Susan Ewart

Very nice paper and those colors go well together.

P52 Week 7 Font is Agatha (Creative Fabrica). Ugh, I had two fonts called Agatha. And only one would show up in my drop down. Of course the wrong one. I had to turn off the wrong one in my font viewer for it to see the other one. This explains why when I load some in the font viewer I don't always see it. I see that it's loaded and says it's activated, but I actually have to scroll to it and activate it. It's a little annoying. At least I figured out what's happening. I downloaded this one font 3 times thinking I did something wrong. It's called "Christmas something or other" and I have several with that name. It now explains why I only seem to be able to use one of them. the "W" has the same hook as on top of the t-cup handle. Purely coincidental, I only just saw it now. And the shadow I put on the magnet is way too small, it looked huge when I was doing it. I'll have to go back and fix that. I even wrote the numbers down and didn't believe my own writing. I used a gradient background and added a texture. I also added a texture to the rasterized fonts and frame so it would look like it was printed on the paper. Probably the texture will be lost in the lower resolution. Nice to get back to this project. I had forgotten how I did some of the steps and had to remind myself.

I bet it's fun to see what they have been up to. I think what we have are hares. they are grey/brown in the summer and white in the winter. I'm trying to recall if they have black tipped ears.

the magic wand and how to select from the layer (in a template for example) and going to the paper above and click delete. then you can tell them about scripts that do that as well. Also using the magic wand to make frames around the photo; the two ways, one for the frame (inside or inside/outside) on a separate layer, then they learn how to flood fill and perhaps bevel and shadow that frame, then the other way on the outside where it makes a mat(again, on a separate layer). then the user has a choice of merging the two and leaving it like a framed photo or they can shadow the photo, like it's paper on top of another photo. I've seen Rene do this and it's so pretty, then they can shadow the mat too for that dimensional look that makes scrapbook pages stand out. Also, remember the lessons in the bootcamp. we got lots of cool tool use in bootcamp and it's aimed at beginners. Like using the eraser tool to make the pinking shear edges also for making cut outs (not the "cut out tool") in the paper with the eraser brush which uses all the fun brushes they may have to add a punched out effect on their papers. Or the selection tool; pointing out the different shapes (rectangle, circle, rounded square etc) to make smaller papers or elements. You may already have this covered in the main body of the book.

Beautiful shot. Me and my co-worker get so excited to see them at work, in the bush right outside the door we go in. my co-worker is the expert spotter. otherwise I'd walk right by even though I am looking for them. the very small empty lot across the street from work in the spring/summer has 7-8 that I can actually see (probably more hiding). I wish they wouldn't cut the wild grasses/weeds, so they could hide better from the coyotes. I still cant help wanting to smoosh my face right up in it's fur. (side note: I don't, and when we spot one we are quiet and do not disturb them, poor things have a hard enough life being at the bottom of the food chain).

I love this. I am a fan of dark dark dark backgrounds, this is a nice lino background. Beautiful picture and perfect use of the font as part of the mask.

They sure do look like stickers to me. Very cool effect.

I love everything about this!

I hope you are feeling better soon Chris. Let the works of everyone hear inspire you while you are recovering.

Wow, that is so cool. Good thinking on the name.

How did you come up with that name. It's a great name.

that's weird, it told me slippers was wrong, when I scrolled back up into the test....I think. I almost flubbed up choosing that you couldput a shadow on the mask. I was going to say yes because if you turn it into a raster you can shadow it. then I realized if it's a raster it's no longer a mask. So no, you cant shadow a mask....that I know of.

Day 7 here's a diff version I was in the shower, just about to go to work when it hit me to color the blurred raster layer. I used the Ctr A, Ctr F , then flood filled like we learned in the last Q&A. I'm not sure if I did it right as I'm doing it from memory and it merged with the layer below it (the one I selected). I'll have to go re-watch that. I used that because it was blurry so it would use all the pixels. since I wanted a copy of the orig. blurred layer, I undid it, then made a copy and hid it. then did the select all, float, flood fill. then i turned the black layer back on and really cool was the black kinda of stuck out past, and I lowered the reds opacity so more black could come through. Supposed to be like glowing embers about to ignite. What looks better? I did get a color showing through the G but it looks interesting to me so i didnt try to take it out.

thank you Marie-Claire. it was a really rewarding experience for me ...in the end. Of course I had my share of hair-pulling too.

Day 7 I made it! This too me a long time to futz around with. The keyboard keys was a separate photo that I merged in, the zigzag and lightning bolt are brushes (the zigzag might be from Corel?). And guess what I found out....the diagrams from the pencilsketch2 are also brushes I have. that way I could add them where I wanted. I ran the script several times, changing the edit of the photo each time. that gave me lots of hatch to choose from and I used a mask to get the best of the city buildings (computer circuit boards). The "moon" is the disc from inside a hard drive as are the other elements, except the upper left "cloud". the red flare is a brush too. the font is Avalors (CF) and I duplicated it, turned the bottom version to a raster and blurred it. the font itself had a humongous stroke, by accident of clumsy fingers, and left the tiniest space for fill so I went with it. the keys were taken off the keyboard (that my work was recycling) and lined up as it was, I didnt leave enough space between. I took forever (and the cats got banished because they'd undo my work as fast as I was doing it). tonight I'll get started on the Build a Kit. I see everyone has started off with a creative bang! Thank you for the workshop Carole. I pushed myself more in this one.

Oh Ann, I'm so happy you liked that picture. And my heart sings, knowing it's on your wall. This was a super friendly cat on a walk around the neighborhood. Every time I crouched down to get a picture he/she kept coming toward me. My husband played with it for a bit and it would roll around for tummy scratches of all things....to a complete stranger! Isn't it just a beautiful cat. We have another cat from the 'hood called Snoop (he has a collar) who comes and spends the day lounging in my back yard or going into the garage if my hubby is out there. He very much wants in! I've even phoned the owner to see if it's okay that he is at my house visiting (outside, never inside), and he even came into the part of my gym that is in the little garage and acted as my very judgy trainer. The owner was surprised at how far away he was. I'm hoping to build a catio for my cat girls. I couldn't live with them roaming the 'hood, I'd be a basket case of worry.

Me too. And I've done the quiz before. I always want to to call the cat Slippers. If I ever get another cat I want to call it Slippers.

Me too. Like a high comfort level and less "freak out" moments.

Oh man, what was in the pipeline? Might it have been a workshop we'd all die for....like Vectors 2! I must agree, I need big time brush help. That's a few more master classes for me to re-watch. Is there a saying, "Too many workshops to create, not enough time to host them!" I might need a 48 hour day, but you surely need a clone of yourself for all the workshops you want to create and teach.

I agree. It was fun to just play and see what else I could do. I really enjoyed this 3rd time through. I'm a lot braver than in the past and trying things I dont know how to do and figuring out the ways to do it. Some successes and some pretty dismal failures, but I feel really good about it all. I'm going to rewatch the selection master classes and read the blog posts now that I have a better comfort level of understanding. I think it will be more beneficial this time around. But first, I must get to that Day 7 lesson (probably by Wed). Thank you for the support and another wonderful workshop. So many beautiful and interesting layouts from everyone.

Day 6 here is the inside cover if you can read the blurry one above

Day 6 I used the mask technique (selection/modify/feather) from lesson 5. I added a black layer under my lino layer and then reduced the opacity of the lino layer to get it darker. I used the Pencilsketch2 script and used a mask to bring back the items (oddities?) in the containers. I also extracted those containers to be able to put a shadow on them and also the the box so I could shadow it too. The background of the pencilsketch part is from Riley B Graphics (Creative Fabrica). Fonts are Giorna Velusca (for the title) and Gilnger (for the rest) both from Creative Fabrica. the layout title has a bevel added as well. Day 7 will come later in the week. the Office of Oddities is a riff on the Instagram posts from Office of Collecting; fun and eclectic stuff to see there.

Day 5 ...And here is the recessed version.

Day 5 in the bag! I was able to use the Pencilsketch2 script for this (yay). then i made a mask to bring through the colors of the glitter and make up (used for crafts not my face). then I did some more selection and promoting so i could add some shadows to the box the glitter was in and to the little container rims. Then I thought the splotches looked funny on the background paper so I decided to try some different sorts of shadowing. I think more extractions (just with magic wand) was needed to do shadows in the recessed way. One layout will show the little splotches floating and the other recessed. the script background that was created was perfect for this layout and I added gaussian blur several times. The background paper is Riley B Graphics (Creative Fabrica). the Font is Goodnight (italic version) with a blend mode of overlay - I think. Here is the "floating" island version.

OMG! so cute! How do you say no to a face like that?