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I also had a cat years ago who had something similar. Good luck with the treatments or meds. I hope Tuxie gets better.

Here's a little something I did for my great-grand Logan who is 3 years old today. He also just acquired a little baby brother, Jonah. They are the children of my granddaughter Ilana and her husband Maverick. She is the daughter of my daughter Laurey. They all live nearby in the Tri-States area (NY-NJ-PA)

It ended up being the naming convention. I deleted everything connected with the name of that curved arrow. The problem was I didn't change the name of the shape from the preset shape I had used to start with and change it to the name I decided to call the finished project. How dumb!. Maybe I need that vector workshop again. I had previously downloaded that tutorial, but didn't look at it since it seemed to be so straight forward. The other preset shape that wasn't showing up also had a problem with the naming convention. So, back to studying vector shapes. Thank you, Carole for your help. And you too, Rene.

Thank you, I must confess. I love the snow. It's magical. It simplifies an image, whilst enhancing fences, trees, branches, buildings and the like.

Week 5 on a day trip into Carlisle I took this photo of a weather vane on top of a bank roof. I always stop to look at it and on this day the fox had the company of a jackdaw which was nice.

Wow! I love this photo! I know topsy tervy well, but not upside down and inside out. I'm going to use it! Well, I'm feeling a little foolish, I just checked it out. One of my favorite singers when I was a teenager was Diana Ross (I saw her in concert in Vancouver, BC). I am known for not knowing words to songs and wouldn't you know it, here's one of the verses: Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round My face is a little red right now; it was one of my fav. songs, that I haven't thought about in years. Sooooo, I stand corrected, I do know that term after all.

Thank you ever so much ladies for your kinds words welcoming me back into the fold. It is very much appreciated. It was an incredidible time being home, especially being around the little girls. Ages 3 and 5. By the time I left they were already rolling the letter r, as we do in Welsh, and other letters. Also picking up many of my mannerisms. As for the memories, well they have left an indelible mark in my mind. Here we go again Susan. Haven't you ever heard the saying upside down and inside out. hahaha! I use it in reference to being topsy tervy. Being in disorder, until I get back into my ususal routines. Perhaps it's another British saying.

I had a good laugh when I opened this post. What a cutie. And more attentive at the wheel than some humans!

First: WECOME BACK! secondly, I was thinking yesterday, when is Sue coming back? Imagine if I had wished for a million dollars! I'd be on a whirl-wind tour to meet everyone in the Campus. And lastly.....you must be very flexible...I'm impressed.. "upside-down and inside out". You crack me up, glad to have you back. Yoga antics aside, your images are as brilliant as ever. Love how you did the January 2024 part, really nice touch.

I spent the month of January participating in the Month of Challenges at The Lily Pad. 31 challenges in 31 days. Even with 4 days away from the computer I was able to get them all done. One of the designers graciously provides a free template to showcase all of the layouts. I finished that today using a kit by Bella Gypsy. Also, all layouts must have only product currently on sale at the store or retired products by the current designers. Some challenges were a real challenge! Some challenges were easy because of things I've learned here at Scrapbook Campus (hello Mask Workshop). And some were full of ideas to use in future layouts.

Week 4. I've started puzzling again. A little bit every day, sometimes I skip a day. The hardest part is now coming.

P52 Week Three Font is Pastel Orange Regular (Creative Fabrica). My aunt had this pattern; Royal Albert - Petit Point China.

P52 Week Two Font is Shizuko (Creative Fabrica) This is a very textured cup (physically textured) with some dragons on it. It's pretty cool, but hard to really show from this angle.

Week 4 was a week of storm damage and the arrival of the first snowdrops. I chose a photo of the snowdrops because it was a happier image.

P52 Week One I am finally on board. I used Arial for this card. Two scripts were used: Custom Playing Cards and the new Counting Cards. Both very versatile scripts by the way. I love having the the choice of Vector format for the lettering on the Counting Cards Script - thank you Carole for thinking of the user and giving so much versatility to us. The Custom playing card script is very cool. It makes mask for the photo, but you have the option to turn off the mask and put the photo between the bottom and 'suit' layer...but dont be like me and forget to use the magic wand and clip off the extra photo bits or you wont get that round card corner from the bottom layer. the second photo I add is how I will choose which card to do for each week. It's all going to be the same photo and deck (isnt that the weirdest looking deck of cards?) so maybe I'll only post the turned over card every once in a while. the little Magnet I made is from this round (what I thought was a) deck of cards, only about 2 inches in diameter. It's called 5 Crowns and has and extra suit. I thought they were cute and were a complete deck. well, there is no Aces or 2's so I'll have to make up something. And I changed the color as the clubs were green. I needed a way to show an off-white playing card in the forum which is white so I chose to use the Counting Cards script and place in on a background. It's fun getting back to PSP. I will still be behind, but I'm going to catch up after this coming busy week.

Week four and the start of the Tulip season! 🌷 Tulips are now widely available in the shops and I bought a bunch. It will take 3 or 4 months before they will be in bloom outdoors; the ones we can buy now are grown in glasshouses. The start of the season is always on Tulipday, which is the 3rd Saturday of January and is celebrated in Amsterdam on a square in the city center. There is a huge display of tulips and when the official opening is over, people can come and pick a bunch of tulips for free. I have never been there because it is not where I live. I'll buy them in a shop, but it always gives you the feeling that Spring isn't that far away!

Shiny things distract me all the time! lol

WEEK FOUR - Celebrating our frigid, snowy weather; a nice closeup from the Hudson Valley in Pictures gallery by Cindy Plumb Bishop on 01-20-24. I changed my font from Wide Latin to Showcard Gothic.

I have not followed what's going on for a few weeks so a bit late into the challenge, sorry but it is the perfect subject for a personal project I started last year that I have not finished the final layout for. I dutifully walked to the same oak tree on the outskirts of our village, once a month for all of 2023, getting the exercise and always having in my mind the creative challenge of how to present the collection of photos at the end. So my project is not quite p52 but very similar. I am still cogitating how to display all twelve of the photos into one photo montage and have made a layout to start with. The scripts that some of you are using on your designs are giving me ideas but here is where I am at so far...

Here also a layer of snow and below zero, from tomorrow the temperature will be above zero again. A photo taken from our small terrace.

Week 3 and here the week is also dominated by some snow and temperatures below zero and I use the same photos from the Template Workshop. I couldn't choose between 2 photos and decided to use them both although one is very small with a mask otherwise it overpowered the bigger photo.

Week 3 Temperatures below -4C most of the week. At times a severe frost and my photo this week reflects that – frost on a small conifer bush in the garden.

B = (duh) bride

Me too, I always want to add to the gallery but then I'm spending a lot of time reading all the entrees here and think: later.......

Beautiful photos

The template of this 2021 Year in Review layout was a cass-freebie from 2022 Jan... I decided to do a double page, but I will still choose the last three spots on the right side... It takes longer to decide on which photos I want to use than anything else... The square was not big, and I still managed to fit 4 photos inside! ... I am late, but I don't give up. lol

P52 Challenge Week 6 Today I have a Jack and Jacks = creamers! I had wanted to show a nicer one I have but it has terrible reflections on it (bad photography) so I'm going to try them again. I have 3 more Jacks to do. And since it's the new month, I'll show where I'm at in my deck of cards. That tea is getting really cold by now. hahaha, I actually had to really water it down for it to "look" like tea. The font I used is called Dept from Creative Fabrica. Not super curvy, but just enough curves...like the little creamer. BTW the cutie little t-pot will show up as one of the Queens. I used a gradient (foreground-background) for the background and for the frame too, but I inverted the gradient on it. there is a tiny spot in the middle that is the same color so in effect disappears a bit. And I had to change the color of clubs, as this strange round deck had green clubs (Ewww). Oops, I forgot to straighten the card deck shot.

Week 5 isn't still January? Oops. I'll have to go retrieve mine too. actually I thought it was all one long thread. This is a good reason for me to be late in posting going forward. After a thought, I"m leaving it there. Because for me the week starts on Sunday making more than 1/2 the week being still January. and it's physically the 5th week of the new year. That's my lopsided logic.

I too transferred my photo from the January thread to this one, maybe I was a bit early in posting the week wasn't over yet. It is a photo of my family's dog and a cutie!

Welsh Snowbrops. Image taken on the 29th January. The Daffs are slower to bloom, but the native milk white Snowdrops are daintily blooming across the Welsh countryside.

I'm transferring this here from the January thread.

U = Underwear 😘😉

This week there was nothing interesting happening and although making photos of housekeeping are ok 🤔 I want to show a photo that my daughter send to me. We had to laugh seeing one of the dogs as a driver and she remarked that she is training an assistance driver to come and get me at the airport if needed! This is such a cute dog and a bit naughty too. When I'm visiting them he is my friend and looks after me as long as I'm willing to play with him when the rest of the family is at work or at school.

Sue welcome back, like the others I have missed you here. I hope you had a great trip and have made more memories for the grandchildren, as well as for yourself to sustain you until you can get visit again. I know that feeling of getting back into one's normal routine all to well; it takes some time to settle in but at the bright side is the opportunity to be at the computer and be creative!

Welcome back, Sue. I've missed you!

Week two

I am back! My first PSP pages in almost 8 weeks. I'm currently upside down and inside out, so much do in order to get back on track to settle back into my routine. The first two weeks are older photos. ( Local landscape, Sharp Tailed Grouse). This monring's sunrise.

Rene that must have been a lot of work, every day for a whole month but nice to be able to have them all done and very satisfying too. They look great on this "presentation board".

Here's my Wild Cat Calendar for February, 2024, featuring the Flat-Headed Cat. Similar to the Fisher Cat in habits as he swims and eats fish and other aquatic animals. I will post this full size on Facebook so you can print it out @ 11" x 8.5" if you wish.

I am just getting done in time for the end of January for my first attempt at my Hook trees project. I saw people using the 2023 review template so thought I would give it a go for the trees although I will still work on some other designs in due course. This one shows my photos with their respective dates and the central photo shows the tree in situ in the field. Adjustments to the template included: - resetting the dates as the white text on the raster text layer supplied did not show up on my chosen background. - changing the grey squares to an oak leaf design paper from Digital Scrapbook.com. In order to select a different part of the pattern for each mat for the sake of interest, my process was to save the oak leaf paper as a layer. Then for each grey Mat in turn made a selection and then on the oak leaf paper layer promoted the selection to a layer and positioned it above the Mat layer. - adding a fine outline to the main letter characters as some of the photos did not contrast well with the background. As each character was a raster layer my process was to duplicate the character layer and move it above its group. Then use the Magic Wand on the new outline layer. Selection/Modify/Contract by 3 pixels and then delete and de-select.

Awesome! thank you.

P52 Week Four What?! No Tea-Cup? Today is an Ace so that means a sugar bowl. This one is quite patina'd and has an art deco look. I think it is actually from that time period so I used Gill Sans Ultra Bold & U.B. condensed on the week/year portion. For the magnet I had to improvise. This weird little round deck of cards does not have Aces or 2s so I took a 3 and edited to be an Ace. I see that I made it a bit lopsided...just keepin' it real 🤣. I wasted about an hour looking for a font for the A the would look like the cards font, I gave up and settled with this one called "Baked Donuts" (Creative Fabrica). I don't actually use sugar in tea, maybe a wee bit of honey, but only sometimes and only with earl grey tea. I had a little freak out moment when I found out windows 10 doesn't come with Gill Sans(and family), I had to get it from my laptop and load it in. It's one of my favorite fonts.

I am sure I have been like that in the past but with this project I had two aims so one prompted the other: regular weekly exercise (training for that sponsored walk) and the photography project. So now, I mustn't give up on the exercise (might sign up for another walk) and need to fulfil the creative project.

I remember that one year, when I had changed location for work, there was a nice landscape behind the building and I was considering taking a picture, regularly, throughout the year, from the same window. I think I did take a few, but not enough to complete a whole year.

@fiona cook That would be a great idea for a double page! Make it somewhat like a timeline and it would be great to see it through the seasons.

I send it to you digitally 🍰

After weeks of gray days and rain, we finally got some sun this week!, but it only lasted 2 days 😔

This week is all about my husbands birthday and he insisted I didn't use a photo where he is on! But a photo of the "vlaai" a specific Dutch kind of cake with different toppings will do perfectly. It originated in the province of Zuid-Limburg, but is now widely available and loved. For this week I changed the colors of the frame and text to suit the photo. Now wait and see what week 3 brings....

I finally finished my Week In Review layouts for 2023. I had one day left over so I did a final layout of just photos from Dec 31 with a title of "Goodbye 2023". I had thought about continuing on with the week on one layout and including the 31st there but changed my mind. I'm going to do a month in review instead and just highlight 5 to 7 photos from the month on a single page layout. I am still taking at least one photo a day so I will still have a few photos to choose from during the months that not a lot is happening. I am also continuing with my "5 on 5" project. I take at least 5 photos on the 5th of the month then do a layout. My final weekly layout for 2023 (all weeks had the same format with the cluster and month areas changing depending on what photos I used). I also used the same background papers throughout a month along with the same cluster items. I ended up with 6 different themes so July has the same theme as January. The December pages had the same theme as June. I love the cohesiveness of it!