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Wishing everyone a wonderful, fun-filled Sunday!

I made this last year when I had Siamese Fighting Fish (Bettas). Wishing all a Happy Easter.

Although let's be honest, the Easter Hunt (just like the Treasure Hunt) is a promotional activity (hoping to attract new people to the site), it is also meant as a way for people to find useful information at the same time. With so many blog posts (633), it is easy to miss some, forget a few, or even not know about others. I am happy that it makes anyone discover something useful!! Happy Easter!

Made this several years ago but I'd like to send my wishes to all who celebrate.

I used the search on the other 11 with no trouble. For some reason I was not using the right search words, but I did finally find it. Thanks.

I mistakenly called the masterclass paper templates. I have just checked, the masterclass is titled 'using element templates'.

Week 13 Two rooks getting ready in lots of time with nest building

I did...just for fun...

I thought about making this (text) a sticker.

Thank You Ann Seeber, your Wonderful and Great like our Teacher thank You I did 2 other things yesterday, I hope my daughter will be proud of me when I show and tell her.

me too, this is the one I decided to use other words than I should have.

That was fun and I downloaded some blogs with techniques I keep forgetting and that I dont want to forget. This time I'll print them and start a binder so it's easier to find.

Woo hoo, this is the one time you want all your eggs in one basket!

Talking about aging, and all that it entails, I created this page last night, bar for the phrase strips I wanted to do. For the life of me I couldn't remember the word I was looking for. I knew it's meaning and in what context I was going to use it. This morning out of the blue It came to me, dextrous. I immediately wrote it down. Now the page is complete. I consider myself very lucky in the fact that I'm fit and healthy. I do have to wear cheap magnifying glasses, which I have dotted all around the place, inside and out, purly for reading. If my arms were a little longer I wouldn't need them. I have noticed that I am getting forgetful. As Corrie says aging is what it is. We have to accept getting older and don't let it stand in our way. The ground squirrels tolerate me laying amongst them, they still have an imaginary boundery, which I don't cross. I have bought them a bag of rabbit pellets, which they are enjoying. I haven't seen them today, eveywhere is white, although it has stopped snowing now. Now then, my page. I creared phrase strips, used Carole's page punches again. Created a date stamp. For the scalloped edges and the cut out dots around the background paper I used several techniques, all of which you will find the many turorials in the creative scrap/lab. Multi scallops, double scallops, scalloped mat. I also used a paper template, which I colourized to my liking and sized it down. Carole did a masterclass on paper templates, one of the best classes she has done. Paper templates suits me as I am not a fan of using patterned papers. I used the same technique which I have given tips on for the round photo, with it's cut out frame.

I had to send a couple of Estercards through the post and I have made this one in the 3 languages I needed. I used a card idea from the Card Workshop and made the background with a Quatrefoil overlay that I had done sometime ago. The eggs and bunnies come from different easter themed sets I have in my stash for quite a long time and I think they were a freebie from CF. I wish you all a happy Easter weekend if you celebrate it and otherwise have a nice weekend too.

Just as I was pondering what I could use for this week, the evening sky treated me to this colorful display which only lasted for 2 minutes before fading. I took a couple of photos from our upstairs room. The buildings on the other side of our small street are already very dark, but that is ok by me the sky is the highlight!

Finishing up March with Week Thirteen - photo by William Panuska of The Hudson Valley in Pictures gallery. This is called "early sail downriver." The copper hues really grabbed me.

It's Friday once again. Good Friday for those that celebrate Easter. Just when I thought the snow was practically all gone, Mother Nature had other ideas. It lightly snowed throughtout the night, and it is still snowing. My other girl Meg, Nell is in the backgoround. Week thirteen, and the last photo for the month of March.

So far I could only come up with the quote in different colors on a spiral. I put it on a T-shirt just to see if it would work. It is not very original, but I have more pressing things on my mind at the moment. As no one else has posted something here yet I want to give it a start, maybe somebody else will follow. Depending on the outcome of eye tests tomorrow in hospital I'll try to come up with something else. Hopefully my eye only needs a laser treatment which will be the best option, otherwise there is something seriously wrong and my trip to my daughter is in 3 weeks...... Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Just for the fun of it, we will be having a fun activity in the Campus: an Easter Hunt. It will be similar to the Treasure hunt that took place last September, but it will be smaller in scale and limited to the Campus blog. The hunt will take place March 30-April 1st. So you will have 3 days to find all your eggs. The clues are meant to be quite easy. If you are really stuck, you can ask questions in this thread. To keep it interesting, I would ask that nobody give the direct answers or the direct URL for any clue. I don't want anyone to get frustrated, but I also want you to browse the various articles (don't worry, there is no walking involved). Have fun!

Thank you Donna and yes I don't know what I should do without the modern appliances! I for certain wouldn't have taken up scrapbooking. Think what we would have missed, all the great people that make this community much more then a scrapbook site!

Right now the weather forecast for me is 65F and cloudy skies. I was talking to someone that says even if it is cloudy you will experience the darkness that comes along with the eclipse. They went to a talk given by a person that has seen many solar eclipses (the guy goes all over the world to see them) and that is what he shared with them about the experience. Evidently he has been to them in all weather conditions! My cousin, her husband and their 2 granddaughters are coming in Sunday morning to avoid the traffic issues on Monday morning. A different cousin is friends with a state highway patrolman and the patrolman is saying that anyone that is driving in from out of town should fill up their gas tank before they come because there could be issues with gasoline availability on the 8th! My cousin and I discussed food and we will be eating at my house both days so we don't have to deal with traffic in town or the extremely busy fast food places. Quite a few businesses in town are closing that day if they don't deal directly with the public (like fast food restaurants and gas stations). Other businesses might be open but will close at noon so that their employees can see the eclipse where they want.

I have found a great site that can list all the cities in the path of totality, but also those who will experience partial eclipse. It shows what you will see in various cities: https://eclipse2024.org/eclipse_cities/index.php I found out that my hometown will see 99.56% totality, so we are just out of the full path, so we will drive to Miramichi, which will be close to the center of the path, where we can get 3.5 minutes of totality (weather permitting).

I did it and found some good stuff I'd forgotten or never knew. The piece about layered fonts was news to me. Thanks Carole for the fun.

Good going, Cindy! Happy Easter 🐰🌷

Ann I did it and emailed this year you didnt have to help me, I Love You all.

Me to Thank you! thank you I am trying to get back to one chatter (me) hugs all

The Who is in the clue. You are the "One" to get it done! You got this Anne! Remember Carole's clue: The clues are meant to be easy. Use the search feature on the blog. Most clues refer to article titles. If you are really stuck, you can always ask questions in this thread in the forum.

I will take a look at this class, too. I don't remember it very well, and it's no wonder, with hundreds of great Masterclasses.

What a cute card! Happy Easter, Corrie.

Happy Easter, Doska!

I got a feeling you will like using paper templates.

Tons of fun! Thank you, Carole!

Thanks so much, @Mary Solaas. I think we all take turns looking for our mojo.

Mary, I'm deeply touched by your words. Yes, the phrase strips tutorial can be found in the creative scrap/lab (the one or the other). I'm delighted my pages serve multiple purposes in the campus. I have to say cutting out circles using PSP is by far easier and quicker than actual paper cutting. I will hopefully improve on that though. Pease don't hesitate to ask for any instruction, or direct you to any relevant tutorials. I like the small details.

Even though I did the original back in 2017 (starting from scratch), I spent a bunch of time editing it for this year. It has soooo many layers now. The fonts are Bernard MT Condensed, JLR Big Girl Bed, and KR Coffee Dings. In order to make it look aged, I duplicated the text layers and converted them to rasters. Then, grouping them into one, I used a grunge brush to erase portions. Carole mentioned recently how grouping makes it easy to resize multiple elements at once. I now use groups for lots of different things. I added the barista character from the game for my group members (they like it when I do that LOL).

Great to see you back!

So sad Julie, for your friend. I love the baby's expressions. As always, a very beautiful layout. Happy Easter to you. and I've been meaning to ask, how's your eyes?

Rene I have the same problem and nowadays my handwriting is so terrible that I use the pc to print address labels otherwise I'm afraid the postal services are not able to read the addresses and the postman/woman has a hard time delivering my letters. Getting older isn't always plain sailing but it is what it is, so keep smiling! As long my head and thinking stays in tact I can live with a lot of the aging problems.

Happy Easter all, and thank you for your help and interest💝

I had forgotten all about this challenge until I saw Corrie's quote. I came up with this. The colours/ multicolours will depend on the background colours.

I made the Simnel cake a month back, for Mother's Day on the 10th March. The date differs every year, as do Easter. Traditionally they are not as rich as Xmas fruit cakes. It has a layer of home made almond paste through the centre of the cake and on top. Not being relgious my mother and I carried the tradition on by having the cake for Mothering Sunday. As it does have significance for that day. The eleven balls is suposed to represent the 11 apostles. I decorated it purely for an Easter photo, them removed the eggs. Finally downloaded the psp template, to correctly participate in this challenge. The colours I took from the photo. Pinned element, scallops, ring is my own, the tag is one I made back in 2021. Carole's corner and page punches.

At the start of this freebie challenge I had the jpeg file and I only noticed much later that I should have downloaded the psp file! So here is a new layout with the psp file and that made it all so much easier, plain sailing like Sue said! I decided to have a bit of fun and made something not from scratch but I used papers and elements from my stash. I used a kit from the March 2021 Blogtrain called Spring Magnolia, which I found rather fitting because my photo is of a magnolia bud.

That should be fun. I hope not to find any that look like this. LOL Egg from C F.

Objects may be closer than they appear...

Nell is enjoying the heat of the morning sun. She is the younger of my 2 girls.

I'm a bit early with my week12 but I don't think it will be getting much better then this. We have lovely Spring days at the moment and there is so much coming into flower. Yesterday we went to the "Heemtuin" in a nearby village where a large natural garden is created which only has wild flowers, trees and shrubs that are native for this area. I was able to take a lot of photos, so in other projects I will use many more. This photo is of a Prunus variety.

After seeing this beautiful layout I'm BEGGING you to please continue as you are doing. I think this challenge is pretty relaxed on rules and that makes it why I wanted to do it.

Thank you and after a day in the hospital for tests that involved scan, eye pressure, lots of different eyedrops, testing, talking with the doctors and so on, the doctor couldn't explain what the problem is that caused my eyesight to drop 25% in a short time. The scans showed no difference to last year, my lens is clear, so no laser treatment. The only thing that came up was the fact that my eyes were rather dry despite the eyedrops I use. Therefore I got not drops but a gel that should moister better. I have to use that 7x a day for 2 weeks and then 6x a day until I have to come back after 2 month and blink my eyes a lot. Hopefully it is going better and if not or not enough, more testing and scans. Luckily I am allowed to fly with more drops during the flight, I can go!!!! But it is a nuisance I can only read with 1 eye and being at the pc is also awkward, maybe it isn't bad that I don't take my laptop with me! I will be kept busy by the girls and the dogs anyway.