Digital Project Life Holiday Cards with Unity

Lately I’ve enjoyed assembling cards with Digital Project Life filler and journaling cards.  It’s a great way to make a clean and simple card—FAST, too.  The design of these cards makes it easy to add greetings/sentiments with stamped images to pull a great look together.  The above picture is a great example of what I’m talking about.  Below are more pictures as well as a brief description of products used in the cards.

Supplies for Hazel Girl says Happy Halloween

Hazel Girl by Angie Blom available at Unity Stamp Company (scanned into my computer, filled with color in Photoshop Elements, converted to png file, and cut with my Silhouette Portrait)--Image mounted to card using 3D Zots

Title card and Filler card from the Halloween Theme Pack available NOW at Digital Project Life

Card base by Silhouette America and cut from Krafty premium cardstock by Core’dinations

Below is a peek at the Halloween Theme Pack used in the card above. 

Click on the above collection image to be taken directly to the product pages at Digital Project Life.

Here’s the description from Digital Project Life:

Document those spooky Halloween memories of ghosts and ghouls with the Project Life® Halloween Theme Pack Create a mini album or mix this pack in with a core edition to make a full Project Life® album. Any way you choose to use it, you will love the results.

The Halloween Theme Pack includes:

• 16 3x4 filler cards in PNG format
• 16 3x4 journaling cards in PNG format
• 8 4x6 journaling cards in PNG format
• 4 4x6 title card designs in horizontal and vertical format for a total of 8 4x6 title cards
• 8.5x11 PDFs with all of the cards for easy printing**

**Printing Tips: Set your printer to a "borderless" setting. If your printer has an "expansion" option, make sure it is set to minimum. If you are sending this to a commercial printer, verify that they have the ability to print borderlessly before placing your order.

Supplies for Kiss Me Under the Mistletoe, I’ve Been a Good Girl

Noelle by Tracey Malnofski available at Unity Stamp Company (scanned into my computer, filled with color and patterned paper in Photoshop Elements, converted to png file, and cut with my Silhouette Portrait)--Image mounted to card using 3D Zots

Journaling cards from the Winter Theme Pack available NOW at Digital Project Life

Card base by Silhouette America and cut from Krafty premium cardstock by Core’dinations.  Heart border by Silhouette America printed and cut from HP Matte Photo Paper

Silver accents by Imaginisce and applied using their I-Rock tool

Below is a peek at the Winter Theme Pack used in the card above. 

Click on the above collection image to be taken directly to the product pages at Digital Project Life.

Here’s the description from Digital Project Life:

Document the memories of those cold winter days with the Project Life® Winter Theme Pack. Create a mini album or mix this pack in with a core edition to make a full Project Life® album. Any way you choose to use it, you will love the results.

The Winter Theme Pack includes:

• 24 3x4 filler cards in PNG format
• 24 3x4 journaling cards in PNG format
• 12 4x6 journaling cards in PNG format
• 6 4x6 title card designs in horizontal and vertical format for a total of 12 4x6 title cards
• 8.5x11 PDFs with all of the cards for easy printing**

This is a digital kit. No physical product will be shipped to you.

This collection is for personal use only. No commercial use permitted.

**Printing Tips: Set your printer to a "borderless" setting. If your printer has an "expansion" option, make sure it is set to minimum. If you are sending this to a commercial printer, verify that they have the ability to print borderlessly before placing your order.

Digital Paper Piecing with Crate Paper’s Fourteen Collection & a Unity Stamp

Did you know that you could paper piece a rubber stamp digitally?  Well you can.  The proof is in the above picture. 

In the above card, I used my Silhouette Portrait’s Print-and-Cut feature to make these digital (and rubber) elements come to life. I scanned in one of my favorite Unity Stamps (Rain or Shine), filled it with prints from Crate Paper’s Fourteen Collection in Photoshop Elements, and saved it as a png file. Then I retrieved it in the Silhouette software, resized it to approximately 4-inches (the original is only 2-1/2-inches), and used the Print-and-Cut feature. Voila! Digital paper piecing with rubber stamps! Don’t be afraid to do this. It will bring more versatility to your rubber stamp collection. Many times I’ve colored in and/or paper-pieced rubber stamps, wishing that the images were just a little bit bigger or that the process was a bit easier, don’t you agree? We can all appreciate this look, right? With a scanner, printer, and a digital die cutter as powerful as a Silhouette, this is SO possible!

Who wouldn’t be inspired to do this when full collections from Crate Paper are available, just a mouse click away?

Crate Paper’s Fourteen Full Collection is now available at acdigitals.com.  Click on the above collection image to be taken directly to the product pages at AC Digitals.

Here’s the description from AC Digitals:

The Fourteen Collection is sweeter than candy and is a feast of vintage delights. Valentine’s Day icons — like hearts, flowers, lace and love notes — are doused in pinks, reds, creams and perfect touches of blue. Let the gorgeous Fourteen Collection capture your heart and your memories.

Buy the full collection and save 20%! The Fourteen Full Collection includes the following individual kits:

• Fourteen Element Pack #1 - includes 56 elements in PNG format
• Fourteen Element Pack #2 - includes 46 journaling cards & tags and 12 borders and border bits all in PNG format
• Fourteen Paper Pack #1 - includes 11 12x12 papers in JPEG format
• Fourteen Paper Pack #2 - includes 11 12x12 papers in JPEG format

Valentine Vintage Sentiments

Three more days until Valentine’s Day. This makes me sad.  I’ve been on a roll making cards lately and I think it’s the theme—Valentines. I’m more likely motivated to make Valentine-themed cards than Christmas cards.  I never get tired of designing them or putting them together.  Also, I never get bored of looking at them when I’m finished making them.  Galleries, blogs, and Pinterest are filled with them right now, so inspiration is easy to find. 

The above cute, little funky girl is a Unity Stamp called Frazzled.  I’ve stamped her quite a bit when messing around and getting inky-fied and have used her on a card (visit my scrapbook.com gallery—button on the right).  The stamp is approximately 1.5" X 3.75" but I wanted her bigger to fully fit on an almost standard-sized card.  Remember this post?  So that’s what I did.  I scanned her into my computer and made her a cut file for Silhouette and then I was able to fill her with digital papers from Nancie Rowe Janitz’s Journal Your Art Out 5 kit.  Also, I was further capable of cutting her silhouette (with my Silhouette-ha!) from chipboard and mounting her to the chipboard for dimension and weight.  When I was finished assembling the card, I mounted her to the card with dimensional adhesive and applied glossy accents to her button eyes and heart.  I LOVE her!  Look at her socks—Adorable!

For the inside of the card, I used a sentiment from Vintage Sentiments 2 kit by Nancie Rowe Janitz. I adore these!

I’m more than pleased by the results of this card—inside and out!

Onto my next card share . . .

Again, I used the Vintage Sentiments 2 kit by Nancie but placed the sentiment on the outside.  I wanted the sentiment to be the focus of the card.  That’s when Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles come into play.  They’re a perfect set for focusing on what’s in the middle. It looks like I’ve spent a decade making the layers of this card but it was really pretty simple—I only used two dies!  The Spellbinders system also plays well with digital elements because you can see through the window of the die, so placement is a dream come true (ADD embossing to that dream!). When I get a new set of Spellbinder dies, I trace the window of each die on a piece of paper, scan it into my computer, and use the scans as templates to place my digital elements.  Then I’m able to print them exactly the size I want onto cardstock and then use the dies to cut/emboss.  It’s frustration-free and you get beautiful results time after time again.  I’m hoping in the future that Spellbinders will release a digital version of their dies that will coordinate with their system (one less step don’t you think?).

Once this card was assembled, I applied glossy accents to the heart for a little pop. 

Nancie’s Journal Your Art Out 3 kit was used for the frames.  I LOVE how using Nancie’s kits make me look like I got all inky-fied and messy with paint, but really, all I ever do is apply some distress inks here and there and around the edges to my liking.  You’ll find printing her papers out in real life and applying distress inks is very satisfying as they coordinate well together.  Also, they look awesome when you dry emboss/wet emboss designs on them.  It looks like you’ve spent quite a while putting the background together.  They are fantastic!

Below are the digital products used in the above cards. Click on the collection image to be taken directly to the product pages at jessicasprague.com.