Scrappin and Stampin with Savitri

If you’re a regular here, you know that I like all sorts of scrapbooking and card making. But since this post is specifically created for the PaperTrey Ink June (transparency challenge) blog hop, let me tell you this: I am a hybrid crafter (besides the regular paper scrapbook and card making).

What is that? Besides using the regular paper and glue I also use digital products. In essence hybrid crafters are those who combine digital and traditional methods of paper crafting. So for today’s blog hop, I hope that I can inspire you to try hybrid out. It’s super easy and you might already be doing it (printing clip-arts or printing out your sentiments).

The tutorial and the method I used today was done in Photoshop CS3 and I used a Photoshop brush for one of my element BUT, you don’t have to have Photoshop to print on transparency (you do need Photoshop though to use Photoshop brushes). You can just uses Word, WordPerfect, Neo (Mac only)/OpenOffice (FREE!), etc. and print on to a transparency using images, text, dingbats, or clip-art (use your favorite search engine to find many free fonts, clip-arts or dingbats — check out DaFont or ScrapVillage, they are two of my favorite free font/dingbat sites).

This first card, Hello Thinking of You, I used four pieces of transparencies. The first is the bird and that’s from My Mind’s Eyes, the second is the greenish white piece of painted transparency, the third are two stamped PTI images from the Shape by Design set, and the flowers. The other elements… well… uhm… they’re scraps from other projects. I have here some Stampin’ Up! paper, Tinkering Ink, PaperTrey, and Sassafrass Lass. The lace was from WalMart and the staples are just good ol’ regular staples (notice there’s a PTI transparency on the top right behind those layers).

For the transparencies, let me start with the bird since it’s the easiest part {::SMILES}. All I did was cut. The material is thick so you got to really mean it and be careful but it wasn’t hard, just need some patience. The transparency background, I used a coat of yellow acrylic paint, a coat of crackling paint, a coat of green and then I caked on (on some parts) some white. The paint I used was half Making Memories and the other just a less expensive brand from WalMart. I think they’re the same but who knows but, for this type of projects, any acrylic paint will do. If you look close, the crackling only occurs on the area that has more paint, which I wanted it to do, so I’m ok with it but if you want full crackling, make sure you cover it well with paint and wait for each coat to dry before moving on (I used my embossing gun to speed it up, ha!).

The PTI stamped image. I just used my black Stampin’ Up! stamp pad for this. You really need to let it dry before touching it. I stamped this image Monday night, I was in no hurry so I just let it air dry. Then the flower… I used Photoshop’s brush for this. Unfortunately I have no idea which brush it is or where it is from but if you Google for Photoshop brushes, you’ll come up with a lot of them (or go to Brusheezy which is one of my favorite free brush site). So, for this one (unless you’re familiar with Photoshop and brushes) please watch the video.

The second card is pretty simple and I created this for those who just says NO to any computer stuff {::SMILES}. I had one extra circle stamped transparency and I just modified the card that I did yesterday for the Split Coast color challenge. If you look at the butterfly, you can see that it has the same stamped image as the transparency. I used Martha Stewart’s (EK Success) butterfly punch to create this butterfly. First stamp then punch. Put it all together and you’ll get this card.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great blog hopping night and I hope to participate and “see” you all again next month! Oh, if you have ANY question, please feel free to either comment here or send me a personal email using the Contact form above. I’ll reply back as soon as I can!