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You can't see it at this size, but the background has a subtle texture.

Thank you, Janette. 🙂 I am hopeful I'll finish it this year 🤞... It takes more time to find the right photo than creating the page. I'll have it printed in a print shop, as always, and it will look like the photo below so my mother-in-law can hang it on the wall as she prefers.

This is lovely, Michele, in its simplicity.

Ladies good luck, you will get there and calendars can be given in the beginning of January too, as long as you give that first page as a teaser for the rest of the pages. I'm very happy that I could print my calendar last Sunday and it is looking fine. Yesterday after those pages had time to dry I put 2 holes in the top of the pages. If you handle them to soon, I had printed them on glossy photopaper, they can smudge a bit. Tomorrow I search for a nice ribbon to bind them together, wrap them in gift paper and they are ready for posting. Now I have to print my cards and those go on matt paper that dries much quicker. I have all my addresses in a word file so I only have to print the address labels and then those can be posted too, or when they have to go nearby I'll bring them myself.

@Susan Ewart and @Christina I had to skip the travel and the scripting. I could count on my fingers that it was to much for me. But it seems to me not to bad with a calendar. If you want to print on a home printer you can do it some later in the year. good luck with it. 🤗

Lab13-01_Stencil Alpha: Freebie cass-ChristmasCookies-Alpha (Blog) Tubes: cass-LitLights-Red Pine branches: Snowy Winter-DBMagnolia - themagnoliapatch.blogspot.com Snowflakes come with PSP (I think) Background from photo

I use A-4. I can use the full width of the calendar, but there is a little strip of 1,5 cm at the top (or bottom). I don't cut that strip off and use it to put two holes in with a perforator. So I can bind the pages with a nice complementary ribbon. You can also use that space for a spiral binding should you want it.

I had to look what a brolly is! The dictionary which I use sometimes when I'm doing other stuff on my pc as well had nothing about it, but google had the answer: it is an umbrella! I "learn" so many new words here!🙃

My Dad, born in 1892, called it a Bumbershoot! 😉 I know that "brolly" is used in Great Britain, Canada and Australia but not here in the States, usually.

Me neither... I finished the month of May... Still, a lot to do.

This is a template from the 2023 December A Love For Layout Templates Blog Train. Template was created by The Cherry On Top. I added texture to the tree and snowman. The photos are from Christmas, 2020. Friends, under the cover of darkness, left the snowmen on my front porch. Each snowman was 3 boxes which contained Christmas gifts. What a nice surprise!

Would you like to use this festive word art in a seasonal page. If so head over to facebook, files, to download the PNG file. Perhaps you would like to change the colours to suit your project, if so, it's easy to change. It is unique, you will not find it anywhere else. Once again created using vectors.

Back to transparent frames. I tried out the Adjustment layers and added texture effects. Can't colorize them though. So back to my original transparent frames made with the selection tool and opacity changes. I can colorize them as well as texturize them. I even put Lucy's paws outside the 2 inner frames. I find that you can save the adjustment layers and slip in any picture, so you can save it and reuse it. In my original transparent frames, I also inner beveled them

2 old fishermen with many tales to tell

Now then, don't anyone dare laugh, but seeing as I had completed all my festive cards, calendars and everything else related to the festive season a while back. I decided to start thinking of Christmas 2024. I'm currently working on greetings for the inside of cards, something other than the usual plain journaling. I posted the wordart tree earlier. Since then I have done 3 similar to the one below. Although it's white vectors on a black background, they will be colourized. This is how I start any of my word/subway art. I used from vector shape to cut out the & from the bauble.

I was just trying out the 2023 Holiday postcard freebee and the Echo script. I changed a few things on the postcard. Text, colors, and bevels.

The Yule Ball is from the Harry Potter stories. I pieced together a bunch of different elements including a few touches from Particle Shop onto a background pic of the empty ballroom. The font is, appropriately, Harry P.

I created this starting with a Globe shared on PSPManiacs.

Welcome to December. Here is the December calendar featuring the Amur Leopard this time. Enjoy. I even used a little Out of Bounds on this one. I have posted a full size version on Facebook that will print 11"x8.5" I feature mine on my desktop. The leopard information is from the Beardsley Zoo in Connecticut, where they have successfully bred some new members of this endangered species. Edit: forgot to name the Amur Jaguar font - Sedalia and the journaling is Arial Narrow.

I got the printed book for my son-in-law yesterday. I am very happy with the result and the quality I got from Staples. Here is the "reveal".

Perfect! I used this stencil too this year for one of the 3 designs I did. Nice to see you back in the Campus Marie-Claire.

E = Eggnog It is my Husband & my tradition to have an eggnog when we are setting up the Christmas Tree. We listen to C. music and when it is all set up we just sit and watch the lights for a while (along with another eggnog.

I would say it was more fun than work.

It turned out great. I know it was a lot of work, but I bet he (all of them actually) will treasure it forever.

I have read a lot of books in English but I have never come across this word, so a new one learned today!

It immediately cheers me up ! 😀

Brolly is most commonly used. I can not recall anyone ever calling it an umbrella, not even my parents. Even Umbrella manufacturers refer to them as brollys in their marketing. It isn't a slang word either.

I haven't either. And looks like another busy week. Hopefully I finish before this year is over.

My husband and I stayed at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco only once. We went to Acapulco every January for a week's vacation when our business was on winter hiatus but usually used a high-rise hotel on the beach. Las Brisas was located at the far end of the resort area and up on the hill instead of right on the beach. Everyone got their own little "casita" (small cabin) with its own or shared private pool. The terrain was extremely steep so we were encouraged to rent one of their vehicles, which were open-top pink Jeeps! Inside the casita was a bed, table, chairs and small bathroom area. Built into a wall was a small hatch which opened from inside and outside so the workers could deliver fresh, hot coffee and pastries early each morning, ready for us when we woke up. This was my definition of LUXURY! The images are from my very first Travel Time class back in 2020. It was my first when I joined The Campus and wouldn't you know I started immediately with double layouts!

A suggestion and request for a masterclass on being creative using vector swashes, swirls, flourishes, dividers. For this decorative festive wordart I used several of the above vectors. To create the banner I used a flourish, duplicated it, mirrored, flipped, then added another decorative swirl in the same manner for extra curls on the banner. Using a vector I was able to easily created text following the path of the banner. I used a divider for the main stem of the mistletoe. added foliage which I took from a font monogram. The holly and berries, stars, snowflakes, ribboned bauble and date also came from font extras. Pen tool to hang the 2 decorations from the banner. I find it rewarding to be able to create my own. It is also much quicker than endless searching for something suitable online which would be in PNG format. Although I will scroll through some for inspiration. The beauty of using vectors is that you can use a 100 pixel size and resize it to 1000pixels plus whilst retaining it's clarity and sharpness. Using the pen tool you can also make adjustments to your liking. For those that didn't know or was curious to know, this is how I created the above festive wordart.

I really struggled with this one. I found a couple of bird pngs on Creative Fabrica but I just didn't like anything I created. Finally I used the photo for my background. Cut out the cardinal and promoted it to a layer. Added texture to the photo/background and reduced the opacity a little. Certainly not my original idea but I like this the best of all my ideas. Font is Bahuraksa. I think it is a Window's font. This is an old photo and I noticed after I had taken the photo that there was a heart shape on the branch beneath the cardinal.

You are so absolutely right. The brolly is a necessity, all year round. I've packed my British waterproof clothing. My Canada winter clothing will be to hot for home. I won't be taking a laptop this time, but I will have my phone to check in on you all.

Happy trails, Sue! You will be getting a break from the cold and winds of the prairies and using a brolly instead I think. Looking forward to the layouts to come from the trip.

This seems to be a layout that is a hybrid between the November Word Challenge (Cold) and the December (Christmas) Challenge. Just playing with lots of elements and basing it on a layout I saw on Jessica Dunn's Curio Pantry site.

You are absolutely right, I fly out on Wednesday afternoon, arriving at mid day the following day. I will be away for more than a couple of weeks. I fly back on the 31st January. It's going to be a wonderful, special time. I'm told that the girls are now counting down the days of my arrival using their advent calendars. Thank you!

Very nice! Sue if I'm not mistaken you are almost flying home for Christmas and I wish you a wonderful time with your children and grandchildren! For the grands it will be such a special X-mas with their granny present. Have a safe trip and come back with many new photos of the places you are visiting. See you in a couple of weeks!

I put this page in November by mistake. I like the gold. I'm going to use this in some of next year's festive cards, as the greeting/verse on the inside page. It ill make for a novel layout. I will also be able change some of the wording, depending who the recipient of the card is going to be.

I dug out one of my very old photos from home. It wasn't that long ago that we were discussing the origins of Christmas and it's relation to the Winter Solstice during pagan times, in the campus. I mentioned that my children and I would go out gathering greenery for decorations, and branches for a tree. I have created a Yuletide page. I still make paper chains. I used Carole's label script for the journaling, the pine cones come with PSP. The other elements I have acquired over the years, which I use over and over in other pages, particularly the ivy, which you may recognise.

The tree was from digital scrapbooking "Christmas-Tree-Bauble-82464322" (it was grey and I turned it green.) The lights were the red button picture tube that I then turned to all white. The buttons are some I downloaded over the years and I did adjust some of them.

What to do with buttons? This image sort of came to mind so has kept me busy tonight. I love to turn Dingbats into shapes and can do this using SS-making preset shape script. I don't know if you can still get this free script. Anyhow, I used preset shapes made from a window font by Kriss and Wildflower font by Muhammad Yafinuha. I suppose you can just use as a font but being as I have sooooo many, it is easier to find them as a shape, especially if I am likely to make good use of them. I coloured and shaded the flowers. I used button balls I made in Filter Forge over time as the flower centers. As I wanted to keep the background transparent, I used the print screen function, cropped it, saved it as a jpg and hopefully will look transparent. TFL

Be my guest 😉

Wonderful, do you think I could use it to decorate my tree with. 😀

My first idea for this Button Challenge was a Button Tree, but luckily I noticed Sue has already done one and I didn't want to do something similar. As you can see I emptied by button box and made a bauble with some decorations. I mostly used the picture tubes that are inside PSP but changed some of their colors to give it a more christmas feel. Their original colors are more suited for Easter in my opinion at least. The decorations come from my stash and are by Marissa Lerin.

For the button frame I used the blue button picture tubes, which comes with PSP. The colours were to pastel for my liking, so I changed them.

Nothing very original. I raided some of Carole's freebie buttons from the Creation Cassel blog. I did use the pen tool to extend the swash, in order to accommodate the button, threaded through.

This was fun but time consuming. The background was downloaded from CF, "Winter-landscape-74761386". All components of the Snowlady are buttons, some distorted to make them work. Also the walkway from the woods. am_intex that I have no idea where I got it from. I did a search in my saved stuff and found over 80 buttons. Of course some were only different colors of the same one.