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

Showing posts with label Stamp Something. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stamp Something. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Season Greetings

When I saw the sketch from Friday Sketch it just screamed snow globe. I made this shaker card for the following challenges:

Digi Doodle Shop's Best...Let it Snow
Stamp Something...Christmassy Colors
Friday Sketch...Sketch
Sew Many Cards...Snowflakes

I just love how this card turned out!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Best Wishes

I have included the following challenges for this card.

Friday Sketchers...Sketch
Sew Many Cards...Blue and White
Stamp Something...Digi Something

Lets start with the image...when I first acquired it there wasn't any blue on it at all...it was mostly red and green. Using the colorizer in PSP I change the image to the colors that I needed, blue of course. The background paper was created using a snowflake texture that I created also using PSP. The lace frame was provided in the picture/frame tool also in PSP. The ribbon came from a digi stash that I already had, it was actually trimmed in green and red and as you can see I changed it to blue. The boggle was created as well using PSP. Looks pretty good for a digital card don't you think? This one will get printed off at a printer and the lace flower will be added.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Boo

Keep it simple and use a digi stamp on your project was the challenge at hand from Digi Doodle Shop Best and Stamp Something. You can't get any simpler then placing a digi stamp on a black background and adding a single word.

I had fun coloring this digi stamp. I used mostly gradient fill to get the feel of depth. For the pants I also added a technique called noise to the gradient fill to get the pants to look like jeans.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Sorry!

Happy Friday all! Today is another double day. My entry is for two challenges:
Friday Sketchers...a sketch of course
Stamp Something...digi, whether it be paper, image, or embellishment

Well as you all know I create my cards using PSP which is a digital art program. Everything is digi. I used 6 different digi papers on this card, a digi ribbon, and 3 digi buttons which I created in PSP. The layout is from the sketch challenge.

The Sketch


Sunday, September 12, 2010

Wana be My Friend?

This challenge is for Stamp Something and the requirements are to use stripes and spots. I found this really cute coloring book page which I am using as a digi stamp...I just thought it to be so cute I could not resist it.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Trick or Treat

The challenge is to make it cute over at Stamp Something. I am not sure where I got the image from, but I think it is a coloring book page maybe, maybe not any way it was a black and white image which I painted in using PSP. The candy corn is a digi stamp which I added special effects to, to get the feel of 3D. I think it turned out cute.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Thankful

I think this card covers 3 different challenges:

Stamp Something which is a theme Thank You Something
Allsorts which is a also a theme Christmas Carol or Song title
Crazy 4 which is a sketch you will find it here.

The papers I used for this challenge are from a digi kit titled Vintage Oreo, a very fitting name. Once again I used a coloring book page for the image. I really like the lyrics to this song so I have included a link here.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Stamp Something - Sketch Something

I am almost caught up...this card is for Stamp Something and the challenge for this week is a sketch which you will find here.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Stamp Something - Recipe of Love Something

This card is for Stamp Something. This is recipe challenge which is as follow, one ribbon, 2 papers, and 3 embellishments.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Double Challenge

This card represents two challenges, Stamp Something and Friday Sketchers. Stamp Something challenge is Cute and Fuzzy Something. You are to use something cute and fuzzy on the card...I choose the image of the kitten in the flower pot. For Friday Sketchers you will find the sketch here.

The challenge has been met and my card is complete.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Stamp Something - Halloween Something

This was a quickie but I had to submit something before I left. The challenge is to stamp something that has to do with Halloween.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Double Challenge

This card covers two challenges. Bling It Something over at Stamp Something and 2RedBananas, Banana Slit Sunday sketch which you will find here.

For the bling something...well I am not very big on bling so I just made the wings on the fairy sparkle. Challenges have been met, my card is done.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Stamp Something - Brown Plus Something

The challenge is the color brown. The color brown must be in heavy supply on your card. I used 3 papers that contain the color brown. The challenge has been met and my card is done.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Stamp Something - Favorite Sketch and Friday Sketchers

I am running a little behind with my card challenges. :( This card is covering two challenges Stamp Something and Friday Sketchers. For Stamp Something you are to use your favorite sketch or layout and for Friday Sketchers we are given a sketch to follow.

I had an image of a little boy that I wanted to use so I decided to make the card a little masculine. I used the given sketch from Friday Sketchers to cover the challenge for Stamp Something. Both challenges have been met...my card is done.


Sunday, September 20, 2009

Stamp Something - Favorite Color or Paper

The challenge over at Stamp Something is to decide on your favorite color or paper. My favorite paper is the one I make from using the mosaic texture effect in PSP. I get a image that I like the colors in and then apply the mosaic texture to it. The effect is WOW!!

The picture I choose for this card is called Bellagio glass flowers. I found the picture a while back while surfing the net. I thought the colors in the picture were awesome and decided to save it. I am so glad I did. I had a stamp of tweety bird and decided to use it as my image. All and all I think the card turned out great and I
plan to send it to a day dreamer friend of mine.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Stamp Something - Favorite Embellishment

A new challenge over at Stamp Something. This challenge is all about embellishments. I like to use an image, ribbons, and buttons on my cards. Some times I use all three or maybe none at all and let the paper speak for itself. The embellishments that I choose to use on a particular card have to enhance the card in some way. I don't embellish unless the card needs that extra punch.

On this particular card I decided to create a ribbon and some buttons from the background paper as my embellishment. Challenge met..my card is done.