wow the extraction on this is amazing and your shadowing makes the mix of real and digi doodled look like this is straight out of a storybook!

yep they've all got different but big personalities and only bird people get that ;-)

here's my older version from another site, i thought it was too visually heavy with the colours and cutout tree and the chevrons took away from the photos but i kept the premise the same - new page is 100% the Jingle Mingle collab (with fonts/text from previous layout) old: new:

credits: Jingle & Mingle Oscraps Collaboration- Daily Downloads 2024

awesome landscape/travel scrap with yoru blending and framing out of the box and whatever artsy treatment & skills you have used to make the page also seem to be the sky!

oh i like this for the falala, rumpapumpum but i think my daughter who's worked in the same retail store for a few xmases now would like to actually deck the drummer boy b/c it's on high rotation in their xmas playlist

song 1: We Need A Little Christmas song 2: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas We Need A Little Pygmy hippopotamus for Christmas (i believe they're called pygmy hippos but lyrics are probably not always scientifically accurate)

i thought it was more like minutes can feel like hours when you shovel snow (i'm going off tv never having done it myself but if it ever snows like that where i live, the whole world is in trouble)

awesome extraction work and i love the inclusion of the clock in the cluster

love the painterly feel using the muted tones with the sepia & B&W of the photo treatment

this is such a delightful set - love the punch of green with the delicate whites and silvers

this feels like a deluxe christmas card! love the birdhouse scene in the middle with the lifty frame!

this has such great balance thanks to your border work - the lantern at the bottom is like the dot on the bottom of an exclamation mark, it really makes your border feel complete and makes it shine

B: Byron (my DS's name)

this is such a magical scene! beautiful work!

love the snowy xmas tree and the sheet music!

it's fine, i didn't think you left the state b/c of me and that whole state of origin thing is overrated (never followed football) - good to see you Anne-Marie & hope you have a happy new place in QLD

We still have to schedule a meet up one of these days - you'd have to be the closest digiscrapper to me geographically! (if it's the height of summer though the only requirement i have is air-conditioning and if you're out nth west like i think then you probably understand that requirement)

LOL that is a great thread and it sounds like they have a healthy respect for you and your namesake