Corrie Kinkel

A = Apricot

5 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:

I forgot to post this while waiting for the Campus to stop having a nervous breakdown! j/k

My Chippy is quite photogenic. Now he wants to come in a play with the cats. (I don't think so; Eve would dispatch him handily 😞 ) 

What a sweet fellow, he is curious what is happening inside and he probably knows there must be food!

7 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I wonder how they got there.  I was shocked to see you had pictures of them.  They do love the farm fields.  When i lived in British Columbia there was farm fields around my house and they spent their nights there.  But hey, free fertilizer for the farmers.  We used to go the little park with a small pond and counted over 800 one night as they were taking off.  When they were up on the grass part of the park you could just walk amongst them.  I miss that park, I only see a few geese here and there where I live now.  I know the farmers dont feel the same.  And I get that it's not good to have an invasive species as it upsets the balance in the areas they shouldn't be in.  It's like the starlings that were brought to Canada.  

I see them here everywhere! When there is some small ditch with water and some grass you can find them. In my photo they went from one patch of grass to another across that busy street and that made it a bit more special.

2 minutes ago, Cassel said:

They are not beaten yet. So far, things are working while I have my caching/security service on pause. I will keep it like that for a few more hours and re-enable it tonight or tomorrow and see. At least, it won't affect the Q&A for tomorrow!

I'll keep everything🤞 crossed that it will work!

Yah I know, but I have a separate SSD (solid state drive) for all my scrapbook supplies and a 2nd SSD as backup. The best part of my photos is in the iCloud as well as on the pc. Only PSP itself is on my C-drive. I'll have to think about an online backup; you on the other hand run the campus and the store, so that's something on a much bigger scale.

1 hour ago, Ann Seeber said:

Corrie, your experience with your pc sort of mirrors our problems here with the Campus and, additionally, when on the internet today, every one of my usual sites is asking for credentials and additional third factor ID. It is annoying, to say the least. 

Ann tell me! This costed me more than 2 weeks to sort out and my son had to come to the rescue as well! Now I'm seeing what I can get back in the form as downloads from previous posts for the P52 and AAM challenges. It will be small 600.jpgs but at least I know what I made for the first 14 weeks. The rest of the file where I had all the results from all the workshops is lost! But to my immens relieve the rest of all my supplies, including everything I bought over the years is fine, as well as all of the monthly challenges.

2 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

It's wonderful! I am able to react to others' posts and comment on layouts. The gremlins seem to have been beaten back!

I prepared this a while ago and couldn't put it here, but it might work now. (I actually tried to post it just when the Forum went wonky.)

Just a general layout featuring one of my favourite plants in the garden. Purple is not a colour choice I use very often, but it works here, I think.

Some elements from Katie Pertiet Designs.

Nice to see clematis doing so well! In the house we lived over 40 years before moving to the one we are living now, we tried to grow clematis many times with different varieties but due to the rather wet soil conditions we had, this never was a great succes.

1 minute ago, Cassel said:

I didn't think there were Canada geese in Europe!

You see there are and we have different European geese as well, but they are threatened by the Canadians.

I had a doctor's appointment in the hospital and on  the busy street before the building there was a family of geese crossing the road to go from one piece of grass to the another. They walked very calmly and the parents had some trouble to keep the youngsters in line. There is a bus stop and 2 busses had to halt to let them all pass. I wasn't the only onlooker that made some photos that day. The geese are the "Grote Canadese Gans" - Branta canadensis and are some time ago more or less imported from abroad and are now very often a pain in the ass for farmers because they are eating and damaging the crops. But it was a lovely sight!

Wow, I'm able to post!

Here is a photo of a "Japanse Kornoelje" or Japanese Dogwood that is flowering in a garden around the corner where I live. It is a European cousin of the Mountain or Pacific Dogwood which I saw in Yosemite a couple of weeks ago. Most of our spring flowering trees or bushes like the magnolia, cherry, apple and pear are over now and the rhododendrons have suffered from all the rain we got. I didn't have had the time to make a layout with this photo, I'm just glad my pc is up and running again. The problems started when we got a lot of updates from different sources almost at once. Our Network provider installed a new connection point, then we got a modem update, a windows update, an update for the drivers of the pc. My pc is an Acer and that got an update as well. Somehow there went something wrong, but I think and hope that everything here is up and running again! 

4 minutes ago, Ann Seeber said:

I was happy to find a chipmunk took up residence under my patio and my cat, Eve, is also fascinated. He keeps her entertained since she can't go outside, herself. I snagged some templates from the mailer this morning from Digitalscrapbook.com. This one is from Rachel Martin. The title font is Agency, and the text is Arial. Meet Chip!

Ann, lovely page and personally I am not overly fond of greens but here it just belongs!

I registered too! Last year I learned a lot and it has become more easy to use vectors, but I'm sure I have forgotten many details! And we are getting extra's too which makes it even more appealing!

W = Watermelon

5 hours ago, Anja Pelzer said:

my daughter has some strawberries planted , here is my layout with some photos

font is Impact Label

Lecker!! and nice dymo tape!

17 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

Beautiful page! Love the title!  When I was home in Dec and Jan 2024.  I bought the girls a cookery book from a charity shop. It was like new, it hadn't even been opened for one pound 50p.  Inside there was a recipe for  lemon blossom flower tartlets.  Of course their mam didn't have any flower cutter, so I ordered a set of 5 online for them.  As you can see , they turned out great and tasted  delicious.   Whilst  making them, the lemon tree song popped into my head out of the blue.   I found and played the video over and over while we were baking them.  The girls soon learnt the chorus by heart.  That song was reminscent of my  youth too!  The other squares are carbob slices.  In Wales not to far from where I  lived as a child there was an orangery on the Margam estate. It is still there, open to the public. Filled with many mature citrus trees.

Those tartlets look delicious and isn't fun to back with the grandchildren! Mine are teenagers now and the eldest (14) is becoming more and more interested in clothes and make-up. Nowadays when I'm visiting  and instead of bringing some presents, we are going shopping and they can choose something they really like. Of course I give them a budget. The youngest (12) likes to bake and we made banana bread together, where I was in charge of measuring all the ingredients. She said that was the quickest way for me to become more knowledgeable with the imperial system of cups and tablespoons etc. She is such a smart ass😉

As soon as I read what the theme for this month is, I thought of a photo I took on my trip about a lemon tree. To me that is something that I never see at home, at least not as a big tree. Here it are little plants meant to go in a big container and they have to be brought indoors over the winter. In the older days when there were big estates it were plants for an orangery. The only set back for me is that now I have this earworm from the song Lemon Tree. It is a song from my youth by Peter, Paul and Mary; it is one of my favorites from that time and I will recognize it immediately if I hear the start of the music.

I used the kit Sunshine Lemons from Marissa Lerin for the papers, scatter and all the elements for the cluster I made. The mask is by Jessica Dunn and the music notes came from pngwing. Fonts are Bremlin for the title and Arial rounded for the lyrics. The corner punch is one of a series of punches that I have found once on a search for interesting elements, but I have no clue where I found it in the end. 

1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:

What do you think?  Initially I didn't add shadows, which makes it look better.  If you ask me, I'm still not overlly happy with it.  

 

 

I agree with you and can see why you are not overly happy with it, maybe your suggestions for the next try will work out much better. However  I admire the work with this and I myself would be happy to make something like your your first flat version, it is inspiring but I'm not into X-mas yet.

L = Lemon

C = Cherry

11 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

What week does May go up to.  I see only 19, 20 and 21 so far.  Is week 22 part of May?

I did week 22 still in May, my weeks start on Monday.

This week was all about saying goodbye to our car. As some of you know I can't drive anymore due to my eye condition and now my husband quits driving too. For him it was a tough decision and we had a lot of difficult conversations about it but I'm so glad he does quit. The last couple of years we had some near miss accidents and I  was in constant fear that one of these days it would turn out to be a serious accident! Our car was already a rather old one, so we were glad the garage  that does the maintenance was interested and bought it. On Wednesday afternoon we brought the car and went home on foot; it's only 15 minutes at the most. Now we have the whole summer to get used to the fact that we have to use bike, bus or train. In the Netherlands that is not a problem, we live 5 minutes from the train station and in 8 minutes we are in the city that has all the amenities like a hospital that our village doesn't have. I had to make a photo of our trusted companion of the last 8 years; it is parked on the parking spot behind our house.

For the Bingo I went with the 5th vertical row: Snowflake, Paperclip, License plate, Ticket, Glitter gel. I already had created a California license plate for my photo album and  only had to change the text on it. A have several paperclips done before and of course the ticket was done with my own script (I had never thought that I would use that so much). Snowflake and glitter gel were done with tutorials, but for the glitter gel I used a preset shape instead of drawing it by hand; I'm terrible at drawing! As a starting point for the layout I used the template Lab 14-02.

14 hours ago, Mary Solaas said:

Lab 12 Mod 6. Requirements: Mandala - back of the pictures; paint streaks 2 (Not happy with this) behind the gold butterfly; Gold Texture the frame on the background layer. I used Cass Circle Pictures for the pictures and then resized it for this layout (hid the original background layer). 

 

Mary lovely layout and a good use of that photo circle script. I love that script and have used it for 2 of my intro pages for my photobook.

@ Julie, Sue and Bonnie

Ladies thank you so much, it means a lot to me, especially because it took me some time to figure out how to use the DIY template without changing all the elements. 

17 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

My friend, Michelle, will soon be a grandmother! This layout features her daughter (Mother To Be) and son-in-law at their baby shower. Michelle teases her daughter about the baby's name (none has been selected as yet). Michelle calls her (the baby is a girl) Willow Poppy. The blanket near the center was crocheted by Willow Poppy's paternal grandmother. The stork is by Sheila Reid, Oh, Baby, Baby, Digital Scrapbooking, 

Bonnie this is so cute! Have you showed or given this layout to your friend?