Cahier de Costumes Francais

I am starting a Jessica Sprague free Photoshop class tomorrow and thought I would play around digitally to get my creative juices flowing.

I have been amassing a large collection of Marie Antoinette images and thought this subject would be perfect.

You all might think this is a copy of something you can buy on Etsy but no I made this all myself even if the idea is not original.

The Royal Arrival

I made this card for my cousin's daughter's newborn daughter Sophia aka my third cousin. I am on a right royal roll these days since my last card also had a royal motif.

 I got out my L Letterpress machine and letterpress plates and used hot pink ink to make the trellis background. The carriage is an SVG  I made in SCAL and cut on the Silhouette Cameo cutting machine using white paper and then inked with angel pink dye ink. I also used  Michael's silver glitter ribbon and ivory satin ribbon, pearl, rhinestones, and a fabric rose. The banner was designed in Photoshop using a banner brush and the font used was Some Weatz Swashes, it was then printed and fussy cut and elevated on foam dots.

 I must find some challenges for this card too.
http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/
http://www.paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-pretties-monday-challenge.html
http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-sundaes-challenge-116-anything.html

Stationary Box

I watched a You Tube video tutorial from Beate at Splitcoaststampers and made this supah dupah cute stationary box.

The box itself is made from (2) pieces of 12" x 12" kraft colored cardstock and some designer paper. 

The strip attached to the front of the box was stamped with Versamark ink and the medallion was stamped in Versafine brown and black then applied with dimensional foam.

I used premade Michael's ivory cardstock sold in packets as my base for the A2 cards.

I made Photoshop brushes from some Graphics Fairy images and printed them onto the cards.

The hang tags and 3" x 3" note cards were made with the same kraft colored card stock. 

Not bad for some paper and some time, what says you?

Going digital

I designed these on letter size paper so they will come out A2 size.
I made them in Photoshop using grayscale then went in to fill areas with color.
Some of the images are from the generous Graphics Fairy.
The card with the bathtub was actually a digital scrapbook layout that I sized for a card and added a digital stamp.
I have so many images on my computer. I need to stop looking to acquire more images and get down to MAKING SOME ART!!!

Some new cards

Hi there, playing around again in photoshop making brushes from graphics fairy images, so many great digital stamps can be made. I wanted to post some of the things I have been working on.