Ann Seeber

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.

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

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]"

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.

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! ?

@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." ?

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")

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

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...

Yes, nighttime is traditional mosquito time, buzzing my ear when I'm trying to sleep. The optical illusion of puffiness may be me trying to get used to new glasses..... hah! I worked on Lesson 7 yesterday and, even doing in myself, it still looked wrong. Aarrgghh!

As I speculated, I did change my final Open Book Page 5 & 6, by swapping the pages. I also rearranged the Ripley's Aquarium page by centering the top label and the bottom Stingray date stamp. Plus, I moved some of the stamps around to put the stingray photos near that date stamp. I also enlarged the postcard and the leather tag.

speaking of which, now that I see my open book page 5 & 6 in the forum, I would like to shift page 6 to the right; it appears too tight to the binding. I usually create on separate pages; the double size slows down my renderings, though I have on occasion, @Marie-Claire, made a 7200 and then split it by duplicating the whole so I could crop for each side for the open book.

I know you call the hat "Mr." but I think of it as Mrs. since all I've ever known of the RH group is female. Do you have male members? I really have to find out if there's a group near me; this looks like so much fun! ?

Makes me sort of glad I don't even have a basement... ? Odd, photos being too big is never a problem, whereas too small used to be until PSP got its AI act together.

Never saw that but I did download it and reduced it as a jpg so it will show up here for everyone.

Ok, so here's my Day 5 & 6, individually and as an Open Book, plus my postcard for readability.

@Susan Ewart Actually, I saw that and disregarded it because I didn't need it last time. Thanks~