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ChristmasCard2. My favorite FulterForgeFreePack5, Carole's Alpha and SantaClaus' cap: )

cool , here is my avatar and Elf name

Here is my Elf Self - just call me Twisty. I stuck pretty close to reality with the accessories.

Not sure where to put this. It is Christmas related. At least I put some lipstick on! Even thought I never wear makeup; today was special and just for you all. This is exactly what I look like (NOT). Yikes on the GrumpyFingers part. Makes a perfect excuse..."I'm sorry, I can't come to work today, my fingers are feeling grumpy". 😋

Today would have been my late hubby Frank's, 83rd birthday, so I created this for him. He's pictured at an outdoor restaurant on the beach at Acapulco, our favorite getaway. The textured background paper is labeled "texture25" and I changed the color to match the photo using the Change to Target tool. The frame is from Marisa Lerin, the punch is cass-CornersA-999-13, and the font is Bremen.

I know, right? 🤣 I gave myself long hair, different color and *GASP*...LIPSTICK. I'm ready for a night on the sleigh.

I was really lazy this year and most of my graphics and the font are from Creative Fabrica. The photo collage is from a free download, but I removed the background and moved it to my card. The card was made for my grandkids and their girlfriends who live in Las Vegas. I know it's pretty busy, but I have trouble restraining myself. The font is a glyph font called Helo Angel from Creative Fabrica. The gold snowflakes are also from a free template. This card is the front and needs to folded in half. Original is letter size to fit my card paper.

The font is Brush Script MT. The graphics were downloads from C F. The Cookies Alpha is of course the Christmas Cookie Alpha from Cassel. The other Alpha is one I downloaded a long time ago from who knows where.

We'll just call you Bitsy!

Everything created by me. Daydream or nightmare?

As soon as I saw that this freebie was about cookies, a song came to mind. In Germany there is a nursery song about the Christmas bakery and every year there is a children's choir in one of the big shows on the telly that is singing it. Cristina, Anja and Doska will certainly know it. It is called: "In der Weihnachtsbäckerei" and for those who want to hear it, you can google it and get many hits. Carole thanks, I can't get it out of my head now and am singing/humming it for the last 2 days!🗣️ I even found a sticker about that bakery, it was on a white background but thanks to the blendmode hard light the white disappeared. I have the cookiescript 2 and have "baked" a couple of cookies with some sprinkles and glitter, put them on a plate with a doilie behind. The picture of the bakery shop I had in my stash and I used a mask to get rid of the ugly torn edges. And of course I used the freebie cookies for the text.

That's a beautiful commemorative of your husband.

K = Kids

Any time I've visited the Big Apple in the colder weatheer, I've always bought a bag of fresh-roasted chestnuts. But it's been quite a while since the last time.

Susan, you hit the nail on the head. He was constantly in awe of the changes, especially after WWII. He was very excited about our walk on the moon, etc. ❤️ Having a nostalgia moment here. He's been gone over 40 years now but will always be alive in my heart. 😢

Good 2. Advent morning Corel, thank you for your understanding answer. Yes, in my opinion the forum is very restrictive but also very versatile, but that may also be due to the stricter German copyright law and the fact that violations of it can be quite expensive for a forum admin. Edit: Sorry, I can no longer recommend this German forum. I'm out again, too rude in tone and excessive credit demands. This "leadership" is simply driven by fear and has no trust in the members to handle the material and the credits responsibly. A pure copy police. It's no fun to share something

That date blows me away. What changes he must've lived through. Sorry, I'm kind of a youngster here in this group....feel free to reprimand me, I'll toe-the-line. Kidding of course. I cant really tell how old people are here, they just seem my age or younger. Funny how the written word only reveal age when certain words are used that aren't used anymore. Like the word: Rumpus Room (we'd call in a Family Room now), that dates me to the 70's (presuming I knew the word when I was 4-5 yrs old).

I had already used the cookies for the Christmas challenge, so I used the cookies for a birthday, not intended as a card to print but to use as a digital image to wish a birthday, for example on Facebook or somewhere else. I'm not sure the shadows are okay, but I had fun all evening with making this. Cookie Monster and his party hat are from PNGwing, the balloons are freebies, but I can't remember where I got them The Alphas are from digidelights blogspot com

This is Christmas card #2, the one that took me quite some time. Again, I used the techniques from the Lab 13-1(and the Vector Workshop) and made a grid with Vectors. Boy, that was hard to get all the squares even. If you think grammar isn't my forte, well, math just makes my head spin. At first I forgot to account for the thickness of the edges to know where to put the inner grids, and of course having to centre the thickness of those inner grids came into the equation too. Whew! It's exhausting to think about it. I'm sure I went about it the hard way, would love to know a faster easier way to make grids and get them even. Next time I'd make the outer frame thicker than the inner grid part. Same as the last two cards, I cut off the bottom sentiment and put it on ivory cardstock with a deckle edge. Cards are all out except a few to yet to hand deliver. The other main concern was making sure I got the inner photo spots centred within the squares. I used the magic want to make a selection and then contracted, add new raster layer, flood filled with black then turned them into mask groups so I could position my photos how I wanted. If you wondering what that cheeky cat is saying (with that look on her face): "Move along human, nothing to see here."

Christmas Card #3, not another fall back, but a card I made in one of the Challenges I think last January. I'm guess because the pictures are from that time. I added the snowflakes and "WINTER" to the front. Again, printed as 4x6, cut off the bottom and put the sentiment on the inside. The sentiment is thanks to the Vector Workshop where I learned how to use "text on a path." (notice the correct use of the period here, I'm on a grammar roll). Also, attached to warm white cardstock (Strathmore) with a deckled edge.

Christmas Card #1. The top square portion is the outside of the card, the bottom is what went inside the card. I printed them as 4x6 then cut off the bottom and put it inside. This went on a warm white textured cardstock with a deckled edge (Strathmore). This is also Lab 13-1 I believe, and was my fall back card if I got too busy to make cards. I ended up making two more. I found the inner sentiment color is too strong. If I did it again, I'd make it lighter, and change that one darker blue circle as it seems quite out of place.

Still trying to get jolly. Decided on a layout that is NOT made of traditional red/green colours. The image is AI-generated by a designer on Etsy (AI WearGallery), and I thought it was something different to work with since I don't take a lot of pix in everyday life. Concentrating on a layout and all the details keeps my mind off other things.

The doors etc in the center are from a photo I took yesterday with my new camera, standing in the the foyer of my church. The other elements are some I have saved over the years probable from C F as that is where a lot of them are from.

I've been a bit distracted and not feeling great for a while (back pain), so the Festive Season has not been on my mind. But I'd better get on it b/c the time is getting shorter! I have so many kits and elements to use, so that's what I did. No photos included, just decorative elements mostly from Di Hiller and Ericka Designs. Trying to get jolly....

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

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

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.

I created this starting with a Globe shared on PSPManiacs.

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.