Ann Seeber

Cassel/Carole in the Scrap Bootcamp - Day 10 today asked us to mention any technique from class that has been particularly helpful and I'd have to nominate using the Magic Wand and then Selection/Modify/Select Selection Borders to create those nice narrow white borders around photos that helps them stand out from various busy backgrounds. That technique can be very versatile!

Hi, Susan. Thank you so much for your compliment. (I hope it was for me as we have at least 3 people with similar names on Campus right now. I am "Ann" with NO "e" and we also have an Anne and an Annie. :-) )

Here's my Bees layout: Headline font is Baby Olivia; double background layers: honeycomb paper from the Serenity Bee kit and the background photo is by Lori Myers Gambill from HViP

Great to see you back, Bonnie! Beautiful work and sentiment.

Here is my layout for Day 7. Mine is titled 'Shrooms. The photos are all from HViP and the photographers are: white mushroom photos by Reni Lorray; and in the center: Underside of a mushroom by Isabelle Soule. The background paper is from Pixel Scrappers Feb2016 for the love of coffee. The flower and feather are from the Animal Kingdom kit. The headline font is Glamlips and the text is in Harlow Italic. The plaid paper is my own pattern made from the photo and flower colors.

Corrie: That design looks very handsome! The colors and photo and elements really come together well. These classes are really back to basics but they do stand the test of time!

Just realized my design for Bootcamp has a seashell so it goes with this theme, too! Introducing a fish.. ;-)

Anne: here is a better picture where he's peaceful. :-D

Here is the Day 5 - assignment. Introducing my Siamese Fighting Fish: Red Wolf the Betta. lol I'm having a lot of fun with my first tropical fish in many years. They live alone in a 5 gal tank or larger. Sometimes they tolerate snails as tankmates. He looks mean because he IS mean. He glares at me and dares me to approach his tank! ;-)

 

The photo is mine, the patterned paper from my stash and I created the textured papers with flood fill and a texture effect. The shell is a Corel Summer Clip Art freebie. The branches are from Marisa Lerin of Pixelscrappers.  The title text is Algerian. I used 3 layers for the background so I have a double border.

Cassel: Interesting because your script generates rectangular confetti. I would prefer round if I could get it. Is there a way?

Mary, that looks outstanding, if I do say so myself ;-) The larger photos really pop!

Of course you may, Mary. Would you need a larger version? That one is 600x600 for the Forum. It's a .jpg and would probably enlarge well if you have PSP2021.

Annie: Very nice! I'm admiring your clusters lately. So much better than from a kit. If Jaws terrified you, you ought to see The Meg, if you're in the mood for terror! Starring Jason Statham, which was the attraction for me. ;-)

Cassel: No, actually the scatters are from your script for custom scatters which make a Tube so I didn't touch them with the pick tool at all.

Janet: That is a beautiful page. Congrats!

My theme seems to be fences so far this month. Here's a showcase of some of the photos from HViP featuring fences + a quote from Robert Frost. Just stuff from my stash..

Assignment for Day 3: New Kid on the Block

 

Here is my version with a summer garden along a fence. I used a kit from Pixelscrappers: Rachel Martin-Jessamine Juliet. I used 3 layers of papers for background, each one reduced by 50 pixels to make borders. The photo is from the Hudson Valley in Pictures on Facebook to which I added the white border. The headline text is Bodoni MT Bold and the photo caption is Copperplate Gothic Bold. I cheated and used cass-custom scatters script to create scatters from one of the flowers in the photo. I also applied a LOT of drop shadows. ;-)

Cassel: You made me laugh with the "fine china" description. The pattern used was actually "cracked plaster" :-)

Here's my sandwich, table and place setting. I added the coffeepot. I flood-filled using a pattern for the tablecloth (and had to add a layer as there wasn't a separate bottom layer). Using the Magic Wand a lot,  I used the chrome effect on the silverware. I duplicated the plate layer and made it smaller with the pick tool for the saucer. I filled the plate and cup/saucer with a pattern and added a drop shadow effect. I filled the cup with a brown gradient. I created the napkin from a small piece of white textured paper and added the page curl effect twice. After I colored the bread to my liking I did an edit/ copy special/merge and pasted it as a layer onto the table. I kept the pickles separate as I don't like them on sandwiches. It was so easy to grab each pickle layer from the original sandwich and slide it over to the table setting!

Cindy, your Bruce Lee reminds me of my hauspanther Adam...

Libera: Very nice layout; I agree with Annie -- lots of garlic for those mussels! This is the first I've heard of Cassel's Close-Up script. Can you tell me how it works?

I downloaded the Freebie from Creation Cassel and then went further on that site where there were MORE freebie templates. Here's a colorful one I admired with photos from the HViP. The title font is Bandidas and the template is khadfield-scrap-like-olga. I loved playing with the colors on this one. :-)

Hi Corrie and everyone. I'm here again. I do this every time it's offered. I love Cassel's designs and always pick up something new from each class. I'm from New York and we're just coming out of the pandemic shut-down so these classes have kept me sane for the last year or so. Here's a photo I MIGHT use; this is my granddaughter with Marshmallow, the porcupine baby at her zoo. So, come on in, the water's fine! ;-)

I spotted an article in my National Geographic email this morning on the topic of seashells.. specifically Sand Dollars. I arranged a page using their photo and map; the background paper from a beachy kit plus a few added shells. The headline font is Forte and the text is Franklin Gothic. I framed the sand dollar illustration with cass-frame01 but noticed the shadows that were part of it were backwards! So I flipped the frame horizontally. I'm amazed that I noticed. ;-)  Oh, and I used the cass-curved photo script on the map. Enjoy!

Looking through a Summer Window. A photo by Rajinder Keating on HViP; Hedge Frame by cass; Ribbon Frame from cass-ribbon factory script. Word art in Corlita fonts and Curlz. Thanks for taking a look!