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Once a week a group of women to meet to play pickleball. After pickleball, we share a picnic lunch and play games. This day we played Jenga. One of our towers reached 28 layers and one reached 34! Template= Lab 13-04.

Wishing you all a wonderful Dec 25 & those who celebrate it a Joyous Christmas. Most of the alphas are freebies from Cassel.

Our pickleball Christmas luncheon. Template by The Cherry On Top .

Wishing you all a wonderful Dec 25 & those who celebrate it a Joyous Christmas. Most of the alphas are freebies from Cassel.

Oh man, what is a better job than this? At work when we see rabbits or occasional coyote, my co-working and I are always saying how we want to get our face right up in the fur...well, your g'daughter gets to do just this. Thanks for sharing. My hubby is most jealous.

@Mary Solaas You're right that one of my granddaughters is a zookeeper but it is here on the East Coast, in Lake Ariel, PA. It is called Claws N Paws Animal Park and is really more of a tourist attraction than a true zoo.

Thank you, Carole and Sue for the Christmas countdown. It was fun every day 🙂

Almost done with 2022 Alphabet Workshop - Y is for Yellowstone.

I know last night was the winter solstice and I have been working on this one today.

I have been rather busy and haven't been inside this tread for a while, so I'm not going to comment on every entree, but it was a joy to browse! For all of you have a very good Christmas time, in which ever way you celebrate this time of the year. Thanks for all the inspiration, comments, friendship and support and may this continue in 2024!!!

@Susan Ewart this was so much fun - easier than Spark. Here are 2 more I just got through playing with (although they are not Christmas.

Merry Christmas All! This is my husbands company's version of Christmas. We went out in the evening to photograph the tire tree and snowman. They had lights but the battery was dead. I had wanted to try some light painting but the ambient lights from the parking lot was very bright, but I did use my flashlights to fill in the shadows a bit. Then I darkened it a bit again because I liked it a bit darker instead and lighter. It's nice to see even a big tire company has the Christmas Spirit. The font is Klasted from Creative Fabrica. The moon is from the parking lot that night as well. I got the light flare from CF as well. I wonder if there is a way to make the Santa/Dinosaur arched without distorting it. Like we do with vectors on a path. I would have liked a little bit of an arch on them. I used a Layer Style, outer glow...which I've never used before but I've seen other do it and liked it. I had to use the lowest setting and a lowered opacity too otherwise it's crazy big.

Julie I had the same problem, no banner anymore but if you go to the calendar you still can see it and can click on the 25. There is a wordart saying Merry Christmas in many different languages and there is a time set when this countdown ends. I probably was too late checking in, but we were away for the day and just got home. Carole and Sue thank you very much for this wonderful Christmas Countdown, it was something to look forward too every day!

I clicked on the 25 and a word art of Merry Christmas in many languages popped up.

It was my pleasure, also thank you Carole for allowing me to contribute to the countdown again this year. As usual it was a great success.

Michele: I love that all their beards are different! 😉

And the cover

July/December🙂

I forgot to show the finished calender😎

As a child with 8 siblings, I don't recall having visits with Santa so it's a special treat to get to share that special occasions with grandchildren. This morning Santa patiently waited for us to bravely get closer to get our picture taken.

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

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 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.

Fractal ChristmasCard created with Incendia-fractal generator.

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.

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.

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