Ann Seeber

I forgot to post a photo. Here's the latest of Magic, my great-granddaughter who just turned 2 on June 4th.

Jannette: Here's the info for the first lesson:

 

Ready for that first step?

Go to this page and use the password - install - to get access to the video tutorial and the cheat sheet.

I'm here, again! Looking forward to joining you all in Bootcamp! I sign up every time it's offered as I work best with frequent assignments to motivate me.

 

Nice to meet you, Jannette! Welcome!

Suzy, your newsletter is very impressive. Great job! I enjoyed it and I'm not a daffodil enthusiast. Do you use MS Publisher or Word for the page layouts? Looking forward to joining you in Bootcamp! I sign up every time it's offered as I work best with frequent assignments to motivate me.

Here's my entry in the July Friendship Challenge. Most of my friends are Facebook friends that I met through a book club group there. We have since gotten together in real life also. My layout is based on a sketch I had in my files and I transformed it to a template. I have fun doing that! I hunted for the real font for Facebook and discovered I had it. It is Century Gothic Bold. My title was supposed to be done with Block Type but it didn't work for me so I used multiple layers of the raster layer of it.

 

Edit: I see the journaling is too small so here's the text:

 

We all met as members of the Facebook group called ASOIAF that was dedicated as a book club for George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, which eventually was turned into the HBO series, "Game of Thrones." When I joined there were more than 80,000 members all over the globe.  I appreciated that with such a large group the rules were enforced, and no one was allowed to make trouble. Our smaller group, made up of mostly group administrators, traveled and got to meet in person at fantasy conventions every year or so. They were lots of fun and fond friendships were developed though there are vast differences in our ages.

D = deep

Susan, thank you for your kind words. Made my day! :-)

B = Besties!

Oh, good. I get to post my July Big Cat Calendar first! Here's Cheetah, the fastest animal, able to overtake fleeing antelopes! This is from templates that Carole gave us last fall. Just add your favorite photo, colors and frame.

 

I also posted this on our Facebook page and put a full size (8.5x11) copy for printing into the Files.

Finishing up a project from May, here's the Sketch Challenge. I used my photos from Sonya's birthday party Sun 6/26 at the local firehouse. Sonya is now two. The font is Baby Olivia. I actually took the sketch, enlarged it to 3600 and created layers of all the areas, turning it into a template. Then I used the Raster-to-Mask script to place the photos and papers.

Brian, I'm admiring your website work. I think my favorite is the Symbols page, followed closely by the Postcards. Here's an example of what I do every week for our little business, the Warwick Drive-In Theater.

This is for the Scraplift Challenge. Another array of Merlin's birds. I used the Out of Bounds and the Selective Color techniques suggested for the challenge. The font is Belisha.

 

Edit: I made quite a few tweaks. I'll leave the first one also so you can compare.

SCRAPLIFT CHALLENGE: Here are The Hyphens, photos courtesy of the Merlin app recording their calls in my yard. I chose each bird, so it had a spot of color to use for the Selective Color technique. I did the Out-of-Bound technique on the Red-Eyed Vireo. I pretty much followed the layout style of the Scraplift example. The background is a gradient called Landscape. I had the various trees and flying birds in my Elements collection.

 

EDIT: I've made quite a few improvements since I first posted this, so I'll post the new version alongside the old to show the differences.

Carole helped me get this hanging photos script working. I set the layout up for four photos and then, today, I acquired a fifth one for this collection. I'm a little surprised that quite a few waterfowl pass by my condo in the mornings when I'm out filling my feeders and recording any birdsong (or quack/honk) with my Merlin app. It wasn't that hard to edit the initial layout. The background photo is from Pixabay.

That's lovely, Michele! What sort of games do the Fab Divas play?

Maverick, the groom-to-be and his son, Logan, my great-grandson, who was one in February. The wedding's coming up in September. The bride-to-be is my granddaughter, Ilana.

 

Edit: Noticed I forgot the shadows on the photos and forgot to activate the brads that were there but in hiding while I worked on the frames.

I'm still celebrating Father's Day. I considered doing a Word Art layout but instead went for a chalkboard effect with the same font (Horror Story) but colored with pastels similar to chalk. The frame is called Leather in the PSP file. And I have to thank Corrie for the phrases, she used them recently, too.

The font used is Neon and I played with the Warp Brush a bit on it. The photo is within a graduation freebie frame from Corel which I edited a bit with a watercolor eraser, so its edges melded in with the black background. This is my daughter, Laurey, and her ward, Kate Snyder, who is actually her step-niece.

I'm sorry I've been quiet lately. I have been a little distracted because I was fighting to save my pet fish's life, but it was not to be. S.I.P Patriot - gone too soon. :-(

Pirkko: Thank you for that research! I went in and started a family tree on that site and they offered to switch me to the USA site. My daughter does this on Ancestry.com but I don't think she has much from that branch of the family, so thank you, again!

Pirkko: Edward the Booble is new to me and is so delightful I just had to share the website with my children to pass along to the little ones. We like to research our Ancestry and my grandfather, Emil Haggquist, emigrated here from Finland (deemed Russia at the time due to conquest).

Reading the above posts, I now realize I should have posted my latest creation in here as it is all about the June palette.

This is a photo of my great-grand, Magic, at her birthday on June 4. She's playing with the veggie puzzle I sent her. I hear it was a hit!

 

I combined a few things here. The June Palette was used with the cass-GradientMaker script for the background. I actually created two separate papers, one for each word, using the kaleidoscope effect and the cass-AlphaMaker script. The one for the top title was also used for the large circle design. The vines are picture tubes. I added a frame on the inside edge of the photo that is from the PSP Image/Picture Frames and I changed the color from blue to golden.

Lynda: Thank you! That mandala layout is dated 5/22/21. Here's more ...

Lynda: Yo! Those mandalas are great! I've made them before, especially for my great-grands.