Susan Ewart

Christmas Card #1. The top square portion is the outside of the card, the bottom is what went inside the card. I printed them as 4x6 then cut off the bottom and put it inside. This went on a warm white textured cardstock with a deckled edge (Strathmore). This is also Lab 13-1 I believe, and was my fall back card if I got too busy to make cards. I ended up making two more. I found the inner sentiment color is too strong. If I did it again, I'd make it lighter, and change that one darker blue circle as it seems quite out of place.

Thank you. I thought that too, but wasn't sure. Grammar was not my strong suit. ( You probably have that figured out by now)

I have never heard the word before (either brolly or bumbershoot). They are super cool words if you ask me. Wish I knew all the cool words like the old people do...hahaha, I know I'm one of the old people when I "think" I'm not "one of the old people". Question for Ann: when you have words in "quotations" and it's the end of the sentence, where does the period go, outside the quotes or inside?

OMG! this is so cute! I love it. I'm glad you can create to keep your mind busy with more pleasant things.

At my worst (with my back) I could walk and stand for about 3 minutes before the pain made my break out into a sweat and felt like I was going to throw up. Weirdly I could still work out with weights and ride a bike, but not walk or stand for any distance or time. When I was humming and hawing about surgery a guy I knew (who also had a major surgery on his back) said "get the surgery and get on with your life, you aren't 'living' the way you are now". My 4hr surgery turned out to be 5.5 hours long and the surgeon told my husband it was much worse than the MRI showed. So I am extremely thankful to him and that I got it done. Surgery is a very serious consideration and I did not take it lightly. I was and still am a very active person, I couldn't live with what I figured was coming (wheelchair) so I took the leap. I was lucky and had a fabulous surgeon and am pretty much pain free. The surgery took the compressed disc pain away. I did deal with soft tissue issues for some years after, nothing major just annoying (piriformis issue's) that didn't even need any pain meds (I cant take pain meds more than two days in a row , so I tend toward icing pain, then heat). If you ever want any specifics of what my pain was like before and after and what I went through I am always open to chatting via email or phone. You can private message me if you like for my email addy.

How exciting to have a new camera. What a pretty view that is.

Surgery is for sure the last option. Let's hope yours is soft tissue related. I am still doing recovery for a partial hamstring tear. I didn't know I tore it and left it for over a year before I got it checked out. I was told surgery is not an option since I'm not an athlete (hmph! we are all athletes is our own mind aren't we?). Anyway, I turned to massage as that helped when I twisted a QL (back muscle). It helped but I still couldn't do certain things, then my massage person suggested Dry Needling. It's one needle that inserts into the knot in a muscle and relaxes it. Without this I'd not be able to do much, just swinging my leg to get out of the car was agony. The dry needling worked, but it does/can take many sessions. And you need a good practitioner who uses the smaller gauge needles. I just go in for touch ups now and have 90% mobility. I will tell you, it can hurt (I'm a baby when it comes to any needle), but it's worth it for me. I hope you find a good resolution because any injury really sidelines you and chronic pain really messes with your mind.

That is beautiful Julie. I love your natural style. I hope your back pain subsides quickly. I know back/nerve pain all too well. Surgery in 2011, L4-L5 with rods, screws and a bouncy new disc (disk?), just call me Tigger. I'm pain free and active. Let's hope you get back to that point too.

Perfect! I used this stencil too this year for one of the 3 designs I did. Nice to see you back in the Campus Marie-Claire.

I haven't either. And looks like another busy week. Hopefully I finish before this year is over.

Loved it as much as the first time I heard it. Love the end, "I forgot to hit record" and of course the obligatory kitty cat in a banana box.

This has not happened to me. In regard to the text, if it's still a Vector you will have to turn it to a raster to add shadows. I always add on a separate layer, that way you will see for sure if there is a shadow. Same if your photo's are in a mask group. Usually to retain the Vector or Mask group for later use, I will duplicate those layers and hide the original Vector or mask layers and then change the duplicates to a raster. But I've never had the shadows not work at all. I'm sorry, I'm at a loss with that one. Unless they are hiding under papers or frames or something like that.

Easy way means "SCRIPT" right? hahahahaha, I couldn't resist. Adjustment Layers are not hard to make...you got this. I do use them for editing photos ...until I learn my new Raw editor program, which is Waaaaaay down the to-do list. I am really interesting in using them for frames, I would never have thought to do that. Thank you Sue, for forging where no forger has gone before (in my world anyway). Geez, I think I just made you sound like a painting forger, YIKES!

Take care Chris, I hope you feeling stronger everyday.

I know, right? 🤣 We are spoiled for sure. I am going to give this technique a try, I really like the look. If I ever get Christmas put out that is. My living room is so full of boxes I can barely move. Once it's out and the cards are addressed and out the door I will be FREE and can play. PS Thanks for the good laugh.

Perhaps a script could be written?

On the Home Depot flyer the title was, "Black Friday....Starts Thursday" Love humour in advertising.

These are very cool Mary. Inspiring. I have so many ideas in my head of what I want to do. Now to find the time to do it and the many other things I want to do outside PSP.

Suzy, it's in the Calendar Workshop. Look in the Workshops (you are a Diamond member right?) and find the Calendar WS. I think it's day 6.

Yes, I quite possibly could've done that. But Font Base has big glyphs and I was on the right one for that one. Then it worked for me yesterday. I wonder if it had anything to do with the text on path. Or maybe the patron saint of mistakes was at it again in my computer. 😁

You are singing the song of my people. Even with specific things to do on specific days it all blurs together. Especially if I do something not normal on a certain day, like working on a Thursday (my day off)...I tend to think the next day is Saturday and almost forget to go to work (because it's actually Friday).

I love this font too. I just tried again and it's working. I wonder why it wasnt when I was doing my cards. Maybe a late April fools joke from PSP or Font Base. So strange. I've always maintained that computers dont like me. This is a case in point.

Yikes, is it tomorrow and not on Sunday?

I think that technique was just in the Campus update with the link to the blog post tutorial. I wanted to remember and downloaded it. Once I get Christmas put out I can get to fun stuff. I wish I had an instant just-add-water and *POOF* Christmas is all over the house, seed.

I didnt know this. I wonder if Creative Fabrica is the same. I copy the preview to a preview folder (it's easier to choose a font) and several times already the preview shows a glyph and when I go to use it, it doesnt show it either in my font viewer OR Windows Character Map. Also, does anyone have Samantha Upright? Some glyphs copy and paste fine other,(Many others, in fact MOST others) copy the selected glyph I chose, but when I paste in the project it is a whole different one and it's like 9 or ten glyphs away from the one I chose. I've even deleted the font and got an new one. I'm going to start adding the ones I use to a favorites (I can do that in my viewer) and then at the end of the year I will pick a few more I like but havent used and get rid of the majority. I'm sick of spending 1/2 hour going through fonts when i can be using PSP instead. When I first said i had 12K it's ALL the fonts. Some fonts come with many versions (family?). the actual amount I've downloaded is only ("only" 🤣) 4700. So that's not so bad... right? I'm only a "little" font-a-holicy.