Christmas - really!

Hi all my fabulous friends.  It's Karon here from Karon's Krafty Korner to visit here at She's A Sassy Lady. Thanks for putting up with me each month Sheila :-)

Today I have to share a really great image from a new Polka Doodles CD - Angelberry Christmas.  This CD is fabulous, so many lovely papers and embellishments and 8 lovely Angelberry digis for you to colour or use the precoloured ones as toppers.

Here is my little bit of Christmas to share with you - it's not too early to get started - apparently there are only 161 Days left :-)

This little angel is so adorable and such a pleasure to colour. Here is a close up of the image.

I used my Spectrum Noir markers to colour here in.

Holly       -  CG2, DG3

Berries    -  CR11

Skin        -  TN2, FS2

Hair        -  CT1, CT3, CT4

Dress      -  CR4, CR5, CR6

Ribbon    -  DR1, DR3, DR5

Box         -  CG2, DG3

Wings      -  LY1, LY3

The papers for this card, were taken from the Studio 12 CD - Picknix Collection 2 - Gingerbread Twist.  I didn't use papers from the new CD, cause Nikky hadn't done them when I made this card LOL.  But I can assure you they are fabulous and will make something with them soon :-)

I cut out the image with my Silhouette Cameo and then popped her up on some pop dots.  Added the sheer red ribbon to finish off the front.  Also inked all the edges of all the layers with Stampin' Up Cranberry Ink.

For the inside I used the same papers as the front.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy crafting.

Digital Coloring and Cricut Cuts

Confession time…I am lazy. I absolutely love the look of colored images, but just don’t have the time to do it well. So, I resort to the many gorgeous digital images available on-line. Printed on any of my Cricut cuts, gives beautiful results in no time!

Ingredients:

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  Digital Image
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  Lacy Lables Cartridge
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  Assorted Cardstock
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  Ribbon
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  Home printer

The Recipe:

First choose the image! There are many sources for purchasing color images; Lettering Delights and PC Hug Club are two examples. However, do not forget clipart and image searches! Just be sure that the image is copyright free or for personal use only before you proceed.

I did a Google : Image Search : Spring Flowers. The selections was amazing!

Amongst the many, I found this graphic, perfect for my needs:

The indicated picture is a thumbnail (a very small representation). In order to have the clearest print, click on the picture. You will connect to the host website. Here you will find information about downloading, copyright and developer. This particular graphic is copyright free and downloadable; if you would like it, click here. Save the picture to the hard drive of your computer.

Cut:

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  neutral cardstock 4 1/4 x 11. Fold in half to create an A2 card.
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  light background square 4 x 5 1/4.
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  From the Lacy Labels Cart, choose two shapes and their shadows:
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  neutral paper: actual size 3 1/2
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  accent paper shadow: actual size 4
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  sentiment foreground: actual size 1”
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  sentiment shadow: actual size 1-1/4”

Ink all edges.

Download the file “Axis,” a graphic file that can be opened in any graphics program. Click here to download.

In your graphic program, open "Axis.jpg” and “spring flowers.jpg”. (I use Photoshop Elements 7.) The files appear at the bottom of your screen.

 

Left mouse click, hold and drag the “axis,jpg” to the main window of your screen. (wrong file…I apologize!)

Add a layer to your graphic.

Be sure your new layer is highlighted; drag and drop “spring flowers” into this layer. It will appear on top of the axis.

Highlight the second layer; “handles” will appear around the graphic on this layer only.

First size the image. Note that there are white margins around the entire image. You can size the image by using the boxes in the corners, or you can resize with accurate dimensions.

From the menu select Image : Resize: Image.

To be sure that this graphic fits on your 4” cut, select Constrain Proportions and size the height to 3. Select OK.

Using the handles as guides, center the graphic horizontally and vertically over the axis.

Save this file as”Springflowers_1”. Send to your home printer. This creates the base for printing on your cut shape.

Audition your cut object by laying it over the printed image. Does any part of the graphic peek out? If not, center your cut. Lightly mark with pencil.

Turn the cut image so that the wrong side is up and place small rolls of invisible table at the top, bottom and sides.

Turn the cut over, tape down and center the cut once again over your image. You should see none of the printed image. Return the preprinted page and cut to the printer. Take care that the page is placed correctly in the tray for duplicating the image on the cut. (My printer requires that I place the preprinted image/cut face down in the tray.)

BEFORE you cut, return to PSE. You do not want the axis to print the second time. In PSE, select the “eye” to the left of the layer, turning the layer off; in other programs you may have to temporarily delete the axis image.

Select print.

When the print menu opens, be sure that the Scale of your image is 100%. There should be no axis visible! Send to your printer.

When your graphic has printed, remove it from the background template.

Mat this image and complete the card as desired.

I hope you enjoy pairing your home printer with your Cricut as much as I do! Until next time, keep sorting the scraps and generating the gems! Nonna

Not A Stamper - You Can Be - Part 2

Hi Ya Everyone!
  This is Melissa again from MelissaMade and I'm so excited to be doing an extra spot here at She's A Sassy Lady to provide you with more inspiration for using stamps even if you don't like to color.  Last time I taught you how to paper piece.  Today, I will teach you how to make your own paper using digital stamps.  I use a program from Microsoft Office called PowerPoint which is a presentation program.  You can use any program that will allow you to use and manipulate pictures.  I will show you with PowerPoint but you can adjust for your own needs.  First, I insert a picture and here I'm using a digital stamp from Christy Croll at Tiddly Inks called Schoolgirl and she comes with a number of books which I use for both images:

Next, I adjust the size of  the book. 

Then I insert another image from Tiddly Inks. 

These two images will form the images for my digital paper.  Next, I copy the images repeatedly to allow a whole row of images and paste them twice.  In order to line up the images I use the line tool and draw a straight line and place it under the images and adjust them to line up. 

At this point I select all the images at once - you can either hold down Control and the letter A at the same time or you can hold the control button down and select each image.  Once all the images are selected right click and group the images together. 

When they are grouped you can copy and paste them down the paper.  I like a bit of a staggered look so I staggered mine and added an extra image to the side and alternated each row.

I repeated this process until I had a whole page filled with these images.

 Next, I took a piece of paper from my Tim Holtz Ideology stack and cut it down to an 8.5 x 11 sheet.  I put it in my printer and printed my page.

I needed to add some masculine cards to my stash and thought a birthday card and matching bookmark would be appropriate.  I used the paper for both! 

This is a very short tutorial but one I love because you can have any type of paper you need.  You can also match digital images with background paper like I did for this card. 

Have a wonderful day and if you have any questions please do so in the comments.  Thank you so much for stopping by today and remember that I love comments!
Hugs,
Melissa