More digital scrapbooking

Here's my latest!! I'm very happy with the way this turned out.

I did the whole thing in Paint.Net. This is an excellent program for the weekend digi-scrapper (and it's free!!).

I go the "paper, ribbon, and butterflies" for free simply by searching the web. Just type "free digital scrapbooking" in your web-browser and you'll get tons of hit.

Everything is it's own layer. That is, the paper is the background layer, the picture is layer 2, the ribbon is layer 3 and so on. This makes it super easy to manipulate the page later on if something isn't quite working the way I wanted it to.

The butterflies are on two distinct layers. For the bottom layer, I placed the butterflies in the corners, went to "Layers", "layer properties" and set the opacity to 111. In the next layer, I offset the butterflies and left them the way they came. This gives the nice shadowy image I was hoping for.

The font is called Scriptina. You can download it here.

If you click on the photo you'll get a bigger version of it and you can see that I modified the picture to look like an oil painting. On the layer that holds the picture, I selected the picture. Next I went to "effects, then Artistic, then Oil Painting". I set the brush size to 3 and the coarseness to 50.

Virtual Stamp Night

I liked this one the best out of all that I did. We had to make a card that a man would give to a woman...no ribbon, no prima flowers but you did have to use three brads, stamps had to be nature (not animals either) and you could only use vanilla, kraft, and navy cardstock!!

I didn't have kraft so I used creamy caramel. I used the botanicals and set sail sets.

Virtual Stamp Night

In this challenge, we had to use acetate or window sheets in our card. I had bought this acetate (which had a frame attached to it) about 6 months ago and never got around to using it.

It sure made a quick card. It's attached to the card with brads and then I cut around the edges (the green is not part of the card). I layered the cardstock in colors that would match the colors in the acetate.

Virtual Stamp Night

This is one of the cards I made that I really love. All we had to do was use a new stamp. I'm so glad that I hadn't gotten around to mounting this set (dream a little) yet. Even though I only used the hummingbird I can tell that it's going to be a fun set to use.

I used the thumping technique to color the hummingbird, stamped him, "huffed" on him and then stamped again. It worked great to get the shadow effect.

Virtual Stamp Night

This challenge was to make a monochromatics card.

You could use any color and use any variation on that color. My son happened to walk in right when I was getting started and he decided that I had to use Green Galore (which is NOT my favorite color).

I was so happy I still had this stamp set (pocket friends)!! The frog is great to work with and I love adding the googly eyes.

I sponged the edges with Wild Wasabi and used the tag punch to punch the phrase. The striped grosgrain is wild wasabi which Stampin Up doesn't carry any more but they do have old olive which is kind of close.

Virtual Stamp Night

This was the second challenge of the event but the first one that I participated in.

We were given a choice of 3 different color palettes to choose from, "white", "milk", and "dark" chocolate. I choose dark chocolate.

This is a very simple card (aren't they always the best!). I used white craft ink to stamp the image on the chocolate chip paper. My fibers are simply embroidery thread.

Virtual Stamp Night

I have been participating in my very first Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoaststampers. I have been having a lot fun. I am amazed that I have been able to come up with card ideas as quickly as I have. I will be posting the cards I've been making in no particular order.

For this card, the idea was to take a line from the movie The Princess Bride and make a card from that. I took the phrase "I am the dread pirate Roberts!" and thought what little boy doesn't dream of striking fear into the heart of his enemy with just his name!!

Valentines Day!!

I love Valentine's Day. It's right up there with Christmas as far as I'm concerned!! We have a tradition of having big heart shaped sugar cookies decorated with frosting for breakfast, everyone gets cards, the kids get presents and we have a special dinner (this year it's cheese fondue). Here are some of the things I've made for this year's celebration. I've included a link for the "hidden message" cards and glasses. You can download them at Marthastewart.com. These are so awesome and as long as you have a color printer couldn't be any easier!!

Have a great Valentines Day!!