Ann Seeber

Thank you, Corrie. I had always wanted to go to college but didn't get there until we sold the drive-in theaters. The degree was for advertising and publishing which was my first love. I'm still working those skills with the marketing and advertising for the theater to this day.

I reworked the Corel graduation freebie to show my graduation back in 2000 from SUNY. Art is from their website.

R = river rock

I'm in!

Got distracted with Carole's new slipped-in freebie and had a nice new photo of Logan & Jonah so I worked this up using a Marisa Lerin kit called Wandering Road. The title is an alpha from Sheila Reid Alpha Mix. I had to create my own punctuation.

Wow, Michele, this is really bringing back memories for me. I never had a Patti Playpal but I made up for it by buying my daughters Johnny, the anatomically correct boy baby doll that sort of initiated "woke" sensibilities. Also, I'm happy to see that it sure looks like you are feeling more like yourself. Welcome back! ❤️

First it has happened to me, and I've been exclusively using 2023 and bounding boxes all the time. Bummer...

I've been meaning to do a full layout for the Red Sled which I put in P52 in February. It really belongs to All About Me - Toys. I had a problem with the text on the tag. I used a bounding box and when I duplicated it, the text ran out in a single line. Couldn't keep vector and raster. So I just rasterized it. Never had that glitch before. The template is from Lady 22, the materials are from my Iceland Mega Kit, the title font is Children Funny, and the journaling is Arial.

This looks great, Mary! If you have pix from the Aquarium side you could use them for this month's challenge. I do see one small typo - giraffes needs an "e" before the "s," otherwise, great job! I've been reading about Africa and the audiobook pronounces zebra as if it rhymes with Debra. I understand that is the British version.

Debbie, Laurey and I took a trip to New Paltz, in Ulster County, NY, to explore our roots. Here's a photo of a book that was available in the Historic Huguenot Street Gift Shop. We have been doing this kind of exploring a lot lately and this was our first chance to bring Debbie along on one of our trips.

I found these photos on Facebook that were posted by Social Island Farm. I do love the black dirt fields of Pine Island/Goshen, NY. This is announcing a festival for this weekend. I used Carole's Hanging Photos script. The font is Cambria with a stroke. The background is part of one of the photos enlarged to full size and with 57% reduced opacity.

L = Lamprey eel

I have always used MS Office One Note for snippets or screenshots or whatever. It generates png's and it's got such a loose filing system I can just close it up and whatever I'm doing is still there tomorrow.

@Cassel is the new tablet any different than the old one? Any new features that are interesting?

Mine are a take-off from Anja, she seems to have a flair for them. Also, I don't think I have an MS account though I do use the Edge browser. And my OS is Win10. Mostly I use Google for gmail and stuff and MS Edge, Firefox and Duck Duck Go for browsing. I'm pleased with that birthday graphic for Corey. 🙂

I tried out Copilot/Dal-E for my song: "I can see clearly now..." by Johnny Nash. I did one in the manner of Van Gogh and another in Impasto style. This is lots of fun but be careful of eyeballs and text. They can get weird!

Here you go Microsoft Copilot in Bing

Trying out Bing Copilot's Designer mode, I created a birthday card for my grandson-in-law, Corey, who is married to Jackie, my zookeeper granddaughter. Corey is into horticulture in a big way. His gift to the attendees at their wedding was a small succulent in a pot to take home. Sticking with Anja's gnome theme, my efforts created this. Prompt -- A steampunk gnome in cheerful colors, his eyes hidden under his pointed cap, wishes Corey, 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY', the sun shines and there is an abundance of plants and flowers, signed Love, Nanny.

@Anja Pelzer So how did you figure out a prompt for something this elaborate??? It is gorgeous!!

Anja, I tried it using your prompt and chose this one -- weee! This is fun!