Ann Seeber

I was happy to find a chipmunk took up residence under my patio and my cat, Eve, is also fascinated. He keeps her entertained since she can't go outside, herself. I snagged some templates from the mailer this morning from Digitalscrapbook.com. This one is from Rachel Martin. The title font is Agency, and the text is Arial. Meet Chip!

Today, June 4, is Magic's 4th birthday so I'm posting an oldie of Magic with apples for our fruit theme.

I'm in. Boy, do I NEED this! Thanks, Carole!!

H = Honeydew melon

I always like to start the new month with my wild cat calendar. I worked on it in May and posted what turned out to be a preliminary version. Here is the final version and I will replace the one on Facebook with this one for download and printing.

1 hour ago, Susan Ewart said:

What week does May go up to.  I see only 19, 20 and 21 so far.  Is week 22 part of May?

I count week 22 as the start of June. For me, it will be 5 Sundays.

2 hours ago, Michele said:

This happens to me, too. My theory is that if I try to make a new post soon after submitting another one, that's when it happens. Most of the time it's when I haven't lost the original. LOL

This was my first entry on the May 28 Newsletter Chitchat about violence in our neighborhoods.

18 hours ago, Cristina said:

Oh, Ann, this is even worse ... Lucky me, my comment was short this time, but it happened before to lose a long one... Now,  when I remember to do it,  I copy the text (CTR+C).

@Cristina I followed Cassel's advice and went back to the page. As soon as I clicked to start a new entry, my old post popped up in its entirety! I was so glad! ☺️

When we moved here to our newish (less than 10 years old) condo 6 years ago, my family was concerned because it was situated next door to city low-income housing which is a sprawling, low rise apartment complex. Beyond that is another fairly new condo development. So, the population is fairly dense, even though there are horse farms just across the main road. Everything is lit up like daylight all night long and behind is an active rail line and industrial workings. Meanwhile, the county constructed what they dubbed the Rail Trail for walkers that stretches for miles and part of which is just the other side of our parking lot. We were getting too many casual visitors from it, so the Association put up a high fence behind our dumpsters which blocked the hikers access to us.

But, meanwhile, though you could describe our population as truly eclectic from retirees to college students and all colors of the rainbow there had never been any serious police action here until recently. My unit is far in the back and the activity was way out towards the road and I came to find out that 3 young men, living together, had a dispute and two were shot, one killed and one escaped, though injured but he was later caught. He died later in the hospital. I was rather shocked that this happened in MY complex, not next door! 

I still feel pretty safe here though I still keep my car locked and door locked (most of the time) but I'm more aware this is a city environment, not rural as I was previously. I also just found out that if there is any trouble, it's at the other condo complex, far beyond the "projects" next door. There are always lots of dog walkers, baby-carriage pushers and roller skaters going past my unit. I do like all the activity, and it doesn't seem to deter the flock of Canada Geese and Black Vultures from visiting me and all my songbirds and squirrels coming for food I put out. Meanwhile, I've accumulated a crew of semi-feral cats who come twice a day for meals. Their number varies, though I count 6 or 7 now. My two indoor cats are rather appalled! 😉

1 hour ago, fiona cook said:

I have seen another deer today in the strangest of places. My friends and I passed through the very peaceful and massive, historic Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey as part of a country walk and some deer were paying their respects as well (or eating the flowers and shrubs). At this point we were in the American Military graves area. Didn't see any groundhogs!

Fiona, I went out on my front porch last evening to pick up empty cat food bowls and surprised a white-tail doe who was visiting! My daughter had come by to plant my patio container earlier and I think the doe got a bite of the newly planted flowers. I didn't have a camera handy. 

1 hour ago, Cristina said:

my first comment disappeared

Cristina, at about the same hour, I wrote a long story in the May 28 Newsletter Chitchat topic, and it also disappeared. 😞

Well, I've been working on my wild cat calendar for June so I thought I'd show it off as it has been created in May. I'll post it full size on Facebook so it can be printed @ 8.5 x 11 inches. I used a cass template from last year's calendar workshop. Introducing the critically endangered beautiful little Andean Mountain Cat from South America. The fonts are Wakanda for the June title and Britannia Bold for the rest. I love his little white moustache!

3 hours ago, Bonnie Ballentine said:

Once again, the Mountain Laurel is having a bountiful year. Template 221 by Lady 22.

Beautiful, Bonnie. Mountain Laurel is one of my favorites!

14 minutes ago, Anne Lamp said:

Mt day 6 card.  The background is a paper from (Beautiful-Intense-Iridescent-Gradients-18728752)  the font is Fine Hand.  All the elements are ones I have created over the years from screenshot from an Osprey nest I have been watching for a long time.  I went with this background because I thought it looked a little like water and Osprey eat only fish for the most part.

Nice looking osprey, far better than the ones I saw. Mine are sort of goofy! LOL

LESSON SIX - A birthday card for my step-great grand Sonya Ann, for June 26. She and Magic are both 4 in June. Her grandmother is my step-daughter, Beth, and her mother is my step- granddaughter, Alycia. I've been playing with this all day and now forget all the steps I took. Chalk it up to my senior moment! 😜 The font for the names is Dingo Nursery. I had fun with all the colors! The Happy Birthday is clipart as is the cake and numeral 4. I used a cass-floppy bow and applied the blinds texture effect to the ribbons.

Week Twenty One - a face only a mother could love 😉 My buddy Ed Frampton sent this as a joke, but I couldn't resist putting it up on the showcase. 

12 minutes ago, fiona cook said:

Carole, from your email, what's a groundhog? Is it like a hedgehog?

No, not at all. It's more like this: 

16 minutes ago, fiona cook said:

Card 4: I didn't use a punch but a heart shape that I colourised. Font: Blackbird, Loved making the hearts. No idea why I chose alpacas. Maybe because they have big lips for kissing!

Fiona, if you hadn't said they were alpacas I wouldn't have known at all! LOL

Getting ready for great-grandson, Jonah's First Birthday. He is the son of my granddaughter, Ilana, and brother to Logan. My daughter Laurey is grandma. I used a collection in my clipart from Design Bundles-Watercolor Forest Friends. The font is Baby Olivia. 

My get-well card is a bit colorful. It'll wake my friend, Ginny, up -- she's lounging around dealing with a cracked pelvis. 🧐 The flowers are from a Merisa Lerin Birthday Kit and the font is Valentina.

2 hours ago, kasany said:

L2 Card2. 

@kasany I had the same issue with a white card where the edges didn't stand out here in the forum. I pulled it back and added a slightly larger bottom layer and added a faint shadow. That helped! I'll show it here again...

3 hours ago, Michele said:

I don't know if I'll be able to participate due to an injury.

Sending good vibes, Michele! Hopefully, you'll have a positive outcome.

2 hours ago, Cassel said:

And you might want to add something "special" inside that card to your step-daughter!

@Cassel My cards are all sent digitally via Messenger so I wouldn't have need of an "inside." 

My Lesson Two - A birthday card for my step-daughter, Beth Seeber-Wilson. She'll be 57 this year, the youngest of my 3 girls. She's the grandmother of Sonya, whose birthday is also coming in June. I'm having a bit of fun with Beth, as you can see... 😉

2 hours ago, Wendy Sanders said:

What a gorgeous little girl...I have a great granddaughter who looks very much like this one and she is now 3 but 4 in February...love the card Ann.

Thank you, Wendy. I'm afraid I've made Magic rather in-famous in these rooms. 😉 It's hard to pass up her photos.