Ann Seeber

Cassel gave us Christmas hats to decorate with. I put one on my cat and one on my Betta fish. 

We had to create layouts with the theme of "HAPPY." I did three...

December 2021: we worked with using a bounding selection box to arrange text on a layout. The thing to remember is to be sure to duplicate the text as a raster or it might disappear when posted.

We had a challenge in December of 2021 to create our own frames from slats of wood. Here are the 3 I made.

Celebrating my daughter, Debbie's birthday in December of 2021.

I love to play with framing and this one was showcasing my granddaughter Jackie's wedding in June of 2021 with the Slats freebie from Cassel.

1 hour ago, Susan Ewart said:

https://scrapbookcampus.com/2022/08/create-a-watercolor-effect-with-psp/

TUT/TECH CHALLENGE - WATERCOLOR (Aug 19, 2022)

This tutorial for this challenge is from the Blog Pst (Aug 15, 2022 Create a Watercolor Effect with PSP).  

I loved this lesson, too. When I showed the result to my artist daughter, she corrected me by saying she doesn't use paper with a canvas texture when she does watercolors. Oops! This is an image of the Dutchess County Fair.

48 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

 https://scrapbookcampus.com/promo/masks-workshop/lesson-1/

MASKS WORKSHOP - Day 1

I loved this workshop.  I had wanted to learn how to do masks for so long and was grateful when the workshop came around again.

 

I love this workshop, too, Susan. Your layout is beautiful! This was my own favorite...

So much stuff in the Campus that is new to me. Cindy's right, it's not EASY! I finally finished the puzzle and sent it off!

I always liked a Sketch Challenge. This one is from Nov. 2021 featuring my granddaughter, Jackie, and her husband, Corey, dancing at their wedding.

35 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Donny Osmond???

I think it looks like a young Paul McCartney of The Beatles.

1 hour ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

L = Lungo 

I had to look this up and here's what I found on Wikipedia: "

Lungo (Italian for "long") is a coffee beverage made by using an espresso machine to make an Italian-style coffee – short black (a single espresso shot) with more water (generally twice as much), resulting in a larger coffee, a lungo.

A normal serving of espresso takes from 18 to 30 seconds to pull, and fills 25 to 30 millilitres, while a lungo may take up to a minute to pull, and might fill 50 to 70 millilitres. Extraction time of the dose is determined by the variety of coffee beans (usually a blend of Arabica and Robusta), their grind and the pressure of the machine. It is usually brewed using an espresso machine but with two times the amount of water to the same weight of coffee to make a much longer drink.^[1]

In French, it is called café allongé.^[2] The café allongé is popular in the French-Canadian province of Quebec.^[3][4]"

7 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

Rocky was one of our rescues. She was the best cat!  Template # 194 by Bourico Casper, AKA, Lady 22.

Nice layout and beautiful cat, Bonnie. Is the title an alpha or a font? I like it with the little paw prints.

I think I actually joined in 2020 so I'm in my 4th year here and it has been incredible! I already posted New Kid on the Block from my first Boot Camp. Congratulations on 12 years, Carole! I'm hoping to win your book: "Remember When...?" 

The first class I took was the Boot Camp, and the first actual layout was New Kid on the Block. This was actually the 3rd class, the first two being preparation, from laying out my workspace in Lesson One and learning Layers in Lesson Two with the famous Sandwich! Here is the lesson and my result. 

5 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

The day's are now becoming noticeably shorter.  The migratory birds are also on the move.  This morning a beautiful Philadelphia Vireo called in.  They are generally uncommon, and this one, was the first one I have ever seen.  Many of the birds are difficult to ID at this time of year, as many of then are dull in Autumn, and the young ones, don't have adult breeding plumage until next Spring. 

I used one of a-dozi's brushes from Sunday's masterclass on the background paper,  which is a gradient I created. For a change I used the slip in photo technique, and also slipped 3 of the tags (my own tag) under too. Also I used one Carole's  new punches. Once again, the date stamp script didn't work, so I created my  own template. 

Very interesting, Sue. It seems they are also inhabiting my feeders now and they blend so well together that I.D. is hard. Unfortunately, in this format I can't read the tags you used. Which date stamp script is being problematic? I have 2 or 3 with no problems in my PSP2023 Ult.

K = Kona Coffee (from Hawai'i) 

My final TorontoTravel Tale - page 7 & 8 open book. Title font is Bungee Inline, backgrounds are photos with reduced opacity and using exclusion on the left page under the cass-hanging photos script, and hard light on the right page. My girls had a great time and Canada may never recover! ? 

10 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

I would go out in the morning, and wouldn't be seen until tea time.  I was allowed the freedom to be a child,

@Sue Thomas It was the same for me.... different time. Now they debate the practice and we're known as "free range children." Actually, I brought up my daughters that way, also. We're talking back in the '60s. If parents kept the children under their thumbs they were labeled "helicopter parents." ?

1 hour ago, Donna Sillia said:

Finally finished! I decided to use my grandson's pictures from his stay at a river fish farm in Vietnam. I didn't have a lot of pictures, but I made some fish using Filter Forge filter "Aquaria." The water picture is AI from Adobe Express. The map is from a photo that David sent me when he sent the fish farm picture. The font is a grunge font called "sailor 1 grunge." I couldn't divide it in half because I placed the map in the middle. Papers are mine; two columns are a gradient.

Donna, I especially like those "fish" you made in Filter Forge! Striking!! I used that same template for my final Travel Tale though I was able to cut it in half. My computer lags terribly with double pages. 

Here's my Wild Cat Calendar for September. Template from Cassel. Photo from FreePix. Information from The Wildcat Sanctuary, Sandstone, Minnesota. I used the pattern Wood Tile 01 to fill the photo frame, the top strip and the calendar grid. I have this posted on Facebook in its full size, so it is printable. (I have it on my refrigerator door @11x8.5")

8 hours ago, Sue Thomas said:

In case the label isn't legible in the layout , due to  compression.

Extraordinary, Sue! Is that elegant swirl at the bottom a font or a brush?

28 minutes ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Susan, it is so irritating not be able to see clearly. I have an eye condition that makes me see the vertical lines all wobbly and never straight. Not only in a photo but in real life like a  door-post. I had an eye operation on each eye, not to remedy this, but only to stop the proces doing that. As an eye OP is a tricky OP it inevitably leaves a little scar and have side effects too. It is a costly affair as well because I almost every year need new lenses! It is 7 years ago now and I got more or less used to it; my brain knows that door-posts are straight and I "see" them as straight now. But this trick doesn't work for objects that are new to me and those are wobbly until my brain learns that they are suppoost to be straight. It causes headaches...but without the OPs I would become very partially sighted, so I don't complain '(at least not to much!)

I had cataract surgery last year and, in the process, suggested he also do the correction on the astigmatism in my left eye at the same time. Surgeon said at the time I'd only need readers after the surgery. HAH! I need really strong progressives but what I think happened is my left eye was bad from birth, the so-called "lazy eye" that appeared crossed. So at age 3 or so I had to wear a patch over my good eye to train the bad one to focus, plus I had eye exercises. This technique worked well. I was stupid to tell the current doctor to "fix" my left eye, which he agreed had astigmatism (not truly round). I think my early training is now working against the "fixed" left eye. It wants to pull it to the outside. ?

AND here is my final Travel Tale open book page. I used the template from the Day 7-Extra. There was one oddity buried in the template: the small white strips on the right-hand page turned out to be layers that ran all the way to the bottom of the page and beyond! The top had the strip and so did the bottom which was off the canvas. This was true for both white strips. I replaced them with copies of the others that I flood filled with white and deleted the original layers. I used earth tones from the photos and Crumpled and Blinds textures. The photo stamp is from Marisa Lerin. I did the cutout lettering on the large tortoise photo on the left. This started as a double page, but I cropped it which made it much more workable with my computer. The title font is Birdy. 

I don't recall if I showed you the gnome house I got for my aquarium. I needed a pop of color...