I found a great website a while back that lets you add all sorts of animations to your pictures and save them as animated gifs. The site is LunaPic.com. The site does not limit you to animated effects. It actually offers a full range of effects that you might find in Photoshop, as well as a whole lot more.
But it was the snowfall effect that caught my eye, so what better to do at this time of year than to add some snowflake frames and snowfall to some of my artwork?
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So take a break from the Christmas rush, pour yourself a mug of hot cocoa and enjoy these animations I created featuring the Christmas and winter-themed digital artwork I have made into greeting cards in years past, as well as some seasonal quotations.
Each of the images I have shown here are available as Christmas cards on my artist website at JayneWilsonArt.com (without the animations, of course!) I've put the direct links under each picture so you can stock up early for next year!
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“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.”
Rachel Cohn - Dash & Lily's Book of Dares.
"Children Playing in the Snow" is available
as a greeting card at JayneWilsonArt.com
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Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way.
Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way.
Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh.
James L. Pierpoint
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"Winter Sleigh Ride" is available as fine art prints and greeting cards
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"Snowmen fall from Heaven,
One snowflake at a time"
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"Winter Cottage and Snowman" is available as a greeting card
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"I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence
and just about everything that goes along with Christmas." -- Hillary Scott
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"Watching for Santa" is available as a greeting card
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"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, the plenteous in mercy
is to have the real spirit of Christmas" -- Calvin Coolidge
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"The Snowman and the Curious Foal" is available as a greeting card
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"Christmas isn't a season, it's a feeling" -- Edna Ferber
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"Bridge Over a Winter Stream" is available as a greeting card
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"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night
will always fill my heart with sweet clarity" -- Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
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"Snowman in the Moonlight" is available as a greeting card
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I hope you enjoyed the wintery scenes and quotations. Now, if you have a little time and want to amuse yourself for a while, head over to Lunapic.com, upload a photo of your own and spend a little while playing around with various effects and animations. Or, if you're caught up in the holiday rush, just bookmark the site to go back to later, when you have some time.
This will be my last post before Christmas, so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday you celebrate at this time of year, and a Happy and Healthy New Year.
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