Susan Ewart

5 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

WEEK-11:  This week we had a couple of very fine spring days and we were visiting a nursery in a nearby village where we go quite often. They have a nice place to sit with something to drink/eat as well and outside they have at the moment so many plants in stock that I couldn't help myself and made a couple of photos from the big display of pansies. Of course we took some home with us and they are now on the garden table where we can see them from the livingroom.

Wow, how lucky to have flowers already.  Looks like nice sunny day.  And I have to say I love 11 in your language because it's also a Christmas character, what better number is there? 

1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:

I am really appreciative of your words, whether you are babbling, or short and to the point. I never know what I'm going to find.  I always have my wits about me. Constanly looking, listening, treading lightly.  The rewards can be  immence. 

Well said. Me too....avert my eyes and back away slowly (from drama, conflict or any uncomfortable situation).  But...please be comfortable enough with me to say anything you want and give me any advice you feel would help in my learning, regardless of what anyone says or thinks.  If you're speaking to or helping me (especially if you have knock it into my brain- I can be super dense sometimes) only you and me matter in that moment.  

7 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

well I don't know what happened to my post, text all over the place, and two images.

It's the computer mischief fairies at work.  Simply stunning layout and such an incredible photo, so incredible it deserved to be shown twice!  I think you are a nature magnet....I think the porcupine is thinking the same thing...."I am incredibly privileged to be photographed by Sue Thomas, I've been waiting weeks for this day".  All kidding aside.  You put in a lot of work and you get the rewards for it.  Best payday ever, eh?

PS.  I was so proud of how less word-y I was on the original post...and here I am blabbering away ruining my good intentions of less talk.

7 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Here is my week eleven.  Doing this challenge really does make you realize how quickly the weeks simply fly by.  Saturday  is the start of a new week for me. 

I was quite privileged, and awe inspiring to be allowed to get fairly close to  this  big procupine. (Danielson Park, trail hiking)  I didn't feel threateneed by it, as it didn't display  any signs of being threatened itself.  AS they will retraet up a tree rather than attack.  As it was feeding on bark and twigs. They have a more varied diet during the summer months. They have such tiny eyes for its size.

WOW.  JUST.  WOW!

On 3/13/2024 at 3:55 PM, Sue Thomas said:

Carole's border and page punches, along with her fancy fonts, really don't need any introduction.  For the date I created a wooden token.  As for the hedgehog I went with a semi watercolour effect. Frame and mask my own. Whilst home with the little girls, I would take them up  Badgers lane, once at the top the view is spectacular. They would take their magnifying glasses, I spy insect book, and magnifying insect jars.  Needless to say I got those for them.  We would turn over stones, to see what was underneath.  On one occassion we saw this  Hedgehog.  Of course I had my camera with me. 

My best friend (since I was 12) is moving to Nairn, Scotland inJune.  She is looking forward to seeing/learning about all the flora and fauna of her new area.  How lucky to see these in the wild.

13 hours ago, Rodney Boyd said:

I'm in NB. Was visiting my daughter in Edmonton Desrochers Area. Did 4 years in Nanaimo.

Cool, you live in Carole's neck of the woods

39 minutes ago, Rodney Boyd said:

What am I working on ...

Nice area to camp!  I'm from the Edmonton area (St. Albert)  although I'm a BC transplant to AB.

6 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

As you can see I've had a superb day outside, being entertained  by 6 hares.  At home we have a saying Mad March Hares. They aren't mad at all, instead it's the courting behaviour of mating hares.  They spent the day, running up, down, over and around the snowbanks in the yard and out in the stubble, chasing one another. Mating suitors.

Who needs TV when you have this right out side your house.

P52 Week 10.  

Yay! We are in the double digits now.  And I'm caught up here (waaay behind in Build A Kit).

I used Lifted Photo script (Creation Cassel) and the color of Counting cards script looked quite nice once I put the background in (the outer frame and fonts is the last step I do).  I had wondered about putting a shadow on the bigger font (Week Ten) and when I went to put that shadow on I still had the last shadow as a reverse shadow and it made the font pop a bit more so I left it like that. the background is an inverted gradient, then I used halftone (lines) effect and a bit of Add Noise. 

The font is aptly called Queen Victoria Vintage, likely from CF (there is a bunch in this font family, presumably each with their own glyphs, which seemed plentiful).  

On 3/2/2024 at 1:26 AM, Ann Seeber said:

Dessert for breakfast! I had scrapped my famous Stuffed French Toast, and it surely looks like a dessert with all that whipped cream! Behold...

Ha ha! I just noticed it is the same layout as Corrie and Bonnie! 

OMG!  I love french toast.  This is meal in itself.  

On 3/1/2024 at 5:17 AM, Mary Solaas said:

Guess I'll post my Dragon Cake.  It was so much fun to make.

Mary that cake is fabulous!  Love the Icing font too.

P52 Week Nine

Not sure if the texture (a gradient with several hundred repeats) will show up.  

Font is Madina Graciela (CF).  this font has lots of glyphs, I only used one (the e with the heart)

6 hours ago, bina greene said:

Fabulous pages @Ann Seber. TFS!!! 💕

I have a sort of culinary book going at the moment, Graphics myself, fonts Pacifico and Lato. see here https://imgur.com/a/xL7mbzw

The second one is from a daily project with papers I made for a designer challenge at DS, the 3rd one is from an album on the Paris arrondissements (here the 4th), and the last one is from my recent trip to Barcelona..

 

Beautiful pages Bina.  The Culinary page is very nice looking, very much like a magazine page. 

1 hour ago, Sharla said:

Shiver, I can't even imagine what that feels like.  In England, even up here in the north, it rarely gets below -5 and that's a rare event. Spring is definitely beginning here, I have started seeds in my little greenhouse and am keeping my fingers crossed we don't have a sudden cold spell. A couple of years ago all the blossom trees were damaged by a late frost (one of the very cold ones) and some have still not recovered. 

It's hard to know when to start seeds here.  I am new to plants and starting seeds. I'm told not to plant anything until after the 3rd week of May!  Last year I planted some flower seeds straight into pots and into the garden area (which was very small, this year it's twice the size).  I don't know what I'm doing so i was delighted when plants actually grew and I had some flowers to photograph.  This year I might get brave and try food type plants too.  I do grow herbs (rosemary, thyme, parsley) in pots that I overwinter in the garage under lights and have done that for years, but flowers were a first for me.  

Sharla, what a pretty bird.  And wow, you have cherry blossoms, how lucky.  We are still under a foot of snow and currently snowing -20 (celcius).  We had been lulled into a false spring with weeks of warm +10 days with no snow on the ground.  I get fooled every year thinking spring is finally here and wham! A snow storm.  

16 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Hurrah, this week on Tuesday we had sunshine! On Tuesdays I go for a walk with a friend and we do so for at least 20 years now. In those days we had a group of about 8 to 10 and over the years the others quitted one by one. The corona years did the rest and now we are just the 2 of us. This week we were on a path we often use and a blue heron decided to land on some grassland next to us. He/she was turned away from us and there was a ditch full of water between the grass and our path, so I couldn't go nearer. Slowly I reached for my phone and was able to take a couple of shots before the heron walked away.

BEAUTIFUL!  what a great shot Corrie! 

12 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Susan I know! I find the script works its magic on so many different items as long as they have enough dark colors in them, or if you can change the colors to darker ones and maybe black and white too. That's something I have to try with another photo.

That's the secret Corrie, getting the right photo and editing for the script.  Not editing to make the photo beautiful as the photo it is, but know when to get the dark areas lighter and the lighter areas darker, especially as you pointed out, too light around the edges then it just disappears.  I never thought of making cards for men, your card is perfect for that.  I did find I had to lighten the darks, somewhere to slightly darker than a mid-value and to darken the areas that are too light.  And a properly edited or even the edit that was for the script under it and lowering the opacity.  or even putting the orig.photo on the layer above and trying the blend modes and using the the opacity with that.  Also using masks to have just one bit of color showing through.  So many possibilities.  

14 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I wasn't finished playing with that Pencilscript (Susan I like it as much as you do!) and this time I wanted to see what the script would make of a photo of a mill. The mill was mostly a dark color and I like the result of the script very much. It very much looks like an old drawing and I need birthday cards for (older) men. I had used this photo for my postage stamps and put that stamp on the back of the card together with my logo. This card has happy birthday in Dutch and I did a German one too; there are a couple of guys I have in mind for this card in 2024! The font is Sonia btw.

Corrie, that windmill is perfect.  This script is quite addicting.  I cant wait to do some more photography specifically for this script.  

13 hours ago, Cassel said:

Yeah, it is looking like that. I wonder if I would have to release both books at once though ! 🙂

 

Instead of a sequel, make the PSP how to a companion book to the scrapbooking book. Or put the more advanced scrapbooking/psp how-to in the second book.  Kind of like when you do the bootcamp, the next logical step is the Basic Scrapbooking course.  

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

One thing I found is that if the starting shape is very close to the edge and depending on the number of repeats, if the shape (plus the border) touches that edge (often on the left/right sides), it will happen. I have taken that into account in the default shapes, but I can't control it when you use your own preset shapes. If that is the case, draw your shape slightly off the top of the red rectangle. It might address that.

Oh, thank you Carole.  Absolutely that's what I did, started on the very edge as i was trying to get an equivalent to 600x900 size (1.5 x factor I guess is the math on that).  Once I use the Vector is there a way to resize/edit the shape we do make INSIDE the red box?  I would love you to show us in the next Q&A if possible.  I think I kind of fumbled my way through it.  Once through I did get the frames, but other times I didn't and understanding the need to account for the frame size makes total sense to me now.  Thank you for letting me know.  This is a super script, just watching the complexities of it running I was wow'd.  Oh and once I went outside the red box and well, I got the pop up for that too.  Playing with it is a good way to get comfortable using it in the ways I want to. 

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Very nice and this script definitively will go on my ever growing wishlist!

And it turns out I must've read the READ ME file because i did the right thing.  Still not sure why it didn't make the frames.  I was tired and it was late...that's probably why. 

On 2/25/2024 at 5:20 PM, Bonnie Ballentine said:

I am blessed, Corrie! I struggled as a teen to make friends...now I have many.

Bonnie, your stories are so touching. It's beautiful to see how rich in love your life is now.     

I want to join the Photo Circle Template script action too.  Here is a 8 week P52 challenge recap.  took a few times through the script to get the right size for the P52 size ( i chose the custom shape choice as I wanted a rectangle.  then I added a frame around each one adding a shadow and reverse shadow as well.  I did have to erase a little bit of the spill over shadow on the last one and I managed to remember how to do that.  The fonts I used are Linna and Lophinky (i might have spelled that wrong - both from Creative Fabrica).  

1 hour ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

National Geographic says:

Rainbows are actually full circles. The antisolar point is the center of the circle. Viewers in aircraft can sometimes see these circular rainbows. Viewers on the ground can only see the light reflected by raindrops above the horizon.

If this is correct, there is no end.

Ack! where does the pot of gold go? hahahahaa.  Finding the pot IS my retirement plan.

1 hour ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

Maybe this will explain:

 

YIKES!  that leprechaun was disturbing.  hahaha, hilarious.