40 Best Christmas Resources: Wallpapers, Themes, Icons, Vectors and More

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Christmas is getting close. Whether you are still in the midst of the last minute Christmas newsletter design, or just want to spice up the desktop a little bit, chances are there’s always something for everyone. We are talking about the free Christmas related icons, vectors, fonts, wallpapers, tutorials, themes, etc created designers and shared all over the net. They are probably our early Santas.

Here’s our final Christmas related entry (except the contest tomorrow) - a mash-up of the Best Design Resources for Christmas around. If there’s any we’ve missed, let us know in comment, we’ll add it in. Merry Christmas in advance.

1. Icons

PSDTOP: 25+ Beautiful Chrisstmas Icon Set

PSDTOP would like to present especially for you 25+ Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets which you can use for your web site or your desktop.

Web Design Ledger: 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets

Web Design Ledger presents you 23 Awesome Christmas Icon Sets to put you in the Christmas spirit.

aComment: 13 Elegant Free Christmas Icon set in PNG/Gif

aComment showcased some elegant and high quality Christmas icons which lets you use them in your websites easily.

Design Bliss: 10 Sets of Beautiful Free Christmas Icons from deviantART

Design Bliss has hand-picked 10 sets of beautiful Christmas icons from deviantART and they’re all FREE!

Smashing Magazine: Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

Photoshop Roadmap: Nice List of Christmas Tutorials, Brushes, Clipart and Icons

Photoshop Roadmap built this list gathering some new (and old) Christmas related tutorials, brushes, cliparts and icons for personal use..

Vu Nguyen: 20 Beautiful Christmas Icons

Vu Nguyes prepares 10 beautiful Christmas icons for you to decorate your web according to the Christmas spirit.

Smashing Magazine: Christmas Icons and Christmas Wordpress Themes

Smashing magazine has selected high quality Christmas icons, and Christmas Wordpress themes to let you get into the true Christmas spirit, decorating your personal desktop and adding some Christmas flavour to your recent designs or weblogs.

2. Wallpapers

PixelResort: Xmas Holiday Wallpapers

You will find a few goodies of Xmas holiday wallpapers to decorate your desktop.

Smashing Magazine: Christmas Wallpapers

Some Xmas specials - for your desktop or current web-project.

Hongkiat: Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers For Your Desktop

HongKiat showcased some really Beautiful Christmas Wallpapers for you to decorate the desktop while counting down to Christmas.

Hongkiat: 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers, Part II

Here’s another 30 Remarkable Christmas Wallpapers collected at our home.

A New Morning: Best Christmas Wallpapers 2008 Download

Some really nice Christmas wallpapers posted by A New Morning.

Crestock: 16 Stunning High Resolution Christmas Wallpapers

Take this opportunity to put your desktop in that festive mood with wallpapers courtesy of some of Crestock’s finest contributing photographers and designers.

3. WordPress Themes

Developer Fox: 15 Interesting Christmas Free Wordpress Themes

Developer Fox thinks you might be interested in dressing up your blog with a new Christmas free wordpress themes.

SheepTech: 30 Christmas WordPress Themes

SheepTech has compiled 30 Christmas WordPress themes if you are a WordPress user and wants some holiday feel on your WordPress blog.

Pulse2: 42 Free Breathtaking Winter Wordpress Themes

Here is a list of 42 of the best Wordpress winter themes to get your blog ready for the winter.

4. Photoshop Brushes

1stWebDesigner: 48 Snow, Ice, Snowflake and Christmas Brushes

There are pine, ice, snowflake, snow and many different Christmas related brushes for every taste in this list.

Web Resouces Depot: Christmas Design Toolkit: Photoshop Brushes, Vector Images And Tutorials

This is a giant design pack which includes Photoshop Christmas brushes, Free Christmas vectors, and Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials.

Observin: 23 Wonderful Winter Photoshop Tutorials & Brushes

Observin has gathered these winter photoshop tutorials and brushes are the perfect way to spruce up your designs and get you in the holiday mood.

Design Bliss: 5 Sets of Free Christmas Photoshop Brushes (2008)

Here are some free Christmas Photoshop brushes Design Bliss found over the past year.

Toxel: 20 Free Christmas Photoshop Brush Sets

A collection of free Christmas Photoshop brush sets that you can use to design something special during the holidays.

Photoshop Roadmap: 25 Nice Christmas Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes

Photoshop Roadmap has compiled another nice selection of Christmas Photoshop tutorials and brushes. All the brushes featured on this article are free to use on personal, non-commercial, projects.

Gosublogger: 16 Photoshop Brush Set For Christmas

This sets include xmas tree brushes , xmas ornaments brushes, xmas decoration brushes and other sets.

5. Photoshop Tutorials

Toxel: 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

To help you prepare for this year’s Christmas celebration, Toxel presents this collection of free Christmas-themed Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

StayUpdate: 31 Free Christmas Photoshop tutorials

StayUpdate has gathered free Christmas Photoshop tutorial for designers to be able to have the best design skills for Christmas.

My Ink Blog: 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials

My Ink Blog helps get everyone in the Christmas spirit by sharing some awesome Christmas related tutorials.

Smashing Magazine: 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

You’ll learn how to design Christmas trees, snow globes, snowflakes, Christmas candles, Christmas balls and much more.

6. Fonts

Dafonts: Free Christmas Fonts

Dafonts provides over 70 free Christmas for download without paying a single penny.

Woork: 10 Free Christmas fonts

Take a look at this list with some of Woork’s favourite Christmas fonts which you can download and use on your design projects.

Font River: 20 Superb Christmas Fonts and Dingbats

Font River gathered a wide variety of funny fonts and dingbats to pep up your designs. Make your own matching Christmas cards, invitations, favors bags, place cards, napkin rings, and much more!

Simple Thoughts: 20 Attractive Free Fonts for you This Christmas

Simple Thoughts prepared 20 fonts for you this Christmas which are absolutely free.

7. Misc

PSDTOP: 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards

You’ll find in PSDTOP’s post 45+ Beautiful Christmas Cards which you can use for inspiration.

PSDTOP: 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks - Winter Inspiration

PSDTOP brings you 36 Beautiful Drawing Artworks - Winter Inspiration hand-picked from deviantart.

PSDTOP: 70 Impressive Painting Artworks - Winter Inspiration

PSDTOP has hand-picked an incredible amount of amazing painting artworks from deviantart to inspire any artist.

Life Rock 2.0: Window XP Themes: Top 7 Christmas Themes

Life Rock 2.0 has compiled a list of top Christmas themes with Wallpapers for Windows XP and Vista to decorate your desktop.

CrazyLeaf Design: Free Christmas Vectors

CrazyLeaf Design thought some free Christmas vectorial resources will be welcomed for the coming holidays.

PSDFan: 20 Superb Christmas Designs

PSDFan has rounded up 20 of my favorite christmas themed designs. Hopefully these will help inspire you in your own works:

Pixel Perfect Digital: Free Christmas Stock Photos

Over 50 high resolutions photos which related to Christmas available for free download.

Garcya: 2000+ Christmas Goodies - PNG, Vectors, Icons, Wallpapers, Cliparts and PSD files

Garcya has prepared a mega list of free Christmas goodies just for you to have a stack of Christmas resources .

Lifehacker: Holiday-Themed Desktop Roundup

Lifehacker highlighting the holiday-inspired goods of readers have created.