Ann Seeber

10 hours ago, Cassel said:

Clusters are about grouping elements, and not photos. Of course, if you are thinking of them as page templates, they rarely make sense! ?

I thought of it as an element template as I collected a few when working on my Build-A-Kit. Thank you, Carole, this is just what I was missing! I also have a set of element templates from Janet Kemp. Here's her preview.

I tend to pick clusters up here and there as I don't feel mine are very good. This one worked pretty well, using supplies from my Rustic Build-A-Kit, except for the greenery. The wavy ribbon is from a textured paper with a blinds texture on the edge.

4 hours ago, Cassel said:

Sorry to see you work so hard. When I create it, it is already in layers. The idea was only to use the shapes as placeholders, not as exact shapes, which is why I didn't include the layered version. But if that is what participants want, next time, I can share the layered version. It is created using the Cluster Template Maker.

That's ok, Carole. I enjoy playing with templates. 

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Hi Carole, 

Nice challenge, but I cann't download the template. That's not a problem for me I can do it from scratch, but some other might want a template to play with.

I created a PSPIMAGE template from Carole's sketch. The wavy ribbon is still a bit rough. ? I'll post it in the Files on Facebook for whoever would like it. 

12 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

I got tired of trying to match the Photoshop shimmer paper, so I made a grayscale one and saved it as a png. It doesn't change color with hue saturation, but colorize works. Another alternative is to create a color layer above the gray and use blend modes.

Donna and Susan: I took my pale pastel in 3600.jpg and posted it in our Facebook group files so you can colorize to your liking. Enjoy!

I have a small set of pale pastel shiny papers in my files but with no identifying information as to where they came from. After seeing that Donna tried to colorize hers, so I thought I'd try on mine and have had some success. I did them all in 3600 but here's a preview. Voila!

4 hours ago, cindy harris said:

blessed Easter Ann    will you help me I cant find egg 3

Happy Easter, Cindy. Have a look under Blogs / Tips and Tutorials. It has a search bar on the top right where you can put the key word from the clue... in this case, compatibility. 

19 minutes ago, Jnet Allard said:

C'est posté pour moi aussi.  Joyeuses Pâques à tous!

Thank you, Jnet. Happy Easter to you, too. ?

Email sent! Fun, Carole! ?

My Betta 101 group on Facebook requested Easter themed photos. So here's Comanche with bunny ears and the text decorated with the cass-easter-egg picture tube and one of Carole's decorated eggs. The font is Snap ITC.

18 minutes ago, Michele said:

I really don't know where to post this, but I just watched the Tag! You're It! class. However, I can't download the Handout. Did anyone else have this issue?

Michele: I just looked at it and the handout is not a hot link for download... yet. Sometimes there's a lag getting it transcribed. I just sent the question to Carole via the gold tab on the lower right "Need Help?"

14 minutes ago, Cassel said:

I have been asking Corel/Alludo

I wondered about the name "Alludo" and when I looked it up it says it was "formerly called the Corel Corporation." I didn't know about the change. The reference says: "Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo, is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. Formerly called the Corel Corporation, the company is known for producing software titles such as CorelDRAW, and for acquiring AfterShot Pro, PaintShop Pro, Painter, Video Studio and WordPerfect." Cassel, when did this change?

27 minutes ago, Rene Marker said:

For some reason Mother Nature has decided that west central Ohio is a nice target this year. After an EF-1 tornado hitting my town, 2 other EF-0 in my county and 3 EF-0 in the county north of us (other areas still be investigated), we are under another tornado watch today. Going to be a long day...

Rene: Stay safe! ?

I forgot the theme was Easter so I'm sure my layout with my great grand, Logan, meeting the Easter Bunny would qualify!

Grandchildren Ilana & Maverick sent some photos of their son, Logan, meeting the Easter Bunny this weekend. I was poking around in Lab 13-4 so I used the template. I got some Easter/Spring freebies from Digitalscrapbooking, including the background paper where I applied the Difference blend mode.  The title font is Showcard Gothic. The strip behind it came from a marisaL Easter journal card that I cut apart and stretched across. 

6 minutes ago, Rene Marker said:

So are all pages going to be done in 24x12 sizing? 

Rene: My two projects were mixes of single and doubles. It's possible we had to split them at first because the forum wouldn't display doubles. Now we can.

I'm signed up. In the past I've created travel pages (real and fantasy). It was really fun to do a set of pages for a trip to Botswana, Africa, which I'll never do IRL but admire from reading about the country in the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency book series by Alexander McCall Smith. I'll show you a sample.

The very first project I did when I joined the Campus was double page layouts illustrating our family vacation to Acapulco, Mexico.  Not sure what I will do this time around. We'll see...

Happy April! Here's my monthly Wild Cat Calendar featuring an unusual cat from Central Asia. I posted the full JPG in the FILES section of our Facebook group. It will print out at 11" x 8.5" landscape. I used Hard Light on the map of central Asia under the calendar format and was pleased with the result. These Pallas cats are about the same size as a domestic house cat but with short legs and long hair. I love their comical expression. 

I did the March Sketch Challenge. I used a kit called ps-rachel-martin_xanthe for any papers and elements. The photos are random from Mike Hindle on Unsplash. The font is Bungee Inline and I used the technique taught by Carole in the Text Workshop-Lesson 5 but this time I used a "fatter" font and added texture. I took the title from the name of the kit.

I used a kit called ps-rachel martin xanthe for any papers and elements. The photos are random from Mike Hindle on Unsplash. The font is Bungee Inline and I used the technique taught by Carole in the Text Workshop-Lesson 5 but this time I used a "fatter" font and added texture. I took the title from the name of the kit.

16 hours ago, Marie-Claire said:

Day 7.
Template : Cassel
Bug : A Bugs World-DBMagnolia (digitalscrapbook)

Marie-Claire: How did you achieve those nice borders on the letters? Yours really stand out the most!

6 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Trying to get caught up. Here is Day 6. There are many things that didn't work out well, but sometimes that has to be good enough. Photo is from my garden a few years ago. The cheerful and welcome little crocus.

The title is done with a small colored ball and the vector tube script. It filled each letter entirely....oh well. I wanted colour, and I got colour! (I used American spelling on the layout.)

Nice colors, Julie! ?

15 minutes ago, Louyse Toupin said:

Here is my Workshop #6: Spring is here, this is the name of the song from Carly Simons, the scrap kit is 

Extraordinary Bundled Collection by Artgal Style and he title is made with the font: Showcard Gothic with a rose rope vector script.

 

WOW! It's a triple play! You covered one text workshop, the song of the month and the freebie, all in one! Nice - congrats!

Carole: Thank you for a great workshop! I think someone said they did this one in the past, but it must have been before I joined, as these techniques are all new to me. 

Here's my final project for the Text Workshop. A bit of a story. When I was in 7th grade my parents had bought their annual Irish Sweepstakes ticket and, for once, they won! The way it worked, thousands of people bought tickets and the hospital (charity behind the game) committee in Ireland drew a ticket for each horse in the Grand National race. If you we assigned a horse you automatically won money, and of course, if your horse won, you got more. So, our ticket was assigned but did not win the race. I think my folks got about $1000 which, in 1954, was enough for a new car! (First new car they ever had.) It was a fun time! My font is Bungee Inline. The photo corners are from my own kit. I made the plaid from the horse photo colors. Cassel's curved photo script on the ticket. Interesting techniques using vector texts as shapes.