Susan Ewart

(#73520).  Mary, that's exactly me.  And Ann once told me, she takes all the classes she can because she always learns something new.  I also forget which tool to use when and how to use them etc, and like Christiane said - "it needs time".  I cant wait to see how Sue and all the advanced users (meaning: everyone else-from my point of view) transform a template to put their creative styles on it will be inspiring.  And of course the cadence of Carole's wonderful teaching voice and style and all the forum postings.

Cool! I'm in!

I am practicing with masks today.  Here is  Pye two with different backgrounds.  I think I like the white-ish one best.  She went over the rainbow bridge in a very sudden and unexpected way a few years ago.  She was a sweet gentle soul who always knew when you needed a lap kitty.

 

Pye came to us through the BCSPCA.  We had decided to adopt two cats (she'll be in later layouts) and had them picked out.  While describing them to the SPCA on the phone they had too many with the same description so I jumped in the car to go and point out the two.  When I got there I saw Pye, she looked up at me with these huge eyes and had the tiniest meow.  And that was it, she was ours.  My hubby and I had just watched the movie "Bell, Book and Candle" with Kim Novak and James Stewart and decided to call her Pyewacket ...because we "thought" she looked exactly like the cat in the movie.  A few months later we watched the movie again...and laughed so hard when we saw Pyewacket is a Siamese!  From then on we'd say she "magic'd" us that day that we adopted her.

 

Background papers are kaleidoscope and dots, all learned in the Mask Workshop (which I loved) and available in Diamond membership (which I love even more ?).

Brian, I agree with Mary, that's one cool and very interesting site.

 

 

Trish, so sorry to hear about your reaction to your booster.  That is awful.  I hope you start to feel better soon.  Your "Beautiful You" is stunning.  I love your color palette and well, everything about it.  Your pages are so diverse it's really exciting to see what you will create next.

Hi Mary, (#73167) I just checked, I did it as download found in Messenger, on Facebook.  It does have your picture on the page and your middle name.  The file is 15 MB.  I will try and send to your gmail account, but not sure if that's too big to send.  I sure hope I got you, or someone will be very confused.  ?‍♀️?

Fiona (#73227) that's beautiful.  thank you for explaining how you made the changes, the tips are much appreciated.

 

I'm practicing today, keeping it simple.  Mask practice and played with the new Lantern tubes, floating off up in the sky.  I experimented with the Hue Map, thanks Carole for that timely blog tutorial, made several very slightly different Hues. keeping it analogous with, Magenta, Blue, Cyan,  and white to mimic the clouds...and because black didnt look as good.

 

The lantern behind the mask is supposed to be coming out of the clouds.

(#73176) Julie, I love your "Spring is in the Air".  Trust yourself, your layouts are beautiful and inspiring. I'm a newbie too.  I'm in Alberta, we had 4" snow yesterday,  ? and hoar frost on the trees today.  It's pretty, but I am so ready for spring.

(#73140).  That's beautiful Mary.  A sentiment we all need right now.  Did the download (About the Imperial Water Dragon)  I sent to you via Fb messenger get to you okay? I also posted two other pictures in the Masks forum for your perusal.

That's a really cool layout Trish, it's really interesting to look at all the details in it.  Love what you did with the word SEA.

(#73108) Fiona, that is so beautiful, both the design (love that kaleidoscope) and sentiment.  Very sad world right now.

(#73102) Linda, that happened to me.  For me it was that I was holding the button down  too long(I have a heavy touch), even when I thought I was "just clicking once".  I had to click and lift my finger right away.

 

(#73103) thank you Sue, for the tip about changing the brush variance back to default.  I be that's what was going on with mine too

Mary, (#73092).  check Kevin's website at metalanimation.com and click on "projects" and you will see more photo's.

Hi Mary.  (#73092).  Thank you for your comments, my heart is singing.  I tried (hopefully successfully) to send a psp file to your FB account (I hope that was okay, I should have asked first?‍♀️ ).  It is the artists words on the "Imperial Water Dragon".  I wouldn't have been able to put it as beautifully as him.  He is from Chilliwack BC Canada (where I lived at the time -2009).  This was an unveiling of his latest art piece, only 5 minutes from my house.   In one of the two images you can see how many people were there so it was really hard to shoot any full length shots, I mostly did close up shots.  He also had two other previous eagle sculptures there (one for repair as it had been stolen and fell off the truck or something like that). The second photo is the artist being interviewed by local media, it gives you some perspective of the size of this beautiful piece.  It was for sale for 1 million dollars (Canadian - that's about $4 American, right??).  It didn't sell right away and I could always see it when I was driving on the highway.

(#73084) Carole, I will not give up, but it helps to know the tools are the friendly non-biting variety ?.  I played around with image>negative image to adjust the mask.  Here's the two I'm working on; still not happy with the background layer, the stainless steel is busy because it reflects everything.  It's a work in progress and a good learning process to work through the challenges.  I'm having fun with it, masks are very cool.

Thank you Carole(#73070).  That worked perfectly (and I just wrote notes about that last night - LATE last night).  Some days I soar with the eagles and other days I'm just a turkey-brain.

help, I'm trying to use the mask from lesson 6. How do I get a less greyed image on top.  I see the mask layer is grey.  I've tried to make it white (window), but cant seem to do it.  It makes the bottom white.  Ugh.  I clearly need another year worth of mask training.  Now that my brain is frazzled, what do I do with the bottom part.  maybe this is not the day to try to be creative, hitting the iron will have to suffice...cant build the brain might as well build the body.

(#72973) thank you Sue.  I love reading your comments to everyone (and me of course).  I learn a lot from them.  And I vow to become friends with the paint brush tool.  It will take some practice to use it proficiently, I confess I might have a death grip on my poor mouse so the movement isn't smooth yet.  This is also my favorite workshop so far.  It feels empowering when I actually get through the lesson and have a completed layout.  I respond well to the teaching style of the bootcamps and workshops.

Thanks Carole (#72955).   ?‍♀️.  I was reading comments and there was several mentions of using the brush to paint on the mask too.  Was I sleeping in class again.  hahaha

(#71849) sorry Carole, I missed this post about "ascending" being hard to read. I agree and I will follow up on that.  I remember playing around with it a lot and still wasn't happy so I posted it anyway.  What I envisioned and what I did were not the same.?

I just did the quiz, got 9/10.  I must admit some (okay, most) were guesses.  I didn't know you could paint on a mask layer.  We probably did that and I already forgot.  I'm going to follow Sue's advice and practice one thing until I understand it.  Repetition is the key.

Day 7 Layout.  I enjoyed this tutorial.  I like how we made the mask and the dots were fun to do and try different sizes.  Thank you Carole for having these tutorials available for the Diamond members.  I'm going to need to refer to them for some time to come.

 

Thanks again for putting this workshop on.  I have being inspired by and learned from everybody.  Cant wait till the next one.

(#72752) Carole, I used the same size as the video.  I kept going with the repeat command till I didn't like it and then backed off a bit.  I found the smaller pattern was a bit busy and wanted to see how big I could go.  I wasn't sure how to do the blur and blend thing and stumbled my way through, ended up with two raster layers with lino on them.  When I'd hide one it would make the other one look weird (I cant seem to explain this part) even though it was two  different layers layers.  So I just merged the two layers together to keep the look you see in the layout.  I've done lino before and don't remember it doing that.  More practice needed from me as I like this technique.

 

Really beautiful layouts from everyone and I love the lino and kaleidoscope papers you all have made.

Lesson 6.  Today I used a scanned image of one of my photo's.  This photo is from 1993!  A time when I shot mostly slides, very little film.  Except on this day when I went to the Vancouver Aquarium where this guy landed on top of an exhibits (pretty sure the rocks are fake), I was shooting film. 19 yrs later the negative (which has been kept in the dark) is not viable anymore, wish I'd shot slides that day.  I had a few problems today and was able to overcome them when I used my laptop to follow the lesson on making masks from selections, while actually doing the lesson on my desktop.  I had written the instructions wrong and I was on the wrong layer  while making the selection.  And I also had to go back to get the settings for the brush behind the quote (from Lesson 2).  And, I see it needs to be moved to the right a bit.  the lino paper is fun to do and quick.

(#72636)  Carole, when I was learning Calligraphy many years ago the Calligraphers would refer to Titivillus as the Patron Saint of Mistakes.  I actually thought it was made up, until I looked him up.  Usually it's when you lettered something and were nearing the end (or finished) and you see you had two of the same words in a row or a spelling mistake.