This week's graphics challenge theme is
Holiday Greetings. Looking for that perfect card for the holidays? Why not try creating your very own! Choose a theme for this holiday season and create a greeting card to fit it. You never know, you might start something new!
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Cafe Esperge Digiscrap Kit
© Darleen Araujo
Warm and cozy colors are the basis for this kit. The Cafe Esperge kit is great for a coffee house or Vintage kitchen themed page with friends or family. With a color scheme of red, green, and beige tones it would also work well for Christmas time memories.
• Browse and Download "Cafe Esperge" Digiscrap Kit

Alien Skin Eye Candy Examples, used with permission.
This week, Alien Skin released Eye Candy 6, a new version of the special effects plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Eye Candy includes 30 filters and more than 1000 presets for effects such as fire, animal fur, chrome, marble, glass, smoke, snow, water drops, wood, metal, stone and more.
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© Sue Chastain
Creating a custom greeting card is just one of the fun things you can do in Photoshop Elements. But the greeting card project in Photoshop Elements only gets you started on the front card design and doesn't give you a finished printable card. This tutorial will show you how to do that including adding text and special effects, embellishing the card with additional artwork, all the way through printing the finished card. Photoshop Elements 5 or later is required for this tutorial.
• Create a Greeting Card in Photoshop Elements