Ann Seeber

Playing with Cassel's new frames script, I came up with this. I added the textures and the colors came from the photo. This is a Serval at Jackie's zoo.

Corrie: They are beautiful! All your hard work has paid off handsomely! I'm sure everyone will love to get them!!

For those not subscribed to the latest Random Challenge: here's my entry. It's my granddaughter showing off the Caracal kittens at the Claws & Paws Animal Park.

 

Here's my granddaughter, Jackie, a zookeeper at Claws & Paws Animal Park, Mt. Arial, PA, giving us a private tour. Here she's playing with the caracal kittens. The peacock donated a feather! ;-)

 

There was a big cat in the background photo, but I hid it with the smaller ones. I created my own frame with canvas additions; 100 pixels for the white then another 100 for the wood pattern fill. I select all and then a Select Selection Borders at 100 and then applied an outer bevel. Then I changed the selection to 50 to create the inner texture where I applied an inner bevel.

 

 

MoniqueN: How do you put a design on a mug?

Marie-Claire: Thanks so much for the template. (I LOVE templates! ;-) ) Here is my version. Using Marie-Claire's template, here is Autumn Memories in the Hudson Valley. I used the same photo 3 times. The lettering and the border are a St. Patrick's Day paper.  I added flying bird silhouettes, and the Mallard ducks are tubes.

 

Marie-Claire: Your Autumn Memories is stunning!

Marie-Claire / Cassel: I "borrowed" your bird photo as I was curious why a bluebird would have no blue in the palette. Here's the result: the extracted photo the script creates and the final product, that was the same as yours, Marie-Claire. Note the blue is gone from the extracted photo!

Ghosts in the Tower of London. I started with an article in National Geographic History Magazine about the Ghosts in the Tower of London. I used a little text and 2 photos from the article and selected a template [ps_rachel-martin_287870_kamala-templates-template-04_pu] that had room for journaling. The large alpha G is from the marisal-Cambodia kit, along with the alphas for the word "ghosts." The background paper is also from that mega-kit.

 

kasany: Thanks for the kind words.

Ghosts in the Tower of London. I started with an article in National Geographic History Magazine about the Ghosts in the Tower of London. I used a little text and 2 photos from the article and selected a template [ps_rachel-martin_287870_kamala-templates-template-04_pu] that had room for journaling. The large alpha G is from the marisal-Cambodia kit, along with the alphas for the word "ghosts." The background paper is also from that mega-kit.

 

Cassel: Thank you. She is a sturdy little girl. That title is actually an element from the Cambodia kit that Marisa calls a Sticker. I selected the lettering with the Magic Wand and applied inner bevel and it appeared to make it a little 3-dimensional. So, it is not a font or an alpha, either. Here it is in a reduced version.

Cindy: You appear to be missing a toolbar. Go to VIEW at the top and slide your mouse down to TOOLBARS and be sure TOOLS has a check mark; if not, click on it to activate it. I've had that happen to me, also. Sometimes PSP is weird!

 

Also, my girls and I used to watch Shari Lewis and Lambchop on Romper Room all the time, right after Captain Kangaroo! :-)

Lynda and Carole: I tried several times with various amounts of colors and kept getting little stubby bits of color with the Hex codes way down below it. The one I posted finally worked. I guess the image can't be too large. I had to reduce it to 600 pixels to get the correct color displays.

Cindy: I took a photo of my PSP to show you where the list of selections is: You can see where I circled the Rounded Rectangle in red.

Project 5 - Cambodia Mega Kit by Marisa Lerin of Pixelscrappers

Title = sticker edited with inner bevel - button from LF-Choose to Shine.

Clip = Exuberance SG holding an Asterix from the kit's Alpha collection, colorized.

Journaling from a nursery rhyme.

Photo is of Magic, my great granddaughter, taken this month.

 

 

 

You are inspiring me, Lynda. Now I had to try it out, also. Here's a photo I planned on working with for a Ghosts layout.

Susan, beautiful color combo! The photos are wonderfully dramatic, though they remind me of dandelion fluff. I agree with you that interesting things can happen using the eraser!

Corrie: Your calendar covers are beautiful! You are an expert photographer with flowers, for sure! That background photo is also very effective. Great job!

Hi Jannette: I looked up Gotcha Day on Google and here's what it gave me:

 

What is a Gotcha Day for cats?

A “Gotcha Day” is the anniversary of your pet's adoption day. So whether you're celebrating one week, one month, or annually, your pet's “Gotcha Day” is a great opportunity to acknowledge and thank our pets for the love and joy they bring into our lives every day.

 

That's exactly what I intended with my little celebration for my cat, Eve.

Day 9 - Project Bees: Mine is celebrating my daughter's 60th birthday. Her cake is rather unique. She is famous for wearing Flip-Flops in all kinds of weather so her cakes celebrates that. (Her sister gave her fur flip-flops for Christmas a year or so ago.)  I'm posting from the Gallery.

 

 

 

U is for UKRAINE - I used Cassel's Rusty Alpha and I had a Ukraine kit for the sunflowers, map and lettering. I used the outline map as a base for the UKRAINE lettering, made a duplicate and applied a cutout. The TV news came from a station in Germany. I stole pieces from a Ukraine banner I made back in March for the flags, text and snake logo at the bottom. It appears I have the letters C-D-E-T and U. I have work to do!!

 

I see we are linking our work in from the Gallery. I wonder if there could also be a link back so we could see, for example, Patricia's credits that are always in the Gallery but not here in the Forum.

 

Personally, I prefer to post here directly with an image that will enlarge when you click on it. And I put my credits here in the Forum, too.

 

Here's the new lesson, Day 7 which I titled Goals. The photos are L-R: Great Grand Sonya with her grandfather, Ernie; Great Grand Logan with his dad, Maverick, and Great Grand Magic with her dad, Will.

 

I tried to stick with the October Palette colors and use textures to enliven them. I created a gradient using three of the colors for the mat behind the photos instead of glitter.

 

The flowery decor I created from PSP shapes with Inner Bevel effects. The title font is Belisha, and the journaling is Franklin Gothic Demi. The element on the right is a free Autumn Clipart from Corel

Patricia Felix: Very nice introduction to your grandson. I like the font you used for the title: Welkom Jonas. Can you tell me the name of the font? Thank you!

Day 5 - Adventure Park - My title is Magic has Wheels! Her first bicycle (though her parents pointed out there are no pedals, so it's under "foot power," which is appropriate for a 2-year-old toddler.) Carole, I tried to use the bird from the second kit but it doesn't have a transparent background. The title font is called Heavy Boxing Script.