Susan Ewart

Yup, I spelled it wrong. ARGH! I didn't notice until I was looking up information about Calla Lilies. Weirdly, I found some Canadian sites that use two Ls. I'm pretending it's the Canadian spelling or maybe I accidently bought Left handed lilies? They are spelled with two Ls, right? I didn't quite get the layout horizontally in equal halves either. It was fun to make though. The font is Lophinky from CF, which has LOTS of glyphs by the way, and Arial. Photo's are mine, I used 3 photos and a blend mode to set to Lighten. I didn't know the flower is actually the pointy thing in the middle (pistil?) and what I thought was the flower is actually a leaf. They are quite beautiful.

Lesson 1 Heart and Arrow. Lots of fiddling around. I see some very cool hearts and arrows from everyone. It's pretty inspiring. I am keeping it simple for this workshop, as others have said, just concentrating on the forms and taming the nodes. Some of those suckers like to multiply when I accidently click too much.

This looks great Middie. I agree about the statement "change for the sake of change"....it gets exhausting trying to keep up.

Thank you Corrie, this is good information. I'm looking for a bush that blooms to fill a spot in the yard. I'll check to see if they can grow here. I love Peony's too, and yesterday saw one in a garden so I think I could have one of those too. The in-ground variety you speak of would also be good cover for the little brown birds I would presume. My mom wouldn't even know me if she saw me gardening and growing flowers. I couldnt resist when I was getting groceries today, they had a pretty potted dahlia variety so I bought it. My flowers from seed are a ways away (at a few inches talll) from any photo opportunities so I bought some in-bloom plants for right now. Just need to find a block of time to take some pictures.

Very pretty Corrie. Are the pink flowers hortensias too? They look a bit different (the flower and leaves).

Love the touch with the punches in the bottom corners. It adds a nice touch.

So true Corrie, I love Julie's style and find it hard to do myself.

I LOVE the birthday girl one. Your style is so awesome, the ethereal quality I love, but cant seem to replicate.

Thank you Dawn. I've learned so much here at the Campus from Carole and everyone. I've come a long way, and have a long way to go. Wish I could live till I was 150 (in my current physical good health of course 😁)

Thank you Cristina, that means a lot to me.

Thank you so much Mary, Julie and Corrie. That means a lot to me. You know what they say, "It takes a village..." Without all of you (my village), this and many more layouts wouldn't have happened. I've learned so much and keep learning new things from Carol and Campus villagers.

Thank you Ann. There's a few spots I didnt quite get right, but overall I am happy with it. The photo really had a lot to do with how pretty the colors are.

Thank you so much Michele. I feel like I'm walking on clouds!

My physiotherapist is moving to the the interior of British Columbia (Kelowna, also part of the what we call the Okanagan area - home of the Ogopogo). I have lived in that area twice in my life enjoying mountains, lakes and lots of fruit (cherries, peaches, apples, grapes) and lots of wineries...even though I don't drink wine. This seems to be my go to e-card style of the moment. they are quick and easy to do...well, I say "quick", deciding on the font is the hardest part and takes forever playing around with it. You will notice the kerning on the word "Bye" is weird. I wanted the swash of B to blend in to part of the swash on the "e". I made masks for each, the upper and lower portions thinking I'd be using two different pictures (Lake shown is Lake Okanagan). I like the original photo, that I found on the internet so I put a copy into each mask but I wanted it to seem like it was two different elements. For the top portion I added two textures and some noise and used brightness/contrast to darken it a bit. That is also the area I added my sentiment on the copy I sent to her.

This is really cool Kasany!

if you go too big though, you see less layers. It's a trade off.

me too!

I do the same for small ones especially, or if I have a lot of layers that are similar then i"ll for sure name them, or group them and now I highlight the orig. vector (in yellow) in case I need to get to it, it's really easy to find.

Stunning April!

Simply beautiful Julie.

Beautiful Mary!

It seem like that to me too. Shouldnt it be the other way around. I used to say, sleep was wasted on the youth and now I should say, Time is wasted on the youth. All the time I wasted when I was young, I wish i could have that back.

Week 23 Are we already this far into the new year. Where did the time go? I used lots of techniques that I now forget, on the background. There was a number of Effects piled on top of one another and noise was added. In the end the background looks a bit like fabric. The font and outline were treated to Effects or a blend mode (I'm sorry, I cant find my notes, I think I recycled them) so it looks somewhat painted on, although might not show up with this resolution. Yup, it's pretty blurry looking. If I get my act together I'll start posting on FB starting from the January classes. Time seems to be slipping through my hands these days.

Wowzers Ann! Good thing the cloud is roomy like you say. I still want to visit this "cloud" someday. My hubby is a voracious Sci-Fi/Fantasy reader, he has about that much, but it's physical books.

Wow Dawn! These are amazing!