Ann Seeber

I - Inebriated! How you'll be after happily drinking all that Guinness. ?

I've played with many different crafts over the years. I started with sewing my own clothes from paper patterns (Simplicity, etc) mainly because I was so skinny nothing fit from the store. I made clothes for my daughters when they were small, also. My Mom introduced me to crochet. She did some beautiful work including a large white afghan (machine wash and dry) that I still use. It's so heavy, it could qualify as a "heavy blanket" that is all the rage now. I also tried knitting. I was always interested in art, so I sketched and did some paint-by-numbers items. I got into embroidery and my cousin, Linda from Cohoes, NY, and I would compete to see who could finish their project faster! ? (I think it was a sampler featuring the Lord's Prayer.) I was never very good at photography and couldn't afford a good camera. I borrowed my husband's camera when I took a photography class in college and traveled my area shooting historic scenes in black and white and developing them in our lab. That was fun. I transitioned naturally to computer graphics because I thought myself rather "ham-handed" with supplies IRL. I was never much good at coding as I couldn't remember anything without the book open on my lap. My best talent was using color as it was always very important to me, from clothes to home decor. I also like to cook but that was in the past when I at least had more than one to cook for. Most of my hobbies involved animals: dogs, cats, tropical fish and snakes. I also advocate for wild animals, especially Big Cats, and for a stop to "cub petting" and "animal tourism."

Happy Birthday, Julie. Here's one of my Irish Wolfhounds making the announcement! ?

I'm here, too. Looking forward to this!

I found the artist... Palette knife art by Howard Behrens | ART BLOG MarkovArt (wordpress.com)

Back in the early days of Covid, everyone seemed to be hoarding toilet paper and I had this cute photo of Eve, guarding our supply...

Chuck Calio posted this on March 3 on our public Hudson Valley in pictures gallery on Facebook. I'm trying to showcase it in the demo Carole gave us for the Offset Cutout.

Nicely done, Susan. That's a beautiful layout in its own right and very enlightening. Color wheels will never be the same again! ?

P = Pot 'O Gold

Happy March! Here is my monthly Big Cat Calendar featuring a Bengal Tiger playing in the water (as they do, frequently!) I put a full-sized jpg in the Files section on our Facebook group. It would print at 8.5" x 14" I wasn't happy with the paw prints so here's an edited version.

I agree, the new one is much brighter, more readable and the mask is attractive. I'm enjoying your "fan pages" for Outlander. I did a series of calendars a year or so ago featuring the show Downton Abbey as a gift for my granddaughter but also ended up printing them for myself!

Thanks, Susan. I find them fun to make and I see Carole even has a script that makes templates. I might try that.

Here is my completed entry for the Scraplift Challenge. Title font is Showcard Gothic; journaling is Stay Outside. The background paper is ps_melo-vrijhof_winter-day. The embellishments are all Picture Tubes. I added a mat behind the photos and filled it with a woodgrain pattern and colorized to match the title.

Scraplifting is one of my favorite challenges. I always start with copying the example and enlarging it to 3600. Then I reduce the colors to grayscale. From there I build a template, keeping the original as my base layer, and filling in shades from black to white for each component, be it full sized paper or embellishment. I make all photo areas black. At the end, I increased the colors to 8bit so there will be a full palette available. Here is my finished template in a reduced version for posting here. I will put the full sized version on our Facebook and the .pspimage in the Files area there for those who want a head start. Feel free to download it and start creating! I will be back with my own new creation in a while. Edit: I did discover that the black areas for photos didn't work in the Raster-to-Mask script until I used Negative Image on them again and they turned white. Then the script was ok.

I found it here Simple Pen Solid Font | zeenesia studio | FontSpace

Actually, notices would be correct in that sentence.

I made a seamless tile to fill the background with the pattern of the blue vase behind the flowers in Gesa's photo. The font is Viner hand. The snowflakes are picture tubes. The layout is a template that came from Lab 9-10.

Here is a seamless tile I made for my Snowdrops layout (posted in What are you doing...? ) I took a piece of the blue vase behind the flowers in the photo and used it to fill the background.

Marie-Claire: I use One Note all the time because it is the only place in a computer where I can be scatter-brained and not worry about saving things to separate folders. Each page can be a topic and go on forever. It has a useful Clip-to-It feature that I use to snag illustrations that otherwise I would not be able to save from the internet. One Note allows the clipped item to be copied or saved as a file, separately. I think of the program as a giant whiteboard and at the end of the day can just close it. Nothing has to be saved but will be there when I reopen it the next day.

Yes, they are so native they started when the plains were alive with huge buffalo herds and followed the migrations. They had no way to stop and build a nest and raise their own young so they improvised and "borrowed" other birds nests, trusting their species would survive. Nature is sort of neat, that way.