Ann Seeber

Lesson 5 - My daughter, Deb's, birthday is 3 days after Christmas. I just got these photos of their party in California. The dinner is crab and wild-picked mushroom risotto. The newspaper is what they used as a table cover as crab is messy! The title font is Monotype Corsiva. The flower is from cpjess-wildwood thicket kit. The hearts are labeled "SG_Exuberance_Emb_DCA_Hearts." The ric rac is labeled "AHA_somewhereintime_emb_ricrac."

TEMPLATE WORKSHOP-LESSON 4-BABY FACES - FEATURING GREAT GRAND RAJA, MAGIC'S LITTLE BRO. AND PANDA, THE CAT. Actually, he's not so little. He's less than 5 months and already weighs 20 lbs.! Title Font = Baby Olivia Text Font = Over the Rainbow Crown - Marisa Lerin Background-color fill, blinds texture, noise, soft light

It was showing the effects of my torture! I was desperate to get it to follow the curve so I beat on it a bit the first time. 😁

Speaking of text wrapping, I finally fixed my Lesson 2 - Collectibles text. It now looks as planned. I had no problem with the wrapping.

Finished Lesson 3 - I'm getting there! Used the Diamond template this time, featuring some new art from daughter, Deb.

Mary, I went to Effects - Distortion - Wavy and just played with the settings. I wanted something sort of like waves in water for my daughter on the California coast. Here's a screenshot of the settings I used.

And here is my Lesson 2, though not totally happy with the curvy text but practice makes perfect! My photo...

Hi Mary, the correct name of the bird is Canada Goose or Geese. no need for quotes.... 😉

Thank you, Bina, that mini is very cute, and appropriate for today where it is 9 degrees F. here this morning! *brrr

Yes, but I'm terrible at precise drawing with the cursor. I guess I need to practice! LOL

@Cassel - Help! I'm trying to do Lesson 2 but flummoxed as to how to achieve the text configuration. Any advice? Here's an example of the template...it's the wavy text down the center that I want. Also, I got a new, larger monitor and text is acting strange. Is it to be set to pixels or points?

Great, Lynda! So glad you're back. Your layouts are the best, as usual.

My daughter, the architect, has a new sign. I went out and found the font "walrod"

Week Three, and my little Tuxie girl, Eve, is dominating my thoughts. She has had what the vet eye specialist calls a corneal ulcer (or possible Feline Herpes Virus-1) since November. My daughter and I have had to drive her an hour away to the vet hospital in Brewster, NY twice now and another time next week. Keeping my fingers crossed that he will see healing when we go on the 23rd. He says she can see all right.

The following week after the snowstorm, we had torrential rains and flooding. (Luckily, not near my home.) This is a shot of the river at the Mid-Hudson Bridge near Poughkeepsie, NY., taken by Deedee Lumb on 1/10/24 and posted on our Hudson Valley in Pictures Gallery on Facebook. She said: "Come sit for a spell, enjoy the river views." 😉

Mary, this is a delightful layout! The only thing I would change is to make the title all in caps. Perhaps using Mona Home from the Font Challenge would work, also.

My contribution to this challenge...😉

After a consultion with daughter Deb I have revised the photo Year in Review; changed the central strip photo and removed that text. It is of young Jonah''s first teeth.

We had 12 inches of snow dumped on us over the weekend. This is an iPhone shot out my kitchen window of the close-by juniper.

Time to get out the skates!