Susan Ewart

Week 28

Scripts used (apart from Counting Cards1-Weeks)

Custom Playing Card 

Lifted Photo

I used the tutorial called:  Button

the back ground is made from a Kaleidoscope tile.  After flood filling a layer I duplicated it and chose Multiply to get it darker.  then I added a texture (texture effects>texture>squares).  The kaleidoscope is subdued and probably wont show up here.  I inner bevel and shadowed the outer frame and each text vector all separately.  

I registered but also have not received confirmation.  

My challenge is when there is bent or curled elements such as the twisted ribbon and the Lifted cards and things like that.  Also if I was to make clusters.  I saw before how there was a lot of selections and promoting to get the shadows to reflect the different level one element might be shadowing.  Also when you get outside supplies and use the cluster without the shadow option, how would you do that.  Or is it just best to use the optional cluster that is already shadowed.  I used one recently but had to add an additional shadow because cluster with the shadow was way too light.

52 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Hi, can I join the club please?

Oh boy my editing skills are atrocious.  I should have said, "I sure HOPE there is not......etc". 

Yes, we are actively recruiting members.  Just touch base with our National President (Michele) and she'll set you up.  I wonder if we should get cards made, so we can say (and prove) we are "card carrying members".  Maybe the prez (Michele) will get on that.  Hint Hint.  

19 hours ago, Cassel said:

The unevenness of the lines can be achieved with the Warp Brush set to Noise.

The polkadot effect could be made with an overlay.

Maybe a Scraplift tutorial of the month could be an additional feature in the membership?

me too, this would be fun

20 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I hope you're right, Cristina! Now that I'm looking at how to do the pages, I'm starting to worry. I've not done any two-page spreads so that's the first hurdle! I perhaps spoke too soon! 🤥

Go through the Double Page Workshop and get some ideas!  You got this.  Once you start the ideas will flow.  It takes me a while to "warm up" when I sit down to do a layout.  Lots of "yuk" moments, then trying to fix the yuk, I get inspired by something and then that directs the layout.  It's rare to know what I want to do when I start.   

On 8/4/2024 at 2:04 PM, Sue Thomas said:

You really do create wonderful Alphs. A lot of time and thought goes into them. I had to look hard at the title in order to read it correctly.  There was a time I would use some fonts, not taking into account of who is going to read it. Will the text be legible for  eveyone.  As not everyones' eyes are healthly, which makes reading some text/alpha even more difficult.  Fortunately my eyes  are fine.

I learned this too, back when I was learning Calligraphy.  Eg. Formal Gothic - all the lines look the same, I could never tell when one word ended and another started.  

On 8/4/2024 at 6:40 AM, Michele said:

HI. My name is Michele and I'm a Font-a-Holic! 🤣

Ditto me too.  I sure there is NOT a 12 step program for that, I want to keep feeding the "need".

On 8/2/2024 at 11:25 AM, Donna Sillia said:

My latest: font is apple cider from CF. I am not sure I care for how this font looks. 

This is OUTSTANDING Donna!  I love it.  It's very Art Deco, my favorite.  

D -Digital Scrapbooking ....it's always an adventure...am I right?

Z = Ziplining   (not sure of the spelling) 

X = Xtreme adventures (eg ice climbing, bungee jumping) 

On 8/3/2024 at 10:47 PM, Sue Thomas said:

My subjects are  rarely  cooperative, they are after all wild and free spirited.  Which  makes photographing wildlife  a challenge. Always having to seize the moment, which  makes life interesting. 

Lately I grow my subjects, then cut their little heads off...that way they cooperate. 🤣 

3 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Here is the shot of  a female Robin sunbathing on the 30 July, with the  preening gland exposed, opening dorsally at the base of the tail feathers.   For those that are interested, I will post  the photo on facebook for better viewing. 

Wow, I never knew this.  How cool and interesting.  Thank you. Must not be an easy thing to capture.  Those little LBJs are so fast as everything they do.  

If I ever get time I will be using ON1 Photo Raw, as an editor, but it has layers too.  It would be similar to Lightroom and has a very good masking AI.  Alas, I have not even had time to learn how to use it.  Sigh.  It's another big learning curve for me (never having used lightroom), but it has the fine adjustments I want to me making that PSP doesnt have (nor does Aftershot Pro - I tried it)

M = Mountaineering

5 hours ago, Michele said:

Day 5 ~ I'm getting there. 

In my story, I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass. I just really couldn't deal with the taste when I was that young. I love brussel sprouts  now along with many other foods I didn't like as a kid, e.g. spinach, @Ann Seeber. LOL

I don't often use alphas so I found a wonderful font called Green Delight Leaf on Fontspace that fit my title perfectly. I added texture and an inner bevel to it. The story font is Candy Berry Solid which I got a few years ago in a CF bundle. The various papers are from blog trains.

 

Your mom and my mom must've being soul sisters.  I was told I couldn't leave the table too.  My go-to was crying or having a temper tantrum.  And my nemesis (to this day) is fish.   I also won, lots of tears were shed, but I didn't have to eat it. 

6 hours ago, Michele said:

I don't know if I forgot or if I never knew about moving a selection with a right click. Thanks for the reminder.

since 2023 doesn't have that option anymore (you have to edit selection and choose the pick tool to resize and/or move it) I totally forgot until I watched the tutorial.  I think I should go back through all the workshop tutorials to see what else I have forgotten.  that might be a good project for the dark, cold winter months.

I've had moose and coyotes run down the middle of the street where I live.  But they are common here.  We get pelicans too, more so in Edmonton than in St. Albert where I am, and not as much as Saskatchewan gets.

8 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

I have been experimenting using the elementstacker script. I made my letters on vector and then converted them raster. The letters had a layer style added. When I used the script the layer style was not included, so I merged all to flatten, then copied and pasted them on a new layer with no background. The script then used the layer style. 

Also since the font had parts of letters that did not touch, I ended up with all the pieces of the letters which I then merged the pieces for each letter. I have saved everything vectors, rasters,  etc so that I could use the vectors to change colors.

I hope to continue with other fonts in order to be able to use on my projects.

I love this and would never have thought of any of it.  Great job and it's a really cool font.

Day 7

I used the pretty finished page. Although, on the lower right hand side by the pink flower, there is a weird line.  Does anyone else have that?

I happened to have a recent lilac photo and thought's I'd use it even if it has nothing to do with the subject of the journaling.  I wanted to try the technique.  I like it.  I hope I remember it so I can use it again.  I did all of it in 2022 and forgotten how nice it is to be able to right click on a selection and move it.  I'm so used to using edit selection and the pick tool to move (or resize) my selections.  

Fonts are Marline (title) and Marko One (journaling).  

Thank you for this workshop Carole.  there was techniques (feathering) I had forgotten how to do.  

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I have one tape from my dad talking with my son who stayed with them when he was about 4 years old. It s a little bit unnerving when I listen to dad's voice because it isn't what I seem to remember. People from Rotterdam have a distinctive way of speaking and I always thought that my parents had no accent; I clearly was wrong! I left Rotterdam almost 23 years ago, of course I went there often to visit and the city always feels like home to me.

I grew up with a girl who's mom was from the Netherlands (not exactly sure - my memory isn't what it used to be, or maybe it never was😄) and she thought her didn't have an accent.  Her mom had a strong accent, yet clearly understandable to us.  I think I might find it unnerving if I did hear my parents voices...would I even know if someone played the voices to me without telling who it is.  Thank goodness for photos, they are my memory's storage system.  

7 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I wanted a wee break from StoryTime. Thinking of what to say in journal form is trying my grey matter too much. So I was looking at old pix and came across this one of my mother, taken oh so many moons ago! She's been gone from my life for such a long time, I look at her photos to remind me.

This layout has so many brushes and elements, I couldn't begin to list them. I just played and played until I liked what I got. It's based on a scraplift I took from Lilypad.

It's my last "what are you working on" for July. Hello August! Christmas will be here in no time, and I bet Sue T is all prepared by now!

I love your style so much.  I know what you mean, having to look at photos to remind you.  I wish I had taped my parents voice, I don't remember the voices anymore.  Makes me sad.

Day 6

I use Jessica Dunn's bundle,  "Heard the Buzz", except for the bee that is from Creative Fabrica.  the font for the title is Hillray Reg.  (probably CF) and I duplicated the vector, added more outline and had not fill on the second version.  Convert them to a raster so I had an outline version and a fill version in raster form.  I used Inner Bevel on the outline and Used Effect>Texture Effects>Tiles (hexagon shape) on the fill layer - I learned this from Digital Scrapbooking Made Easy book.  I'm already referring to the book for techniques.  

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Day 6 StoryTime: Why do children have such weird fears? I had so many  of them. They seem to be universal, more or less. When I was putting this together, I thought "how silly was that?" But it was so real and so scary!

This was me also.  And going down the stairs to the basement, the light was at the bottom.  when I had come back up I had to turn the light off, then go up the starts.  Soon as I flipped the light switch I raced up the stairs so nothing in the dark could get me.  

5 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Already day 7 and I used the template for this day. In another Story Time Workshop (or challenge as it was called) I told the story of me going to my grandparents each weekend to read the newspaper to my granddad because he couldn't read it due to severe eye problems. My gran had to read it to him every day and was glad that I came to relieve a bit of the burden. I had a strong bond with grandpa and loved to come to them. So my story continues with the lavender I started to bring for granny because she loved those blooms and the smell of them; she always had lavender soap and lotion as well. I used the kit Lavender Fields by Jessica Dunn and only the tag doesn't come from that kit. I used one of my own photos of a lavender plant which I once had in the garden and placed it in a round tag that I have in my stash by following the tutorial for this lesson, I had forgotten how to do that........ Title font is Hesthia Austine, the rest Arial

What a beautiful story Corrie.