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This year I used gnomes as a theme for my youngest grandsons' Christmas Cards. The backgrounds are from CF and Canva. The front letters are pngs from CF which were stacked using Carole's Alpha Stacking script and then entered into the Text Creator script. The candy cane frame is my own from my Build a kit 2. The purple belt Taekwondo gnome is from Adobe Express AI in honor of Thomas just receiving his purple belt. The inside gnome is from CF, and the candy cane letters are from my alphas in Build a Kit 2. I did not save the name of the inside font but it is from CF.

We are having a family party today to celebrate the engagement of my grandson, Brad and his sweetheart, Livia. I made a little layout for them. I feel I need some instruction in modifying masks. This one from Cassel, is too much on the right side but whatever I did to it made it worse, so I left it alone.

I finally had the calendar pages printed. It's nice to see how they turned out.

My Foxy dog in the window sill behind my couch. (yes I leave the inside window open with just the storm window closed so she can lay in the window until it gets REALLY cold and windy. Her favorite go to toy is the old stuffed lamby that she has had for 13 years. The paper is from a bundle from probably C F (Christmas-pattern-108649417) The frame was adapted from ps_brooke-gazarek_26591_touch-of-sparkle-christmas-frame-green_pu

Merry Christmas:) Carole's: Christmas Tree with changed color, frame, a single latern on the pick taken by JK. Thank you Carole for advice:

This year has been quite challenging for me. I think I mentioned on here before that I had developed a horrible bout of Vertigo just after the New Year. The dizziness, spinning and double vision subsided by mid March but left me with a fairly common but nasty side effect of feeling wobbly and unstable. There were times I did not want to do anything with PSP, especially if it involved me having to concentrate more than usual. Lately, I am doing more things even if it's quite challenging and giving me a bit of brain fog too. An MRI was clear, my eye health is fine and awaiting an ENT appointment. Sitting down is fine, it is the walking that I am unsteady. Anyway, I did not mean this to be a moan fest, just to say why I have not been as involved with here and PSP in general. However, I have really enjoyed this challenge of changing a dingbat font into a shape (using a script by Susie Shook) and then colouring them in and using all sorts of techniques, as taught by Carole and a fur plugin on the cat. I have put them onto one layer and will use them to compose a Christmas greeting for those friends and family I don't see through out the year. I notice I have used a different Dingbat font than the one Carole suggests. Told you I had brain fog. Anyway, hope you like them. x Forgot to say the Dingbat font was called Fox Christmas Doodle.

I finished another layout from my Unfinished Layouts folder. I still have a few more to work on. This one was easier, more adding photos than anything else. Credits: Template by Lynn Grieveson (lgrieveson_perfect-panorama-4) Cassel - Date Stamp #8 script Element by Harper Finch - hf_inthewoods_elements1 (12). She was one of my first freebie sources when I started here. Fonts: Mom´sTypewriter Segoe UI Light Segoe UI Semibold

When our Church added on two additions right & left of the original, the ladies in the office wanted to know if I could create a unobstructed view of the whole thing. Whew, it became quite a challenge. I could not get nearly far enough back to get the whole thing because of large trees. I took several picks from the sames location, and some from different places but at the same distance. I finally got it the best I could and they were very happy with it. It has been used many times. (the bricks on the new part are darker so that is not a mistake).

I know it is controversial these days but from when I was a little girl we always celebrated Sinterklaas and I have the most happy memories about those 3 weeks in the year. The big department stores had made great displays in their shop-windows and the children could visit Sinterklaas there just as it is with Santa now. My grandparents always came to our house to take part. Most kids lost their faith in Sinterklaas when they were between 6 and 8 years of age and you were wondering how it was possible that Sinterklaas was in 2 different locations on the same time and wasn't looking like it was the same person. Sometimes you recognized the person playing the role of Sinterklaas was someone you knew, or you wondered how the presents arrived through the chimney when you lived in an apartment building. But after the shock of finding out, the great fun started, because you were considered old enough to start making surprise gifts for the rest of the family. Most of the time we draw lots with the name of one of the family members for whom you had to buy a present and transform it into a surprise gift which had to be accompanied with a poem. In the poem you could make fun of that person, or comment on something that had happened and you weren't happy with. But never nasty! Later we kept this tradition with our own children until our daughter moved to Switzerland where they don't know this tradition and our son didn't want to go on without his sister and my parents were to old to come because they didn't lived in the neighborhood.

The weather is still miserable here and I think I haven't seen the sun in 10 days or so. We call this period the dark days before Christmas and this year it really is appropriate. Outside it is gloomy and often wet as well and I haven't found anything to take a photo of. I would have liked to go to our local woodland park to see if there was anything worthwhile, but since we haven't a car any longer I have to go by bike and that wasn't appealing at all. We have a tall vase standing in a dark corner of our living; normally with a nice colorful artificial bouquet of flowers and greenery. At this time of the year I put small electric lights in it with some silvery leaves, not really a Xmas decoration but I'll leave it there until the days are lengthening. Without anything else to take photos I experimented with it and this is the result I like best. But hopefully next week I can go to our market square when it is almost dark to see the decorations and lights.

I used Carole's script for the patchwork Christmas tree, added some picture tube strings of stars and some gold snowflakes from my winter stash. The wordart is from my Christmas stash. I tucked some packages under the bottom of the tree to create the illusion of a base. After I created the tree I grouped it so I could add a shadow.

Thank you, Susan! Thanks to Carole and her workshops, tutorials, etc, we can give wings to our creativity!

I've been using PSP9 since it came out, left it alone for a few years and rediscovered it a couple of years ago. This was made during my T-shirt era.

I started with PSP to be able to make graphics for our family business, the Warwick Drive-In Theater. I did a logo, which is on a transparent background, so therefore, a .png which I can't show here but I do have a .jpg version.

Week 50 I asked these greylag geese if I could take a photo and this is the pose they struck!

DEC. P52-DEC. 15-WEEK 49 - THAT FROSTY TIME OF YEAR 3

Here is Design 1 of my Christmas cards that didn't get to the print test page. This would be on the outside of the card, the insides never even got designed. I'll post this also on FB as it might appear really dark here. Soon as I saw this quote I had to do it for my Nephew. Hope it doesnt offend anyone. I added a white-ish(textured) border so you could see it. I was going to use the paper as a white border going on a grasscloth textured dark desaturated brown cardstock (from Bazzill). I'll post the next 4 designs over the next four days.

What a cutie dog, Anne!

My grandson and his girlfriend just received my printed Thailand calendars (made from their Thailand photos from last summer) and were just thrilled. Rachel is planning to hand some out to her family for Christmas.

Week 51 The little town where I live goes in for quite a lot of Christmas decorations which is lovely and helps cheer up the short days of December. A new addition this year was this reindeer in the florist’s shop window. It made me smile when I first saw it – just because it’s so cute. Having taken the photo I had to laugh when I noticed the way the phone number is positioned – perhaps it’s a hot line in case anyone recognises a reindeer who slid of a roof, banged its head, and can’t remember who it is…

I wish I could have laid my hands on some of the EARLY photos but I had several from later years to add to the project.

And one more I made, playing with vectors and gradients. Hope you like it!

The long-time members know that I started making pics for my gaming group. Once I found the Campus, my creative life took off! My laptop is limping along so I can't make anything new. But I can show a couple of older pics.

I do suspect they are telling you what you can take a picture of and kiss too.I bet they even gave those tail feathers a little shake too. LOL

I don't read French but I know a great tutorial when I see one. Yours is FABULOUS!

Nice, I don't have time to do much scrapping this week but I try to keep up with the things that are posted! I see that you have unpacked your Anna Aspnes goodies too!

Week 51

Week 49. White tailed hare.

Isnt it a great feeling to finish something that was unfinished. What a beautiful quote. I always find it so neat to look at where people live and think, hey, the nature there looks just like the nature where I live. same grasses, same trees. Those photo could be in anywhere in the provinces (Canada) I've lived in.

Thank you, Christina. The kids were thrilled when they received them yesterday.

Very nice layout, Cristina. Noting the use of white on the photo labels; it is quite effective. That background is one of my favorite colors.

I can only imagine how happy you are, Donna! Your work is so bright and colorful; I love it!

Cristina they look fantastic and I'm still amazed how the different Calendars looks when printed! It is so worthwhile after all the work we put in.

OMG! love your words...."we can give wings to our creativity".

I just got my printed calendars, too. They look great and have mailed out in time for Christmas.

That looks so good Cristina. Thank you for showing what it looks like in physical form. it turned out wonderfully.

It looks fantastic! When I'm able to reinstall PSP, I'm determined to finish creating mine.

What a lovely memory and a wonderful family tradition. It might not have lasted through the descendants, but it makes for such a touching story.

Actually, I have downloaded it, but haven't had time to rewatch it.

I suggest you watch the "Handout" of "PaintShop Christmas 8" which is complete and very well done.

Once more - but that's it. Did download the 2 fonts. The Frosty is in my shapes folder and the Joyeux Noel is in my fonts folder now. Interesting coloring the parts of Frosty. The holly frame is a picture tube.

Wrapped text gets unwrapped It might not always happen but once you have added wrapped text into a selection, when you edit the text afterward, it might loose its "wrapping" and go back to a straight text with no way to put it back in its shape.

Corrie, some of them do take them home! 🙂

Oh Jannette, that is so sad and so scary for you. I hope your husband is doing better. Hugs and best wishes for stability for both of you.

I also made my "Elf" style alphabet (using a scipt)

I wanted to browse other threads, but I don't have the time now to review each post. The paper workshop is one of them. I'll do this after the holidays.

Well it would be most welcome in my house too! I love the shop windows in the UK, they are much more elaborate and festive then the ones we tend to have!

I'm having good luck with PSP 2022 Ultimate. It is my goto for actual work. I'm glad I got the 2023 only for the Vision FX and that is what I use it for. I know there were features in 2023 that aren't in 2022, but I can do without it seems. I'm not going to fight it - 2022 for me.

I have never thought of you (or anyone else) in that kind of "traditional" garb. My mother and her sister each made their own "kroj" (pronounced kroy) when they were young and wore them in Canada and the US in the 1940s & 50s for special occasions. This photo shows them (mother & sister) as children in their native garb in Moravia). I wish so much I had one of those intricate, lovingly-made dresses to preserve.

For my part, I got back into painting with Corel Painter (nice hat, isn't it!)