Progression of my calendar

The theme of my calendar is "Surprise". As I mentioned before, the presents one received on this occasion gives the feeling of curiosity of opening the wrapped boxes. Once the presents are opened, one will be surprised of what are being wrapped up inside. =)

I choose red and green as main colour of my calendar. It is because, Santa is always dressed in red and the green represents the Christmas tree and mistletoe ( a kind of leaf) which are always used for decoration during Christmas.

First of all, I use the Type Tool to type the dates and the month of the calendar. The I put a background colour of pink behind. I keep changing the shades until I get the pink I wanted. Then I highlighted the 25th December to red as it is Christmas day.

After that, I drew a small Christmas hat above the year "09" to show a little feeling of Christmas. It is also a deco for my calendar.


The Christmas presents are drawn with 3D function which I have learnt in tutorial class (3D stars). I put some ribbons over the boxes to make it look more like presents.