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Wow! those are fabulous. Yes, that is what I’m looking for. I love the photo one, where the photo goes right to the edge. I used to make greeting card sets for people(as gifts), but it was a lot of work and took a lot of time. I could see this would enable me to do that again. Looking forward to the workshop.
This is the format I have used for cards since 2009. They are labour intensive. If you look at the close up of the card samples you can see some have two colored mats behind the photo. here’s the insane workflow:
- double stick tape the back of all the photo’s
- stick to cardstock
- cut around the cardstock to make a mat ( I have special rulers that keep the same width, 4 cuts on each photo)
- double stick tape the back of the first mat/photo combo, stick to cardstock ( for mat #2 ),
- cut around the cardstock to make mat #2 (again, 4 cuts each photo/mat combo)
- double stick tape the back of that (photo with two mats)
- stick to card
repeat for inside, if I’m stamping a sentiment on different card than the card base.
For the back I just use avery clear labels. Doesn’t look great, but better than handwriting them.
So you can see why I want a new way to make cards. I would be happy to have templates/masks etc for the front and back to be printed . I don’t mind doing the folding part. Also the weight of all the cardstock used in matting/ the card base and the photo, I have had to pay overweight (in some years) for mailing. People enjoy my cards so I keep doing them.
I am hoping Sue is back in time to weigh-in on this, as I recall she does a lot e-cards and printed cards. Her input will be valuable.
Carole, tomorrow I will send a sample photo of what I do, it’s time consuming. And a photo of the Strathmore Creative Cards, they are card blanks with envelope and you can put a photo on the front cover, or if you are a painter you could paint on it. I use Sookwang double stick tape as it comes in many thicknesses and it’s wonderful to work with, not like the nasty 3M tape dispenser. But it’s a lot of work putting a 4×6 photo onto cardstock to make a matt around it, then that gets double/stick taped to the card blank. A lot of work. Last year I was able to skip adding the matt (or frame it would be called in PSP) because I did it in PSP so I only had to stick the card to the card blank. Eliminating that step by printing a finished product that just has to be folded would save me even more time.
Project 2 – Adventure Park….well Adventure at the Water Park in this case. I oriented the photo on the left side because the birdy action was drawing my eye to the right. Papers, flower and two birds (the spitting image of the real blue jays that come to my yard ?) come from Digital Scrapbook, the fonts are all windows, Gill Sans Ultra bold, Gill Sans MT and arial for the writing on the side of the photo. I love Gill Sans Ultra Bold. I stretched it up a bit to make it taller. The photo is mine. There was a furry of LBJs (little brown jobs – what we call little birds) to one of my 3 baths. I didnt get to my camera fast enough, at one time there was about 7-8 in the bath at once.
Awesome ideas so far. I cant wait to see this workshop come together. And yes, I’m up for a master class too. You never know, maybe someone wants to make cards to sell on Etsy or something like that.
I was in card exchanges for many years with two calligraphy guilds, PSP would have been a life saver. My cards were photo’s on the cover wt. paper (cardstock) but I’d do something special on the inside, often a pop up or something they had to build to make an ornament. It took so much time to do them (over 100 at the time), now i have less time and need to make it fast or it becomes an “after” Christmas card.
I do handmade greeting cards every year (about 60+ of the them) and I would like to do it all in PSP, the outside front cover and also the back cover and of course the inside too. Usually I make a 4×6 print and have to affix it to my cardstock (Strathmore Creative Cards with a deckled edge), but want to make “finished” printed cards. So I would need ideas on how to get it ready for printing at a print shop or office supply store.
How to lay it up for printing if I go with using 8.5×11 or 8.5×14 cover weight paper, how to make cut registration marks and fold marks if it’s a non traditional format (eg. gate fold, accordion fold).
I like the idea of templates and or masks, and how to size them up or down according the size of the card. I will love this workshop no matter the format as I love to make greeting cards.
I am likely to use rectangular or square photo’s, but it could be cool to have some in Christmas shapes like ornaments. Or even like the watercolor effect mask.
I usually make several designs so having options that I haven’t even thought about would have me singing “Hallelujah”
What about different formats like an according fold or gate fold, or a long horizontal tent, spine at the top, spine on the side orientations etc.
Is this too much. I’m not asking for all this by any means, just throwing ideas out there.
Project One done. Photo is from my summer photo project that keeps on going (taken October 10th, when it should have snowed already but was over 20 degrees celcius!). Papers and hearts from Digital Scrapbook.com. Font is El Capistrano Serif from Creative Fabrica. I used pictures tubes from PSP as my scatter as I couldn’t find scatter that I like. Carole did you make these picture tubes (in PSP in just says “flower – and then a number). They came in very handy. I put an outline on the title so it would show up a bit more, I wanted it subtle so I didn’t make the yellow vibrant.
Good work from everyone, enjoyed the layouts I’ve seen so far.
Congratulations Pirkko! Your new adventure in your new home awaits. Don’t you just love looking out at those oak trees. When I’m finished my workout in the morning and I’m stretching, the window I look out (while lying on the floor) looks upon 3 huge trees, they are comfort; they are my cheerleaders, always there telling me to keep growing.
Ann, what a great idea to celebrate “gotcha day” with your cat girl. I will have to do that next year for my cat girls. Eve’s little black toe pads on a white paw are so cute. And your granddaughter…I’ve said it before, BEST JOB EVER! what could be cuter than Caracal kittens, or any kittens of any kind?
Anita, I love your castles. So lucky to live somewhere that there is castles. This castle looks the part for Halloween, it’s oddly creepy, but so fascinating to look at. Your backgrounds are really interesting, thanks for explaining how you did them.
Here is my sandwich. Today I’m keeping it simple with a mimimalist approach. Using only the tools/supplies given. I am having an open-faced sandwich. And I’m hungry as you can see by my loaded pieces of bread. Those onions are going to give me grief later today I bet. Nothing in my cup and I usually eat then have a tea afterward.
I tried to follow the upload to gallery and post link to the forum by memory. clearly my memory failed me. the picture was in this box and I couldn’t type in it. Note to self: don’t rely on memory.
Carole: I like the new one because I can use CMY which is what I used in my 6 month long color course. As a previous photo mini lab supervisor/printer I am more comfortable in CMYK than any other color space. I will be making a set of color cards based on my course so I will need the CMY option that the new palette has. Unless the classic has it, which I think I couldn’t find. And Yes, I can work from RGB but more thinking has to go into it as they are opposites in everyway. Eg. C+M+Y=K (black or all); which means R+G+B=W (white or nothing).
Here is my workspace. I like it dark and docked. Organizer and Learning Centre are closed and I have a few extra customizations that I learned from the Basic Scrapbooking Course. I have untabbed documents and the materials palette is the newer one. I flip flop sometimes between that and the classic. I like some of what each has to offer, I wish we cold pick an choose what parts we want from the classic and the new palette. I am using PSP 2022.
James, that is so cool you were in Victoria Harbour in 1958 ( a wee bit before my time, I was born in ’65). That picture of the harbour is really cool. I miss the ocean. I’m on the prairies now, I have to look to the sky as it is expansive here, it’s my surrogate ocean.
Donna, I love that photo, the blues are beautiful. I love the clouds.
Happy “camping” everyone!
Thanks for the reminder on the two brush variance classes. Dont worry about my question regarding that if it’s in those classes. I’ll try to get them watched before the Q&A next weekend.
I added this as per requested from another thread in the forum:
Carole will you be demonstrating saving the Brush variance palette in the next Q&A? I’d like that too.
I know I said I’m sick of flowers but I haven’t shot much that is okay lately so it might flowers, or birds, or even the start of logging my camera collection. then there’s the cats or some kind of abstract something or other. Either way I will find something old or new for my layouts.
Hi James, nice to meet you and see you and your layouts in the forum. I am from the province of Alberta (St. Albert) Canada, but I will always think of myself as from the province of British Columbia as I was born, raised and lived there most of my life. I like seeing stories of people’s ancestors and history, I find them fascinating.
X = X Files,
An awesome TV Show, filmed in and around the Vancouver/Fraser Valley where I lived at the time. With one of the most ever creepy episodes ever to air on television that FOX TV station banned for 3 yrs (Home, Season 4, Episode 2 – still creeps me out to this day).
here’s googles synopsis:
In one of the longest-running science fiction series in network TV history, FBI special agents investigate unexplained, mind-bending cases known as “X-Files.” Though the government is convinced that the outlandish reports are false, conspiracy theorist Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and realist Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), for most of the series, stop at nothing to prove that “the truth is out there.” Series creator Chris Carter also serves as executive producer of the thrilling pop-culture phenomenon.
OMG! Marie-Claire. I love that template. I have Filter Forge but have not tried making templates with it. I love both versions, I think FF one is my favorite though. The softness of the background is really effective. the photos are nicely painterly. Did you do the template and add the effect to the template, then added the photo’s that you added effects too, or added the effects to everything at once.
And even funnier is our politicians. I was listening to the radio while working out one morning and the announcer was saying what is going on in the world with some of the world leaders.
- China was lobbing missiles over Japan
- Putin was mobilizing his nukes’
- Jusin Trudeau (Canada Prime Minister)…..was going bungee jumping.
I kid you not. We should be having an influx of new Canadians soon, if this is the worst thing happening in Canada right now, everyone should want to live here. hahahaha.
Ann, I’m a bad example of a Canadian, sorry ( ? – I had to add that). I am probably more familiar with American Thanksgiving (Thanks to Miracle on 34th Street) because it marks the start of Christmas, my favorite. I really don’t know if we have traditions as we are a very diverse country nationality wise. Growing up we did the turkey dinner thing and my dad and brothers did the football thing – I was into horses at the time so I didn’t watch football. (side note: in regards to football; we Canadians are efficient and get done in 3 downs what Americans do in 4 downs…hahahah, I am so kidding about that joke as I am not a football fan, unless its the Grey Cup…and they renamed our CFL team here from the Edmonton Eskimos to the Edmonton Elks – yes with an S, what the heck are “elks” that “elk” aren’t? Apparently, Canadians don’t know no grammar no how). And yes, we say, “eh”, at least I do without realizing it.
Ann, I will make sure to do that…after I get home from work on Monday. This holiday always sneaks up on me, I feel like it should be at the end of the month. Either way, if the holiday is on a Monday, I work it. At least it’s a bit shorter of a day since we did some of the work Friday.
Lab 6-2
- Vector Flower
- String Tube
- Hand Stitched Alpha
I really enjoyed making the vector flower and string tube. The hand stitched Alpha was hard and the stitching was as bad as my real life stitching. At tablet would surely be easier. I do like learning the settings for add noise, so that’s well worth trying to draw straight lines with a mouse. The photo is mine and it’s altered with an unknown program on my computer. I had never been able to view RAW files (Canon CR2 files) unless i was in PSP and now I can in windows. It only shows the raw files, the jpgs show up in MS office viewer. In looking for what program it is I found all these color edit modes and filters, really simple ones. This is a photo I just played around with and thought it looked Vintage-y. I also used paper stacking from the recent blog post.
oops forgot, font is Amifunky from Creative Fabrica and blue flower from Digital Scrapbook.com, corner stamps on the photo from Creation Cassel.
I’m a follower…I’m following Ann (but I’m not stalking her, although Ann, you have nice yellow dress on today ?) .
No clue about what images I have to use. I’m sick of flowers, even though I’m currently doing a lab (6-2) with a flower.
Anita, I saw an email about Spark but never really understoood what it was. What is it? that layout is cool.
Michele, I love those pictures.
Gerry, that’s a wonderful layout. I love the unicorn.
Colin, ghostly things freak me out. when I was a teenager, I was in the basement (where my bedroom was) and i saw something move fast out of the corner of my eye. Even the dog went to look. I thought it was a mouse but couldn’t find anything. I moved to the upstairs bedroom right after that. I don’t like scary stuff and there are two things I dont do…open the drapes to look out the window at night or look into mirrors when I get up in the dark of night to use the facilities. I’m always (even at this age- 57) afraid I’ll see red eyes looking back at me. Your layout is nice and creepy. love the faded out and smudged spots.
Most of the images I already have in the gallery are much bigger than the new size. I wondered if I should delete all the oversized ones (I used the word “dump” ), make them smaller and upload them to the gallery again. My grammar is bad on that post. And I “proofread it several times”. ?♀️
