Ann Seeber

I tried the Paper Tree from the Lab. My notes are:

 

LAB 12-MOD 12

GINGERSCRAPS-VINTAGE CHRISTMAS KIT

EVERYTHING PAPER EXCEPT ANGEL, STAR & BRADS

Sue, those are spectacular! My daughter has been using the moon in her art lately so I'm well "mooned." ;-) I see the individual shots, which you said were new, are labeled with the year 2023. The images must really take a long time to travel to Earth! :-D j/k

 

(One of Deb's linocuts, of a series of 12)

My subscription to the New York Times allows me to share 10 free articles a month. Here's the one announcing Pantone's Color of the Year. 

 

Actually, I like this shade as as someone comments in the article, this is the M in CMYK. If you're at all involved in print, it is a vital designation.

Bonnie: That's a great layout! I didn't know that Xenas was a general term for strong women. I'm familiar with a minor superhero type named Xena Warrior Princess who had a tv show until 2001. Of course, she was shaped like a Playboy Bunny for the masses. It was many years ago and women were not as appreciated then as they are coming to be now. I have always been a strong advocate and dragged my daughters to Women's Rights marches in the 60s.

Marie-Claire: I'm admiring that folded paper tree; quite clever! I'll have to hunt down that Lab 12-Mod 12 and try it! Of course, your paper is perfect for it; I'll have to see what I have to suit.

Sue: The scallops work well with your winter/snow theme.

Lynda, that works. Thank you! I've signed up for their weekly newsletter.

I had 4 photos that my daughter in California took at Thanksgiving, so I "borrowed" Corel's freebie (with a lot of edits!)

 

Here are the details copied from the Image Information:

MY FAVORITE GIFTS COLLAGE - COREL FREEBIE

FONT: VALENTINA - EARTH 4 GRADIENT - INNER BEVEL

BACKGROUND: ENLARGED PHOTO - GAUSSIAN BLUR

PHOTOS BY DEBBIE LENNOX

GIVE THANKS STICKER FROM MY CLIPART LIBRARY

Thanks, Lynda. I tried that treehuggers.com address but there's nothing there. Do you have a link for it?

 

By the way, I think we should probably be posting these in the December forum. What are you working on (in Dec 2022)

 

 

Nice, Lynda! Of course, I prefer your Residents of the Savanna. They're my kind of "people!" ;-)

E = Eostre. A West Germanic goddess of the spring season. (paganism) A pagan festival celebrated either in March or April to welcome the Spring, also called Ostara or Easter.

Utilizing the multiple frame technique, here's a tree in downtown Warwick dazzling the neighborhood.

Here's another QP showing Spring in my neighborhood.

I used the same Quick Page to make two different layouts: one for Spring and the other for Fall.

Corel had an Autumn Collage frame

I wanted to try out the new snowflake picture tube, so I took Cassel's snowy window and added a snowy photo behind it. The photo was filled with bright sunshine, so I re-colored the sky with the Paint to Target Brush, taking the color from another photo I found of darkened sky. I lowered the opacity a bit on the photo and on the layer with the snowflakes. Ta-da!

B = Boots

The second of my Dec 2022 calendars is for my Big Cat collection, this one from the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. Introducing Shadow, one of my favorite cats, the black leopard. Shadow, is getting along in years but, as typical of black leopards, is still very feisty. The templates were offered last  year and I add a background and texturize the frame and calendar.

Here is one of my December calendars, that I put together from Cassel's templates for the Up-to-Date class last Fall. This became a holiday gift for my granddaughter, Anna, who is also a huge fan of the show, Downton Abbey.

Daughter Debbie sent another shot of the Pacific at sundown, so I put it in Cass's Holiday Window Frame. The background paper is ps_janet-kemp_95882_christmas-day-wood-paper. I used a snowflake brush on the border. The gnome and gift are from my large Christmas stash. The font is Banana Pancakes. I fiddled with the shadows that would be coming from the setting sun in the window.

Sue Thomas: Wow, they're both great! I'm especially admiring your butterfly and would like to know the technique for the border, especially at the bottom. It gives a look of transparency that is very nice.

Oh, Suzy-so glad to see you back in good health now. We missed you and sorry you missed Thanksgiving dinner. It's one of the highlights of my year. Stay well! :-)

After learning from the Master Class, I created this blended layout from my granddaughter's wedding photos. I think I only used the smart selection brush and the eraser tool. I need more practice with the multiple masks. This was the happy couple and a photo of the flowers on the head table at the reception. I had the word art in a wedding kit.

My California daughter, Debbie Lennox, took this great Golden Chanterelle mushroom photo and handed me material for the Gold Challenge. The layout is a template called cass-SimpleArtsy01, the background paper is ps_marisa-lerin_11183_stars-04-paper-yellow-pink_cu, the second background is an enlargement of the photo with layer effect Luminance and then I reduced the opacity to 51%. The journaling font is Copperplate Gothic, where I'm having a problem with the reproduction of the font when I reduce the size of the layout. Carole/Cassel, can you help?

 

I now see it looks alright if you enlarge the image here.

Oh, that's nice, Cindy! I like how you used the glitter. Great work!