Jessica Sprague, the digital guru of online teaching, offered a free class in digital card making. Being a card maker, I was intrigued by this since I have rarely incorporated digital work into my cards. I’m now using digital elements in my scrapbooking on a regular basis, so I thought I’d try it out. The first day was a simple print and fold card. I’m not a fan of these so I played around a bit with one of the cards. For the first card I printed the pdf file and then opened the psd file and printed just the greeting and frame. I cut it out and bumped it up with 3-D tape.
For the second card I cut out the front of the card and mounted it on Dark Chocolate (PTI) cardstock after I hand cut the scallop along the bottom. Then I added two brown pearls (Creative Candy A Muse). I much prefer this one.
Today’s card was a print and assemble card. This card took me way too long to complete and I was pretty frustrated. First off, my scallop punch seems to have developed a dull spot right in the middle. Then I decided I didn’t like the first ribbon I applied (which took quite some time), carefully and slowly removed it and substituted another. The greeting was to be a computer generated one that said “Congratulations.” Since I rarely have an occasion to send a Congrats card of this nature, I substituted some chipboard letters (Basic Grey) which I like much better anyway. I will probably never make this card again although I rather like the idea of the scalloped “canopy” on the top of the card. None of the layers are glued down completely so they add a nice dimension to the card which is, unfortunately, hard to see in this photo.
One of the best things Jessica’s presented in the class so far is a great card of card and envelope sizes and a good description of various kinds of papers available to card makers.
I think this is going to be a great class for you to figure out what in the digital world will work for you and your cards. I’ve been thinking about my card style lately, so I find this post particularly interesting.
Rinda
Haven’t actually made any of the cards yet as I’ve been busy scrapping…but hope to have a go tomorrow.Though I think I’ll find it very difficult not to add extra embellishments!!
Wow – they look beautiful
Digital cardmaking? Interesting. Thanks for sharing how you put your own spin on them, too. They look beautiful to me.
I’ve barely glanced at the class materials so far – will probably wait until I’m home to download the materials and have a little play – the cards here are lovely Karen despite their frustrations for you, the card mounted onto the darker card background really pops off the page!
The darker backgrounds really are beautiful Karen. So very professional looking.
These cards are gorgeous!!!
Like you, I felt that the first cards needed an extra ‘something’ – love your extra ‘something’! It’s been an interesting class but I’m not sure I’ll do much digi-cardmaking in the future, if only because of the cost of the ink….
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