Christmas Letter Elements

And I'd like to mention that the trim looked much better without adding a drop shadow to it.  It is shown in the preview without the shadow but you can try it and decide which look you prefer.  Also I had changed the tag and used the wrong preview yesterday.  It was replaced today with the correct one. 

Christmas Letter Paper

Christmas Waves Wordart

The are all black or grey, however I added a glitter sheet. To add a bit of glitz to your wordart, drag and size the wordart into your layout.

1. Now drag the glitter into the layout and crtl+g (group the layers together).
2. Add a new layer and crtl+g. Fill this layer with the color you would like.
3. Set the layer style to hard light. (In the preview top left.)
4. If you are using a dark color and would like a deeper color...
5. Click Enhance>adjust color>color variations and click darken 3 times.
6. Lock the 3 layers together by clicking on the wordart layer, you see an eye, in the same column as the eye, for both the glitter layer and color layer click and a lock will show.
7. Now click Layer>merge visible.

Thanks Judith for all your contributions this year. And thank you all for taking the time to leave a note. I really enjoy reading them.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas.

Berry Set

Berry Wreath and Garland.

Pine Wreath

 Pine Wreath and Garland. Thanks for the nice comments. These sets seemed to be something you might be able to use will a lot of different things. So I thought they could be loaded separately, and tomorrow the berries and we'll be finished. Thank you all for leaving the nice comments. Have fun.

Holly Wreath and Border

Holly Wreath and Garland.

Gingerbread Alpha

Gingerbread Alpha. It includes the lowercase, punctuation and numbers. They are all "iced" slightly differently. And for Keryn, who taught me that Santa uses "Boomers", a couple of arrows for her and the rest of you down under. (I hope they'll eat feed corn.) Anyone who needs the arrows in a different language or tradition, leave a note and I'll make them up for you.

Milk and Cookies

Milk and Cookies. (I thought it would be fun to included the reindeer.) Hello to our new friends. You may be interested in last years Gingerbread House made by my grandson, in case you need another. He and grandpa have had a competition ongoing all year, between his gingerbread house and grandpa's 62 Impala template. The number of downloads of each of their idea's put him ahead. Of course it was loaded months before grandpa's and has a much broader use, but still it is fun for them. I should remind them that I did the work, but it's probably more fun their way.

Blue and Gold

Blue and Gold

Christmas Dreams

Christmas Dream Cleaning out my computer, lets see what comes of it!

Candy Land Alpha

Candyland Alpha

Winter Wonderland Chipboard Frames

 If you put the tabs on, we can get the download into one. See the Chipboard Frames for ideas.

Drag the tab into the layout. Layer the Frame over it. If you want more than one, duplicate the layer(s) and lay them out, when your finished, lock the layers together (click on the first layer and in each layer you want locked together, click in the empty box, you'll see a lock) and click>layer>merge linked. Now you can move your frame around and it will stay "together".

Candy Land Elements #2

My grandson stayed here on Tuesday and he wanted to make a gingerbread house. This is the house he made. I added the little gift boxes, they are all square but if you change the proportions you can get different boxes. As 100 percent by 150, or 200 to 100. To do this start dragging a corner and at the top a the dimensions will appear, if you just want it larger, lock the size. Otherwise play a little.

The ribbon slide is a bit tricky to erase sometimes, and look right. So try this. Drag the ribbon end up to the slit were it goes under and just let the rest hand over the edge. It will be discarded when you finish your layout and flatten the image. Repeat for the other side and it's attached.

Tip 3...you can Type or use your brushes on brad, or little candies, or ?, to personalize them. And putting a brad on the top of your paperclip changes the look.

Candy Land Papers #3

Candy Land Papers #2

Candy Land Elements #1

Thanks again for all your kind comments.

If you want your paper clips to appear "attached", place it behind or above the layer you want it attached to (depending on the look you want).

Select your eraser tool (on the left), and on the top of the screen I chose block, to get a square eraser. Now erase the part of the image would not be shown if it were actually attached. I did it both ways for you to see in this layout.

Remember, you can always select Edit>undo, or if it really goes badly, throw away the layer, and drag the clip back in and start over.

Candy Land Papers

Chipboard Frames

These will go with one of the Christmas sets I'm putting together. So each one has the frames with the tabs in different locations, and one plain and one tab. There are 4 different kinds of ties. If you mix and match, it'll probably comes out to hundreds of chooses. I didn't do the math, but you can.