Donna Sillia

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.

Next year will be our 55th wedding anniversary. The stone is emerald created with Filter Forge. I scanned the picture from our wedding album (June 8, 1968). The lace is my own which I scanned some time ago. The hearts are from Chandahlia and the fonts are from deeezy.com.: Broadway Engraved and Gomuno Bubble. I used layer styles for both fonts.

I always use Avery templates for my cards: half fold (8.5 by 11) and note cards single fold for the 4.5 by 5.5 cards. The card paper is scored so all I need is a guide to the centers. They were downloaded as PSD files which I saved in a pspimage format. Since I don't have any pictures of recent grads, I downloaded the gnomes, balloons and papers from Chandahlia.com. The inside bow is a tube recolored. The script font is FrancineHMKbold which the Hallmark Card program loaded into my fonts and also Castellar which I believe came with the computer. I added additional sides to my card to make it fit my template. All the schools that I attended are blue and gold.

I wanted to use one of my pictures of my son and grandson(who is now 15), but I also wanted to learn what Carole was going to instuct us on using the stork. The background is a gradient, the font is Baby Olivia with a gold stroke. The ribbon was created from a Janet Kemp paper from Digital Scrapbook. I added scallops to the selection and then created a pattern that I used for my frame. My cards are printed on half fold card paper, size 8.5 by 11 that is scored for folding . I have a card template that I converted to PSP that has a line denoting where the fold will be. It works very well with my printer. BTW, I am so happy to be a new Diamond member!

Background papers are from Creative Fabrica, the gnome element is from chandahlia.com, the font is Fiolex girls. The corner hearts are from Cassel.

The font is Chocolate Heart from dealjumbo and the background papers are from Creative Fabrica. Flowers are from digital scrapbook.

Cupcakes are from Chantahlia.com. Square and ribbon backgrounds are from background papers that I have downloaded(I wish I had kept a note of where). Font is Flamingo Shadow. I can't resist bevel and shadow. All the bevels were made using layer styles. The card background is a gradient. I also made the candles and flame.

Most of the elements on the card are my own. I made the pointsetta and ornaments last year for various Christmas cards. The gold paper a part of some foil gradient papers that I downloaded and changed the color to gold. The balls spelling "Merry" were actually made in PS several years ago, but I find the I am using them quite a bit for Christmas cards. The ribbon was also made several years ago.

I will definitely participate. I am currently working on a wedding card.

I will definitely participate since I make a lot of my own cards!