A digital card

I've created this card using Photoshop rather than traditional paper methods as I just didn't have anything in my stash that suited and my desk is such a mess at the moment that the PC is the only usable thing!! It's for my Dad's birthday in a couple of weeks, and I'm also entering it for this week's Sketch Saturday challenge - I hope a digital card is ok for this! I'll print it out on heavyweight cardstock nearer the time and may well add a bit of embossing powder using my embossing pen to add a bit of texture. The papers and image are from Scrap Girls' freebie Refresh kit and the embellishment is from them as well. I've used various PSE tools from Scrap Girls such as drop shadows and inked edges to try and make the card look a bit less flat.

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Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #14 - Not a Card!

My first challenge entry of the year, for the Secret Crafter Challenge - the theme this week is "Anything but a Card", which suits me quite well as I was doing this digital scrapbook page anyway!

All the supplies are from Scrap Girls, and the photos are of Amelie on Xmas Day with her three favourite presents - the ones that she's played with every day since. The real surprise was the hat and scarf set - she absolutely loves it and walks round the house in it all the time LOL!

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Happy New Year and a new Digital Scrapbook Layout

Happy New Year and apologies for the lack of activity here over the holidays - I've just been too busy to craft :( I seem to have lost my cardmaking mojo at the moment too - maybe because my craft area is a complete state, and I had to rush to finish xmas cards and didn't really enjoy doing it! Hopefully I'll get a bit more organised at the weekend and will try to enter a challenge!

What I have been into recently is digital scrapbooking - something I've dabbled with for a while, but I've really got into in the last month or so when I've had to learn to use Photoshop properly for teaching it! I've discovered a couple of fab websites - Scrap Girls and Designer Digitals - who have both had sales on over the last few weeks, and I've loaded up with supplies! I particularly love the paper and embellishment templates that Scrap Girls do, as well as their Photoshop tools, and I'm completely in love with brushes!

We decided to let Amelie get messy on New Year's Eve, seeing as there were two of us and she was getting very bored stuck indoors. The photos just begged to be scrapbooked, so here is the finished page:

The layout above uses a multiple frame from Designer Digitals, along with papers I created myself using Scrap Girls paper templates and brushes. The date seal is from a Scrap Girls embellishment template. The font is one I bought from Lettering Delights a while ago.

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