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 Peachy Keen Stamp Challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peachy Keen Stamp Challenges. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Thank You

I really enjoyed this challenge for Peach Keen Stamps mainly because it is a sketch challenge using Kraft card stock and also because I had a digi kit that had a lot of elements in it that would suite the sketch without going else where. The kit entitled "A Touch of Country" was created by Sherri Tierney.

The Sketch


Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Peachy Keen Stamps

Wow it has been awhile since I created a card for this site. The challenge for this week is kind of a recipe.
Ingredients:
Make a card
Use the colors PINK AND BROWN as the main color scheme.
Use a stamped image (preferably Peachy Keen Stamp - but not required)
Incorporate a piece of ribbon
Use some type of glitter (stickles are fine!)

The glitter on the wings did not show as I would have like it to, however I do believe the challenge has been met. My card is complete.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge 11

Boy it seems like forever since I made a challenge card for PKS. This is a sketch challenge and you will find the sketch here.

This card was actually made from a two sided paper that I had scanned into my computer. The cute little bear image came from a free digi packet that I got from www.digiwebstudio.com. Enjoy...I hope! LOL

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge 10

For this challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps
we were given a sketch to interpret. I just
did one similar to this for another challenge.
I did not want to use the same one because it
is so much fun coming up with ideas.

When I looked at the sketch I thought of window
panes and decided to go with that idea. I have
yet to do my Christmas card and thought this
would be an ideal challenge.

I found a Christmasy image on the net and went
with it. Using Psp I developed a window pane,
drapes, and snow. Put it all together and came
up with the image below.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge9

I went through an old wallpaper book that I
have and scan some of them into my computer. I
saw this boarder and knew it would be perfect for
the card. I added the border and the two wallpapers
that matched into PSP. One of the wallpapers I
texturized with a weave plugin and came up with
the background image and I also used it to make
the buttons. Pretty cool don't cha think!

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge8


This is my take on this weeks challenge
at Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge Blog
The requirements for the challenge was using an
oval shape above a rectangle.