Colorplay December 2025

The Oscraps designers have put together the first-ever December Color Play collection and it's gorgeous! I'm so excited to get to play! I started with CarolW Designs' Snow Wonderland Collection, including two beautiful templates. I picked one of the templates and clipped in two kitty photos...

What a beautiful sunset over the backyard, looking towards the woods on this first official night of winter! 12/21/25

Art Addicts makes a lot of fabulous scene creators, such as their Snowbound Collection. I started by picking one of the background scenes. Next, I added some rocks, a rock wall, and a stump. I hung a star in the sky and added some woodland forest creatures. Then, I added the title: Walking Softly.

For the Day 6 Art Doll Challenge, our host Agata challenged us to dress up an art doll or silhouette in some festive way for the season. My 2nd grade self absolutely loved paper dolls! So, I thought she might like to join me and become my art doll for the challenge. To create the layout, I...

Done for designer challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/december-2025-challenge-recipe.43225/ Spellbound by Emily Brontë The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending Their...

I have always been a cat lover and animal lover. When I was little, I had a large poster of a lynx taped up on my closet door and it hung there until it literally fell apart. To create this layout, I started with an artsy paper in white, mint, and blue tones. I added one of the...

For the Day 7 Create a Border Challenge, we were asked to create a border that runs along the enter length of the top of the page and that has at least three dangling elements. I decided that I wanted to use Palvinka Designs' Winter Memories Collection, because it has a gorgeous blue in it that...

It was 7 degrees when I got up at 8 today!! I worked on the computer until it was time to pick up Mark for lunch. We went to Mamma Mia’s and split our usual Chicken Philly Sub combo. It is still a lot of food for me. I usually end up giving Mark half of my fries and today he took about half...

This is a stunning black-and-white photo of a child taking in all the magic of a brightly lit Christmas tree and all the marvel and wonder that comes with that magic. Sometimes less really is more, so I decided to keep all the focus on that photo by adding a simple frame, one piece of word art...

More playing around.

To create this layout, I started with the photo of the pine tree on an outcropping of rocks, near an icy sea. I selected the outside edges of the photo, and made a 55 pixel frame for it, and gave it a drop shadow. Next, I selected a pretty mixed media grunge background paper for it from Rachel...

More playing.

Just playing with this beautiful kit!

For the Day 4 Challenge at Oscraps, we were asked to use one word -- HOLIDAY -- somewhere in our layout. (The plural version is also okay.) I decided to do an irreverent take on the holidays -- because not everyone looks forward to them. They may have lost a loved one, and this is their first...

I am loving playing with this collab!

Done for Day 9 Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/day-9-use-one-of-these-photos-challenge.43201/