Suzy

Hi, all, I received this in my email just now from My Memories The free copy is My Memories 8 (My Memories 9 was just introduced) I'm kindof tempted to download it just to see.

Here are some random thoughts from me. There should be several chapters on photographs. one for disguising bad photos, but the others could be something like cropping, and getting rid of photobombing things…we were just at the Andy Griffith of Mayberry Museum in Mt Airy, NC, and the 1966 Mayberry patrol car was leaving the parking lot. I snapped some quick photos because it was leaving. The houses in the background were old, but there was one modern SUV in the photo I want to get rid of. Something lIke that. Jannette is right - the one thing about what is going to be important in 30 years. It’s the people. And pretty much only the people. Their names. The date (as close as possible) the location. A caption at least of what you’re looking at, but more text the better. (More text, fewer clusters.). My kids like the text the best in their baby books. It is descriptive text on their lives from my perspective…how much they cried, what outfit of mine they spit up on that day. what they ate, the color of their poop, presents they had gotten, that they pulled the dog’s tail or cried when they saw a certain person….minutia, really, but they love reading about it! Still! a caution…..where there are so many junky elements with giant flowers bigger than the heads of the people in the photos…. Where so much junk is there itks hard to figure out where there even are any important pictures. there could also be a chapter on genealogy. Easy Sharing is one of the most important reasons to do genealogy digitally. The other thing is not having enough actual photos of an old great uncle, for example - but the person might know he had a yellow Lab dog and the address of his house and his occupation. Without a whole lot more, they could put together a page with a little story. (I am STILL selling copies of a genealogy book I wrote in 2008. personally for me, figuring out how I’m going to print and bind BEFORE doing even one LO was a Godsend.) A chapter on embracing the decade.. maybe they have a photo with 1960s color Cross processing?, I think that's the term. They have a choice to make. Fix it or embrace it? And you can show them how to use period text and the sepia colors for old photos, then how the colors change per decade or generation. Because that would be really groovy. Er, da bomb. I mean hip, baby! Be sure to touch upon the idea of scrap every day of the week, or 365 or 52 week, or whatever, to show their actual lives and what they do and how they do it. Show pics of their bathroom sinks, kitchens, including wall paper and maybe even the inside of their refrigerator, maybe you could two pages that have 365 prompts in tiny font of everyday life? Riding in the car…facing front, backwards, car seat?, big booster seat?, whatever. Wouldn’t it be fun for me to have that from my youth? Well, I have 1000s of ideas, I’m just not sure this is what you mean.

I'm just whining - we leave for Thanksgiving in a few hours and I'll be on the road for any Black Friday sales and I don't know what I want to buy at any store! Sweet Shoppe Designs has their biggest sale of the year on Black Friday, but other places, have smaller sales, too. Well, like the Creation Cassel store, a lot of places have only hinted at a sale. I'm starting to worry I won't have time to actually shop since it's a family holiday. I use Edge Magic a lot - how is Edge Magic2 different? Actually, I can't find it in the store using search. Did you pull it? It's a tool script, right?

Oh, Rene, I wish it hadn't happened this way! Fingers crossed and heartfelt prayers winging your way! I hope you get some really good answers - along with a good outcome!

Hi, all, I'm getting confused on my scripts = If I have triangles 4, do I need Triangles 2? If I have Glitter B, do I need Glitter C? Edge Magic, I have, but what is Edge Magic 2? There are just so many of them with multiple choices! What are some of your go-tos? I love the tool scripts especially - circular element, mitered corner frame, element stacker, and Whitener! Plus guidelines which I had to be brought into kicking and screaming but now I use them ALL the TIME! Plus those word frames (1-5) I'm still learning about.

That’s the same girl I found on Facebook, Cassel. The one still in Tasmania. https://www.facebook.com/sharon.philpot.37

That is wonderful, Emerald! YGG! I’ve been here a year and am still thinking about it!

No, those are her kids. You have to log into fb, then click on “photos” to see hers. She looks fun! Lots of freckles as a youth if I had to guess.

Sharon Philpot is probably married with a new last name by now, but in case that isn’t true….try this lady. https://www.facebook.com/sharon.philpot.37 I joined Scrapbook Campus instead of Ancestry.com, or I’d offer to look it up for you. (it being her marriage to get her new last name)

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.

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

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.

Big Welcome to all the new people! Good to see you here!

Yes. You said your Marble2 was only in PSP 8, 9 and X. I found only 7 & 8 files, but they have a jbr extension, so I don’t know which one is Marble2. If any. I want to remake it to be a larger size, but I don’t know what it looks like except it isn’t square/rect and doesn’t have straight sides which is what I want.

Cassel, I just found my old PSP 7 and PSP 8 files, including brushes. I'm still looking for Marble2. Unfortunately, all these brushes are by number, only. Does Marbe2 have a number from back in the JASC days?

November - Summer - how time flies! ?

Donna, I have experience, but they have expanded the Spark offerings so much, I really have experience in two things- Patterns is the big one, but also transparent images. I think Mary is your better bet but I am happy to help if it's something related to plain old patterns or the website in general. One thing I would like to say is that sometime in the summer, before Spark, both Susan and I got a HUGE deal on a one-year membership - was it $4.95 a month for a year, payable all at once, Susan? THEN after purchasing that, they offered a second year for $3.95 a month, payable all at once for the whole year. I worry that they will start charging for Spark separately now that's gotten so big. I think you'll like Creative Fabrica.

Carole, that is perfectly awesome, and exactly what was missing! Thank you! I love this shape! (I left a comment but this time it might look like I am commenting on a certain part of the video, but I wasn’t.) I need to practice on my handles now. ?‍♀️?‍♀️?‍♀️

Darn! Instead of being better than I had hoped, it's actually worse! I'm going to have to redo mine - that huge bend in the middle is distracting!

Here's mine - I want to see it up and side by side, online and on a white background, but in general I still think yours is better. In the flower world, it has "more music". Just a little if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully I'm wrong because I have made this version my preset shape. After MUCH trial and error -- mostly error, LOL! Thank you so much for the video!

Thank you so much! Is there a way to keep it even? And not off kilter? I know you get the symmetric node(s), but I also want it to hold the basic shape and not get all crazy. I was thinking maybe holding down the shift key or the control key when you nudge the node in, for example? How did you keep yours so perfect? thank you for the video…I still have such trouble with those darn VECTORS! Suzy

Grrr. Grrrrrrrr! I have not had a good night tonight! And to see you so easily get that shape makes me inordinately furious! What radius is that? If it’s anything in the range of 55, then why isn’t mine looking that smooth? I keep thinking that PSP should come with that shape preloaded!

Here is what I can get, left side. I'm using the flower side of the symmetric shape tool, not the shield side of it in case that matters. I think I used 55 on the radius. What I want to get is the right side, but if I go too high on the radius, I get a circle. Round inner is checked, round Outer is unchecked. Is this shape possible using symmetric shapes? with no pen tool?

If I were going to make this pointy square like this, I would make a square and then put four circles along the edges and delete, but that won’t get me a vector, will it? how do I make this shape? And I want a preset shape so I can change it to a Diamond with the same style. https://www.stretchshapes.net/product/4-point-shape-1/ Well, I can’t figure out how to get the image from the website to this post. ☺️

Ah, Jannette, I am so sorry this keeps happening! We use so much slang, I don’t see how any of the Europeans can figure out what we’re saying! (And that includes the English!) Ann has the right of it. It just means to get into the inner-workings. Under the hood of a car is the inner workings of the car. (However “behind the curtain” also showed the inner workings of the Wizard in Oz, so maybe not much different, afterall.) I often will delete a word or change a phrase when I post here, thinking it could be confusing, but I don’t always think about it. Just keep in mind we admire you all, and could NEVER do what you do! Google translate, or not!