What are you working on (in April 2025)?

[Corrie Kinkel]

On 4/14/2025 at 8:10 AM, Donna Sillia said:

I have two varieties of daffodils in my flower bed. The daffodils in the circle are pictures that I took of them in various sides. The center cluster is from Adobe Express. The bottom is a photo from my garden that I made into layers and merged in Photoshop, edged with one of Carole's edge brushes. The from is Carole's photo circle script. The side plaid is from an experiment in FF that turned out well. The font is from a CF and called Juicy Snap Solid. I made the daffodils from AE into a tube and created the pattern fill.

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

[Donna Sillia]

12 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

Thank you, Corrie. Because of the warm one day and cold the next, some of my daffodils haven't even bloomed yet. But, the ones that have bloomed are beautiful.

[Julie Magerka]

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Edited April 16 by Julie Magerka

[Julie Magerka]

35 minutes ago, Donna Sillia said:

Thank you, Corrie. Because of the warm one day and cold the next, some of my daffodils haven't even bloomed yet. But, the ones that have bloomed are beautiful.

Warm day, cold day. That's the way it's been here too! Mother Nature is struggling with picking a season.

Edited April 16 by Julie Magerka

[Cristina]

21 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Julie, this is a lovely layout!

The small details complement the stars of the page, which for me are always the photos.

 

[Susan Ewart]

On 4/16/2025 at 8:16 AM, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Wow, this is so cool.  I remember party lines, we had one in the early 70's still.  I remember how bad my one brother and I were.  If we picked up the phone and other people were talking on it, we'd be snickering and they would be telling us to get off the line.  And we'd laugh.  We got caught and boy, did we ever get in trouble.  We never did it again.  I find the concept of a party line so bizarre.  Talk about no privacy.  I really like the background of your layout, it has the feel of that time period.  I agree, looking to the past in turbulent times is comforting.  

[Ann Seeber]

16 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

I remember party lines

Me, too. My family and I lived in Rutherford, New Jersey, and our phone number was Rutherford2-2032J. (The J indicated it was a party line.)

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

On 4/16/2025 at 4:16 PM, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office.

Ik dacht eerst dat men gezellig rond de piano zat, 😂 maar toen ik de foto wat vergrootte zag ik de oude telefooncentrales. 🎧

[Mary Solaas]

@Jannette Nieuwboer Yeah - at first glance it looks like an upright piano.

[Michele]

Not new, but I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

 

[Ann Seeber]

Happy Easter - here's a blast from the past...

[Julie Magerka]

6 hours ago, Michele said:

Not new, but I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

 

 

And a blessed Passover to you, Michele.

[kasany]

Nature's  Eye. My fractal, a frame of the pic - PSP.

[Julie Magerka]

Today, after talking yet again to someone very close to me, I made this layout. It is simple but it comes from the heart and is made to help that person let go a little bit of the burdens he is carrying right now. Sometimes an image is better than just words.

I used a page mask from KP, some papers and elements from NBK designs on Oscraps.

[Cristina]

7 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Today, after talking yet again to someone very close to me, I made this layout. It is simple but it comes from the heart and is made to help that person let go a little bit of the burdens he is carrying right now. Sometimes an image is better than just words.

I used a page mask from KP, some papers and elements from NBK designs on Oscraps.

This is so touching, Julie. And so, so true.

Your page expressed it in a very sensitive way. I hope your words and art help to ease his pain.

[kasany]

To Kampinos /National Park near Warsaw/. Shots taken by JK. 

[Sue Thomas]

I saw something similar on the telly, which I thought had potential to be used in a page. Anyway, I created my own version.  What would you use it for in a project?  The diamond could be replaced with something else, or  completely removed.  Created using vectors.

Edited April 25 by Sue Thomas

[Ann Seeber]

44 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:

I saw something similar on the telly, which I thought had potential to be used in a page. Anyway, I created my own version.  What would you use it for in a project?  The diamond could be replaced with something else, or  completely removed.  Created using vectors.

I would use it for a frame

[Sue Thomas]

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

I would use it for a frame

My thought  too.

[Susan Ewart]

18 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

I saw something similar on the telly, which I thought had potential to be used in a page. Anyway, I created my own version.  What would you use it for in a project?  The diamond could be replaced with something else, or  completely removed.  Created using vectors.

Frame is what I thought of too, but also a pattern for a paper.  What does it look like with a bevel.  Or debossed (sorry, I forget the graphic term for that look -recessed into the paper).  It's a superb and 50's -ish look to it that I love. I have one I want to replicate from the handles on the freezers in the grocery store.  Funny  where the places you get inspiration.

[Ann Seeber]

5 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Frame is what I thought of too, but also a pattern for a paper.  What does it look like with a bevel.  Or debossed (sorry, I forget the graphic term for that look -recessed into the paper).  It's a superb and 50's -ish look to it that I love. I have one I want to replicate from the handles on the freezers in the grocery store.  Funny  where the places you get inspiration.

I think it's also Art Deco-ish. It is some anniversary for that art movement that they featured on my local news this week. Here's a link to it. Art Deco Turns 100: How Major Museums and Cultural Institutions Are Marking the Milestone

[Julie Magerka]

4 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

I think it's also Art Deco-ish. It is some anniversary for that art movement that they featured on my local news this week. Here's a link to it. Art Deco Turns 100: How Major Museums and Cultural Institutions Are Marking the Milestone

Now there's an exhibit in Paris I would love to see! Thanks for the link.

[Julie Magerka]

I thought I posted this l/o yesterday, but it didn't show up. It's a rare photo of ME! It was a very cold day a couple of weeks ago at the dog park where my dog-walking friend snapped a pic while I sat, bundled up, to let our dogs roam. Somehow they are missing from the image??? The weather here (SW Ontario) has been variable to put it nicely. Cold, then hot,  and repeat.

Mask and paper textures from Anna Aspnes. The elements are from my stash.

[Cristina]

Others have mentioned before, and I have also noticed that the Campus is loading very slowly lately.

Edited Sunday at 09:09 AM by Cristina

[Sue Thomas]

23 minutes ago, Cristina said:

Other have mentioned before, and I have also noticed that the Campus is loading very slowly lately.

2 days ago, I mentioned to Carole in a message, that the campus was intermittently slow, it would even take a while to load, after clicking on the bell.  This afternoon, I  had problems  clicking on save, after  editing a comment. The save would not change  to saving.  Some of these issues happened, before the campus finally wouldn't  load for many of us several days ago. Until, that is Carole resolved the issue.

Edited Saturday at 05:33 PM by Sue Thomas