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Here is my revised September and my remaining month; December. The original photo I was going to use was too wide so this one became the stand in for December. the 3rd photo is the one I couldn't fit. I had wanted a festive vintage movie camera shot for December. I was painting with light. 20-25 second exposures in pitch black and using a very small flashlight to highlight areas. Best with no background but this was on my wall unit so I left it as it and my flashlight is that horrible blue color, but it was fun to to experiment with the technique. I made 4 shots, and used lighten blend mode in the layers. Tomorrow I'll get to the cover. I still have lots to go back and polish in the previous months and text to add and research to do about the camera. (I collect them cause they look cool, not because I want to know about them. Now, I'm getting more interested in getting some knowledge about them....yup, a sign I'm getting old 😔) .

Calendar 2024.Cover Theme "Its a cats tale" Thanks Carole, I enjoyed this and picked up good tips. Maybe I will be first to post the cover, as we in NZ get to see the new day first.

Here is May. Wordart by Scrapping with Liz: SwL_HappyMothersDay This time, it was about trying new ways of doing this, as the first one I participated in was in 2017... A long time ago. And seeing the pages posted here inspired me for next year's calendar 🙂

At last, my first attempt. Strangest month ever made for a calendar. Use the echo script and just a lonely tree, because it is still cold in January in the northern hemisphere The original file looks to big in size, was nearly 2 Mb So resized it till about 0,28 Mb

Hello, Everyone! Amazing work here. Carole must be very proud. I have been pretty quiet...my caretaking duties are increasing. I have completed my calendar and hope to have time tomorrow to resize and post. Have a great evening!

September 🙂

You have a whole week, although there isn't really a time limit to participate. Meanwhile concentrate on getting better. We will look forward to seeing what you create.

November🙂 Will shove the quote a tiny bit to the right.........

August 🙂

Working on the cover gave me the opportunity to showcase this elephant photo which is one of my favorites. The title font is still Wakanda and the font for the year is Witch Mystery because I thought it looked rather African. I do love African art.

Great workshop. I also attended your calendar making webinar awhile back. Learned alot in both "workshops". Here is my end result for August. The main photo was taken with my drone at the local arboreum in August of this year and the other is looking up at some cabins off of Lake Cumberland in Kentucky several years ago...from a boat.

October 🙂

My offering for the Cold challenge. Warwick Drive-In snowed in in 2017. I used the cass-framed-mask3, my photo and the embellishments and background paper from my Iceland mega kit. It has really come in handy for anything wintery.

Regardless of how cold it must have been, with clear blue skies and sun's rays radiating above, it's an invitation to go outside. The radio sends out wind chill warnings, and extreme cold warnings, stating how long it can take before frost bite sets in. Usually within a minute or so. I frequently sit out with the horses, out of the wind and in the sun. Their coats are toasty warm to the touch. Quite often I will have to open a coat, as there is still a fair amount of heat in the sun, eeven in the dead of winter. At least I get a small dose of vitamin D on my hands face. Our sky is almost always a clear Caribbean blue year round. Unlike Wales, which has an endless cloud ceiling. Which I'm looking forward too in a funny sort of way. I think to much time in one ambience, makes me long for something new. In a way the blank sunny skies has deprived me of the visual diversity that I may crave.

So far, I have created January thru June. The font is Samantha Upright from Creative Fabrica. I use the Vectorstroke script to add the birthstone for each month. The flowers for Jan and Feb are from Creative Fabrica and for March my own photo and bow. I used layer styles to highlight the month. The background is my own which I call glitter streaks. I redid the months using the cass custom calendar script which was just updated. Thank you Carole. All the calendar photos are my own or from family. Jan is a picture of Lake Erie in winter, the second is from my grandson on his way to snowboarding and the third is my picture of Detroit taken from across the river.

Thanks for the heads up on the video. I watched it and it's really good. I think I'll be getting the script, what a time saver for making Calendars.

I purchased the Custom Calendar script, and I can see it will speed up their creation... I think it is genius, and I am curious to see how it is coded. 😉 😄 This morning, I was happy to see that the YouTube video was uploaded: Custom Calendar I know it takes time (there are hundreds of scripts!), but having a video explaining how it works is very helpful.

Ann, I also love to see your Wild Life calendar pages. You showcased so well those beautiful animals.

Well, it didn't take long to convert me ... 😄

I hope your caretaking isnt too onerous and you remember to take time for yourself to re-charge. We will all be here when you have the time.

Oh wow, this is FABULOUS! I love the graphic.

Ann, that looks like a very nice kit. A fitting layout for the word cold.

I use Fontbase. There is a free version which is fully functional. The paid version is $39 a year, which is what I use. It has features that let me sync fonts between my two laptops. The viewer does a good job of giving access to the glyphs.

Already many, many years ago when I was in the Swiss Alps, it was - 20c but when we were at or near the summit of a mountain (by cable car) there was a very strong wind blowing too. There were warnings in place that the wind chill would be -40c and everyone was advised to take shelter in the restaurant and not linger outside! It was a clear day and the views were amazing, but at that point I hadn't a camera with me.

I found the prida01 font for free on 1001fonts

Forgotten if I "reply to topic or start new thread" Apologies if I got it wrong ! What a learning curve this all is. I started the January page and noticed how some of you had changed so many different things on day one or 2two and thought I had to try to do the same! What a disaster, computer nearly going in the bin ! I was then taking care of a friends 6 three week old puppies and the mother dog while they took a short break. Calendars were no longer foremost in my mind but puppy gazing was ! I now realized some of you have done this before. I didn't realize that each day Carole would give us further instructions. I might be 74 but I don't expect my brain to do this to me , what an idiot I was !! So today I have followed each days tutorial to the letter and tried to apply it to January at least . I had no idea that a character map existed or how to do so many of the things in the 7 day tutorial. I changed the colors on some dates to correspond with my Blue Green and Brown refuse bins being emptied .The purple jacket had something on I needed to remove and have already learnt to brush over in the purple and I added a snowflake to detract from a large purple area. Any graphics were from Pixidoodles. Have a nice day everyone

The wind here is a force to be reckoned with, at any time of year. There isn't anything natural to curb it. The cold itself is tolerable, with adequate clothing.

I thought I'd try adding more than one image to a post. I'm still playing a round creating gold decorated frames. The ivy was an ivy green in colour, which I turned to gold. It worked, now I know how to add more than one image.

No, I got them with my ON1 Raw editing program. they are called Two Little Owls - Autumn Whimsy Textures. They are actually presets but they also included JPGs so was able to use them outside that program.

Sue, I haven't yet had a problem with that, but the maximum number of pages I post in a comment is 2. What I do is after clicking "choose files," I choose one page, and after this is uploaded, I choose the other.

Nice job, Monique. These are all beautiful!

What a marvelous work did you al do together. I can hardly keep up with you. 👍🧡💯

😡 sorry. I stil had the string in mind. Hopefully I'am forgiven. I'm no that well at the moment. I'v got the NORO-virus. But that is not the reason, I did not read well apparently.

I love your use of color. what a good idea to use birthstones and the Vector Stroke. Wait till you get to November, it's a deco-looking frame, do you think?

I posted the months of Jan and Feb from my mammal calendar, because I used the the same templates. Here is the front cover and a little information on each mammal showcased in the calendar. Which is printed on the back of the front cover. My personal choice of preference is to maintain a minimalistic consistent flow throughout my calendars.

I concur with you! It's an absolute pleasure to scrolls through all the pages.

July 🙂

@MoniqueN., if you want, we can troubleshoot, sometimes today or another day. Just drop me an email when you are available.

Good to hear you are back up and running. I would be needed a break after going through something like that. It was probably your provider. We've had that, where something stops working and then randomly starts working even when doing nothing about it. Recently, it was the modem we got from our internet/TV/phone provider, it had to be re-booted 3 times then everything started working as normal.

Great pages, Susan!

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well, Jannette... Sending my best wishes to you.

Thnak you, Susan. Yes, definitely. I love Art Deco.

COLD is the word to be used throughout this challenge. It isn't the same as the STRING OF WORDS CHALLENGE, we did a short while back.

@Christina and @Sue Thomas What wil the next word be???

Thank you so much Cristina. That means a lot to me, Carole, you and most everyone else in the Campus are my mentors with PSP. It is amazing the changes in cameras. I do collect them. Mostly because I received my parents old cameras and then my grandfathers. It appears he did a lot of photography in his younger days. I started with photography in high school and it was a hobby for many years. Then I put it down while doing glass work (fusing and lampworking) and silversmithing. That actually led me to pick it up again to photograph what I was doing. I found I like doing it more than the current arts I was doing. I love the really old cameras, they are beautiful. And ones from the 80-90's from when I first started. Wish I had kept my first ones. I'm reshooting that awful September month. the Polaroid SX70 isn't my favorite so it's no surprise the photo didn't turn out. Well, clearly I am a Fontaholic and I will tell you the font name is hopes to convert you 😋. It is called Creative Vintage which I believe is from Creative Fabrica. It has regular version and a draft version which is the one I choose for the end bit. I lowered the opacity on the months(along with changing the backgrounds) to make it older looking. I'll be adding the changed ones once I get them all done with the text I want to add, holidays etc.

I don't have decorated yet. After Dec 5th I'm going to and that is after we had "Sinterklaas" although we no longer celebrate this. I have kept that "rule" for so long now that it doesn't feel right to start before. Of course I have a couple of those little lights dotted around the living but that has more to do with the fact that it is getting dark so early now. Since we moved to this much smaller house 6 years ago, we don't have the space any longer for a big tree and we don't have much storage space either. But on top of our cupboards I always have garlands with small decorations and lights, we have a sweet little fake tree (no photo) and I can't go without Pointsettias. The rest of the deco varies, depending if we have company or go somewhere else. One item is always present and that is the candle holder that my youngest granddaughter made 6 years ago, although we now have battery operated lights for it. Outside I mostly have some lights in a plant on the patio and maybe I do a wreath with light and fir-cones on the table outside. On the front we have not much space and there is a streetlight directly in front of our house. Next to the frontdoor we do have a light but we almost never use it thanks to that streetlight; no problem there finding the keyhole.