Beyond the Cut and Paste: Dinner at 8

Digital Card Making with PSP

I love making my own greetings cards and thought that the card challenges would be a lot of fun. I have a lot of paper and pens...and the other things one would need to make great cards. I found myself trying to keep up with what is new on the market... then I realize all the stuff, the papers, glue, and stamps were getting very costly and I was running out of space to store it all.

That is when I decided to make elements for my cards in Paint Shop Pro aka PSP. PSP is a software that I have been teaching myself since version 3. Now using version 13 I have learned that the program can also create images and paint them as well. Light bulb went off...why not use it to make my cards and not just some elements for the cards. And so digital card making began for me...and boy has it saved me money.

This blog now consist of my creations that I have made using nothing but PSP. I found the challenge for me is to teach myself how to meet the different card challenges within PSP.

Well that is how all this digital stuff began...Just thought I share.

Jaggs

Monday, September 20, 2010

Dinner at 8

It is a sketch challenge for Mojo Monday this week...I love a good sketch! For this challenge I used a collection of digi papers and embellishments from Gottapixel called Perfect Pear.
The one thing I like the most about using digi papers and embellishments you can re-size them. See the notebook paper well it was part of the embellishments in the kit. I used PSP pen tool to write on it. Looks real don't it...I thought it was pretty cool looking.

The Sketch