Freebie Friday Super Bowl Sunday Invite

How about an invitation to send by email. If you customized it in either your word processing or image manipulation programs you could send these.

I know, I know, I did not do a good job with these but I thought what the heck. I definitely need to spend some serious time working on my photoshop skills.

Does anyone know a good on line class or you tube series that could help build PS skills?

www.box.com/s/yteua5m297htfg7ecji0

The font I used was Myriad 24 and 14 point.

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.

Altered cigar box

Hi everybody, I wanted to show you all what I made for my grand niece Erin since she is finishing her first year at Yale. She is on the Yale Lacrosse team so I made some personalized note cards that reflect her sport.
My idea was to give her a keepsake box and riff on the idea of Alice in Wonderland. I used Graphics 45 paper to decoupage the cigar box. I wanted to place the words "Erin in Yaleland" on the box so I used Photoshop to make the letters using "curlz" font, mirrored/flipped the words and printed on Graftix "rub-onz" specialty paper which made a great rub-on to place anywhere I wanted on the box.
On the inside I made a paper divider and placed a dozen personalized notecards to one side of the divider and on the other side of the divider a bookmark I made with the Alice theme and a pack of stamps.

I hope she likes it but I know I like it.

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

You are a radishing couple

I was saving this digital card to give to Cissy and Wilk on Valentine's Day and to all my other "couple" friends. I used the cute image of the heart with wings from the Graphics Fairy. The black lace border is from Coffee Shop digital.  The image of the "radishing couple" is from a John Derian decoupage site. The font is King and Queens.

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?

Bee-otch card

A tongue in cheeky card. A big shout out to Karen at the Graphics Fairy for her daily dose of images and inspiration.

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.

Lovely Lavatory Label

A Graphics Fairy image was taken into photoshop and made into this lovely label you see here.

 I printed it on an Avery 8 1/2 x 11 white shipping label so there was no worry about lining the image up. Afterward I sprayed some "Preserve It" fixative to prevent any water from marring the inkjet image. Now it is off to stand on my bathroom counter.