Linda J Walker

Day 2 - I played with different fonts/size/colors. It seems that the baseline actually changes with different fonts, without changing the size of the text. Interesting experiment! I just love fonts 🙂

Day 1 and already behind.... When I filled the text with green, it didn't fill to the full width of all the letters. I am using 2019. When I selected inside each letter, I could select the full width. But I didn't like any of the tubes I tried, I think I was agrivated/frustrated by the fill not being as I expected it...so I stopped.

I am pretty sure I have done this workshop before, but I always need refreshed. Hope I will have time to keep up with this workshop, since I really never got started on the last one I signed up for a couple of months ago.

Lesson 7 - Cast shadow When I use the eraser, I seem to get a pattern. I'm not sure if it will be noticable when I post it.

I think I got all the steps here, don't think I missed any. I would not be able to do it again without the video. And personally, I feel 'tricky and tedious' may be an understatement.

I'm with Susan on this one! I watched the video, had to stop a few times and rewatch sections. I need an uninterrupted period to try it and not miss a step! And I'm with Rene too -- not sure I am seeing the difference.

I am certain I will NEVER use a curly ribbon! 😆 If I find I have any, I may just have to delete them to save my sanity!

I was planning to work on this early today, but I got distracted and pulled into something else....sigh...

Lesson 3 - I don't think I have tried to do lifted corners before. And I don't have the script. Nor do I know how to save presets on the drop shadows...is there a blog article???

And the time of day, and the time of the year, shadows are different in these circumstances.

Got a late start today. A week ago I had surgery, so today was the post-op appointment. I don't think I have used a reverse shadow before. Photo is mine that I took at a local garden. I had an extra layer in the file? You can see bit of the edge to the left of my photo, in the corner of the 2 papers. I should have nudged the layer so you couldn't see it, but I forgot about it.

Lesson 1 - Shadows often frustrate me....but I do recognize they are often needed. Not sure exactly what I used on the string, I tweeked it until I felt it looked right. Do you want to know the numbers? I would have to go back and check. And maybe I need to keep better notes as I work...

I learned how to make pizzelles at a young age, using the cast iron pizzelle iron that my grandfather brought from Italy. In my family, pizzelles HAD to be anise flavored! Anything else was not a pizzelle! I still only make them with anise....anything else just doesn't seem right 😉

When I signed up, I didn't check my calendar first--I had too many appointments scheduled this week! Feeling like I am getting behind.....Day 2 finally.

I failed to look under 'options' in the save box, to see what it is set at....but it looks like my text is there so I guess it is okay.

I'll guess, even tho I have not read all of the posts yet. 1973! My first impulse was the year I graduated, cause I know there was a stoner on every bus I was on 😉 But the photo looks a few years earlier than mine.

I have done the bootcamp a couple of times, it is always a good review and reminder. There are techniques I learn and then forget about. Like the pinked paper edge! You could eaily change it to a scallop, and adapt it to your project. Also using a paper to fill the text. I should practice that again. Thanks for the review!

Project 5- I began to use the "Cranberry" kit, but there are no solid papers in that kit. So I used 2 of the patterned papers for the squares...but it just didn't look good to me. Last night I decided to just close it up and look again tomorrow. Today, it still didn't look good to me! I decided to pull a couple of colors out of the photo and use them for the squares. And then PSP didn't seem to want to cooperate, so I closed it down again. I feel like I have done this page many times today. So I guess that means I am done with it. There are several things I would change, if I had more time or more patience today...

Project 4 I dug in my photos and found some photos from a short trip several years ago, a visit to the 'State Pen'. It was a planned trip, so it was fun. I used a bunch of random papers and I guess that is how it looks! I should have planned better. I will try to use a kit next time. I am running to another doctor appointment today, so out of time now.

Project 3-- It is always so interesting to see how everyone uses the tutorial in a slightly different way! I used the glitters, but I didn't like the color so I adjusted it....and it doesn't look very glittery now. I used the guides, it is a good way to make things the same size that don't start out that way. I am not sure I am entirely happy with my choice of papers and colors, but I am finished for tonight. Maybe I will like it better tomorrow 😉

Project 2, but I don't know what day! Guess I am on a spring flowers theme. I took this photo this past week when I visited a garden that my fellow Penn State Master Gardener's maintain, at the Outdoor Discovery Center. I'm not able to participate in gardening activities right now, because I am in 'recovery mode'. The weather has been tempting me tho! I used part of the same kit I used on Project 1, and the same fonts. I tried rotating the background paper so it would look different, but it just looked odd to me, so I used contol + Z and undid it. I also used part of another kit called Dandelion Wishes. I loved seeing the crocus blooming at this garden. Either the chipmunks steal the ones I plant, or the voles eat them, or both....but I keep trying...gotta feed the wildlife 😉