Archive for the ‘Digital Cards’ Category

My Wordpress blog got a virus last July and I spent two months working with my then hosting provider to resolve the situation. They finally washed their hands of the situation and said I needed to get help from the Wordpress forum. Well that did not go anywhere either. So, my blog sat stagnant for the fourth quarter of 2009 while I mustered the energy to rebuild.

From September through December I was working on a contract basis doing strategic marketing for GoAnyware which left me with very little spare time. They are giving me a break in January and I expect it to pick back up in February. So, I decided January would be the month to rebuild my blog (post by post and picture by picture…ugh) and launch my website. I’ll also go ahead and backdate some posts with work I shared on Facebook during my technical difficulties.

I used a great little application called “Artisteer” to create my Wordpress theme. It was very easy. I’d highly recommend it.

I also decided to try using Joomla for my main site. Call me brave or call me naive. It has been a bit more challenging so if you go to my main domain (please don’t) then you will see a mess right now. I’ll be getting back to that next. I might even get started this afternoon!

I’m thrilled to be able to get back to blogging in 2010….Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our house to yours…these are just mailing today!

The kit is a collaboration between Catherine Designs and Bisontine.

My daughter’s Kindergarten class is called the “Giraffes.” Their mascot is George the Giraffe. Last fall they all took turns being the “Star Student”, and got to take him home for the weekend. We had a great time with George, and this year with her teacher.

This is Teacher Appreciation week and today they were supposed to take a flower with a Thank-You card. I suppose I should have let her make a card, but I forgot about it until after her bedtime! So, I stayed up until 1:00 working on it, and then she forgot to put it in her backpack after proudly carrying it around all morning!

It was too cute not to share.

The giraffe painting is from a very old book. A couple of months ago I found it on a website where people shared art that is now copyright free. I didn’t know what I’d do with it at the time but I figured I would make something for Mrs. Green before the year was over.

The picture on the front of the card was taken on Easter. I loved the way the wind caught her hair, and figured it was a cute picture for Mrs. Green to remember our favorite Kindergartner by!

I created it digitally in Photoshop CS3 with materials from the following:

• White and Brown “Kraft” Papers: Amanda Rockwell
• Watercolor landscape paper, heart, and roses: Tracy Ann Graphics
• Pink photo wraps: Katie Pertiet
• Starry sky bling: Christina Renee
• Star frame: Ruth Davis
• Flourish: Rhonna Farrer
• Frame mask: Lynn Grieveson

I printed the front side on a piece of white card stock and ran the paper back through to print the back. The tricky part is positioning the 5 x 7 card on an 8.5 x 11 canvas in Photoshop and then turning the paper the correct way while printing the second side!

For my IRL (In Real Life) friends that have already sent us Christmas cards….we are LOVING seeing new pictures of your family and hearing what you’ve been up to in 2008. Ours has not been sent yet because we wanted to have a professional photo taken on the slopes at Angel Fire. We went with Neal’s whole family this past week and drove home on Christmas Eve.

I ended up using a photo taken with my camera because it was just too far for me to drag an uncooperative Raeleigh and for Danielle and Neal to walk in their snow boots. Thanks to Brandy for getting Raeleigh to smile, this was the best shot we could manage. I’m sure those who have been through the three year old stage can relate!

The paper and design elements are mostly from Designer Digitals, except for the tag which is from Two Peas in a Bucket. The green polka dot paper was a freebie at Designer Digitals.

• Festive Song Solids Paperie
• Posted Santa Postage Stamps
• Crystalized Postage Frames
• Postmarked Holidays Brushes and Stamps No. 02
• Chance of Flurries: Glittered
• Glitter Thread Stitches No. 02
• Tia Bennet Holiday Journalling (tag)

I really enjoyed digitally designing our card this year! It was all done in Photoshop. It was nice to not be limited to the designs that Moto Photo had to choose from. I actually designed our card in 2005 when Raeleigh was born because Moto Photo didn’t have a “Pink Christmas” birth announcement/Christmas combo. But I didn’t know about the whole world of online digital scrapbook shopping and scanned in my paper choices! This was much easier!

Kudos to those of you that actually handcraft your cards! I’d never finish that many of them and am happy to be sending these off to WalMart to be printed today!

Oh, and by the way, in case you didn’t know it, Santa snowboards and Mrs. Claus skis! Danielle met Santa while she was skiing, he gave her a candy cane!