Ann Seeber

54 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

WOW Ann you did this rather late in your live and it shows we are never to old to learn something new! Did you take this for your work with your family's open air movie theater?

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. 

1 hour ago, Michele said:

Is anyone else old enough to remember Patti Playpal? She was about three feet tall and was the perfect companion for a little girl.

I used Cass's photo corners script that I won; I love it! The journaling font is Billy Signature and the title font is Lovely Honey. I made the background paper.

 

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! ❤️

49 minutes ago, Cassel said:

Yes, this is a bug in 2023. It was reported but not fixed yet.

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. 

34 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Finally - Z is for Zoo.  This is almost the completion for the 2022 Alphabet Challenge.  My theme was alphabet soup since it was random choice for each letter.

@Ann Seeber I'd appreciate your proofreading skills on this one. 

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

3 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Funny, you mention that. I was just thinking if there was a separate screenshot program available.  thank you for the info.  I have bookmarked it and will look at it when I get home from work.  or tomorrow since it will be midnight or after when i get home.  It's smokin' hot here (35 celcius) I will be a wilted flower and might not want to turn on the computer.

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?

25 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

This is cool.  I like reading the prompts, they are more interesting than the results.  You need to be good with words I can see.  I did find the Copilot Designer but see I need a MS account. 

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! 

8 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Wow, this is great.  What is Copilot?  I know what Bing is.  How do you get to it.

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.

29 minutes ago, Anja Pelzer said:

I created this Gnome for @Michele with Bing Copilot Designer

 

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

1 hour ago, Anja Pelzer said:

yes I did, here is the prompt - - You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away neo-impressionism expressionist style oil painting, smooth post-impressionist impasto acrylic painting, thick layers of colourful textured paint --   there are 4 pictures , this is one of them.

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

32 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Very nice background! Did you use Copilot in Bing? You must have given a very good prompt to get this result. I'll think I have to give it a try......

I agree that background is awesome!

2 hours ago, fiona cook said:

I am a bit late to join in with this but as I go walking a little bit I thought that I would photograph fields (various...wherever I am) throughout the year. One objective being to get a bit of variety somehow. I am not sure how to present them yet but just thought I's join in and can see some lovely images from you already.

Welcome, Fiona. I've been using Carole's script: cass-countingcards1-weeks. It will run a year's worth of P52 card layers, and you get to choose the font and font color. Be aware the font is just outlined, though you can change that later if you wish. 

E = Eel loach

The title font is Bauhaus, the art is all from a search by Google Images for the title "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash - 1972. The sheet music was treated to the cass-curved image script. This song has a calypso feel to the back beat that has always made me smile. 

I found another layout I did for one of my newer Bettas. This is Comanche War Bonnet. I think this was the New Kid on the Block assigment from Boot Camp Day 2. I always had good results from this design. The background is a photo of my aquarium.