Ann Seeber

4 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Lab 6-11

• Rainbow Striped Paper  (The border, with mitered corners - dont look too close, I missed on two corners)
• Diamond Shape Paper (the blue one)
• Spider Web (on the tissue paper)

I'm looking forward to the vector workshop.  it took me some time to get the  spider web happening.  Once I was following the tutorial properly I got it done.  I couldnt fit it in well to the layout so I put it on the tissue paper (remember the decorated toilet paper of the 70-80's).  The diamond paper; I was trying out different percentage (for size) and forgot to hide a layer and it made the cross lines appear.  I liked the look.  I also textured it with Effects>Texture Effects>Texture.  And used the magic wand to select the diamonds and inner beveled them to give more dimension to the sparse (read: boring) layout.  The spiders camer from Creative Fabrica.  The photo with the quote was from Facebook and I thought it was funny.  I really liked the Rainbow Striped Paper tutorial, although it is hard on the eyes.

Susan, good job with the Lab and this is hilarious! The spiders add just the right touch, especially the "wilted" one at the bottom! ? With your permission, I'd like to post this on my own Facebook feed. My friends would find it hilarious, also.

I'm registered, too. I've been asking for this workshop!

X = X-Grill Portable Charcoal BBQ Grill

U = utensils

P = pickles, of course...

Here's a project I've been working on the last few days as a remembrance of a friend that passed away last week from a malignant brain tumor at the age of 43. He and I are part of this rather large Facebook group that were fans of pop culture and started with Game of Thrones. We're all devastated at the loss of Ray. We knew he was not in the best of shape, suffering total blindness, but the end came quicker than we anticipated. We had been recording book readings for him as a way to stay in touch. I gathered all the photos my friends were sharing on their individual posts for his friends and family (we call it our Fandom Family). I used the cass-hanging photos script because I had 12 photos to showcase. The background is from a photo of a chalk drawing one of our group did at a convention in Europe. I had two photos of Ray, alone, and tried out the new Corel engraving-brown script on them. After trying the saturation layer effect I was quite impressed. I'll let you see the originals, also. I spoke to Ray on the phone a few years ago, before he got ill, as he was looking into moving to my area. R.I.P. Ray Fiore, you'll be sorely missed. ?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the font is Cabin Sketch.

L = Lettuce (I like lettuce on my burger, and in my salad)

The first thing I like to post is my new Wild Cat calendar for the month. It features the Snow Leopard, the gentle giant of Central Asia. These calendar templates are very large, measuring 4200 x 3245 px. I've been using PSPs print function and get nice 11x8.5" prints on my desktop Epson. I have put a full size jpg in the Files section of our Facebook group: Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro. The leopard photos are from Unsplash.

Here's a copy of the journaling which is rather small in this version:

Known throughout the world for its beautiful fur and elusive behavior, the endangered snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is found in the rugged mountains of Central Asia. The gentle snow leopard is not known to be aggressive toward humans. They are perfectly adapted to the cold, barren landscape of their high-altitude home, but human threats have created an uncertain future for the cats. Despite a range of over 1.2 million miles, scientist estimate that there may only be between 4,000 and 7,000 snow leopards left in the wild.

EDIT: Unhappy with the background and lower image, I made some changes.

2 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

Yikes! Backwards uphill.  How long of a road was it?  If must've been exciting for you...maybe not so for your parents. I love those old cars.

I'm not sure. I was quite young at the time. Here's the data about Lake Minnewaska if you're interested. It's quite spectacular.

Well, guess what? I have one more QP for the Day 8 assignment. I downloaded a few from Digital Scrapbook and this one is from Marisa Lerin called QP-Slovenia03.

I decided to combine this with the Random Challenge to tell a personal story. The title font is Corlita Sans; the journaling is in Droid Serif. Behind the text I brushed some dark blue with a brush called cass-Dispersion2.

The journaling is a bit small so I'll repeat it here;

Quote

 

FACTS: The Model-A Ford (1927-1931) was the first Ford to use the standard set of driver controls with conventional clutch and brake pedals, throttle, and gearshift. The Model A's fuel tank was situated in the cowl, between the engine compartment's fire wall and the dash panel. It had a visual fuel gauge, and the fuel flowed to the carburetor by gravity.

OUR STORY: When I was young, our family of 3 traveled from Bergen County, NJ,  to Ulster County, NY,  for day-trips. Lake Minnewaska was a spectacular setting to visit. Situated up high, the access road was very steep and our Model-A Ford could only navigate it BACKWARDS because of the gravity gas feed.

 

Well, guess what? I have one more QP for the Day 8 assignment. I downloaded a few from Digital Scrapbook and this one is from Marisa Lerin called QP-Slovenia03.

I decided to combine this with the Random Challenge to tell a personal story. The title font is Corlita Sans; the journaling is in Droid Serif. Behind the text I brushed some dark blue with a brush called cass-Dispersion2.

The journaling is a bit small so I'll repeat it here;

Quote

 

FACTS: The Model-A Ford (1927-1931) was the first Ford to use the standard set of driver controls with conventional clutch and brake pedals, throttle, and gearshift. The Model A's fuel tank was situated in the cowl, between the engine compartment's fire wall and the dash panel. It had a visual fuel gauge, and the fuel flowed to the carburetor by gravity.

OUR STORY: When I was young, our family of 3 traveled from Bergen County, NJ,  to Ulster County, NY,  for day-trips. Lake Minnewaska was a spectacular setting to visit. Situated up high, the access road was very steep and our Model-A Ford could only navigate it BACKWARDS because of the gravity gas feed.

 

Thanks, Dorothy! If I wasn't in the mood to celebrate America's Birthday on the 4th of July, I am NOW! ?

4 hours ago, Cassel said:

You know that you could include a QRCode to your page and link to the video in question.

Yes, I suppose that would work but unsure how to link to something that was posted on Facebook to begin with. That's why I shared Jackie's post to our FB group.

8 hours ago, Gerry Landreth said:

Ann - do the animals seem well cared for? We had a similar zoo in Huntsville that was mercifully shut down. I'm only 1 1/2 hours from there so I'll put that on my list of potential day trips.

Gerry, yes. They looked healthy and content. The welfare of wild species in captivity is one of my passions, especially wild cats and my zookeeper granddaughter is following in my footsteps.

43 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Like our Safari in Tennessee - the animals want to come in and enjoy the eats you have in the car.  We had to keep our windows rolled up and they licked the windows!! - love how you did your layout.  Look at that ostrich !!

That's about how the ostrich at the safari looked!

QP-7 - Our drive-thru safari. This layout was good for all the animals that were around and almost inside our car! The font is Brush Script and the ostrich head came from PNGALL. I scanned a flyer from The Preserve for the details and map on top. I will also post this in Facebook and in the comments post the little, very funny video that Jackie did from the front seat to the back and you'll see what I mean about the animals almost "in" the car. ?

12 minutes ago, Gerry Landreth said:

Susan put a song in my head with her layout. All of the clipart is from Pixabay.

 

I think I hear Bing Crosby in my head, Gerry!

QP-6 EXTRA - FEEDING GIRAFFES. My visiting daughter, Debbie and her sister, Laurey, plus Laurey's daugher, Jackie, the zookeeper, went on a drive-through safari on Friday. It was at Animal Adventures, The Preserve, near Binghamton, NY. The font is Corlita Serif. The photo was taken by Laurey on her Galaxy mobile. (It takes superior photos!)

On to QP-6 - More Jonah James. The font is called Things We Said. Appropriate, I thought...

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.

36 minutes ago, MoniqueN. said:

What's a kiln??‍♂️

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

8 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

I wanted to have a go at this. I decided to go with the flow and use purple! Images all from online and only papers I made with some torn edges. Font is Bombshell Pro.

I'm not that big a Coco Chanel fan, but I do adore some of the fragrances and have a few in my collection. I just couldn't think of another subject for the layout.

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

25 minutes ago, Jannette Nieuwboer said:

I was not intending to make this one but I was practicing making TEXTURES.

So I was looking into my stuff for a suitable application, and I bumped into this one.

Someone had placed it here and I downloaded it. 

It was very terrible working. When I selected one section all were selected.

Advanced this came out of all my creative possibilities.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT ?

As I don't have a FB account I can't download from that source.  

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"

1 hour ago, MoniqueN. said:

What font did you use, Ann? It's funky(?), but a bit hard to read too??

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