Susan Ewart

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.

Love the "Scrap with me" section.

This is beautiful. I love the watercolor effect around it too. What a great design. The text is well done (you could have another career in writing children's books!). This will be a treasured book.

Oh that's sound like a fun place. I remember diners like that when travelling with my parents. I love the home cooked type diners over the chain restaurants. I was wondering how you would print a double layout, interesting that you can do that. There is nothing more impressive than turning a page to see it fill both pages. That's the WOW factor. Hope you can take a photo of the book and some the inside pages when it's done.

What an accomplishment Mary. 45 double pages is, well, 90 pages, that's incredible! I really enjoyed arm-chair travelling along with you and reading about the locations. What are "throwed" rolls?

Wow! Very well said. I like the way you organized it and the words you've used describing to us already makes me want it. I really love that you added #6 Making it special. Great titles for the chapters. So...the question is....can I have it time for Christmas? 🤣 (You gotta know I'm kidding, right?)

I will usually get a test print done, 1 print to see how the outsource photo printing company prints the photo/layout (I'm using London Drugs Photo - Canadians may recognize this company). Usually it's too dark so I'll add remarks, like lighten, or watch the whites or I'll even tell them the correction to make eg. take out 1 cyan and add +1 density etc. Then when I'm okay with it, is when I make the full order. I'm not talking Calendars, although when I do try a calendar I will test out 1 month probably, just to see if it's worth printing or if I need to make changes (before I commit to 12 months and a cover only to find it's too dark). Prints always come back darker, simply because it's on paper and not a backlit screen we are used to seeing it on. And then there's the blacks and inherent issues with JPG not having the latitude a TIFF file has. I have meant to save my pspimages as a jpg and tiff to compare. But not much sense in doing that until I start working from a RAW file then converting and comparing. so much still to learn in the digital post processing for me.