Donna Sillia

Here is the tutorial. It is rather simple in Photoshop. You can also download the textures, but I didn't like the downloaded textures.

Carole, I have been working on making shimmer papers. So far, they can only be made using Photoshop. Although, I am experimenting with PSP, I can't seem to duplicate them. Is there anyway to make this type of background using PSP? I am not sure how the 600 jpeg is going to look.

For the day 7 workshop, I used a picture of my grandson, David, playing rugby in Las Vegas. He is the one running over the guy on the ground. He is currently coaching the women's Las Vegas rugby team that has made a splash by winning all of their games so far. I deviated from using my kit except for the star. Rugby does not really fit the art deco style so I used a sports kit that included rugby from Marisa Lerin. I colored her background paper, originally black, to green. The colors in her kit for rugby coincides with David's Las Vegas team colors. The background for the wavy section is a RB 80's gradient with the opacity lowered. The text is GuinnessExtra Stout in honor of the boys always drinking stout. All the other graphics are from the kit, including the WordArt which I modified, but the words are hers. They are perfect, but I never would have thought of them myself. *I had to edit the first one because I forgot the shadows. Psp was working very slow until I shut it down and ran Norton Utilites to clean out the junk files.

For No 6, I used a photo that was sent to me by my grandson who spent 3 months in Southeast Asia, sightseeing and playing Rugby. I made a background of leaves using one of my kit papers, changing the brightness and contrast to each section. The orange flower was made when I was going through my flower making obsession. The tree is a tube, and the pineapple was created using Microsoft AI. I included the pineapple because David informed me that Thailand has huge pineapple farms. The font is Showcase Gothic outlined with Cass gimp tube with which I fell in love when browsing the store. The gold layer is a RB 80s gradient.

I really did not like the title treatment in my first try so I changed the color. I also gave it a little emboss using layer styles which work on a vector.

There is a replica Tara in Sharon, PA which we visited several years ago and stayed in the Rhett Butler bedroom. My photo is of a clock on the main floor and seems to be very art deco. I did use papers from my kit but made a small selection of the wallpaper for the striped background. It fits into my kit perfectly. The font is Broadway. Yesterday I received an email from Microsoft inviting me to try their new AI site, Microsoft Designer, which is where I made the roses which are also perfect for my kit. The blue paper has a PSP texture while the pink background has one of my pattern papers. I saved all of my papers not only as jpegs but also as psp images which makes it easy to change colors. I am very happy with the result except for the Title. I experimented with it, but it does seem to stand out the way that I would like it to.

I finally finished No. 4 after many issues with the move and pick tools. I am still using my kit items and finding out that either don't like some or the colors don't work. For the background, used an embossed background but the bevel I had loaded had a light pink color. I decided to use it since that is one of my colors. The font used is Veni; the pictures are my own from Hilton Head.The jeweled flowers are part of my kit. The arrows were made today from presets, and I will add them to my kit. I've used the title before so I must be longing to return to the ocean. I am sort of getting the hang of curved text and started using it in my card making projects. I also should add that I am trying to be more aware of the use of shadows. I am saving them on their own layer so that they can be adjusted.

I always have problems with using shadows even though I try to save the settings I use in workshops. I will review the shadows workshops again and maybe something will sink in.

I didn't make any plaids for my kit, so I created one in my color pallette. Fortunately, the restaurant matches. The pictures are mine. The fonts that I used are FlamingoShadow, Arial, and Gumondo, I think. The center paper is a texture in PSP that was yellow but colorized to the coral color with a little tweaking with Flaming Pear, Kyoto color. The left side is from the plaid with a gaussian blur applied.

Corrie, I love your orchids!

I am still using my kit papers and some of the elements that I made. The pictures are my own--one taken in the desert in Nevada and the other taken in Hilton Head. The crazy flower was made using the hue up and down brush which peaked my curiosity. It sort of fits my Art Deco theme. I should have made a list of all the fonts that I used, but I just sort of scrolled through my fonts until I found one that suited me. The orange font is Mesquite and the arrows are a preset shape. I used a Layer Style bevel on the title.

I forgot to mention that I filled the letters with Easter egg tubes. They didn't show up as well as I would have liked.

I finished Text 1 a day late, but it's finally done. I used Carole's template and papers from my build a kit. The picture was created a couple of Easters ago by me, although mainly I kept the background, grass and bunny. I created new eggs using patterns in PSP with Filter Forge Plastic and some bevel. The balloon was created from a Photoshop tutorial using PSP and the ribbon is from my build a kit. The sun is clip art. The journaling text is CopperInline and the title text is EastMarket. The frame on the picture is a combination of a gradient fill and the egg pattern from the big egg. I tried to make the patterns on the eggs Art Deco in style.

I finally completed Mask 7. I had a lot of problems with Chrome yesterday. The pictures are from my grandson who recently visited Mexico with his girlfriend. I used a flower brush for mask 1 and a watercolor brush for mask 2. For the background, I followed the embossed pattern in the tutorials. The fonts are morning love, broadway engraved and annabel.

My grandson is in Mexico and sent me this picture saying that it would be perfect if his dog was in it. I selected the dog from another photo and instead of extracting it, I used a rectangular mask and used black to eliminate the mask around Chooch. It was so much easier than extracting! The only thing I worry about is the proportion of the dog and asked Matt to let me know if it is too small. If so, I will use a larger picture of Chooch.

I used a couple of photos sent to me by my grandson. He lives in Las Vegas and loves the desert. The picture of him sitting on rocks is actually an extraction of him sitting in a tree. I then sat him on some rocks that I had photographed for texture and masked it. I liked the smaller sized background as it reminded me of rocks you would fine in the desert. The large font is called Rainho from deeezy.com, the smaller font is from my Hallmark program appropriately called Handlebar. The small bicycle in the corner is a ding from wmtransport font.

Carole, Thank you for the advice on the skis. Since I had used the flip it up script, shadows were already made. Instead of using drop shadow again, I manipulated the shadows already there. Do you think the new one is better, and how can it be improved?

Carole, regarding my Eva project, I used a mask, but added a red raster under her picture. It was really an experiment because I didn't like the black mask. I was not happy with the antique paper that I made so I will keep trying to perfect it.

Another ski picture. I really don't care for the mask snowflakes but I did the best that I could. The background is a gradient from group that I downloaded from Resource Boy(free on his website) called 80's gradients. The font is Jelly Bean that I believe that I downloaded from Creative Fabrica. The snow is from a brush that I downloaded many years age for Photoshop and just imported into PSP. The snowflakes are from Hawksmont. All the brushes were free.

Mask 4 The background color was a color I picked from his face and overlayed with a glitch overlay from deeezy.com. The font is Hornswaggled with a layer styles bevel, rastered then drop shadowed and bevel again. The skis are from DS Janet Kemp. I used the Cass lifted up script and filled them with red and a brush pattern. The photos are my own of my grandson, Thomas. Carole, any comments on my use or lack of use for the drop shadows would be much appreciated.

I scanned my mother's hs graduation picture and fixed it up a little. The font is Morning Love. I tried to make a vintage paper using the kaliedoscope to get the plain color, and some cracks with a brush and outlines with a grunge brush.

The pictures are of my husband taken at the Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas. I made the plaid from a desert picture using the workshop on making plain from a picture. I flood filled the white frames with a dark glitter pattern. The font is Gowdy Stout made as a selection on the background of one of my Red Rock pictures. It has an inner and outer bevel and drop shadow. The bottom and top cutouts were made using Carole's edge brushes, then beveled. The succulents are a tube.

Last year we visited my daughter in Savannah which is a foodie heaven. The background is from a DS kit called "Golden Hour." The fonts are Flamingo Shadow, Franciehmkbold and Farewell Angelina. I made the plaid border using another paper from the Golden Hour, and of course, I had to play with Carole's edge brushes. The heart holder is from my vector objects, the glitter is my own brush. The top edges were made with Carole's heart punch brushes. The pictures are mine taken at the restaurant(one of the best meals that we have ever had.)

My daughter asked me to make an itinerary for when her best friend visits her in Savannah, GA. I decided to make a card with the itinerary inside. So far, I have made the back and front of the letter size card. It will be printed on card paper. Heidi loves pink and loves glitter. The glitter is from Creative Fabrica, the plane and tag on the luggage are from Digital Scrapbook, the newspaper mockup is from Deal Jumbo, the suitcase is from lsj designs, the tiara a free brush from Brusheezy, the old maps are of old Savannah downloaded from the Library of Congress, and the the airport map is from Google. I plan on using a color version of Heidi for the inside which hasn't been started yet. Beth, fortunately, gave plenty of time. My husband did the proofreading and saved me some embarrassment.