Monday, February 21, 2011

Another Masculine Card & My FIRST Digi!!!

Okay... So I spent about 4 hours tonight "Digi-Searching" and found some amazing digis!!! (A digi is a digital image that can be resized to fit your cards or whatever other project you are working on!)

I had never heard of a "Digi" until I started working with Operation Write Home and even then, I haven't had ink in my printer for about 5 months so I couldn't print anything out! So today I bought some ink and then went blog-hopping and found a bazillion cool digis!!

Here is my very 1st attempt at this... the image was found on Sliekje's Digi Stamps, where I actually found about 10 images I hope to use soon! This is also going to be used for the Stars and Stamps Mid-Week Throwdown, which calls for Masculine cards...


 Besides the digi from Sliekje, I used dark brown and dark blue generic cardstock, a SU sentiment, and SU markers. I also used a sponge to distress the edges with Memories ink (another technique I learned from OWH... although I didn't have a distressing tool like the one Sandy used in the OWH UStream TV practice run last night!!)

It's only my 1st and I hope to improve on this, but I'd love some feedback!

Thanks for visiting!!

7 comments:

  1. You did a great job with your first digi! I have a friend who distresses the edges of her card with her fingernail, so you really don't need to buy a tool for that! You can find a daily list of free digis on this website if you're interested:
    http://freedigitalstamps.blogspot.com
    Keep up the great work and have fun :)

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  2. Love the card, Ginnie! I, too, hadn't heard of digi stamps until I started making cards for OWH. Now I'm hooked! Be careful - it's a real addiction. I started making folders on my computer for each artist/company so that I could give appropriate credit for each card that I post on my blog. Wish I had that kind of talent to be able to draw, but mine lie in other areas. :-)

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  3. Ginnie, you did a wonderful job on your first digi. Welcome to a whole new wonderful world.

    hugs,
    Shirley

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  4. Great card - love the layout and the colors. I am just getting into digi's myself. I did one a couple of months ago for OWH and then printed out some more this past week which I hope to use soon.

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  5. Very cute card! I've really grown to love the versatility that digis provide in terms of sizing an image 'just right' for your card.

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  6. Great card... Thank you so much for your donation to my son as well.

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  7. Ginnie, I'm not sure if I left you a message or not, but I've given you a stylish blogger award. You just need to stop at my blog and pick it up. It was a few posts ago, so just scroll down and then right click on the award and save it. yolanda-tryingtobecreative.blogspot.com

    By the way, that's a super cute card!

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