Susan Ewart

I have tried to watch some tutorials tonight but there is no video. In the spot is a URL address, but I tried using that and couldn't make it work. I did a re-boot on my computer, cleared the browser history etc but not working for me. The masterclasses play okay.

That's beautifully done Julie and the background color works so well with the color in the photos.

the flowers just pop right out of the photo. Beautiful.

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?

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.

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.

WOW. JUST. WOW!

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.

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

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

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).

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

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)

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

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.

BEAUTIFUL! what a great shot Corrie!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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