Made With Digital Images

Hello!  I just discovered some digital images created and sold by Beverly Cole at The Artsystamper Shop through reading a post on Dar's Crafty Creations.  I was playing with some digital images that I bought and created a very quick card using Photoshop.  I used the maple leaf trio image already colored to create the background and used  the colored pumpkin image as the focus.  I  added the sentiment and then printed off the design on white CS which I sized to fit on a 4'"x 5.25" panel.

To finish I sponged on some DOI Spiced Marmalade and added some glossy accents to the handle for some texture. I used a Black Glaze pen to trace the word Friendship which makes it look heat embossed. I attached the printed image on a card base of GKD Fresh Asparagus CS.

I don't make many cards just using digital images but once upon a time I made cards just using a printer and computer....read on.

  When I first began making homemade cards for my friends and family, I used only a computer, printer/scanner, and white card stock  to design and create my cards.  That was some time around 1998 or 1999.  I used no inks, no stamps, no embellishments, no glue, no tape, no trimmer, no die cut machine, etc.  I used The Print Shop program to design my card with photographs that I scanned (no such thing as digital pictures) or clip art and printed sentiments. After I designed on the computer,  I simply printed the front, back, and inside of my card on a single piece of white card stock.  I folded the card making it a 5.5" x 8.5" -what is called half card size- no need to trim or cut.  They were true one layer cards with no dimension or texture.  Later I started using Photoshop to enhance my printed cards and started using more digital images.  It's fun how you can manipulate the images.  I learned all this by trial and errors....not many You Tubes How To Do Videos back then.

After I retired, I became interested in stamping when my next door neighbor and friend shared with me her cardmaking techniques using stamps and inks. I shortly joined her card making club in 2005 and began to collect all sorts of stamps, inks, die cuts, embossing folders, papers, embellishments, tapes, glues and all those things that I "had to have" to make a card. Now I need a room to hold all my supplies and tools, no longer just a desk with a computer and printer and a stack of white card stock. 

How things have changed in the world of card making!

I made this card just for the fun of it....not for a challenge...….reminded me of how I began making cards.

Thanks to Beverly for designing beautiful digital images and to Darlene for posting about her shop and challenge.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa