Papers 13, 14, 15 & 16

I've zipped through adding patterns and a light texture to some more background papers today.

Not sure about the star pattern yet but I shall withhold judgement until after I've slept on it.

However, my progress chart seems to show that I've now completed all the pattern papers now. So the next step, after I take a creative breath, is to see if I can add any more interesting layers to the designs. Play around with them and tweak them here and there. Give them some finishing touches where I can.

Not sure what or how yet. But that ca be decided tomorrow

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Paper 12 - Revised

I'm waiting for some glue to dry, so I've been putting extra time into the papers. So here's a revised design for Paper 12...

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Paper 12

Sorry but I couldn't leave today without at least trying to reach the halfway mark, so here's paper 12

Papers 10 & 11

Nearly halfway. Not sure I have enough variety in my designs but then this part is not the finish  I'm hopefully going to have time to add a few more layers and images to some of these. Anyway, I won't rabbit on as I haven't the luxury of time today, so without further ado...

Papers 10 and 11.  Oh yes, and I decided to mute the saturation of the whole palette just a smidgeon which took a bit of time applying to the rest of the stuff I've done. Thank goodness for recorded actions. Made the job a lot easier.

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It's A Bit Confusing but it's Papers 5, 7 & 9

I feel I've done a lot and not done a lot all in one day. Yesterday I took a break. I deemed it my seventh day and our commitment is to plug at our projects for six days out of seven. So I went back to it today and well, I don't seem to have a lot to show for it.

Also, because I've been working on previous designs I wasn't happy with, the numbering has gone a bit haywire today. So that's why today's final haul is for designs 5, 7 & 9.

Part of the reason why the process was slower than usual is that I invested in some new software over the weekend and I've been learning how to navigate it. It's been mostly straight forward but, as usual, it's the finer points which aren't covered in the manual, that take up time.

So that's todays progress. I've also had to pledge my new commitment for the week so I went with creating another 6 designs. I'm therefore nearly halfway now. Mind you, I'm hoping to do more than promised by the Sunday 8pm deadline.

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Paper 8

I wasn't going to work on any designs today. The idea is supposed to be to work on your challenge six days out of seven. So I'm due a day off. But I've been a bit off my game  for the last couple of days and I wanted to at least see if I could quickly make something a little better than yesterday's awful design.

I'm feeling a lot better about this design. The same as Paper 7, it isn't complete yet. It needs extra texture adding to it. That'll be my next job, to work on both 7 & 8. But I think I came to the realisation that I prefer geometric patterns especially of no discernible shape. Flowers, for instance, aren't floating my boat as a repeat pattern.

Anyway, I'm feeling a happier bunny today.

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Not Feeling It

Today's post will be short. Just enough to honour my commitment to blog my progress each day. I'm afraid I'm just not feeling it today. Tired. Grumpy. All my ideas are _____  (input your favourite expletive here).

But to show one of the pattern plays which just isn't doing it for me...

It'll all come right in the end. I just think I need to walk away and come at it afresh another time.

There are ups and downs for everyone taking part in this challenge. Today is my turn to have the wobbles.

I promise I'll catch up on my sleep before I next open Photoshop.

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