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 Tuesday Throwdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tuesday Throwdown. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Hot Chocolate to get you warm and Toastie

A friend of mine sent me this digi stamp and I thought I would use it for this challenge entry. I thought it to be so cute I decided to add a jar of hot chocolate mix with it. The jar is recycled from an used up candle jar that I was going to add more wax to but decided to use it for the mix instead.
A Spoonful of Sugar...Christmas Card
Digital Tuesday...Baby it's cold Outside
Tuesday Throwdown...Clean and Simple
Papercraft Star...Recycle
The Color Dare...Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, and Neutral of Choice

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Shop Til You Drop

I decide to think outside the box for this entry. What I created was envelope of sorts to be hung on the refrigerator for the valuable wish lists. This way everyone can see what everyone has on his or her list. The entry qualify s for the following challenges:

A Spoon Full of Sugar... Recipe (3 buttons/flower, 3 texture papers, 3 gem)
Digital Tuesday...Animals at Christmas Time
Tuesday Throwdown...Embellishment

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Your Love Warms My Heart

This card was created with the following challenges in mind:

A Spoon Full of Sugar...Snowflakes/Snow
Digital Tuesday...Never used stash
Tuesday Throwdown...Inchies (had to look that one up...had no clue...LOL)

I wanted my card to look like a hand made quilt...
For the background I used a quilt texture that I created for PSP and trimmed it with a border using a red gradient. I had a digi image of a pieced heart in my stash so I decided to use it as my POI. Using the pen tool in the color of the background I applied what appear to be ribbon to the top of the heart. I also used the pen tool in red to apply stitching around the heart. After adding the sentiment and snowflake overlay my quilted card for this challenge was complete. (Click twice on the image to see the detail)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Happy Anniversary

Using chipboard was a real challenge for me, but as a requirement for Tuesday Throwdown I had to work it out. I also am using this entry for 2 others.

A Spoon Full of Sugar
...sparkle and shine
Digital Tuesday...ribbons, buttons, and or bling plus digi image
Tuesday Throwdown...chipboard

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Go Team

Today's challenge is a double...
Digital Tuesday...Sport
Tuesday Throwdown...The distress effect

The background image was created from a background of basketballs and then the edge was torn and distressed in PSP. The digi image is from pcCrafters and recreated as a sticker using PSP. The megaphone was created using PSP. GO TEAM!