Ann Seeber

17 hours ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'll take them, especially the seed heads.  I want to photograph them in the studio, but by the time I get in the house and upstairs, they are lost their seeds.

Susan, I have dandelion seed-head photos from a layout I did previously. See if you want anything from this...

H = Hugs - gifts from our mothers

Just read this article in the Washington Post about a family's mailbox being taken over by mysterious miniatures. This article is free for non-subscribers with this link.

F = Flowers, the traditional Mother's Day gift

41 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

can't seem to focus on the layouts I need to be doing to finish my attempt at the Double Page Workshop

I'm in the same boat, Mary, though I finally did come up with a "story" for Page 6. Now I have to put it together. Dealing with a sick cat today so I'm off to the vet. ?

11 minutes ago, Cassel said:

I guess it is ok here, but if you add a link it will be easier for viewers to get it, especially considering that it has to be installed TODAY only.

What site has the giveaway?

1 hour ago, Michele said:

Thank you, Cristina. I fight against the lack of creativity all the time. That's one of the reasons I'm making more of an effort. It took me many hours between searching my few original pics and getting inspiration from looking at templates.

I experience the same lack of inspiration and I find going back to the Bootcamp to be helpful to me. I can help the newcomers and try to come up with something original for the familiar layouts. Helping others is the key for me.

I always start off with a Wildcat Calendar for the month. Here's May: The Sand Cat, a tiny, tough desert dweller. I also posted this on the Facebook group, Scrapbooking with PaintShop Pro in larger format that will print landscape, 11"x8.5" I have mine on my refrigerator.

1 hour ago, Rene Marker said:

But coding of webpages is so far advanced of what it was in the 90's.

Absolutely, Rene. It's why I left it to the "experts" and, now that our business has a professionally done site I'm much happier. 

I combined Carole's flowery spring frame with the flora font, added my great-grand Magic with a little linoleum as a background and two corner brushes and came up with this. I sort of thought the font would look a little puffy on its own but mine didn't so I helped it along with one of our title lessons from March. 

Back in the day when I was learning to make webpages I acquired Note Tab Plus as an alternative to the Windows Notepad. Note Tab numbers the lines so you can find your place in the code. It also has little scripts of its own to automate repetitive tasks which made things easier. I still use Note Tab. It's a Swiss product and I always had the free version. I don't code any more. Left it behind when I transitioned to Dreamweaver for webpages. Honestly don't miss it. Not my favorite thing.

1 hour ago, Michele said:

I'm making an effort to participate in more challenges and for a change everything is mine. I used cass's brad factory and filigrane scripts. It's my first 1-2-3 challenge so I hope what I did qualifies. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

 

Wow, Michele! That looks great! Very nice, indeed. 

22 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

Is this it Ann.

 

Coatis (from Tupí), also known as coatimundis (/koʊˌɑːtɪˈmʌndi/), are members of the family Procyonidae in the genera Nasua and Nasuella. They are diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States.

Yes, it seems the translation for nasenbaer is coati. 

Very nice, Anja. Would you happen to have an English translation as that animal is unfamiliar to me. Thanks!

41 minutes ago, Cassel said:

I would strongly discourage you from doing that as it will distort when used in various situations:

• if you have a square frame to start and use it on a rectangular image (or vice versa), the proportions on the edges will be inconsistent
• if you have a frame of a certain dimension (say 1000x1000px) and use it on something larger (say 3600x3600), it will become blurred

This might need a blog post as you are not the first one thinking that.

PSP had many already installed. How am I supposed to know the size?

Figured it out - decided on folded hearts and a bow. 3 buttons and a frame round out the requirements. Here's my daughter, Laurey, top left; granddaughters, Ilana & Jackie, bottom right. All the decor is from my stash; frame from PSP frame.

Edit: I forgot to mention the background is a PSP gradient called Nature Glow and I added some noise for texture.

33 minutes ago, Cassel said:

https://scrapbookcampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-2-3-Challenge.jpg

Let's make things a little fun for you. Are you looking for ways to spark your creativity and still create something meaningful? This will be a new monthly challenge for you. Every month, you will be given instructions to use 1, 2, and 3 of something. Would that be more than you usually use? or less? Let's see. Create a layout using :

• 1 frame
• 2 folded elements
• 3 buttons

You can create those elements or use what you currently have in your stash. Showcase any photo, use any template (if you want). Just make sure you include the required elements.

I'm not sure what a "folded element" would be...

I downloaded a Corel freebie last week called Spring Collage. I didn't have the font it called for so I used Before the Rainbow, which was similar. Here's my great-grand Sonya with her mother, Alycia. We don't see Alycia that much as she's often unwell. 

58 minutes ago, Mary Solaas said:

Ann, I really like that layout - and I think changing the outline of the title would help it stand out more.

I did Mary, look at it now...

I finally came up with a sixth layout but it's not the style of that assignment. I used the scattered photos script, the open book script and the title style from last month's title workshop #1. Not real happy with the title but it'll do. The photos are from my daughter in California of her flowering trees in the midst of the redwoods so I went to Pixabay and found a shot of the Redwood National Forest as a background which I treated to a Multiply over a white background  and that removed all the color. I liked the effect as the flowering tree photos were more visible. The title font is Cooper Black with Vector Tube effect with rope.

17 minutes ago, Rene Marker said:

I have only ever used it on PSD templates and have had no problems. I'm guessing it was something with the specific template that caused the glitch

Thanks, Rene. It was the Yin_template 501.psd that I used for the scattered photos for Lesson 4 of the Double Page Workshop. I think two of the photo areas refused to process with the raster-to-mask script so I did them by hand. The script saved a lot of time considering there were 19 photos all told. 

11 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

My favorite script is not a fancy one with which you can make great layout but the humble "Raster to Mask" script

It is my favorite, also, and I use it all the time, though I think I've encountered a glitch when working on a template that started as a PSD. One of the photo areas would not turn to a mask and went all white.?? I ended up doing the mask by hand (had to drag out my written instructions...the script has got me spoiled!)

W = WABBITS! (Like I taut I taw some wabbits!) ???

17 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

I'm taking a PSP short break while I catch up on an ongoing abstract photo project so I can eject the flyers (I'm photographing) out of my house.   

Inquiring minds want to know what KIND of "flyers" are you "ejecting"? Are they alive or dead? ?

5 minutes ago, Julie Magerka said:

And isn't that perfect for your fish tribe!

That's really all the same fish. ?