Susan Ewart

It's funny, I know I have access to the workshops and yet I still wait for them to come around. I guess I like doing it with a group. But I think after the Build A Kit it might be a good idea to have a go at the Text Workshop again.

Me too.

Thank you Corrie. It's all about compromise isnt it. ....and lots of praying!

P52 Week 12 I used a gradient background, meant to texture it but forgot. Cass-lifted photo script used as well. Font is DaisyRegular. My font viewer's little circuitry imploded on this font. I have another one called Daisy, but my font viewer calls "it" Daisy Regular (with a space between the words - but the font is actually only called Daisy) and no amount of manipulation or pleading to the font Gods would allow the viewer to see both of them. So weird. so I had to install this one in Windows. Programs are great....when they do what you "think" they are going to do. 😁

P52 Week 11 The font is Claire Murphy (Creative Fabrica). the background is a PSP pattern (feathers) at I think size 200, 120 deg. angle then I used the kaleidoscope effect. Not shown in this lower resolution; the color in the pattern has purple in it like in the T-cup.

Thank you for the name of the font and the info about the new script. I wonder how font designers come up with font names, some are rather odd.

Great shot and I like the choice of font around the moon. I think I might need to get that periodic script. I looks really cool.

I love that poem, it's beautiful. As is the layout.

She's BEAUTIFUL! And thank you. I can never get tired of seeing horses.

I love it too. Especially since it's all in layers and vectors so we can make changes as we need. It's a great and very useful script.

hahaha...the "MEGA" - mini kit. A mini kit with about 40 add-ons. This is so pretty Ann, you have the nicest background for this. I think I might be so behind (in P52 and Build A Kit) that I've caught up to myself. This would have been the perfect journal card for my kit wouldn't it?

Oh, thank Carole, I forgot there is a freebie in the store (creationcassel) that you can use. I had bought the script right away so totally forgot about the freebie.

Yes, the outer frame, along with the year and the week #'s are a script in Carole's store (creationcassel.com) called Counting Cards 1 - Weeks Not sure everyone is using it, some might be making it from scratch...there is a tutorial in the campus for doing a frame with words in the frame line itself that would also be cool. But please do what you want as the rules are loose. You gotta be you!

You got horses! They make good photo subjects. any cows close to home right now...cows are awesome!

most likely a confidence or lack of experience issue for sure. it's right on the money though.

Thank you Sue, Corrie and Rene. I am finding my tastes/styles in photography is changing too. What most has changed is my passion. Often now, putting creativity first and the fact that I did find a passion in the digital world which lead me back to the my first passion (photography). Now I understand my "real" artist friends (one's that are making their living from it) when they'd pull an all-nighter because they were in the zone. I get that now...although I'm too old to pull all-nighters...but I've been doing some late-late-lighters, especially when I have an idea and I have to get it out of my head (so that I can go to sleep).

yes, that is it. I think I am still experimenting with styles. I definitely dont have a style as yet. I often sit back in my chair so I'm farther away from the screen and just look at it and see where my eye goes or if I feel it's not quite right. I think I probably overthink. I never thought it could be because I don't have a style; which if I did (have a style) it would be more instinctive to know where something needs to go. Soon as Build A Kit workshop is over I am looking forward to getting back to the Notebook Labs again which means more layouts!

This one is really pretty as are those Redpolls, mother nature really knows what she's doing when she creates. I love that background too; do I see a background photo through the pink textured paper as well?

Beautiful and oh so sweet. What runs through my mind when creating layouts? Usually if I'm adding elements I think, "does this/these element(s) make sense with what I'm trying to say with this layout". Sometimes, I will add a surprise element in a corner or on a frame, somewhere in the layout. For example I've put a very owl small on top of a frame, or a cat in the corner of a layout that isn't about cats...sort of like "Easter eggs" in films (definition below). I try to make it look balanced and with fonts I try not to over "glyph" them. It's still a struggle at times and a learning process for me. Some I like and some I just don't like. Of course there are elements that are non-descript and fit any layout, like flowers and buttons and fasteners etc. Usually I have a photo(s) and the layout evolves from me thinking about it when I'm not where near the computer. If I sit down and say I'm going to make a layout, I come down with "blank page" syndrome and other times I already have a theme or concept in mind. Like the layout I did recently called IGNITE, it was in my head for some time, and that time (when I had to do photography for it and go to work and do regular life things) is where it really evolved when I'm doing non computer mundane things, more ideas pop into my head. Why are Easter eggs in films called Easter eggs? It is believed the name derives from the idea of going on a traditional Easter egg hunt - the task of finding an object that has been concealed with the intention of it being found.

After seeing this beautiful layout I'm BEGGING you to please continue as you are doing. I think this challenge is pretty relaxed on rules and that makes it why I wanted to do it.

How great that we can spend a lifetime continually learning something we love.

Not quite from scratch. thankfully, Carole shows how to use the first one to make the other three, saving some steps. It's to get the 4 directions of the prong with the highlight in the right spot for each direction. I am thinking I need to "think" in template terms too, going forward. It would be so much faster. On the bright side, I did a lot of cutout effect today so I'm hoping that got stuck in my brain. And it helped to understand using the cutout for highlights is different than using the effect to indent (such as for the wax seal). Imagine how much more I could have done today if I'd just followed the directions. 😪

I totally hear you. I have learned in the past few years to back away and not engage in conflict that just isn't that important (As a child I was the temper-tantrum Queen!). I'm trying to save my words ("those" kind of words - we all have them) for really important situations. Thank you about the tip. I was making Photo Prongs today (12 of them) when around prong number 6 to 12 I saw a little something weird on the prong (of course AFTER I was done). Ugh, I had switched one the steps with another one which cause the issue, took me some time to figure it out. Yup, any and all tips are important...so is following the steps in the correct order!

What a cool and clever technique. Love it. Beautiful words Sue. "Immortalizing the fleeting beauty of a moment no matter what it may be.", really resonated with me.

Thank you it's all good now. I did the wax seal tutorial, it's a good one.