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This has nothing to do with Christmas, but what a show Mother Nature put on last night in Fairbanks. These picks are from the web cam about 1AM Alaska time this morning. https://explore.org/livecams/aurora-borealis-northern-lights/aurora-cam

I wish to send best holiday and New Year wishes to everyone here at the Campus. It's THE place to be with some of the best and most helpful folks around. Blessings to all.

And a happy Christmas to you all and looking forward to the new year. Thank you Carole and to all the inspirational work and comments. Here's one of my photos slightly festively adorned with freebies. Happy new year.

Hi all, I've been doing a lot of graphic work this month, personal cards and scraps for family, forums and PSP school. Most of it still with PI X3 but also frames with PSP. However, I have to switch to PI for plugins because the new PSP no longer allows external filters, as I read. I would have bought an older version if I had known this earlier. But with PI I can still switch if external filters need to be applied. Here is one of my newer PSP frames with a recent photo from our municipal Christmas market. The Tutorial is from here

I found mine. My daughter-in-law, Pam, took me to the Germantown Christmas Party (Santa for the kids) and after it was over, Santa let me sit on his lap. Here's the photo.

What a great card this would make.

Is that an English Robin? So beautiful. Merry Christmas to you and all in the Campus.

Hi Carole, yes, years ago I had a photo taken with a department store Santa Claus, but I can't find the photo at the moment. But I wanted to ask you if I could scrape your sweet Santa Claus photo with your husband and give it to you (I won't make it public, I'll leave that up to you to decide)?

I just wanted to recommend this link to you, Suzy. These really high quality bloghop kits are beautiful. I saved them immediately on my external drive under Christmas kit, and twice also under Blogtrains December 2023. Here is my scrap that I made with a kit. Credits on Scrap. The mask is from AMarie Carp (DS) Have all a merry Christmas and a better new Year as this year

I know, right? I don't know how these designers churn all this stuff out - most of the designers ALSO have an Advent giveaway from The Studio, DigitalScrapbookingStudio. It's so big they have to start it in mid-November, so I missed about half of it. https://blog.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/2023/11/advent-calendar-2023/ Then a lot of them are also in this company at My Memories. https://www.mymemoriesblog.com/2023/12/mymemories-december-blog-train.html Keep in mind, these are all NEW and DIFFERENT from one another, so they don't reuse stuff from one store to the next.

I had no photo to use that matched with this winter theme but I have collected a lot of goodies which I never used. I have gone quite liberal with the sketch idea, but all is there, although not all are papers in the given rectangles by the sketch. I think most of what I used came from Creative Fabrica and some from DigitalScrapbook.com. This was a fun layout and a change from the scripting course which is almost finished, just one more lesson to go in the new year.

Great grandson Raja Blue Lennox, brother to Magic, from Mendocino, California. Details: FONTS: Hello Butterfly and Agency; Elephants: Marisa Lerin - Oh Baby Baby; Frame-elif sahin_winter day; Background photo: The Lion King - Disney- luminance layer mode; Polka dot paper: cpjess-behold-autumn-mini kit. Raja photo: dad Will Lennox - I used a watercolor brush to blur the edges of mask.

Fractal ChristmasCard created with Incendia-fractal generator.

A few changes but here it is...

I have been making Christmas Cards for my two youngest grandsons. I used Carole's letters and my picture of Phillip at the computer. Everything else is from Creative Fabrica.

Reading the blog 'how to create a festive snowglobe' gave me the idea for a birthday card (could double up as Christmas card) for a friend of mine who likes gonks. I made the gonk pictured by needlefelting, photographed him, cut him out with Smart Selection brush and the edit mode, adjusted his colour a bit and used him as the element for the snowglobe. A suggestion at the end of the instructions was to darken the edges. I used the Lighten and Darken tool but couldn't think how else to do that.

I was playing around yesterday with that multiple transparent frames which I made into several masks. This is two of the cat pictures I came up with - one is of the CF Spark cat I asked for and one is of my nephew's cat.

I may save this one or the other one I posted for next year's Christmas countdown. Possibly by putting it to a vote. Thanks for all the loves, wows and likes.

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....

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

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