Corrie Kinkel

6 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Although I curse out the mess underfoot that the Canada Geese leave under my dead cherry tree, now that they've migrated, I miss them. This was last week and now they're all gone for the summer.

I told that we have those geese as well and that they are becoming a pest because many of them don't migrate any longer and are staying permanently now. This morning I read in the newspaper that there had been an accident with a truck on the highway in my region. The truck wanted to swerve to avoid a family of geese that were crossing that very busy highway and the truck felled on its side along the road! The road was closed for several hours to clean up because a lot of the cargo and some oil had been spilled.

J = Jonathan apple

This photo sums up the week we had, rain, more rain, heavy rain, a downpour, drizzle, showers (always when I'm out and about!). All this can last a full day and when we were lucky there has been a few dry spells too. On the bright side of this most plants look lush and green, but the bigger flowers droop. Everywhere there are broken branches from the trees and leaves are flying around or lie in the gutter. The forecast for the coming week gives a couple of dry days with high temperatures; we go from 17C to 28C in three days.................. Hopefully July will turn out better, the school holidays are starting.

With this 5th lesson the fun is starting, at least for me. I use text on a path regularly on all kinds of projects, so no problems here. For this assignment I used a photo from a friend which I have for a long time, but never used it. I vividly remember the very first time I tried to make a postmark in the first Travel Challenge I participated in when I was a newbie to scrapbooking and the Campus. It took me for ages and I didn't understand what I was doing! Now I use postmarks very often for a date or a place and this time I played a bit with my postmark, made it in color with 2 little flowers left and right and a photo in the middle. As it is suppoost to be a postmark I used a distressed brush to give it some grunginess. 

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I suppose it's human nature to see the grass as greener on the other side! But I have not been a fan of excessive heat & humidity for many years. Canadians talk about weather more than any other topic.

Well you must have that from the Dutch because over here the weather is always and everywhere the topic of a conversation!

Day 4 and I still keep it simple, nothing fancy after creating the shapes and I haven't exported them because I think I will not be using them and if I ever would want that, I know how to make them. The cut outs on my dinosaur egg are not completely round but I could adjust their sizes without a problem. After doing the tasks I have to go away from the computer, my eyes are giving me a headache if I 'm too long at the pc. In 3 weeks time when it hopefully is a bit better I'm allowed to go to the optician for new glasses. Before those are ready it will be another 2 weeks at least, so maybe by the end of July the situation will be more or less oké for the time being.

1 hour ago, Julie Magerka said:

Oh, I just dream about cool weather. The A/C got fixed next day, but it felt like a longer time than that. I had to be out in the sun today (I use a hat and sun umbrella) for a few hours and I'm just done in! Temps feeling like 104-106 F.

And I just dream of warm and sunny weather, because over here the last 6 month have been the wettest since it is being recorded! We have one nice day and the rest of the week it is dreadful and that for months in a row! Gloomy, everybody is fed up with this weather for now; farmers are becoming desperate because the crops are rotting or not growing at all. Spinach for instance isn't available in the shops!

H = Honeyberry

21 hours ago, Cassel said:

Here is my first encounter with a Luna Moth. That is quite pretty for a moth!

Such a nice creature, it almost looks as a brooch. A pity that its average livespan is one week only!

3 hours ago, Cristina said:

Here is Day 4. I chose a simple mug as I don't have much time today to deal with the "so-called"  &%$nodes§%&. 😄

It was good to review this lesson, as I didn't remember the "c-r-a-c paste" tip.

As I am traveling tomorrow morning, I will catch up with the lessons once I'm back.   The workshop will be over by then, but I want to finish it. 🙂 

 

Save travels and see you when you are back!

9 hours ago, Michele said:

I've been sick the last few days so I haven't been able to participate. Hopefully, I'll do the workshop when I recover. Darn, I hate being sick.

Michele get well 💐 soon and those vectors will be waiting for you.

9 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

Thank you, Corrie. If you ever visit the East Coast of the USA, be sure to take in the New Paltz area in Ulster County, NY, where the Dutch influence is strong, along with Manhattan where the Dutch thought they purchased the land. The native tribe didn't consider it a purchase but as tribute for their hospitality. To them, land use was communal and not something to be owned. If you ever really do get to my area, we must be sure to meet up! 😊

Ann I know the history of that "purchase" and all that came after it, when I was in school we had to learn about all this in history classes! If I ever come to your area we will meet, no doubt about that!  

From me a photo of a butterfly that is quite common in my part of the world, however the last couple of years the numbers of all the butterfly species are dramatically going down. This is the Atalanta on a flower, in Latin Vanessa atalanta and I believe in English it is called the Red admiral. We have a gardencenter directly in our neighborhood and there are always butterflies there and that is where I had the chance to take this photo. For the different kinds of butterflies it must be like a sweetshop over there. Our patio is very small and we do not get many butterflies and if we have some it is mostly during the day when they flutter from one plant to the other  and won't sit still long enough for a photo. Early morning when they are warming up is the best moment for taking photos.

56 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

Here's my entry in the Random Challenge for June. Debbie, Laurey and I took a trip to New Paltz, NY, in Ulster County, where my Dad's forefathers landed from the Netherlands and France. Terwilliger was the Dutch name and Bevier was the French Huguenot. We took a guided tour of the Huguenot Street encampment and saw my great-great grandmother's home and burial stone. The guide was very knowledgeable and personality+. I snagged the historical society's logo, used a cass-datestamp with an added house flourish courtesy of the Huguenot Street website. All the photos were taken by us. The text font is Bahnschrift. The background photo has an exclusion layer and a dark green behind it. I used the template #714 from Marisa Lerin. 

Ann, nicely done and I find the historic facts of such places always very interesting, especially when there is a Dutch connection. When I was in California this year we had a wine tasting on a big vineyard on one of the trips we made. The young man that came to explain about the wines we got to taste, asked where we came from and of course I said Netherlands. Well he was delighted to hear that because his grandfather was Dutch and we had a nice conversation about it. Much to the annoyance of my son in law who is Swiss; there are not so many Swiss decedents in the States, Dutch however I find them everywhere.

Day 3 and I decided not to do the leaves again because I already did them last year. However I didn't fancy the diamond extra shapes. I know it is all about exercising but I have to like it too. Instead I found  a flower shape and Ivy to use. This time I had less problems with clicking and changing the node types from symmetric to cusp and back, it went rather smoothly to my own surprise. 😕

58 minutes ago, Jnet Allard said:

Text translated with Google

Hello to all participants.

I arrive late, because I am in the boxes full to bursting from our 52 years of life together for my husband and me. I think I will have enough to sort through, throw away, keep and give away everything we have accumulated over these 52 years.

In addition to the move, I was surprised when I turned on my computer that all my saved passwords had disappeared. I think I'll have to change them all because the ones I have in note don't go through, as if I needed that!

Oh Jnet that is a nightmare! It will be a lot of work to login to every site and make a new password, but look at it on the bright side: you will have updated them all. Good luck! 

5 minutes ago, Donna Sillia said:

"On the blog

 

Speaking of vectors, did you ever wish you could turn a selection to a path? Well, you can with this script!"

 

I downloaded this script, found it very easy to use and saves a lot of time. I used the selectiontopath script on the leaf, created a pattern from one of my leaf  pictures and filled my vector with the leaf pattern.

 

Carole, thanks for the tip on the blog. Is it ok to to use the script? I do realize that it will not work for all projects and want to continue learning how to manipulate nodes.

 

Now that I viewed on the forum, I see where the pattern did not show all the spikes. 

Interesting Donna, I have downloaded that script from the blog too, but haven't had the time to play with it yet. 

E = Eggplant, it is used like a vegetable but it is actually a fruit

For day 2 I have kept it really simple because I have so much trouble to see those nodes and although I have set the node size bigger you still have to click in the middle otherwise it won't work. Sadly my eyes won't cooperate at the moment. I have not only the shapes of today but also the ones from day 1 exported in one file and everything is in this blue color to distinguish them from the purple ones of last year. When exporting I got a warning that there were already preset shapes with the names Labels so I had to come up with different names or numbers to avoid getting duplicates. I didn't make a screenshot of my preset shapes because the results of the coming lessons are there too and I won't spoil what is to come the next days.

3 hours ago, Anja Pelzer said:

here I used my own kit, to test it, 

template by Marisa Lerin, font is Starline

Nice to see you using your own kit! 

6 minutes ago, Cristina said:

Working with vectors is all about practice, practice, and practice. In the beginning, we hate it, but after a lot of trying and error, we start to have fun with it.  🙂 

There are a lot of great tutorials and masterclasses inside the Diamond Membership.

Here is Lesson 2:

 

Edit: The tip for the corner nodes is genius. I have totally forgotten.

Yes I forgot that little tip way to often, so I now have made a note in my own list of most useful tips!

This is my 2nd time and that makes it easier, but nevertheless it took me a while. After I had created the shapes I played a bit with textures, some of which I normally don't use. The heart has the texture glowing edges and the arrow has plastic texture. Maybe I should use those once in a while instead of a bevel, gradient or pattern!

When I saw this Random Challenge on Saturday I immediately thought of a photo that I took when visiting my daughter. The photo was already divided by the top beam of a fence which as such was no reason to take that photo, but there was a squirrel on top and it was looking down directly at me. So I divided the photo and left the fence as it was with an overlay of another wooden background in blue. Then a new background on the top, with a mask for the squirrel. Some embellishments that came from the Meadow Bundle by Jessica Dunn. I wanted to have this idea finished before I start with the Vector Workshop.

Z = Zwetschge - a type of plum, native to Germany

On 6/13/2024 at 9:58 PM, Corrie Kinkel said:

Ann good catch! I should have written June! I took the photo indeed yesterday. However the word NOTE was on that paper and came with the kit. Time flies....... Underneath the background paper is a soft green paper so I could play a bit with the blend mode, in this case luminous and an opacity of 90%. Of course I also needed it for the punches.

I corrected the original layout and it now reads June 12!