Susan Ewart

Sue, absolutely beautiful page, and beautiful photo.  There is nothing like the sound of chirping birds.  We (hubby and two indoor cats) do a lot of watching "bird TV" out the dining room window (where the feeders and baths are).  I think I'm probably one of the few who shovels under the feeders in the winter so the birds have a place to land (other than the feeder itself), and for me to get to them to fill them.

Corrie this is very beautiful.  Your visitors will be delighted.  I have always wanted to do a photo book.  How many pages is it.  It looks hardbound, is it?  Did you change the size of your page as it looks more rectangular than the 12x12 scrap page.  Sorry for all the questions, this looks so awesome.

Annie These are very cool.  I will give this a try.  thank you for the tutorial info.

 

Sue  Wow! that is beautiful.

Very beautiful Annie.  I will look into templates.  I confess I dont know what templates are and which part is the template.  Such a newbie.

Kathy this is awesome.  What a beautiful tribute to your daughter.

Thank You Anne.  I am really trying to work on design.  It's a tough one.  I try to think (like I do in photography) is this element adding to the theme or detracting or does it make sense to have it it or not.  It's not easy for me.  There is so many papers and elements to choose, maybe it's because I cant choose which ones to use that keeps it simple.  hahaha.

I did it!  I completed all the projects.  I feel empowered.  Sometimes I hit buttons and then don't know how to undo what I did, because I dont know what I did.  Instead of giving up I took a couple deep breathes and got it figured out.  Thank goodness to rewinding the video,  over and over.  I remember my calligraphy teacher's words; Practice, Patience, Perseverance.  I can see the need to be able to make your own papers to get just the right color for your projects.  This has being amazing and in this unsettled year+ it's nice to having a positive accomplishment.  I never thought I could learn this.  I'm a happy bootcamper.

Thank you Cassel I will try the fixes you suggested.  Just watched the Project 5 video and will get to it this week.  Off to work now (even though it's a holiday. sniff sniff).  Just want to stay home and play with PSP.  I dont want to lose what I learned.  I did sign up for the Basic course because I need that accountability.  Thank you so much for the discount code.

Project 4 in the books.  I used the pinking shear edge as cutouts instead.  This went pretty well.  I have a problem moving the words around.  Sometimes it doesn't grab the work, but the background layer underneath.  Or it moves the word and leaves the word behind, having two of the same word offset.  Other times I can move them fine.  I've tried being on both the copy of the vector layer or the raster layer of the word.  Not sure what I'm doing wrong or if it's my computer not catching up.  I have used mostly designs I was greatful to download from pixelscrapper.  And found some that were already loaded from Corel.  Onto project 5, later this week (I have to "adult" now and go to work, do housework etc etc).  All images used are mine.  This has been an eye-opening course for me.  Thank you all for posting your awesome scrap-pages, they have been very inspiring.  Thank you Cassel for your instruction, I love that you go through the steps each time, it becomes the words I say to myself when I'm doing the actions.

I just noticed I put "these feet were made for walking" on my project 2.  It was supposed to say "these feet were made for mischief".  I was humming the song when I was typing.  Must've saw something shiny and lost my train of thought.

OMG!  Annie, I love the cats.

Susanne, this is so pretty.  Love the colors and design.

Project 3 done.  yay!  I'm getting the hang of this.  Lots of "undo" sometimes, but learning by way of mistake making. haha.  My sister in law gave me this red bird bath and I thought no way would any bird use it as it was slippery ceramic and bright red.  It was the favorite of the corvid group (crows, magpies, bluejays) but I was surprised at all the LBJ's (little brown jobs; that's what we call them) that would skim across the surface.  So I put a big rock in as I had one sad accident of a LBJ drowning.  I was horrified.  Since then all has been good.  It's warm enough now I can put the baths out (I have 3).  Hubby and I love watching out the window, with the cats (indoor girls).  Mother nature has supplied all we need for therapy - nature style.  I used the bigger shadow settings on the buttons.  My brain want to put the bottom right button the same as the top button, in the corner.  At the same time I wanted it on the paper corners to look like it's holding it there.  a designer I'm not.  I love this bootcamp.

Thank you Cassel.  i will try your fix.  I kept the first version in case i could fix it.  Hoping to post project 3 tomorrow.  Really enjoying this, okay, sometimes pulling out my hair.  But rewards await if I persevere.

Stunning!  You have such good design sense.  Very inspiring.

Yay! I fixed my project 2.  I started over and then I compared the layers and fumble finger me accidentally deleted the background layer.  Which brings me to a question.  If you add a layer and you dont like it is okay to right click and delete the layer or is it better to click on undo.  Sometimes I add an element and I dont like it and want to get rid of it.  I figured out the text indent thing is normal.  here's the new version with drop shadows.  The cool thing was I did this faster than I've done the other ones and without having to refer to the instructions.  This is a first for me.

thank you.  my 2nd project has had challenges.  But I will forge ahead.  My camera is so much easier to use!  But I've done photography for 40 years.  Maybe after the next 40 I might be able to do this.  hahaha

Hi Everyone!

 

Well, project two was problematic for me.  For some reason it wont do the drop shadows at all, I'm using PSP 2019 and even took it into my PSP 2020 version with the same results.  somewhere along the way I've clicked on the wrong key  Where the word SAYA is looks like it did have a shadow but I think it's actually how that element was.  When I was putting text in I got another layer below my Vector layer and it shows "T".  Is this normal?  And when I wanted to use the Free Rotate tool I'd get a weird message. I just rotated it by the lever thing. This is the time to tell you; computers hate me.  This is why this is such a steep learning curve.  I really love all the other pages I see all of you making.  And I will keep at this.

Hi,

 

Susan here.  First post for me.  I'm a newbie to scrapbooking of any kind and working with PSP (even though I've had it since 2019!).  What beautiful and inspiring pages I see on this forum.  Thankyou Cassel for your words (Edit, Copy, Close, Edit, Paste as New Layer) they got me through this.  I found myself saying the words as I did the action.  It's the words of you speaking the instructions that I hear when I'm trying to remember what to do.  Great teaching style.  here's my first go; from Day 3.

 

I picked this because it went from a sunny 26 celsius (4 days ago) to 2 celsius snowing heavy two days ago!