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Lynda: That is the little Pine Siskin who is quite a bit smaller than a Cardinal. They are easily mistaken for sparrows. Here’s a clear photo as I know they are a little hard to see on my layout.
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Nice pic of your birds. Is the Pine Siskin as aggressive as it appears or is it just having fun.
Where are you that this bird is around. Don’t know if I’ve ever seen one.
Lynda: Here’s the Pine Siskin and a range map. He or she was probably defending a nest in that series of photos.
According to your map it is a non-breeding resident in my neck of the woods. Northwest of Chicago. I’m wondering if they are the little birds that I see in my front yard. I have a bird feeder there and I see little brown birds there often.
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Lynda, Ann, Here’s two of my visiting (female) Pine Siskins at a feeder. (Male on the branch) Large flocks migrate here to nest. Some will stay, and nest, the bulk of them will fly much further north to nest. In the Autumn I have hundreds of them coming to feed, making their way back south. They stay for 16-20 days. Between them and the Goldfinches they consume a vast amount of feed.
I was playing around with the streamers in LAB 7-12 . I selected one and turned it into a tube. Then I used VectorTube script to put the tube on a vector line.
Following the sketch, this is what I came up with _ Mandala Babies! I got the mandala from NicePNG and I’ve shown Magic’s giraffe totem, Sonja’s elephant and Logan’s bear within it. I got an element showing 3 clouds which I cut apart and made each into a mask for the photos using Cass-Raster-to-Mask script. The font is Birdy. Magic and Sonja will be one in June and Logan will be 4 months at that point. We are all getting together for my granddaughter, Jackie’s, wedding June 11.
Edit: I reduced the opacity of the mandala and changed the animal totems.
I just got Cassel’s pocket scrap script and this is my first attempt at using it.
Lynda, like most males they are more brightly coloured, they have more yellow on their wing feathers. I’m in Saskatchewan, Canada. If you were google Lake Diefenbaker, your have haven an idea of the geography of the land. It isn’t as flat as people perceive it to be.
I love visiting here…such amazing creativity! Thank you, Everyone, for sharing.
Pickleball player birthday celebration. Gag pickleball paddle gift. Tons of fun…good food, great friends.
Template by Bourico Casper, Lady 22.
Mary your note cards for the kids are very cute and I am sure they will appreciate them. 😉
Scrapbook Campers … I am way behind and when I hopped on here I had no idea there were so many posts so I am just going to say … well done to all of you for your lovely creative work … a joy to peruse. ;D
Good one Mary … glad you had a cool discovery and thanks for sharing, much appreciated Hon. ;D
Corrie it is truly delightful … can’t wait to see your full book my friend … well done. ;D
Annie, I can hardly wait for my book to arrive. The printing service said approximately friday.
Lynda, nice work, you have no doubt enjoyed yourself making it!
In the meantime I made this card for the friend to whom I send one every week. I duplicated the photo and used one for the background with a lot of blur and some green bokeh tubes. On the second I used a watercolor brush for the mask and 2 simple frames. The text front is Crows and it says Lily of the Valley in Dutch. I aso made the same card with happy birthday on it. I think because of the colors it is very usable for a gentlemen too.
I am enjoying all the wonderful pages posted. What a creative, imaginative, talented bunch you all are.
I have tried 3 times to post and I keep getting a message that I have sent an unsafe message. Will try again later.
Template B from Inspiration in the Campus.
More pickleball; more templates.
We played in a larger group last weekend for the first time since Covid began. It was so wonderful to see friends we had not seen in so long! I love this group photo…had to scrap it…twice!
Template 8; Bourico Casper, Lady 22.
That’s weird…I left the campus, returned and now I can post. Have a great evening, Everyone.
Lynda: Here’s a link with some info on the Pine Siskin. They were very active this year; their migration was called an irruption because the breed seems to explode all over the map. The photos I used are not mine but show a siskin defending a food source and probably a nearby nest. They are small and don’t ordinarily take on cardinals.
Played with Carole’s nested frames. I used adjustment layers. A rose photo I took the other day at the local garden centre.
I enjoyed doing this page. The background paper is a paper template I found on Pixel Scrapper. Carole’s corner punch. I used colours from the bird, trying to match them the best I could., as per usual. The paper and text, matches the greys of his/her breast. Some of the techniques which I use are in the beautiful mess masterclass. My usual word art, extraction of bird, and framing. This one is a non breeding immature bird. I can tell because his /her head is mottled rather than all black., same for the brown bib, which would be black in a mature bird. I’m not one for using to many elements and papers, but after the Using element templates masterclass, it opened up a whole new world. I love the small detailed patterns to found in the paper templates section on some scrapbooking sites. By the way, I heard this song on the radio this morning. I love Stevie Winwood songs.
Sue, Bonnie, Lynda – great layouts. Sue, love that Harris Sparrow layout. You seem to be laying off the plaid papers!
I am on the trip – we are headed in the RV to South Dakota to visit relatives. I am not driving and not navigating (although I did navigate some on the 1st day). As I said some time back in May, I am still in kindergarten and working in Lab 6 (there are 12 modules). I finished what I will do with Lab 6 Mod1 – Cathedral Window paper, puffy paint, wood frame with a mitered corner. So I did Cathedral Window paper in several colors and reduced the windows because I don’t like the big windows. The puffy paint I made a complete alphabet and finally accepted it, but I find that I am going to have to increase them in size. I made them in red, but I am happy to say that I can color them for each layout I use them – this time they’re green. The frame I made using photos of the furniture in my room! Then I saved one in brown, one in grey, and one in light grey. I did install them in my picture frame folder for PSP and also one in picture frames in my scrapbooking stash. the 2 small papers are from Gina Jones Pretty Bird kid.
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