here is Ver. 2. the one I do like.

Project 4 One of the emails asked what tips/techniques did we learn that we liked. I will have to say it's SHIFT-D (duplicate), to duplicate the layout. I never really thought about how much I use tip, turns out I use it a lot. And this layout is a case in point. I will post the version 1, early in the layout it wasn't working for me, so I duplicated to test switching the background paper with the rectangle pinking shear paper. These "clocks" I've had, I thought for about 25, but hubby informed me we've being together 38 yrs, so they are now about 35 yrs old, which means i've been working out longer than 35 yrs. No wonder I'm tired. I did not shadow the lines I made because I wasnt sure if I should since they fad out. Does anyone have any advice on that? the photos dont show the time I had getting a light beam to shine on the background the way I liked, when I cropped it was all gone. bummer. The fonts used; Gill Sans Ultra Bold and Adellia Heart the dumbbell is an extraction from my Alphabet Photo Challenge letter D. and is my photo of a dumbbell in my arsenals of free weights. the water drops and both the dark background(Ver 2) and light background (Ver 1) are Jessica Dunn (copperspice and plum hill kits) The smaller selected rectangles are Gina Jones (zig zags on V2) and Marisa Lerin (V1) The two lines under the top photo are fading lines as learned in the Q&A November 10, 2024 (first way of doing it out of 4 ways) Here is version 1, the one that wasnt working for me.

that's great Ann, you are lucky. My 2023 wrapped text has never worked. I never thought to change it to a shape though. did you manage to duplicate it first and keep one as a shape. Even duplicating it would change mine to one long line.

I agree, I've tried that before and I I gave up when I couldnt achieve the colors I wanted for the kit. It's a really good challenge to come up with different looks using one kits. I'm almost finished project 4, hopefully tomorrow.

Strangely 2023 is somewhat behaving this week. Still if I need to do text wrapping I go straight to 2022. It did randomly close a couple times today and yesterday, but I had a huge image open with 3-4 other huge images in the layers palette each with a mask group. I think it got overwhelmed. And I'm sure Photoshop elements is using resources in the background, at least that's what the CPU thingy is telling me. the of the best advice I got from Carole is that it's okay to have more than one version on the computer. I'm glad I did that this time, as I used to delete the older ones off. I'm still pretty new at this graphics stuff.

I love these old posters and that time in life too. Is this the very park that the song Palisades Park by Freddy Cannon is named after? I remember loving that song when i was young. It was probably something my parents listened too, or even maybe heard on the TV show Happy Days (it was a favorite of mine, the older shows, before it "jumped the shark" - literally). You did better than me on the roller coaster. In 1972 we went to Disneyland and I was seated beside my mom on the Magic Mountain ride, the car slowly climbed the big hill and at the top of the hill I was so scared I tried to get out and my mom had to clamp me between her legs for the rest of the ride. Probably not very safe, but safer than me trying to climb out.

I'm sad to see you go Doska. And I glad to have been able to see your creative work. I wish you the best going forward and will look for you on DS. Hope to see you back, even just to check in and see what we are up to. This layout is beautiful.

I stopped at crocus because I didn't know the plural...and I was in a hurry and had no time to look it up. Now I know what it is.

I often wonder about watermarking too. These are stunning!

Don't you just love Gill Sans Ultra Bold. It is one of my most favorite fonts. Such pretty crocus (did I get that right?)

I used to buy the pancake mix from the grocery store, then I found one online that I printed out. The bottom of the page says 6/2/2008, either June 2 or Feb 6 depending how the date is set up. It's called "Plain Griddle Cakes" and it's the easiest and most yummy pancakes that I've made. And it's really quick and simple to make. A paragraph a the bottom of the page reads: The recipe is based on the pancake recipe in "The Settlement Cookbook ("the Way to a man's heart") by The Settlement Cookbook Company Milwaukee Wisconsin 1903, a book every serious food reader ought to own. I add cinnamon to the dry mix and use the mix for both pancakes and waffles. For the record, I like waffles better. I have never checked to see if that book is still in print, I should do that.

I wish I knew, my head is usually so scrambled these days. Weirdly, even just 10 yrs ago I was really focused, but didn't do much creating (other than Christmas cards), and now my brain feels scattered and I'm more creatively productive. Wonder what that's about.

This just what I want to have. And also what hubby wants to do, but his work is really stressful right now so I'm not going to push him until his work settles down. It will be months. A cooler head has prevailed, in the end, he is more important than files and photos.

I love foxes, folding and paper! I'm not as good as this though. It's fabulous. Just yesterday at work I was out on the loading dock, the shipper/reciever had some boxes open (it was a flyer insert for a paper) and I was oogling at the protective cardboard piece on the top of the box (to protect the flyer when cutting open the box). My supervisor happened along and came to see why i was ooing and aahing. They both thought I was nuts. I'm like, "cant you see the subtle colors and the texture in this guard sheet, it's beautiful." They were like, uhm, no.

Project 3 You've seen the mittens, here's some partners for the mittens. Actually the 'partners' are about 3" (hat) and 8" (scarf), some Christmas decorations from something that I just found in a random cupboard. The mittens are full sized and were bought in the 2010 Winter Olympics when I lived just outside Vancover, BC(Canada). I put my big-girl pants on and wrote down all the supplies. Fonts: Awesome couple Script & Austyke (title) from Creative Fabrica Flower/tree/present: PS Commons Oklahoma Dawn (Digitalscrapbook.com) Swirl: Marisa Lerin (DigitalScrapbook.com) Polka Dot Paper: ABM-Christmas Joy-BG-02 (not sure who this is, but likely DigitalScrapbook) Pink Paper: PS Nov2019 BT-OKD-FiL-gpp5 (looks like Oklahoma Dawn at DigitalScrapbook) Green BG paper: Jessica Dunn-rustic wedding solid paper 10 (Digitalscrapbook) weird scatter stuff: Creative Fabrica Photos: mine The quote is not that thick in the reg layout or JPG. I saw it and thought, I need to change that, but when I checked my file, it's nice and thin, like writing. Weird EDIT: I decided to make the fonts more rustic and used the eraser on them to scratch them up and lowered the opacity. the dark black looks to abrupt on the eyes.

So pretty. I like the uneven lines in the background. the photo is beautiful, I love magnolias. What a cool icon that is. Nice touch to add your initials and the date.

I'm sure it's something dumb I did. I know how you feel, it's a bummer. I've decided to just let it go. Now I can re-do the tutorials and at least I have the pngs of the elements and papers as well. I can't imagine how you felt thinking the back up would be safe. I wonder if one needs to have an external back up that they unplug and only connect when the back up needs to be done. My hubby is still deciding what to do, and it's a low priority as he's in the middle of program change at work so I live in fear of losing stuff. I told him our relationship might not survive me losing my photos especially (the ones of family and past and current pets, holidays etc - the studio stuff I do would suck to lose but it's just things and not like people, pets and places you cant recover from).