{"id":1268,"date":"2009-10-20T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2009-10-20T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T05:02:08","slug":"the-making-of-a-digital-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/the-making-of-a-digital-card\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of a Digital Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beth here…two days in a row! Anyone who has seen our gallery<\/a> knows I LOVE making cards…any holiday, any occasion, any reason, and I’ll make a card. Here’s one I recently made for a friend who is going through some tough stuff.<\/p>\n

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Normally I make hybrid cards, adding a bit of stamping and textural elements to my digital creation after printing. However, you can make them completely digitally and then print or e-mail to the recipient. Easy, quick…thoughtful!<\/p>\n

Over the years I’ve worked out a system that works well for me (w\/Photoshop Elements):<\/p>\n

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  1. In image editor create a new image the size of the front of the card (File>New>Blank File>enter size options). My preferred sizes range from 4.25″ x 5.5″ to 5″ x 7″ at 300 dpi.<\/li>\n
  2. Create a layered, digital collage like any digital scrapbook layout and print on white cardstock. I often will flatten and print 2 card fronts on one 8.5″x11″ piece of white cardstock.<\/li>\n
  3. Using a paper trimmer, trim edges and mount with adhesive on folded blank cardstock in a coordinating color.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Specific steps for the card above:<\/p>\n

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    1. Using the “Together” paper from Nature’s Sketchbook 4 Papers as my base, I layered paper #15 from Nature’s Sketchbook 3 Papers on top. <\/li>\n
    2. I added Photo Art blend #12 (from set no. 1) behind journal #3 (from Nature’s Sketchbook Journals 5) and used a luminosity blend mode and a grunge eraser brush to erase unwanted portions of photo blend. <\/li>\n
    3. Using a photograph of a bleeding heart flower, I layered this on the left side of journal, enlarged it to fit the page and erased extra edges. Opacity of the photo was set to 75%. <\/li>\n
    4. I then layered the elements on top, duplicating the small bleeding heart and small heart from Build-an-Element 1 with a luminosity blend mode. <\/li>\n
    5. I did the same with the two hearts on the right side<\/li>\n
    6. Enter journaling using Type Tool. Place each line on another layer if special spacing is needed, such as putting “heart” on top of paper hearts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Below are a few recent favorites…more cards and techniques from the team can be seen in our card-making gallery here<\/a><\/p>\n

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      Beth here…two days in a row! Anyone who has seen our gallery knows I LOVE making cards…any holiday, any occasion, any reason, and I’ll make a card. Here’s one I recently made for a friend who is going through some tough stuff. supplies here Normally I make hybrid cards, adding a bit of stamping and textural elements to my digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,10],"tags":[17,28],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hybrid-projects","category-team-inspiration","category-tutorials","tag-beth-ervin","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}