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Here ya go. In the city. Barred Owl n my neighbor's patio yesterday late afternoon. (I had a Hawk up in a tree on my patio last week during chipmunk time (4-6pm) but alas, no camera.) In both instances, my neighbor and myself, we were sitting under a patio umbrella reading on our ipads. The owl was clacking its beak menacingly (and noisily), but the hawk was doing something with its feather which made an unusual noise, not loud, just something I couldn't place.

I like this technique, but every time I follow the instructions in the handout from the tutorial, I have to fiddle around and do things differently to make it work. Eventually I get it and then it works. This one is using a photo of a woman I know who celebrated her 100th birthday last year. I made a layout for her, but not this one. She's still going strong! The text 100 years has an outer glow applied. The rest is just elements I have in my files.

A gift from 'Mother Nature'.😃

I am in too, I cleaned up my folders and discovered that I started the workshop in November 2017. I didn't finish it

My Dad was born in 1892 and my mother in 1907. She hated the tradition of, as she called it, "begging" on Halloween. Perhaps the older traditions influenced that, associating it with poor people. To me it was just what all the other kids did and we said "Trick or Treat" as we went door to door for candy. One tradition was sort of bad. The night before was Mischief Night and people's car windows got soaped and trees were hung with streamers of toilet paper. It seems the tricks came before the treats!

I posted the first three and then it would not let me post the next one. Hopefully I can get the last two posted here - Henry

I made this pic myself in my backyard. On a sunny autumn afternoon, I found this may be a lost bumblebee on a leave resting. Or what insect it might be. I made this project in PSP 2018. For the background, I used the plugin RENDER. 2 colors green out of my photo. The decorative edge is from a mask, SN frame 10. The same 2 colors green. I gave it an orange highlight from the plugin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - gradient glow and a bevel. I've been thrown out. PSP closed due to the many times I tried.

They are soft and gentle, which is quite surprising, when you see how powerful their teeth and claws are. Unlike cats they aren't able to contract their claws. I've had them run over my bare legs, and one took a nibble at my toe, which gave quite a pinch, made me jump, which in turn scared the squirrel, making it scarper, fortunately no blood was drawn.

This is a shot I took on the 20th September this year. I live on their flight path, between Luck Lake and Lake Diefenbaker. Morning and evening, they will descend onto the vast stubble fields, to clean up what the combines have left behind. Over 6 million water birds will congregate on Luck Luck, stopping off for a while before continuing their migratory journey. As they fly over on mass they blacken the sky, and the sound is deafening. Sights like this isn't isolated either. At this time of year, where ever you travel, the fields are full of them. Sandhill cranes also flock in their thousands, soaring high in the sky. You'll have to pardon me if I don't get excited over the 20 you have on your patio.

After Bootcamp, I took Cassel's suggestion and continued on with the Basic Scrap Course. Here is Modular 1 - a scrap page for my daughter, Debbie, who came East to attend her high school reunion. She was apprehensive but came away delighted with the party. Now they want to do one EVERY year. I used the kit Cassel offered with the Mod 1 video, "HeatherT-ScrapbookCampusSpecial-LoveSpokenHere" - I did change the color of the background with the Luminance layer effect. I created the circular brads at the bottom (Cassel used buttons) and changed the colors of the title alpha from the kit. The font for the journaling is labeled "TW CEN MT CONDENSED"

I have been playing and having a go at making cut out corner brushes. Not easy or quick to do so all credit to Carole who does all the hard work of making some for purchase. I would love it if Carole made a script to make creations easier. Anyhow, I used some images from Creative Fabrica to make the corner brush and the word clipart. Hope all that celebrate Halloween have a fun day.

Here are the views from my windows daily.

Hi Carole, Thanks for the quick reply. I managed to get a rounded gold font with 3D_Effects>Inner Bevel. Photo, Gem & Goldmats: Doska Burgundy-gold papers: Creative Fabrica Pink paper:. Kit "Potpurrie" S.i.S Doily: CKH "Autumnsong" Gingerscrap DD sept 23 Goldheart cluster: PNGAAA Font: Oliver

I'm in too. Think I'll do more cameras like I did for the magazine workshop. thankfully there's time to take some pictures before the workshop.

Unfortunately, it's the best I can do here in the city.

Hello, maybe just under the wire. I think I posted the sandwich and project 1 and 2, but I am not sure.It appears they were oversized even thpough I had reduced them to 600x600. So I will post all five here. It has been both an enjoyable and not so enjoyable refresher. I had to do a lot over and over, but I guess that is how you learn.

The peak of starling migration is usually at the end of October here. The starlings that are in the Netherlands or Belgium in the summer fly south in the winter. Usually, starlings are in number the winners of the bird migration. Barn swallows are mostly second but the numbers are growing. We are now living in late October, but I have not seen many leave yet, probably due to the heavy rain. Normally they sit on the roofs in their thousands and then gather for the migration to the warmer south of Europe. Not that we will be without birds because plenty of them come here from Scandinavia. And other colder countries.

We have a flock of about 20 Canada Geese that arrive next door on their large lawn and then end up under my bird feeders outside my kitchen window and on my patio in the front (another bird feeder) and I have a hard time not stepping in their numerous "deposits" all over my patio, the grass and the road. We really don't admire them much for that reason. I only have to walk out the patio door and they flee! I even speak to them from inside the house and they stop eating and drift away. I'm the CG bully, you see. 😉

What a wonderful experience. Interacting with wildlife (the kinda that doesnt kill you in one swipe of paw I'm talking about) makes you want to protect them more and more. For me it was walking amongs 100's and 100's of Canada geese on my daily walks around the tiny pond in Chilliwack where I used to live. One time my hubby and I and a stranger attempted to loosely count the geese as they took off from the pond to spend the nights in the farm fields, we stopped at 800, the pond was still 1/4 full of geese, ducks and other waterfowl. they would all come up on the grass and lay down and we'd have to step around them. I loved it.

I have a few ground squirrels that will come and take food out of my hand. It's a wonderful feeling, when they trust you enough to do so.

Template 203 of Lady 22, AKA Bourico Casper, Digital Scrapbooking. Font: Raccoon Cookie Alpha from Creative Fabricia.

My friend, Jo, owns this plant and celebrates every year when it blooms. Template 003: @Sas_templates_wintertime Kit by Saskia Veldhoen at Digital Scrapbooking. Font in rectangle: Raccoon; title font: Kristen ITC The text in the rectangle reads: Night-blooming cereus is the common name referring to a large number of flowering ceroid cacti that bloom at night. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, bloom only once a year, for a single night, though most put out multiple flowers over a period of several weeks, each of which opens for only a single night.

Project 5 I was both happier and more frustrated with this project than any of the others: happier because I remembered so many of the initial steps without repeat watching of the video and frustrated because I just could not get that journaling text to behave. I wanted to enlarge it just a bit more but finally gave up and left it after so many tries of at least getting it within the selection and the right color font. The project itself is very special to me, as is this young lady. She was our first grandchild--and for the next 13 years our only granddaughter, as 6 grandsons were added to our family. Then in 2021, we were blessed with our second granddaughter--and Quinn finally got her girl cousin. Quinn is everything I said and more, so this was indeed a work of love. I've decided to print and frame and give it to her as part of her Christmas present. Oh, the 2 words at the end are We love you in French. Because her maternal grandfather is French, both Quinn and her mother were raised fluent in both French and English.

project 4

What a learning curve!! . Merge down to keep the squares and then mirror, brilliant . The text was a major headache, my accept icon had gone walkabouts and I couldn't get rid of the box of the long wording ! No way could I get my paper to show in the patterns box to do the heading hence the black text ! I had reverted to PSP X8 from 22 as the pick tool wasn't working on that one! User error I am sure and tomorrow is a new day. This has been an amazing journey with an excellent tutor and amazing new friends. Take care all, until the next time Oh the papers were Mary Frans again from the Nitwits site The bees were Creative Fabrica

I have got to Day 11 and I certainly have learnt so much and enjoyed doing this. Thank you so much to Carole. This day has been dedicated to my darling dog of 17 years - Bundy. He was our family and was loved by so many. I was so happy to be able to do this page for him.

Glad to see this workshop pop up again! I created a calendar for my granddaughter, Anna Lee, 2 years ago with the theme of the TV show, Downton Abbey, as we were both passionate fans. She and her husband even traveled from California to England and visited the real "castle." I don't know what my theme will be for this year yet but maybe another favorite TV show as they yield a lot of media photos to work with. Here's an example of my previous work.

Hello Carole, is it ok if I open a separate topic for each module or should I show all modules in the same thread? Is there another gallery for me where I can post my work and forward it from there to this thread, like with Bootscamp (storage space)? Regarding this module, I still have the question of how to outline text with a color. I didn't find anything in the PSP help, nor did I search for a tutorial in the forum.

Andy, Fran, Judy and I shared a fun filled day recently. We shopped a flea market and thrift store and broke bread in a small, local eatery. We also shopped an old-fashioned General Store. Andy and Fran were high school sweethearts and continue to fall deeper in love with each passing day. For the background I used a photo of leaves; selected about a 2 inch square. Using the pick tool I stretched it to fill my layout, then applied a gaussian blur. I extracted the leaf at the top, duplicated it. I used Selections...select selection borders for the photo. I also inserted a heart for the "o" in love.

In the "Save As" dialog box, there is a slider to adjust the compression.

I have just read the link you posted, after I posted my own comment above. I took references from my books, and what I remembered. The link you posted, has endorsed a lot of what I have posted.

I researched and found something interesting about Halloween in Quebec. Here is an article: https://www.decouvertemonde.com/fete-dhalloween-dans-le-monde It seems that the expression "La charité, s'il vous plait" would be a catholic-related phrase. I found interesting the explanation about the colors used at that time too. I guess you would have to use Google translate to read that whole page.

Interestingly, I grew up in Montreal, in a francophone family and neighbourhood. When going out on Halloween night, we were saying something completely different. In French, we would say "La charité, s'il vous plait", which would simply be a way to beg for food. I have no clue where that comes from. I surely was not the only one saying that, as all the children would repeat the same thing. I'll have to investigate on that.

My parents were born in 1915, so they would have been trick or treat age at the very, very beginning, but they said there was none. My mom in Chicago said nobody did it when she was a youth. She had hardly heard of it in terms of good things like candy until she had kids in the 1940s. She did say that bad teenagers would vandalize and the RC church stepped in with parties for them to keep them off the streets, but she was too young. Then C.Y.O.* Started and they had parties all the time. ….the way she segued into it, it was as if the beginnings of C.Y.O. had to do with Halloween? As of those original “Keep them off the streets on Oct 31” parties were so successful they decided to make it an official program? (Catholic Youth Organization) My dad was in Pittsburgh, and he said it was a time for usually teenagers to vandalize anything. He intimated it was a bigger problem in terms of destruction in the rural areas. Things like burning down an entire barn, for example. At the time, he assumed they dressed up to conceal their identity. (Notice here how “they” is used….he never said he was among “them”, but I don’t think I asked him outright.). He said it was the early 1940s before he ever heard of any door-to door children doing trick or treating, but he conceded that the late 1930s he was in college and things having to do with kids were not on his radar. That is the extent I know about the beginnings of Trick or Treating in the US, and it’s a very small sample of the US territory, but it supports the American wizardry version. Hahaha. I just though the Canadians would appreciate the story.

I wanna live with you!

hahaha. Better to be known for Halloween than our crazy politics wouldnt you say? My neighbour goes all out. And i get to participate this year, it's a day I'm home early enough to hand out some goodies. I'll probably abandon the door to go hang with them.

It was taken with an iPhone 15! Yes, lots of predators here. We can’t hear them, but often see the shadow cross over us when they swoop down and get a little (and sometimes not so little!) critter and fly off with it in their talons. The whole thing is entirely visible and sometimes the prey looks to be as large as the bird. We hardly have any rabbits here. I’m pretty sure they are a delicacy. Here is something I learned today. The term Trick or Treat originated in Canada, specifically Alberta and Saskatchewan, circa 1920s. Source: Historyfacts.com

Good photo and not nice situation.

There are various fonts that have a 3D look but it all depends on what you actually envision. Some will be layered and can give great results. How to use Layered fonts is explained in this article. On the other hand, you can use regular fonts, and apply a bevel around to give it the 3D effect. Yet, another option would be to find an existing alpha in png format. As for the $1 trial, it is for 7 days and you can only use it once (but there is a special coming up for Black Friday).

Wow! what an experience that would be.

The colours of green, gives a refreshing, calming feel to the layout. By looking at a green colour it will help levitate a headache. A green room is even better. Your bee is defiantly a bumble, possibly a consobrinus.

Looks like they are there. Henry

I'm in!

Using the selection tool to create journaling, is a quick and easy way, for a basic presentation on a layout. I would strongly recommend doing any journaling, using the selection tool or not on a separate page, using the size of page that you want to add to the layout. (Larger is better, as you can always size down). Using guides or the grid. I gave up a long time ago using the selection tool for any text work. It has far to many limitations for my liking. Making editing the text almost impossible on occasions. Don't get frustrated with yourself, as it's not you that is the problem, but the selection tool.

It's snowing here, once I did what I needed to do outside, I decided to participate in this challenge. I have included lifting all four corners in this layout. I lifted the lily out of the photo in order to frame it. I then lifted the top left corner of that photo, and the top right corner of the rose photo. Carole's corner punch, overlay of leaves on the punched out layer. I also made sure I had some shadow on the lily frame, of the lifted petal. My own wordart quote.

I'm in too and very glad we do another one this year. It will be my 4th time and I have made a lot of different ones as gifts. This year I will use the flower photos from my trip to the States. There are a whole bunch of flowers we, over here, don't know or only have as houseplants. A friend to whom I send some of the photos was already speculating: "a new calendar?" So no pressure.............. I have them in a separate folder already and I'm ready to go.

I struggle with trying to make adjustments to text entered in a selection/bounding box on my layout. I have resorted to totally deleting the layer. Saving and closing the image and starting over when re-opened. I find selection boxes problematic at times. The more I fiddle with it, the worse it gets.

hallo Doro, wenn du den Text schreibst, dann benutzt du die Hintergrundfarbe und die Vordergrundfarbe ist ausgeschaltet. wenn du diese einschaltest und die Farbe auswähst, dann die Strichstärke ändern so sieht es mit und ohne aus

My first car I bought in a junk yard and then with my boss's help fixed up to be a reliable car for a number years. Max speed 45 miles per hour. Henry

Hi I am a little late to the party. Here is my project for New. When I saved it 600x600 the forum told me my file was too big. I don't what I did wrong. I resaved it 500x500.