Corrie Kinkel

Q = Queen Triggerfish  -  thanks to google

16 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

You did something great with this. I would never have thought of a garden centre with fish to get something! Clever you!

Julie not so clever as you assume because many of the gardencenters over here have an animal department with toys for a cat or dog, animal food, in fact everything you may need for your pet. The one thing that they don't sell are the animals itself with the exemption of fish, at least until now. We go frequently to the gardencenter in our village for a cup of coffee and cake because there is a nice cafeteria as well and I admit most of the time I come home with a new houseplant, a bunch of flowers or something we need for our patio. Just today we went there and I had to ride home with a somewhat larger plant in my bicycle bag. I rode rather slowly because I was afraid the plant would fall out of the bag on places where the road was bumpy, but I and the plant came home in one piece!

At first I had no idea what to do for this topic; I have no photos of the aquarium we had many years ago. That was way before the digital camera and iPhone existed; in those days we only took photos from our kids or on holiday. But the gardencenter in our village has a decent aquarium department and although it was almost impossible to get a good shot of the fish tanks or aquariums I managed to get something usable.

For the background I used "By the stream" from Jessica Dunn and blended that with a fishy paper by Marissa Lerin from her Origonian Fisher kit. On my photo I used cass-CurlyLines script to get rid of the parts I didn't want. Two little fishes also from Marissa were recolored and used to make a banner. The rest of the fish I found on Pixabay. In the new lab 14-07 is a tutorial on how to make an enamel element and I used on a clipart plant. Enamel is a very easy technique and I like the result it gives. The title is made up of the letter A from the freebie alpha that comes with this week's blogpost, and the font for the rest is Impact.

2 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

I'm still stuck on vectors which I find fascinating. My latest little creature is an owl. The patterns are from FF, the feathers around the face are a'dozi feather brushes. Feathers on body, chest and wings are from feathers from CF made into patterns. Eyes and feet are from Canva.

Donna you did a lot of work on this one, not only the vectors but especially the different patterns to "fill" your owl! 

40 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

I made a couple of layouts for friends after they sent me some pix of things going on in their lives. Which tells you not much is going on in mine! 😁

Lovely cards and in your own unique style!

On 7/1/2024 at 1:33 PM, Ann Seeber said:

Here is my Wild Cat Calendar for July 2024. The month and year are in Babilonia font. Everything else is in Agency. Someone posted this story and two photos on my Facebook feed a few weeks ago. I have posted the larger version in the Files section at the top of our Scrapbooking with Paintshop Pro group there. 

Who would have thought that lions like a foot massage!

N = Neon Tetra

@ Sue Thomas

Your photos for the weeks of June are spectacular and some made me laugh! Your love of nature is so apparent in this photos, even more then in a layout because here it is all about the animal in the photo!

J = Jackfish

14 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Week 25

Working in colors that are quite bright for me.  The background is a gradient that added a gaussian blur to the max and repeated it several times.  Then i added a texture ("blinds" I think) and then added another texture on top of that (Texture>striation).  I used the same gradient on the ring of the magnet and in the text (week 25).  

Yes, it is unusually bright for you but the colors match the glow on your teapot! So well done and I love it!

C = Carp

3 hours ago, Daniel Hess said:

@Ann Seeber @Mary Solaas @Corrie Kinkel OK.  Need to lose the period that ended up in the link at the end.  Let me try again.

http://www.toroscope.com/files/USA-MAP.zip 

Better to copy and paste the link in the address bar.  When I tried on my reply, it gave me something about unsecure download.  Should work fine just typing it in or pasting it.  OR BEST...right click then "Save link as" from this post.

 

Daniel thank you, I got it and by seeing how Ann did it, I just typed the link in the address bar. This way I didn't get a message about unsecure download and my anti virus software is usually very picky. Clearly there are many ways to do things.........

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

I asked at the garden center FAQ and "lice" is looked at as "aphids" here. Possibly a European term for the same insect? When I had to deal with my girls coming home from first grade with a "lice infestation" in their hair I didn't see it as "aphids." In fact, I also had an infestation of aphids on my indoor succulents a few years ago.

Oh, I just found it. The government of Canada has the answer: Plant lice = aphids

Ann in turn I didn't know this. I used the translation of the Dutch word "luis" or plural "luizen" and found louse or plural lice. It are those little greenish basterds that leave a sticky surface on the plants and ants love them! When you notice them in the garden than you are sure to see ants feasting on them. We use the word "luizen" also when there is a lice infestation in the hair of schoolkids. It seems that lice is a more generic word for a small and wingless parasitic insect on man, animals and plants , while aphids is only used for plants. At least according to my old and trusted Webster's New World Dictionary.

16 hours ago, Anja Pelzer said:

Hi , here is my work with the sketch, I used a collab kit from PickleberryPop named Wildbouquets

Beautiful Anja, love your color scheme!

G = Granny Smith - another apple

15 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'll check that out, thank you.  

Me too, thanks Rene and I'm glad you can make travel plans once more!

18 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

That's fabulous Corrie.  There is so much variations in the color and the veining looks so cool.  Petunias remind me of my mom, she always had them.  

Thank you! For a while petunias were considered old fashioned but they are back in full swing. I always liked them and have them almost every year, but they are prone to lice.

3 hours ago, Sharla said:

Week 26 A marigold flower (calendula officinalis) catching the sun.

 

Sharla a fantastic photo, I can even see the little hairs on its stem and it look great against that dark backdrop.

Week-26, we are already half way through 2024. Where is the time gone, or do I sound a bit old now.......

After all the rain of the last weeks this week the sun did its utmost best to let us forget that and not only we but the plants enjoyed it too. I have taken the opportunity to shoot a lot of photos from the plants on my small patio. The gardencenter we usually visit often has a rack with small free plants that are no longer good enough to sell but if you take care of them they most of the time perform later on. This petunia was looking dreary and didn't like all the rain but, look what a couple of warm, sunny days did to it. 

On 6/24/2024 at 5:19 AM, Susan Ewart said:

Week 24, I hope it's not a bore and it leaves you wanting more.  (that's is for rhyming Sunday)

Can you believe I even found a gradient that mimics the cup.  I've always liked this cup, it's a keeper.  I used the slipped in effect.  I sure like it. Carole, how do you come up with this stuff?  I hope you keep it up.  And I also used a texture on it, and the frame outline and the 2024 text.  

Susan I didn't pay much attention on P52 this week, so I only see your week-24 now. I love that cup and its colors and indeed you were lucky to find that matching gradient, otherwise you had to make it yourself and that can take some time until you get what you envisaged!

4 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

@Daniel Hess Daniel, I am fascinated by your USA map.  I have used a jpg or png of the map with the states drawn on it and then drew on it the route of where our trip took us.  I would love to have a copy of your map with the state lines drawn in as a preset shape.  Possible???

Well I would like that lovely map as well because I have done a couple of short roadtrips with my family when I was visiting them. So far I always used Google maps to draw the routes we took, but your map with the states would be a great asset for which I would be very grateful.

C = Cantaloupe (melon)

2 hours ago, Donna Sillia said:

Finally got to lesson 6.

Donna I see you have or found the VectorSpiral script! I like that script very much because it gives a unique effect if you use it with text or picture tubes even if you only use a part of it!

4 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

Before the month ends, I wanted to get something done for the Sketch Challenge. Only the pic is mine.

Background paper is from ET Designs; mask is called "watery" from Katie Pertiet. I wanted to use the CassPaintSplash mask, but I had too much trouble adjusting it for the photo. Other elements and things from my stash or online clipart.

We have dubbed out get-togethers at our friends' pool as Dip 'n Sip days.

Julie very nice! Maybe you can ask Carole for a demonstration of the PaintSplashMask script in the next Q&A. I think if you have some problems with it, there probably will be others too that like to see it in use. Those demos help so much in understanding the way a script works.

15 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

So beautiful Corrie.  I love those soft tinty colors.  At long last summer has arrived for you.  I think we had our two days of summer and now it's fall, with constant rain.  

Thank you Susan, at the moment I tend to use soft colors instead of very bright ones. By the way we had a couple of summer days but tomorrow the weather is changing to rainy and cold days again...... I used this week's good weather to take a lot of photos from the plants on my little patio for future use. The plants were so happy with the sun, as we were.