NWR Digi Course - Challenge Wednesday

Every Wednesday on our course we get a challenge to complete, I haven't had a chance to do Week 1's challenge yet but here's what Jessica gave us for week 2.

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The fun part is you can pick and choose from several items to challenge yourself with, but if you choose to accept the challenge, you MUST use at least 3 of the items listed on a single page. Ready? Go!

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Challenge #2:

• Use at least two patterned papers from our new Carnival kit (are there some you haven't used yet? I bet there are! :D)
• Include journaling strips
• Download the 100 in 10 challenge list we completed on my blog a few months back. That's here: 100 in 10 challenge list. Choose one of the items on the list to incorporate into your challenge, and make sure to post the number when you post your layout! :D
• Find another use for the circle template from Lesson 2 - perhaps put patterned paper in some of the pieces, or only use half of them.

Give it a try! I think you'll find a LOT of good ideas on the 100 in 10 challenge list.

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Here's my LO, I used the first 3 items in the list and completed No 66 on the 100 in 10 Challenge list. The backing papers are from the Carnival Kit by Sweet Shoppe Designs that was an exclusive to everyone on the course.

NWR Digi Course - Lesson 2

Here's the result of my second class. I can't believe how easy it can be when you know what you're doing. I've only just discovered that there is an easy way to crop and resize photo's. I've had the same results (eventually) but it's taken ages and lots of steps to get that result. Just goes to show it's well worth taking the lessons!

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The layout is all about the Game that was played on the Saturday night at the Create and Craft Hilton Experience 2008. It was the Crafty Version of Family Fortunes and it was a blast. Heaven only knows what they are going to do next year.'
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What I learnt this week:

• Created a grungy-edged focal photo
• Cleaned up colour casts on photos
• Practice hotkeys for opening, creating, and closing documents, and creating new layers
• Used a four-square template to create a circular photo block.
• Created reversed-out journaling strips.
• Darkened paper edges.
• Re-coloured and blended an overlay.

And last but not least How to Crop properly (This wasn't part of the course outline by the way).

NWR Digi Course - Lesson 1

What a great start to a really great course. I have learnt so much in just one lesson and thoroughly enjoyed it. Roll on next week! Here is my Layout, I pretty much stuck to the lesson plan as it's my first one, but I'll be playing around when I get time to do my first Assignment.

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So what did I learn, let's see:

• How to change a photo to sepia and selectively colour one aspect of the photo.
• Create a clipping mask.
• Column Journaling.
• Custom Tagging and corner rounding.
• Using Brushes.

I'm really glad I joined this course and look forward to learning lots of new things in Photoshop.