Caturday Art for Christmas in July

We like to participate with Caturday Art on Saturdays and thought today's creation reminded us of Christmas with the reds and greens with berries.

Christmas in July began in the South 84 years ago on July 24th and 25th in 1933 at a girls' camp called Keystone Camp in Brevard, North Carolina.  

Today is known as Christmas in July. Some television stations, such as the Hallmark Channel, have shown Christmas movies during the month of July. It's believed the tradition of Christmas in July began in the South during the hot summer month of July because the climate is typically hot and either sunny or rainy/thunderstorms, as opposed to the cold and snowy conditions traditionally associated with Christmas celebrations in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Some people like to watch various Christmas movies to celebrate this day, while others actually decorate their homes in Christmas/holiday decorations. However one chooses to celebrate, we think it's a fun idea because it's currently in the high 90s with thunderstorms here today in the deep South in South Carolina.

We chose a new "effect" from LunaPic today for our Caturday Art Creation. The new effect is Berry Art. Here's a simple explanation on how to create a fun graphic design, such as the one we did today. 

Brulee resting on her curvy scratcher next to her Sleepypod Mobile Pet Bed

We began by uploading the photo above into LunaPic. We've found if you load the photo first that it's very large and difficult to see everything without moving the screen around. Instead, we'll open LunaPic and then click on an effect to use. We did the following steps:

• Open LunaPic
• Click on "Art" and scroll down until you find the effect you'd like to use.
• We clicked on Art and then on Newest Art Effects
• When we found an effect we wanted to try, LunaPic asked us to upload a photo (see screen capture below)

• We uploaded the original photo (see above) by clicking "choose file" and this was the immediate result

• Once you have the design you want, you can click on the "save" button below the graphic.

As you can see, Brulee's eyes are a bright orange color. We like to change the eye color to a more green color to match the girls' beautiful green eyes, so we then upload the photo into PicMonkey. Some of the things we do in PicMonkey you may not be able to do with the "free" version.

Once we uploaded the photo we saved from LunaPic into PicMonkey, we begin messing with colors, copyright overlays, changing Brulee's eyes, and resizing the photo. We'll share more about how we work in PicMonkey at a later date. We were pleased with our final Caturday Art creation.

As you can see above, when we tried to adjust some of the colors in PicMonkey, the green became a little lighter, but we liked it because it mimics the "softness" of Brulee's fur.

After we were pleased with our final design we saved it and then uploaded it into Canva to create our opening graphic.

We hope you enjoyed our creative process and the final result today.

You can see more Caturday Art Creations by visiting Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty.