Susan Ewart

This is cool, did you use cutout?

I agree, it's at the bottom of a very long list for me too.

That's a good idea to have a logo.

That's a good idea, I'll look into over the winter...hahaha, if you saw my post about all the projects I was "saving" for the winter months, you'd laugh at my deluded thinking that I'll actually get it done.

I'm not sure what I will do with them. They'd look cool as cards for sure. I will do some fun layouts with just the cards I think. Like a Royal Flush or Full House or something like that. If I had a printer and I guess a cricut I could maybe print and cut them.

Week 42 I had to check to see if I was in the right week or working ahead (hahaha, that would NEVER happen for me!). This is the red joker, same style magnet as the black and same photo since the photo I chose for it didnt work out. I started out looking at gradients for the background then used the one at the bottom, I forget the name...radial? I added many repeats and didnt like it so then I started running down the list of Distortion Effects, piling them on top of each other. Sometimes I'd duplicate if I liked something, and use the duplicate to keep going. I ended up in the Reflection Effects with Kaleidoscope and played around until I got something I liked. This reminded me of some kind of knit fabric. On the text for Week Forty-Two I had it original in the yellow color like the other two vectors which I rasterized and gave a bevel and drop shadow to. I thought it looked a bit boring and flat so I duplicated the raster layer and selected the text and used the background pattern as a pattern and filled the letters, then I used a blend mode to make it a similar color to the background yet still stand out enough to be readable. The texture doesnt show well because I had to really compress this to get it to upload here. It will eventually be on FB at the full size, soon as I get around to catching on the posts there.

Welcome Mike, glad to have you in campus. Looking forward to seeing your photos and the layouts you make from them. The calendar workshop will be a fun one. And if you want to start right at the beginning you can do the Bootcamp. Normally it's run twice a year, and the forum for each one is very active and informative. We just finished one, so the next one will be some time away. But you can do it on your own by going to the main home page. Look for the tabs across the top (just under your login information) on the right hand side of the screen. Got to Classes>Beginner>Start here. From there you will see the bootcamp, there is 5 steps and 5 projects. You wont have to do steps 1 and 2 since you already have PSP installed, but I'd start at step 3 for sure to see how we set it up, then step 4 introduces the concept of layers, and step 5 starts with the first project. Click on each project thumbnail to watch the video tutorial. the only thing you wont be getting is the free supplies that go along with the bootcamp when it's running for everyone. You can get supplies at Digitalscrapbook.com, if you sign up for a free membership you can get 5 free downloads (of a single item, not the complete kits) a day. it should give you some supplies you would need to complete the tutorials.

Thank you Cristina. I am enjoying trying to make a different background each time. Thankfully, we dont have 104 weeks in a year! hahahaha

Wow, I love these. And how lucky to get a sublimation printer. I wanted one, but looked at the cost of the inks and just about passed out. I sure understand the hobbies, I keep putting hobby ideas off, saying I'll do it in the winter. So, I decided to tally up all the time I'd need to "do-it-in-the-winter" AND get it all done, I think I need winter to last about 1326 days! 😲

Week 41 I used the pattern in PSP (purple plaid). 3 layers of it, all at different angles and sizes, then blended it and thought it looked like a faded scratched up paper. I add a small amount of noise too. I used the same color text as I did on Week Forty and this time I used a blend mode (screen) and thought it looked like it was printed on that paper and was scratched up like the rest of the paper. I had previously made the sticker which only had one layer of flood filled pattern. The color was changed in the sticker outer ring and the background to suit the image.

I forgot to add. check out the sticker, you can really see how it looks like there is a light landing right on it. I thought it gave a good 3 dimensional look to the whole layout. One teeny tiny sticker with that fabulous script did all that. So cool!

Week 40 I used two different green watercolor papers (CF), desaturated them, then colorized to suit the blue rim on the cup/saucer (then went and darkened them with a blend mode so maybe it's not so matchy-matchy with the rim anymore). As mentioned I used a blend mode (I think multiply) on the two papers. then added a PSP texture effect (texture) and to my surprise it looked kind of like stone. I used the cutout effect on WEEK FORTY, but it looked horrible on the smaller text and outline, so I added a small inner bevel to them and a small shadow as well. No more buttons, I'm doing stickers now. I didn't know if the Lifted Photo script would lift anything round so I tried anyway. Some orientations looked odd but most seem to look pretty cool. It's like when cheap stickers don't stick well.

I watched the three videos, they were great. I joined the VIP email list too. hahaha, the first time I've being a VIP in my life! I'm gonna make my husband clean the the bathrooms today! After all, a VIP wouldnt do that, am I right? I'm still buying kits till the end of the year and then hopefully stopping and using only what I have. I see she has some pretty great deals coming too.

boy, I'm lovin' week 41, hope it goes on for several weeks! This is amazing. Sometimes, do you look up and think, "I can't believe I'm so lucky to be seeing this". nature being so dazzling is also emotional isnt it?

Thank you so much Corrie. It is a challenge and I'm quite enjoying it; trying to do something different or use a different background with different techniques. And of course making or adjusting them with PSP. I think that's where the big difference comes from, layering techniques or textures on top of each other. Everything I've done with P52 I've learned in the Campus, isn't that awesome? I notice the beginning weeks were kind of boring to what I'm doing now. Won't that be fun when it's all over, to see the progression all at once?

Magical experience! Incredible!

I get that, I'd "like" to be a hermit....but work seems to get in the way of that 😁. New York (and generally the upper east coast areas) are so beautiful in the fall. Did you ever get to NY City at Christmas time? That's something I'd love to see.

So beautiful. What a treat, you get to go to Central Park, what I see in movies and TV is how picturesque it is.

I did not know that. Oh, I'm watching just the nicest movie on Netflix, Mrs Haris Goes to Paris. What a feel good and fun movie, I'm only 1/2 way through, but so enjoyable. But it's probably a UK production.

Week 39 Background is two textured papers blended (from Creative Fabrica) then I added a texture and noise from PSP. Fonts used are Nuri Regular (either CF or Google fonts that came with my font viewer) and Hortense from Monotype, thanks to Michele F for I.D'ing it for me. It the first font I bought with a licence (other than CF with my soon-to-be-over membership), for a project that required that font.

Week 38 Background paper from Kim Jensen (at The Lily Pad) Winter Solstice paper- white-blue. I tweaked the color to me more like the color of the flowers. Font is Adeston Creative Fabrica. all 3 vectors have a very tiny bevel and tiny shadow.

This is so cool. I love the "time machine" effect, it's really "effect"-ive. I love the kitty!

I'm in and looking forward to it. I've been a bit absent lately and this will be a nice change from the project I'm working on that keeps hitting walls (lots of challenges).

N = North Pole.... SANTA's Workshop! Ho Ho Ho

And sometimes even in my own language somedays anything and everything is hard to grasp😔. I can't imagine thinking in one language and typing in another language.