[kerbear28]

I wish I had had time to make my own Christmas edits this year, but I figured it was better just to share the edits of those more talented than me.

What was everyone's favorite present or memory from Christmas this year?

For me... I suppose it was ACTUALLY baking Christmas cookies from scratch. I hadn't done that in years! And spending time with my family, of course.

[wickedrum]

I wasn't in the mood for making art this season at all.

[kerbear28]

I just haven't had time. My fandom time has been eaten up by keeping the board going here and re-organizing my tumblr.

I going to start making celebration icons for the Reign board's 4th anniversary coming up January 1st. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ANY SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, SHIPS OR ACTORS THAT YOU WANT TO SEE REPRESENTED. (Obviously, you aren't obligated to use one of them if you make a suggestion.)

[NotDoneAbusingYou]

I think you already know what characters and ships I love Keri. lol

[sherry02]

Happy New Year everyone!

Keri, my favorite memory this Christmas was before dinner on Christmas Day, my father in law gave a very moving little speech about how thankful he was for all of us and that we all made the effort to be there for Christmas.

I don't make art or do anything creative. I can type, that's about it.

[kerbear28]

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ROYALS!!! So grateful for another awesome year with this fandom and this amazing little board.

Originally Posted by NotDoneAbusingYou (View Post) I think you already know what characters and ships I love Keri. lol

I do. I'm going to be making a couple more Catherine and Matherine icons for you to choose from - but don't feel like you need to use any of them. I could even try a Basherine one... I just have to find the right screencap.

Sherry, that sounds like a very lovely speech. And I don't really do anything creative, either. I can barely make basic edits, but I try.

[sherry02]

I don't have any photo editing software, so I've never really had the opportunity to learn. I enjoy looking at things others create though.

[kerbear28]

One of my friends here on the Reign Board, Heather, told me about PicMonkey - free photo editing software. You can't do everything with it, but she taught me a few steps to making basic icons. From there, I taught myself. I'm not good at all, but it's fun. I'd much rather look at the masterpieces others make, though.

[sherry02]

I'll keep that in mind in case I want to try learning someday. Thanks.

[kerbear28]

It's a nice creative outlet. I don't practice as much as I should.

[wickedrum]

haven't used that one before

[kerbear28]

PicMonkey works pretty well for what I want to do. If I wanted to do more complex edits, I might look into other software.

[wickedrum]

I'll try to keep it mind too as a reserve. There are only so many tricks possible, whichever the application.

[kerbear28]

There are a lot of options for photo editing software. I don't use half of the features available on PicMonkey. I just need to time to teach myself some more tricks.

[sherry02]

Hope everyone here had a good weekend. We finally got around to taking the Christmas decorations down. I didn't do much else other than laundry and watch TV.