Donna Sillia

Day 5 - I seem to be running a day behind. The background is my own created from a photo of my cement driveway. The lines were a bit harsh so I used a gaussian blur. I made the stitches into a vector using the selection to path script. I used vectorpaint to add the stars in the circle. The patterns were created using Adobe Elements styles.The balloon pattern is from my Build a Kit 2025. The stripes were created with the cass gradientstripes script, and the beads are from the cass Alphabead 3 script. The photos are mine. The heart was a vector preshape selected and converted to a raster. I then applied a FF effect called "Colored Squares with Photos." The striped #1 is a png number from CF. Carole, I am really enjoying using all the scripts that I downloaded on your birthday.

Canva has design templates which can be modified. However, when I used it to design a business card, I uploaded some of the elements made in PSP. It has limited creativity on effects. I sometimes use their templates for inspiration. I also download their elements for use in my PSP projects.

Ann, I learned about Canva when I editing and doing graphics for a book written by my friend, John. It is a graphics and design program that is a yearly subscription of $120. However, there also a free component if you want to give it a try. Canva Pro is free for primary and high school students and educators. I recently designed a business card for my son's bowling pro shop and had it printed by Canva. They sent me a PDF to approve which I did. However, I made a mistake and the cards were printed incorrectly. Upon contacting them, they immediately corrected the image and applied what I had paid to the new order. Needless to say, I was very impressed with their customer service since I had made the mistake in the first place. The cards came out beautifully. You can also create a team. I uploaded my 2025 Thailand calendar, and the printer was able to download a PDF suitable for printing. She was also able to make the pages larger with no loss of sharpness. You can also download graphics or pictures for use in your programs such as PSP. You can also make your own videos, although it is in the experimental stage but keeps improving. I just love Canva and use it frequently. I am currently working on a Web page for my son. https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

I am still dithering on whether or not to buy Affinity. One interesting thing that I discovered in my research is that Affinity has been bought by Canva which I do have.

Day 4 = The photos and the background are mine. The frame is a cass metallic rope tube. The font is Retro Thick from CF. I used the cass script stamped on the letters for Zion.

Day 3 - 2 more photos from Tuscany. The background is a grunge brush, and the flowers and leaves are from watercolor brushed. The CF font is botanical flowers with a style added from Adobe Express. The striped background is mine from playing with my new cass script gradientstripes.

Day 2 - I asked my friend, John, if a could use some of his photos from his travels throughout Italy. In response, he shared not only his Tuscany album, but also asked his friend, Robert, to share his album. As a result, I now have about 750 photos of Tuscany in my iCloud folder and used them for this template. The background is one of the photos taken at night and overlaid with a Tuscan grunge from Adobe Express. I created the border using Carole's repeat script of a preset shape with a Adobe Express gold style added. The title font is call concave tuscan and the journal font is black tuscan, both from CF. I added a watercolor leaf pattern to the background layer. Although I missed yesterday, I want to wish Carole a belated "Happy Birthday" and thank her for the gift certificate. I spent the morning downloading my favorites list.

I didn't duplicate the dots layer. I have a bokeh brush from AE that I imported into PSP.

I always have a difficult time deciding on photos to use and finally decided to use another rugby photo. I choose this photo since David had both feet off the ground which is normal for a fast runner. The background is grass from PSP texture effects. The lined paper is from my 2025 Build a kit. The ric rac is from Carole's script. The bokeh effect is from a Adobe brush imported into PSP. The font is an OFL font called Silverblade and has an AE gel style applied. I also remade the circle as a vector so that the edges would be smooth, converted it to a raster and used the clip to it script to make a mask. The circle frame was also a vector outline converted to a raster layer and beveled. I didn't add any shadows to the dots or the bokeh layer.

Thank you, Corrie. Because of the warm one day and cold the next, some of my daffodils haven't even bloomed yet. But, the ones that have bloomed are beautiful.

I have two varieties of daffodils in my flower bed. The daffodils in the circle are pictures that I took of them in various sides. The center cluster is from Adobe Express. The bottom is a photo from my garden that I made into layers and merged in Photoshop, edged with one of Carole's edge brushes. The from is Carole's photo circle script. The side plaid is from an experiment in FF that turned out well. The font is from a CF and called Juicy Snap Solid. I made the daffodils from AE into a tube and created the pattern fill.

Daffodils are one of my favorites. There are so many varieties, but I only have two growing in my flower bed. I still have to post my pictures.

The photos are from the Outer Banks in North Carolina where we spent the Christmas holiday. I made the film strip in Adobe Elements. The font is MsBeasly which is a free font. For the font style, I followed lesson 7 in the Text Workshop. The background is a gradient, and the graphics are from Adobe Express.

It's a great sport, Corrie. They are so graceful to watch. Thomas is 9 and working very hard towards the black belt.

My grandson, Thomas, is one of my favorite subjects. We are so proud of his achievements. My lilac and orange papers are from my current Build a kit, originally a paper from Adobe Express with a blend mode. The frame is from FF; the belts and clip are from Adobe express. The squares are a material from the belts that I made into a seamless pattern using Carole's script. I extracted the photo from a video sent to me by my daughter in law. My son is the one holding the board. The layered font is from CF and called Dynamix Street. The "o" is an AI generated on Adobe Express.