Digital is the wave of the future. Digital books, digital music and what some people call digital stamps, though I usually just use the word 'images'
Michele has a swap right now for cards made using digis. Within it she has a category for Fancy Folds/Techniques/Shapes card. Thinking I should try something new, I signed up for this one.
Now I am fairly computer savvy, but digis just stump me. They never come out the size that I want. And oh, for this card, I used two, cuz the fish is a digi, a whale actually, that I altered a wee bit (I can do that no problem). I know how to change the size, but cannot seem to figure out how that translates on the paper. At least I am no longer resizing by percentages anymore - OY! That was a bear of a math problem. As for the whale, altering the image was easy; took some time to alter the frame around the image (cuz after all that is the size you are changing, not the picture itself.) Printing it how I wanted - ERG, that took many, many trips through the printer to perfect.Only one sheet of paper, though, cuz I am cheap (green?) like that. Finally I got the whale shape printed and cut out. The turtle was a little easier as I was using him as is and his frame is already tight, so though he took quite some time to get sized correctly, he only one test print. (I used the test page from
Belassiz; did I mention I am cheap? In fact, once a page is too full to continue to print, it becomes my desk protector when I do
real stamping. I say that cuz after I made this card I thought I will never do digis again! I will, though, and I will get better at it. Certainly could not be any worse...
An inked embossing folder was used for the underwater section of the "fish", and there are Stickles on both the fly (on the fishing line) and the edge of the whale tale. Originally I planned on a Happy Fathers Day sentiment, but did not like any of the placements, so I ditched it. Even without, I think GB will likely be finding this in his mailbox in June.
Card Details:
Image: Dustin Pike - with some parts of the image removed (card shape) , Bugaboo
Sentiment: N/A
Cardstock: SU, GP
Ink: Memento, SU
Tools: Embossing Folder, Brayer
Coloring: Prismacolor markers
Embellies: Stickles, ribbon
3 comments:
Gael--you may have had problems with this, but it is really cute! I'm not very computer savvy, but Tammy Miller helped me get straightened out with digi stamps. I found (through her) that using publisher was the easiest way to save and size and print them.
This is awesome, Gael! I love the swirly part of the whale that depicts the "underwater" portion. That's SO clever!! Amazing... just amazing!
I don't know if this will help you, but when I print my digis, I use my photo manager software. I can print 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, and so on down to a small wallet size. I don't know why, but this always seems to work for me, and I don't have to mess with percentages and the like. That makes it waaaay too much work for my feeble brain.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Love ya,
Lorie
This is so cute, love the turtle!
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