Susan Ewart

6 hours ago, Michele said:

Thank you. Check out the script in the store and you'll see the flexibility it offers.
https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_9&products_id=476

I just check it out and it's a cool script.  I'd also add to watch the video, it's very good.  Michele, does all those brushes shown in the video come with that script?  that alone is worth the price!

7 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Last - Template 7 Diamond. All the papers and the brad group are from Cassel's Fire and Ice kit. The bow at the bottom is also from Cassel. The font is Violenty Script.

These are perfect fireworks!  They look like flowers with a stem.

T = Twenty Ones (21's) 

Usually for db bicep curls; 7 reps from the bottom to half way, then, 7 reps from half way to the top, then, 7 full range of motion reps. 21 reps total is 1 set.

21 hours ago, Doska St. said:

Good morning,

 

here I'll show you my further progress in my PSP training in the new German forum. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to publish my own training tasks elsewhere (at the moment sign tags) despite many credits on the picture (the artists who gave permission to the forum can only be shown edited in the forum), but my own frames around my own photos, which can I show where I want. With frames you can easily get into a routine with PSP. Unfortunately there is no filter. With filters I always have to save in .psd and then insert the filters into PI. I can't even insert the "Filter unlimited" into PSP because many filters are integrated.

 

 

I love how you wound the ribbon through the Font.  What a stunning layout and that photo is outstanding!  

Q= Quadruped  

doing exercises while on hands and knees (lots of ones for the glutes, abductors)

13 hours ago, Cassel said:

So far so good. I am dedicating Wednesday mornings to work on this book. Depending on how late I sleep in, or what else might be on my schedule, I still manage to get a few hours each week.

My process is to go through all the content that is gathered from various blog posts, tutorials, and classes, and make them all in the same style. Blog posts and classes have different formats (with intro, links, etc.) so I am making those a bit more streamlined, removing some extras, shortening sentences, etc. Today, I was working on chapter 5, which had a lot of screenshots for tools and dialog windows for various PSP versions. I plan to limit the screenshots to 2023 (or whatever will be the current version when it is published if there are significant changes). I reason that although there are some differences, if someone uses PSPX8, and the screenshot is from PSP2023, it should still be easy enough to follow. I can therefore remove a lot of "unnecessary" screenshots to save space!

For those who have purchased the Tips and Tricks book, that was in a 6x9 format. I feel that would be a bit small for a scrapbooking book that would include lots of images so I plan on a full-size 8.5x11 format. I don't know if it is new (on Amazon) or if I had not noticed it before, but I think it would give a better result for the reader. And I will be able to have it IN COLORS! (that was not available at a reasonable price when the Tips and Tricks book was published).

This sounds wonderful.  I like that size, there is nothing like the feel of a physical book in your hand.  I cant wait for it to be published.  

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

You're no quitter!

I come from a long experience of quitting.  Once I got into my 50's I decided enough of that!  Thanks for the vote of confidence...I could have used you when I was younger.

3 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

To quote the captain in "Galaxy Quest" - "Never give up! Never surrender!"  Galaxy Quest is one of my favorite movies!

hahaha, I love that one too! 

3 hours ago, MoniqueN. said:

Wow, wow and another wow!😍

Thank you Monique!  It took me a long time to play with that template to find some kind of vision.  I almost gave up.

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

When the Merlin comes to my yard, she/he is looking for the small birds as a snack. And they are drawn here by the feeders. I feel guilty facilitating the predator.

I know, I feel the guilt too.  At work one time (there is floor to ceiling windows in parts of the warehouse) we were working in front of the windows and there was rabbits with babies and we were so delighted at seeing it. Then, the ravens came and they were picking off the babies and dropping them from high.  One staff ran out and picked up a baby but it passed in her hands.  We were horrified.  I love ravens and I love bunnies.  I get the whole circle of life thing, but I don't have to like it or watch it unfold.  I moved to where I couldn't see out the window.

N = No pain, no gain...did we have this one.

If ever there was a silly quote this is it.  If there is pain, that's not good. Sore muscles are one thing, pain is quite another, listen to your body.

Day 7

I changed the template completely (started with the Diamond Day 7 template).  the little tag is where the journal spot was and the title is in the same spot as the template.  I did add shadows but they arent going to be visible, except on the screwhead.  I originally wanted to use a label to cover up the alligator clip but thought it would look more "specimen-y" with it. the title and the outer frame have an inner bevel. Filled with a gradient (all the frames) and a pattern called Black Gold for the fill in the title.

Fonts used: Herkings (Creative Fabrica), and Arial (Windows)

Tag: my tag from the Vector Workshop (highly recommend this workshop!)

Thank you Carole for another wonderful workshop.  I'm always so delighted to re-remember the things I forgot from the last time through.  I saw so many beautiful and inspiring layouts and often thought; "that's awesome, why didn't I think of that"? 

1 hour ago, Jen Brown said:

Lesson 6 done! We have a flock of about 10 Hadedas that visit us every day and most times spend the day in our garden. They are large birds (about 76 cm (30 in) long) and very noisy. Their call sounds like their name HA - DE - DA. When they make a noise, don't even try talking because someone standing in front of you won't even be able to hear you. I love these birds.

You are so lucky.  I would love this!  I had a Merlin in my yard on Sunday.  I was most excited.  He/She came, sat, pooped, and left.  But we watched for about 15 minutes.  I can never get enough of birds.  Your layout is beautiful.

2 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

As this challenge will generate a new prompt every month or so and we had the Template Workshop to do, I only now had the time to make something for this new challenge. I liked what Bonnie did and made a page for the city where I was born and lived my whole youth. A little detail that is not mentioned in the layout is the black and white photo which is taken by my dad some time after the bombing of the city center of Rotterdam in WWII. The photo to the right is of the same church and I took that one on more or less the same spot a couple of year ago. My dad passed the love for photography on to me!

How cool to be able to photograph the same church as your father did.  Imagine you standing in roughly the same spot your dad did.  That gives me goosebumps.

1 hour ago, Donna Sillia said:

I have had a lot of fun with this Workshop and learned so much. Unfortunately, for the next week, I will be without a Windows computer. I will miss working in PaintShop very much, but my daughter has a full schedule of things to do in Fredericksburg. I am hoping to get some great pictures! 

I made a quick roadtrip template. Thanks to our vector workshop, I was able to make a little car that sort of looks like our Toyota. The map is from Google.

See you in a week.😪

Have a fabulous trip Donna.  I'm looking forward to seeing the photos of your adventures.

2 hours ago, Cristina said:

Susan, love the layouts and photos. 🙂 

Thank you so much Cristina, that means the world to me.💖

6 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Bonnie my husband just turned 79 last week and yes he is getting "old" in his behavior and thinking and that frightens me! Of course he has been seriously ill but while it is better now he is stuck in the feeling that he can't do things anymore and won't undertake nothing, only a couple of things he knows well. I know that there is help available but he categorical refuses that! So I sympathize with you not being able to travel with Judy; it is so sad when you see a person you love slipping away from you. I hope this trip will turn out better then you fear and with the help from trusted friends you won't be totally on your own. 

I worry mine will go down that route too.  I do understand your worry.  I am a world class worrier and I get so tired of worrying.  And I know I wont be needing to deal with that as I get older too.  Aging is so cruel.  

5 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Corrie and Susan - this was happening to me a lot!  I kept finding my .pspimage files in the folders for papers, etc. so I talked to Carole and she pointed me to a little script to use for my Saves that has ended the confusion. It's not you, it appears to be a bug in 2023. At my age I don't need any more hints that I'm losing it! LOL

I didnt know that, about the bug.  What is the script called?

2 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Workshop Template 5 Diamond.  I think I am tired out and there is still 2 more project day templates to go.  Thinking about the theme (pictures, etc.) is now the hardest part. I texturized and colored the 3 small papers (that was fun)  - I used "tiling" under effects>texture effects for the first time and I like it - gives me some ideas for making ribbons. I played with the Change to Target tool on the flower element in the lower right corner. Interesting that this time there was no TITLE layer. I guess the journaling tells all.

You just did a huge project with your travel/trip double pages, no wonder you are tired out.  This is great...and this is also not a race.  

1 hour ago, Julie Magerka said:

Template 7 (extra). Done. The two pix were taken (top) last night and (bottom) this morning b/c I was impressed with the colours in the sky as the sun set and rose. It always makes me think of "Red sky at night, sailors' delight" and "Red sky at morn, sailors be warned." But it didn't work that way this time. We had a cloudy, damp, and chilly day with some rain. So much for those old sayings I guess.

I didn't change much in the template and added not much except for the little suns as elements. I'm not a big flower lover (at least the scrapbook kind, the reals ones are lovely). So I usually change them to something else. Fonts are two different ones and I don't recall their names.

So pretty Julie.  I love "naked" tree silhouettes. 

4 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Wow, love that element that you blended into the blue paper. It works.

I never thought to do that before.  I always forget to try things even if I think it's silly.  There was several blend modes that looked good too.  It was hard to pick the one I went with.

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

LESSON 7 - A classic scrapbook page, hoping to overcome some really lame photos clipped from a video. A little more involved than I usually do but I think it looks nice. All the elements and papers came from a kit called True Heart Digitals and the fonts are am-index and flora garden. The top cat is a mature female (I think) and the lower one is probably her nearly grown (possibly male) kitten. They seem to act as a bonded pair.  She hides under a neighbor's car when I come out on the porch whereas he is bolder and comes running, meowing at me for food. I now have a Cat Cabin on the porch with straw for bedding. I've included a promo photo of it here.

Ann, that is so wonderful that you are caring for these feral cats.  You might be the only love they know.  I like that house, is it from amazon?  I heard also to only use straw, as blankets can freeze.  

1 hour ago, Cassel said:

It seems related to the auto-preserve and not the actual saving of the file. Is that possible? I wonder if you can turn off the auto-preserve and re-enable it later?

Thank you Carole.  I will look at how to do that.  I never thought about it being the auto-preserve (I dont even know what that is or how to use it other than seeing those folders that show up) but that sure makes sense.  Is this something I would want to normally keep on, or can I just turn it off for good?

Carole:  

Here is the message I got.  I clicked okay and "thought"  it wasn't saving it at all.  Well, clearly I had been in another folder before I did that because it was saving it into that folder, clearly I wasn't paying attention.  I kept saving and saving and I could see it wasn't under my Day 6 folder....so, I guess the hitting okay worked fine (the operator obviously didn't work fine -ME!).  But other than that.  Why do you think it was going to "fail".  At the time I was trying to find a nice fill for the font and was trying out all kinds of gradients, then patterns and different settings.  Do you think I was just clicking too much too fast and it got messed up trying to save the temp files fast enough?  

Day 6

What a great video using the blend modes with the textured paper.  I used the paper (blue) from the kit as I new I wanted blue anyway. Blend mode used was Multiply.  the layer above I had a metal element (was a brass metal clock outer ring element) that I resized to the the blue paper fully then used the blend mode Dodge to make it look like it was part of the paper design (opacity of clock lowered to 38).  Ditto for the faint clock hands at 9 and 12, using a blend mode of Softlight and reduce opacity to 57.  Title has an inner bevel.  Paper doily I used HSL to make it a light ivory instead of stark white.  Tiny white clock I added an inner bevel as well.  I had a weird message about not being able to save.  I'm not super happy with the title fill but was having such issues saving that I just went with it in case catastrophe struck.

The deets:

Background paper: Riley B Graphics (Creative Fabrica)

Blue Paper and white clock face:  Janet Scott - elegant autumn mini kit (Digital Scrapbook) 

Bottom flowers/clock ring/clock hands/wings: (on blue paper):  Kerry Dempsy -KMRD Steampunk Elements (Digital Scrapbook)

Bee Wax Seal: Billie Irene Steampunk something or other kit (Digital Scrapbook)

Font: Samantha Upright (Creative Fabrica) - used glyphs on "S" "t" and "s"