Ann Seeber

Happy November. Here's my new November Wildcat Calendar featuring Cheetahs from Cheetah Conservation Botswana. I print out the full size for my refrigerator door each month. I have it posted on our Facebook group. The calendar is a template from Cassel.

This is what I woke up to this morning, which is better than predicted. We were under a Freeze Watch for sensitive outdoor plants, etc. It's not quite as cold as predicted but miserable with spitting rain.

Module 2 of the Basic Scrap Course-A family photo from Summer 2023. Kit-Marisa L - Shopping Mini Kit; Photo-Granddaughter Alycia Wilson, Great Granddaughter Sonya Anne, and Alycia's friend, Andrai Arm-Madrid. Brad - Choose-to-Shine kit; Title Alpha-cass-Licorice; Label - Marisa Lerin; Staple - LinJane; Flowers-DiHiller; Ric Rac-Janet Scott; String-Janet Kemp, Marisa Lerin; Striped Background-opacity 25%; Small text - Tw Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold.

Yes, reading about how the early Christians appropriated the pagan festival, I thought it was a brilliant move. Combining the two gave legitimacy to the "new" Christianity as the common people were familiar with a celebration at that time of year.

My Dad was born in 1892 and my mother in 1907. She hated the tradition of, as she called it, "begging" on Halloween. Perhaps the older traditions influenced that, associating it with poor people. To me it was just what all the other kids did and we said "Trick or Treat" as we went door to door for candy. One tradition was sort of bad. The night before was Mischief Night and people's car windows got soaped and trees were hung with streamers of toilet paper. It seems the tricks came before the treats!

I'm not sure of their diet, Jannette. Some birds eat everything, some eat just nuts, seeds and insects; some eat vegetation. With songbirds, it depends on how their beaks have evolved. Like Cardinals are uniquely equipped to crack large seeds. Starlings are strictly meat eaters and disdain seed. They go after my suet. Geese are not my expertise. Audubon says: Feeds on very wide variety of plants. Eats stems and shoots of grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, also seeds and berries; consumes many cultivated grains (especially on refuges, where crops planted for geese). Occasionally eats some insects, mollusks, crustaceans, sometimes small fish.

Here are the views from my windows daily.

Unfortunately, it's the best I can do here in the city.

After Bootcamp, I took Cassel's suggestion and continued on with the Basic Scrap Course. Here is Modular 1 - a scrap page for my daughter, Debbie, who came East to attend her high school reunion. She was apprehensive but came away delighted with the party. Now they want to do one EVERY year. I used the kit Cassel offered with the Mod 1 video, "HeatherT-ScrapbookCampusSpecial-LoveSpokenHere" - I did change the color of the background with the Luminance layer effect. I created the circular brads at the bottom (Cassel used buttons) and changed the colors of the title alpha from the kit. The font for the journaling is labeled "TW CEN MT CONDENSED"

We have a flock of about 20 Canada Geese that arrive next door on their large lawn and then end up under my bird feeders outside my kitchen window and on my patio in the front (another bird feeder) and I have a hard time not stepping in their numerous "deposits" all over my patio, the grass and the road. We really don't admire them much for that reason. I only have to walk out the patio door and they flee! I even speak to them from inside the house and they stop eating and drift away. I'm the CG bully, you see. 😉

I struggle with trying to make adjustments to text entered in a selection/bounding box on my layout. I have resorted to totally deleting the layer. Saving and closing the image and starting over when re-opened. I find selection boxes problematic at times. The more I fiddle with it, the worse it gets.

Thanks for sharing your technique, Anja. Now I've learned something else new!

Here's how you do it, Melanie. Under Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow on the toolbar.

A TIP I LEARNED IN BOOTCAMP: Anja posted a layout showing a trip to a zoo and I was struck by the use of a rather, radically offset shadow that really enhanced the image of a stork. It also reminded me to always have the Shadow on Separate Layer box checked, in case I want to adjust a shadow further. Here's the illustration that I saw...

Hi Dee - Nice job for your first try! You might want to post it in the Bootcamp forum. Here's the link

Here is my great-grand Magic who is 3 with a brand-new baby brother, Raja Blue. She is thrilled and Mama Lucy has trouble getting him back to nurse him. The papers are all from true heart digitals, one of the kits Cassel offered with the lesson. The title font is Snap with a paper showing woodgrain as the fill and the journaling font is Tempus Sans. The frame is from AHA Somewhere in Time. The clip is labeled PSBT_Songbird_Element from one of the other kits.

Nice layout, Laurie, and nice to see you here again. It's been a while! I had that problem, too, and it turned out I had to reduce the compression on my JPG Optimizer which is found on the far left under File/Export/Jpg Optimizer. The setting of 72 is sufficient for the web, I use 22 when I want to print it. Hope this helps.

I found this kit on Gingersnaps and couldn't resist using it with a Halloween theme for the Bootcamp. Meet the Creepy Family that's coming for Halloween! Everything on the layout came from that one kit, called ID-Face in the Photograph. The kit has 11 folders filled with embellishments and 3 of papers but none of the extras like alphas or journal cards. The papers are a little odd as they are divided into texture, outdoor and indoor shots. There is very little color in this kit. The font for the title is Before the Rainbow enhanced by the Ripple Distortion Effect.

I found this kit on Gingersnaps and couldn't resist using it with a Halloween theme for the Bootcamp. Meet the Creepy Family that's coming for Halloween! Everything on the layout came from that one kit, called ID-Face in the Photograph. The kit has 11 folders filled with embellishments and 3 of papers but none of the extras like alphas or journal cards. The papers are a little odd as they are divided into texture, outdoor and indoor shots. There is very little color in this kit. The font for the title is Before the Rainbow enhanced by the Ripple Distortion Effect.

Just poking around in my iPhone, I found this photo of me with great-grandson Logan soon after he was born in February 2021.