Ann Seeber

Yes, daughter Laurey gave it to me for Christmas. It fits together with Velcro. There's a door in the back, too. The young guy uses it a lot, aside from liking to lounge on top in nicer weather. 😺

LESSON 7 - A classic scrapbook page, hoping to overcome some really lame photos clipped from a video. A little more involved than I usually do but I think it looks nice. All the elements and papers came from a kit called True Heart Digitals and the fonts are am-index and flora garden. The top cat is a mature female (I think) and the lower one is probably her nearly grown (possibly male) kitten. They seem to act as a bonded pair. She hides under a neighbor's car when I come out on the porch whereas he is bolder and comes running, meowing at me for food. I now have a Cat Cabin on the porch with straw for bedding. I've included a promo photo of it here.

WEEK FOUR - Celebrating our frigid, snowy weather; a nice closeup from the Hudson Valley in Pictures gallery by Cindy Plumb Bishop on 01-20-24. I changed my font from Wide Latin to Showcard Gothic.

@Cassel - Is there some reason why you are only using "clip-to-it" and not "raster-to-mask" scripts? I have usually used the clip/to script for papers and accessories, and the raster/mask for photos in the past.

Lesson 6 - Jonah James is now 7 months. I hear he's ready to crawl! It seems I'll never run out of great-grands to celebrate! The font is Algerian, the blend mode for the textured background was Multiply, the kit is from Marisa Lerin called Oh, Baby, Baby. Just a minor correction. It seems I have the wrong baby on the left. That is actually Raja. I've changed the layout. Mea culpa!

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.