Ann Seeber

Getting started on catching up. I've been traveling around with family since Thursday so I'm WAY behind! This is QP- 5 - featuring new gg Jonah James on the day he came home from the hospital. The font is Viner Hand for the title. The label on the right was from Carole before she released her new script.

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into pottery, tiles and bricks. Wikipedia

Very well done! Next, Chanel's ad agency will come calling for your talents!

Jannette, as a solution for your background texture problem, I think I'd make separate layers for each section. Then I could fill a selected area with whatever and it would be confined to that layer. Allover, this looks very interesting.

Finally got started on QP-3. Here's the new baby and family. His name is Jonah James but they call him "JJ"

The font is Viner Hand but I treated the raster version to the sculpture effect with a gold pattern.

Now it is the correct Facebook header. Thanks!

Tried twice, re-booted the page but still getting the collage.....

I opened the new zip for non-scrap and got this. ???

This will be a distracted week for me, what with the arrival of Jonah and to top that, my eldest daughter Debbie has arrived from Mendocino, CA, on one of her semi-yearly visits. She went from Newark Airport to New York City last night, to visit old college chums and tour some new art exhibits, namely drawings by Georgia O"Keefe and a new Andy Warhol exhibition. Deb is the grandmother of little Magic and mother of my granddaughter Anna and grandson Will. She is an AIA Architect and the driving force behind of several art galleries in coastal Mendocino. We will get together on Friday with daughter Laurey and granddaughter, Jackie, for a trip upstate to the The Wild Animal Park in Chittenango, NY, which is near Binghamton. We will do their Safari which will cut down on all the walking usually involved with visiting zoos. Then, Saturday is little great-grand Sonya's 3rd birthday and there's a bash planned at the local firehouse in Pine Island, NY, after which I will go out to dinner with Deb and one of her old high school mates in Warwick, NY. Hopefully, I will have Sunday to rest! Whew! Meanwhile, Deb will travel to her step-mother's at the Jersey Shore and from there back to Newark Airport on Tuesday. I call her my "whirlwind." Deb will be 63 this year... ?

Wow, Carole, something must be up with the platform. Every time you send out a new lesson, I get double emails! ?

Final one for QP-2 - L-Daughter Laurey Crozier-Keller; and her daughters: C- Granddaughter-Ilana Crozier Paolucci (the new Mom) and, R-Jackie Crozier Thorpe-the zookeeper. I based this on complementary colors; the greens vs the maroons.

QP-2 - Part 1 - Deep sea fishing off Acapulco. Since that was the only place we went for vacations (we loved being pampered by the "beach boys" ?) we had to try all the activities there. We went deep sea fishing and hubby, Fran, and I, each had a rod and a chair. I reeled in my fish but he had trouble. So I had to reel in his, also! This was sort of ridiculous as I weighed about 110 and he was topping 300. Whew!

Thank you, Monique! So far, no news is good news. ?

Well, this is perfect for my BREAKING NEWS! Introducing my 4th great-grand, born this morning, it's a boy, Jonah James Paolucci. Parents are granddaughter Ilana and hubby Maverick, also Logan now has a little bro!

This time I did all 3 layouts for QP-1. First is a new bird at my feeder, well, actually, a regular but in a new color morph. Never saw an orange-headed house finch before but Merlin confirmed my sighting. This is the Merlin photo. The alpha is Fiesta from Annie Tobin-R.I.P. The text font is Ink Free. Second is the flip flop banner, featuring my daughter's flip flop birthday cake from last September when she turned 60. I used a gimp picture tube for the top border. Last is my granddaughter-in-law, Lucy, mother of Magic. I thought the black and white photo went well in the busy layout. I enlarged the photo area with my eraser tool.

Thanks, Cassel. I'm pretty sure I got your 60%off discount in FF10 so the price was under $25. I'll study these two classes and hopefully, in the future, there will be a week-long workshop so I can hone my skills. ?

I received a surprise gift in the mail from one of the big aquarium supply houses that I buy from. This is a hand-painted portrait on canvas of my first Betta, Sampson. He's called a Veiltail which was the prevailing style of Betta in the early stages of the hobby. I photographed it to show it to others and now decided to frame it using the Painted Frame 1 script that I just bought. The background paper is from my Beach Life kit by Tracey B Creations.

Is there a Master Class on Filter Forge? I have the basic program but never use it for lack of practice. It is the free version so I don't understand complaints....

That is beautiful! It does remind me of some of the effects of the Kaleidoscope tool.

Corel's weekly freebie today is a Father's Day template. Here's my late hubby Frank, aka Fran, enjoying our vacation on his favorite beach in Acapulco, Mexico. Miss you, big guy... ?

Oh, dear, sorry to hear the game may be ending, though, I imagine, for you, it may be like me when the drive-in closes for the winter. I always feel a welcome relief from the ongoing pressure to create during the season.

Exactly, Rene! That's how it behaved for me, also. Quite frustrating, especially since the photo I chose was very fiddly to block out the background. Aarrgghh! ?

I forgot to mention I need some input from @CaroleCassel about that tool. The first time I used it, no problem, but subsequent usages refused to present the finished product and reverted to the original photo. I saved everything and rebooted PSP AND my computer and then it worked properly, at first. Then it misbehaved again, second time around. After another re-booting spree, it seems to have settled down. Are there bugs in this tool, or what?