Christmas Card

The first new skill i learned is how to make an image look like a finger painting. The second was how to make the lights on the tree glow.   link to tutorial  http://photoshopelementstips.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-add-glow-to-any-object-or-body.html

Color Mosiac

The first thing I did was delete any white from the image. Then I used the paint bucket tool to color in the image.