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1 hour ago, Sue Thomas said:
A mature female Snowy Owl dropped in yesterday, whilst I was out back in the trees filling the bird feeders. It's quite unusual to see them perched in trees. They are either on telegraph poles, fence posts or on the ground.
I must say that I'm overwhelming impressed with all the creativity being posted. Such diversity. Well done to you all.
That is a phenomenal shot, Sue!
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11 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:
I have been playing with the Pencil Sketch 2 script which I won last Sunday and this is one of the images I created. I used this month's Lab to make the dots and an edge punch just for fun. The font is Fadilla.
When using the pencil sketch I find that it gives the best result with images that have very defined edges with colors that are not too light. Here I decided to give some of the flowers a little bit of color.
I absolutely adore this!
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2 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:
Wow! Significant tradition to highlight during Black History Month. Thanks!
โซ โช The More You Know โช โซ ๐
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2 hours ago, Ann Seeber said:
as opposed to Doing the Limbo? ๐
LOL, you're probably kidding, but yes, it's different from the Limbo which I was good at when I was young. Jumping the Broom is an old wedding tradition. Enslaved people would jump the broom to symbolize marriage since they weren't allowed to marry legally,
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J = Jumping the Broom
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D = Dais
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35 minutes ago, Sue Thomas said:
I can't take credit for the colour of the door Michele. Saying that you have given me an idea for possibly colourizing doors and or other parts of a building that I have, and in the future shoot. It's extremely rare for me to edit any of my photos in that way.
Amazing find! Looking forward to what you might do to your own shots. I really like B&W with selective color.
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9 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:
Thank you ever so much ladies for your kinds words welcoming me back into the fold. It is very much appreciated. It was an incredidible time being home, especially being around the little girls. Ages 3 and 5. By the time I left they were already rolling the letter r, as we do in Welsh, and other letters. Also picking up many of my mannerisms. As for the memories, well they have left an indelible mark in my mind.
Here we go again Susan. Haven't you ever heard the saying upside down and inside out. hahaha! I use it in reference to being topsy tervy. Being in disorder, until I get back into my ususal routines. Perhaps it's another British saying.
I love the selective coloring of the door!
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So glad to have you back, @Sue Thomas. โค๏ธ
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4 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:
P52 Week Four
What?! No Tea-Cup? Today is an Ace so that means a sugar bowl. This one is quite patina'd and has an art deco look. I think it is actually from that time period so I used Gill Sans Ultra Bold & U.B. condensed on the week/year portion. For the magnet I had to improvise. This weird little round deck of cards does not have Aces or 2s so I took a 3 and edited to be an Ace. I see that I made it a bit lopsided...just keepin' it real ๐คฃ. I wasted about an hour looking for a font for the A the would look like the cards font, I gave up and settled with this one called "Baked Donuts" (Creative Fabrica). I don't actually use sugar in tea, maybe a wee bit of honey, but only sometimes and only with earl grey tea. I had a little freak out moment when I found out windows 10 doesn't come with Gill Sans(and family), I had to get it from my laptop and load it in. It's one of my favorite fonts.
I have a Find My Font app that I won years ago. If you ever need help identifying a font, I'd be more than happy to help. I'll make a post in the FB group.
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7 hours ago, Cassel said:
When I was in College, I got into genealogy and there was a big library of compiled parish records of most of the Quebec province, and some outside. I had notebooks of notes to transcribe. We didn't have computers back then, to access all the information that is now easily available.
I would love to have my family tree done, but the records for Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe are close to impossible for me to find. I can only go back as far as my grandparents who came to the U.S. as children at the turn of the last century. Too bad I'm not a celebrity or Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. could do the work for me on Finding My Roots! ๐ One of these days, I'll invest some time and money to see if I can trace my roots.
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9 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:
I think I need to be reminded why you do "Divas" as layouts. If I did know, I've forgotten. Hope you don't mind.
I don't mind at all. It's for my FB gaming group, CGL Fabulous Divas. The game is City Girl Life which is very similar to The Sims. It gives us a different theme every day so I make a Daily Look post. The game is dying down so after ten years or so, my group may be closing soon. On the upside, I'll have more time to devote to my scrapbooking lessons! BTW, I didn't name the group; I inherited it. ๐
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17 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:
I just check it out and it's a cool script. I'd also add to watch the video, it's very good. Michele, does all those brushes shown in the video come with that script? that alone is worth the price!
Yes, it comes with 34 brushes!
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10 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:
Wasn't aware of that script. I like the effect. And the colours and the way you've used them are really great.
Thank you. Check out the script in the store and you'll see the flexibility it offers.
https://creationcassel.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_9&products_id=476-
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I was short on time and creativity last night when I decided to use the Painted Background script and it saved the day. It uses the colors from the photo of your choice and gives you brush options to choose from. I've used it before and I love it. So the next time you need a unique paper, try this script.
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That wonderful illustration is by Elsie Julia Miller. I don't love the finished product (ran out of creativity last night lol). But I wanted to share how to get a great background paper by using Cassel's Painted Background script. It takes colors from the original pic and, using one of five painting methods that you pick from, creates the paper for you. I think I used the Sponge option. The fonts I used are Varsity Team (from 1001 Fonts) and Brilliant Signature (from a CF bundle).
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5 minutes ago, Cassel said:
Interestingly, just this weekend, we tried a new recipe for chicken breasts. It was soooooo easy (5 minutes prep). It is to cook those breasts in the slow cooker. NO LIQUID added, yet, it generated almost a cup of its own juice and the meat was so tender.
I don't have a slow cooker, but I'm glad you were happy with your results.
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I had to Google rolling pin rings, but now that I've seen how they work, it makes perfect sense to me.
If you want to cook chicken breasts but are concerned that they will dry out, try this. Bread (I like to use Panko crumbs) and par fry them to get the desired color on the breading. Put them in a baking dish, add chicken broth, and bake at 400F for about 30 to 45 mins. When they're all done, the broth will have been absorbed and the chicken will be nice and moist. Since I don't usually like white meat because it's too dry for my taste, I was glad when my sister taught me this method.
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O = Osteoporosis ~ something exercise helps you avoid!
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19 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:
I am looking forward to seeing your project come to life! What an interesting idea. You have good resolve, I often thought about doing something like that, then by day three i see something shiny and forget what I was supposed to be doing. (seeing something "shiny" is a joke my friends and I have about how easy it is to get distracted by something else).
Shiny things distract me all the time! lol
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It's been a while since I had time to create a new one. (They've been repeating themes from 2017 so I've been repeating my layouts with a few adjustments.) The background paper is a chevron from PS/DS by Sheila Reid to which I added a Gaussian blur. I used the Andrea Bilarosa font I got in a free font bundle from CF and the flourish is from my collection of scrapbooking "stuff." ๐ As you probably already guessed, the illustration is by Hayden Williams. The best part, and the reason I wanted to share this, is Cassel's gimp trims picture tube. I used one to frame the illustration and the layout.
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What are you working on (in February 2024)?
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The top one is a redo of the original from 2017. In case you guys don't remember, the game has been reusing themes for over a year now. Since FB pic size has changed, I've been trying to adjust to that format while using some skills I've learned in the past seven years (within the confines of the time I have every day). I'm sure you can all recognize Cassel's corner punches; I think I have them all. The font for this year's is Abongia from Creative Fabrica and the older one is Reybro from Fontbundles. The magnolias and the girl are from so long ago, I don't remember where I got them.