Day 108: What is this? And digiscrapping!

I tell you, my fellow POTD'ers, you're just smart! Yesterday's "what is it" was sesame seeds! Now today, I've included the "answer" at the bottom of this post, so don't scroll down yet if you want to try and guess. I'll put a "digiscrapping" layout between this, and the answer. In part, it's not a far "what is it," because this is only a portion of it.


Now, this is a digiscrapping layout from week 3 of "Digi in Deep" at jessicasprague.com. In this layout, we learned these things:

• Install a Photoshop .pat file
• Create a custom background from pattern adjustment layers
• Use Photoshop to “fake” a shallow depth of field on a photo
• Create a multi-photo effect using masks and a .png frame
• Experiment using text as texture
• Create a lacy edge on a scalloped circle
• Use the Rounded Rectangle tool to create a journaling block
• Use the Burn tool with grunge brushes
• Create semi-transparent ghost shapes

• NRJ PDQ Patters: From PDQ Textures Vol. 6 set by Nancie Rowe Janitz
• Grid notebook paper: from Notebook Paper Pack by Katie Pertiet
  
• Journaling strip: from Stitched Journaling Strips set by Katie Pertiet
• Grungy flourish brush: from Grungy Clusters Brushes-n-Stamps by Katie Pertiet
• Torn frame: from Photo Booth Frames by Katie Pertiet
• Heart pin: from Apron Strings kit by Leora Sanford

Ok, now this is the photo that makes it obvious what the first photo in this blog actually is. The first photo shows just the awning over the perch of this birdhouse. My sister sent me this birdhouse a year or so ago, and I have it in my yard in what of my little gardens. So far, no birds yet this spring, have taken up residence.

Sometimes birds don't like our yard much. These huge, nasty, black birds, or crows, take up residence and terrorize all the other birds. AND my dog. AND my daughter! Occasionally I declare war on them, sit in my yard with a garden house and squirt them as they dive bomb poor old Bonnie (dog, not daughter). Mostly, the birds win and I go inside thinking Dark Alfred Hitchcock thoughts about them.
(note: this does NOT mean that if they were dive-bombing my daughter, I would not protect her. She's just smart enough to go inside and not wage futile wars against birds.)