What are you working on (in December 2024)?

[Susan Ewart]

Beautiful and festive Cristina, Michele and Ann!  Happy New Year back at you and to all the members of the campus.  I wonder who amongst us will ring in the New Year first.  

[Ann Seeber]

15 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

who amongst us will ring in the New Year first

Europe will see it earlier though the Aussies have us all beat!

[Rene Marker]

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

Europe will see it earlier though the Aussies have us all beat!

Yeah, I woke up this morning to the celebration in Australia! I fell asleep last night with the TV on and when I opened my eyes this morning, the station was showing the fireworks in Sydney.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Well in the Netherlands we will see the New Year in 6 hours from now and Rene I saw the fireworks in Sydney live on the TV this morning (my time).

Happy New Year to Carole and all the Campus family. Looking forward to wonderful and creative work from all of you in 2025.

[Susan Ewart]

5 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Europe will see it earlier though the Aussies have us all beat!

you gotta go down under to be on top.

[Susan Ewart]

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Well in the Netherlands we will see the New Year in 6 hours from now and Rene I saw the fireworks in Sydney live on the TV this morning (my time).

Happy New Year to Carole and all the Campus family. Looking forward to wonderful and creative work from all of you in 2025.

Nice use of the Stacked script.  Happy New Year to you as well.  I have another 12 hrs and 7 minutes.  No wonder why I always feel like I'm behind, I was born in the wrong hemisphere.

[Sue Thomas]

Scrolling through everyones unique New Year Greetings.  Such diverse imaginations, each one  inspiring.  It makes me stop and appreciate why I am a memener of this awesome family. I consider myself very lucky indeed. Looking forwrd to what creative work we will  all come up with in 2025.

I decided to create a wordart for you all.  

[Sue Thomas]

If am not mistaken, New Zealand is the first  major country to enter 2025.

[Susan Ewart]

4 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Scrolling through everyones unique New Year Greetings.  Such diverse imaginations, each one  inspiring.  It makes me stop and appreciate why I am a memener of this awesome family. I consider myself very lucky indeed. Looking forwrd to what creative work we will  all come up with in 2025.

I decided to create a wordart for you all.  

Thank you, that is so thoughtful.  It's beautiful with nice warm color.  Is that trees from your property in the background?  It's neat to discover that it was trees.  

[Sue Thomas]

5 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Thank you, that is so thoughtful.  It's beautiful with nice warm color.  Is that trees from your property in the background?  It's neat to discover that it was trees.  

It was  my pleasure  to create a page for the family in the campus. I couldn't tell you how I  finally  created the background, it was all trial and error. Colourized the main photo of the trees several times, taken  at Danielson park.  Blend modes,  changed the colour of the solid page several times  until  I  got the colours I  was looking for, which I  took from a sunrise photo. As I  wanted the trees to  be obvious, yet subtle.  I  use only my own photos for most of my creative needs. Creating the background paper seemed to take more time and thought, than the wordart itself, once  I had decided on the words I  wanted to use, which I  considered to be relevant to the campus. 

Edited Wednesday at 05:20 AM by Sue Thomas

[Sue Thomas]

I'm currently in Cornwall with family.  Enjoying the much milder climate, where palm trees  grow.

I used colours from this  photo  to create the New Year wordart. The Atlantic Ocean.  St Michael's Mount, Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall.   Photo taken  at 7.55am on the 31 December 2024.  Watching the sunrise rise for the last time  in 2024,  absolutely made my day. And what a  sunrise it was too!

 

Edited Thursday at 07:26 AM by Sue Thomas

[Jacques]

I wish you all a very happy new year. May all your wishes come true.

 

[Corrie Kinkel]

4 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

I'm currently in Cornwall with family.  Enjoying the much milder climate, where palm tree grow.

I used colours from this  photo  to create the New Year wordart. The Atlantic Ocean.  St Michael's Mount, Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall.   Photo taken  at 7.55am on the 31 December 2024.  Watching the sunrise rise for the last time  in 2024,  absolutely made my day. And what a  sunrise it was too!

So nice to see a place not so far away from my country where there happens to be such a colorful sunrise as we are still under the cloud blanket which we had for the last 7 weeks. We have solar panels and their yield is the lowest since we installed them 7 years ago!  No doubt that better time will come, but the sooner the better because everybody is grumpy. Happy New Year and enjoy your time at home with your family; your granddaughters will be over the moon to have you staying with them.

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Nice use of the Stacked script.  Happy New Year to you as well.  I have another 12 hrs and 7 minutes.  No wonder why I always feel like I'm behind, I was born in the wrong hemisphere.

Maybe that feeling is universal because I feel the same when I'm in contact with someone who lives in Australia!

[Sue Thomas]

29 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

So nice to see a place not so far away from my country where there happens to be such a colorful sunrise as we are still under the cloud blanket which we had for the last 7 weeks. We have solar panels and their yield is the lowest since we installed them 7 years ago!  No doubt that better time will come, but the sooner the better because everybody is grumpy. Happy New Year and enjoy your time at home with your family; your granddaughters will be over the moon to have you staying with them.

I arrived on the 15th Dec. I am elated to be home. The little girls are such a joy. Never a dull moment. As for the weather, it has been dismal. Grey, overcast, wet  and windy. Yesterday morning, was the only break in the weather, which lasted all of 3 hrs, before the clouds rolled  in. I can say in all honesty that I  don't  miss the British weather. The Prairie winter weather may be brutal, but the sun almost always shines.

[Julie Magerka]

On 12/31/2024 at 5:28 AM, Michele said:

I expected nothing else but gnomes for New Year's! Love it.

Edited Wednesday at 02:15 PM by Julie Magerka

[Julie Magerka]

I am a bit late to the fanfare for the new year. I made several Christmas cards which took some time. But I rallied and made a simple layout for my fellow Campus-ers. The card is simple but the message is from the heart. Especially I want to send Mary, who is going through recovery, my very best wishes.

Cheers to all!

[Susan Ewart]

23 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

It was  my pleasure  to create a page for the family in the campus. I couldn't tell you how I  finally  created the background, it was all trial and error. Colourized the main photo of the trees several times, taken  at Danielson park.  Blend modes,  changed the colour of the solid page several times  until  I  got the colours I  was looking for, which I  took from a sunrise photo. As I  wanted the trees to  be obvious, yet subtle.  I  use only my own photos for most of my creative needs. Creating the background paper seemed to take more time and thought, than the wordart itself, once  I had decided on the words I  wanted to use, which I  considered to be relevant to the campus. 

Isnt it the case.  You are freely creating without the bother of writing down every step.  It's so freeing and you are going down different paths and finding really interesting things happening on your background and you finally finish and love it.  And then you think, I wish I could recreate this...argh I should've written down. 

[Susan Ewart]

14 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I am a bit late to the fanfare for the new year. I made several Christmas cards which took some time. But I rallied and made a simple layout for my fellow Campus-ers. The card is simple but the message is from the heart. Especially I want to send Mary, who is going through recovery, my very best wishes.

Cheers to all!

STUNNING Julie!  This is timeless and well done.  

[Sue Thomas]

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Isnt it the case.  You are freely creating without the bother of writing down every step.  It's so freeing and you are going down different paths and finding really interesting things happening on your background and you finally finish and love it.  And then you think, I wish I could recreate this...argh I should've written down. 

You know, there was a time when I would write the steps down, them cross them off if it wasn't what I  was looking for, before undoing. The steps would end up being quite lengthy. I soon learnt that it was a laborious  thing to do. Now it's a case of trial and error, until I am happy with it. Mind you I  rarely use the same background paper  twice. As I  prefer to create unique ones for each project.  Saying that, there  are the rare occasion when I  wish I  could replicate  a background. Then I  would go scrolling through the history to trigger my memory.