gwen jewitt

Thank you Sue.

I have made my first a4 paper pattern [small hearts on the diagonal] I was wanting to know if it can be uploaded to the forum as a jpg , as is the file size is too big If I try rezing it using Quality it's still too big even at a Quality of zero. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Day 7 Template using Affinity Photo 2.6 Just made the deadline, photos are my own the photo with the two plant pots are lettuce seed and a re-potted cabbage plant (just in case your wondering I have more cabbages) the photo below is one of many climbing beans which will be ready to plant out at the end of May. Papers, gloves and tree in a pot are all from Digital Scrapbooking. The watering can is from Free Pik and the font is Back to Vintage, thank you Carole I have enjoyed this task and learned so much more.

Day 6 using affinity2.6 Paper used Billie Irene Digital Scrapbooking changed the colour using blend mode,flowers by Rachel Martin, Jessica Dunn and Elif Sahin Digital Scrapbooking. Can't remember where I got the images for the photos but they were called floral junk journal, font used Bergidan.

Day 5 I used Photos of my own they were taken of the sunset at Corbridge from my loft window. The star is digital scrapbook.com by Billie Irene, Font Baby Garland. Cloud and moon paper byEleatell Pixabay, background paper by ractapopulous pixabay.

Day 4 using affinity2.6 Photos are birthday cards I have made for Family Members over the years, paper pixabay, I changed the colour .

Day 3 using Affinity 2.6 Font is Blackboard, Papers are Chantahlia Design and the photo is my own. Every day I feed the blackbirds sultannas we have quite a few some of them we have given names. If there is no sultannas left one of them will land on the window sill neck stretched looking through the window ( Hence the titlte feed me)

Day two I have used affinity 2.6 for this template it is my first time of using it.All the papers used are from Chantalia designs the photos are my own which were taken last year at a pretty village in Cumbria U.K. called Grasmere. William Wordsworth is buried there in the grounds of St Oswalds Church and they made this lovely garden as a tribute to him which looks amazing when all the daffodils are out.

I am way behind you all I've just signed up for the challenge. Papers used are the same as Carole but I used the colour changer tool to try and match colours in the photo of a bumble bee on a blackcurrant bush that my son sent me today. Font used is Mocha Cherry.

Merry Christmas to you all .

Jannette, so sorry to hear your sad news about your husband, I hope you can take strength from those around you.

Hi Rene I had the same problems when using psp2023 when I was doing my Christmas cards I had done a lot of work and got down to the final layer of writing the text and it shut down I lost everything and had to start from scratch, as I hadn't saved any work,. I had only just started using 2023 and wasn't expecting it to shut down like that, it has never happened with my X5 Ultimate.

Thought I would try doing my text wrapping inside a star again using Ariel font this was the result and no shut down

MAGIC WAND I thought I would play around with psp2023 so I tried wrapping text inside a shape I used a 600x600 page to start the project and I used a six pointed star with a line stroke of 3 no fill, then I selected inside the shape with the magic wand Select Modify Contract by 35 to give a large padding. I started to write inside the selected area using font sparkle stroke 10 after writing a few words the programme shut down completley, I tried doing it again in the exact same way and it shut down again. I have the version 25.2.0..58. I know I have heard it can happen depending on the font you use.

Emty Clipboard is in the drop down menu when you click on Edit.

Your work is beautiful, I love your colour combinations on all 3, the papers, photos, embellishments pair beautiully whith eah one if I had to choose a favourite it would be the third one.

Finally got lesson 7 finished I used papers from DCS Artsy mars24 and elements from vecteezy. Used my own photos , added a stich tube around the letters I was going to use the rope but couldn't get it to work in 2023 had one of those glitches and had to shut it down ended up redoing it in x5. Tango and tara stayed with us 4 days out of 7 as my son and his wife both worked,we loved having them stay.

Day 6 I used the font Segoe UI Black for the title and Sego variable text light for the writing at the bottom, trying to incorporate what I have learned from the previous 5 days. The brick castle is a shape I added a colour and a brick texture to it and gave it a dropped shadow. The photo was taken on a lovely sunny but windy day in September 2023. The sign was also a photo I took which gave information about this particular part of Hadrians Wall.

Day 5, text Place Star photo of starling I took last year, had fun doing this one I have never used this technique with text before.

Day 4.

Day 3 wrap around text, think I might of missed out using the wrap around text,

My first atempt at a layout .did the backgrounds using different textures and effects added a photo a frame, tube, drop shadows,finished with the day 2 text/

This is a birthday card I made for my son some years ago I substituted the Happy Birthday gold peel offs with the text tutorial for day 1. The font I used was Workforce,

I'm in, will give it a try.