Looking for Inspiration?

If you are a crafter looking for card making inspiration, may I suggest you take a look at "Crafter's Digital Art Center". You will find lots of inspiration for your own creations. You will have to sign-up to view the site, It is free, but it is so worth the effort.

This beautiful card was created by Lawren from a digital stamp created by Tammy of A Day for Daisies.

While you are at "CDAC" (Crafter's Digital Art Center) why don't you go vote on the "Digital Drawing Challenge"? To vote, just click on the little yellow stars under the drawings. Each person is allowed 3 votes. Click Here to go to the "Digital Drawing Challenge".

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Spring Basket Digital Stamp

“Spring Basket” is a versatile group of Digital Stamps; 4 stamp images in all. One complete basket, one basket front (including the handle), a group of Easter eggs and a ribbon bow. This digital stamp is the perfect starting point for your own creations.

It is large enough to be used as a fabric transfer on tee-shirts, tote bags or pillows. It is easy to reduce it in size to use it to decorate your handmade greeting cards, stationery, note pads, calendars, invitations, gift tags, bookmarks. Use it as and embellishment for your scrapbooking, journals, or albums.  You could also us them to make magnets, jewelry or to decorate bags ... or anything else your creative mind can think of!

For more information on this Digital Stamp visit my Etsy Shop. For a tutorial on using MS Word to print Digital Stamps click here.

Mr. Bunny

Second Entry for:
"THE CDAC DIGITAL DRAWING CHALLENGE/ DIGI CLUB"

Mr. Bunny is a dignified chap! Don’t you agree? He is delivering a basket full of Easter Eggs in the most delightful way. This digital stamp is the perfect starting point for your own creative crafts.

"Mr. Bunny” is Digital Stamp created from an original drawing by Jen Norton. Image size is 8” x 3.25“, Hi-Res 300 DPI file, big enough for use on a tee-shirt or tote bag, yet it may also be used easily on smaller projects like greeting cards by reduced in size to fit your project. The "Mr. Bunny" digital stamp is available in JPG and PNG format (PNG has a transparent background).

The "Mr. Bunny" digital stamp will be available in our Etsy Shop in about a week, as soon as the challenge is over. In the meantime go here and vote for us and then go take a look at our other artwork in our Etsy Shop.

© Spectacular Printable is a small family of artists; Lyn Norton, Amber Kathrine and Jen Norton. We create clip art and digital stamps from our original artwork to produce product designs that are the perfect starting place for your own creativity. Purchasing this clip art digital file does not mean that you have purchased the copyright. The original artist maintains the copyright on their artwork, illustrations and designs.

Please help us win by voting for us. You will have to sign up to vote, but there is no cost or obligation. After you sign up, scroll down to the bottom of the page and our two bunnies are at the bottom. There are yellow stars that you click on to vote, you are allowed 3 votes. Go to "THE CDAC DIGITAL DRAWING CHALLENGE/ DIGI CLUB" Thanks!!!

Joy Bunny

Our First Entry for :
"THE CDAC DIGITAL DRAWING CHALLENGE/ DIGI CLUB"

This playful bunny digital stamp is jumping for joy! Each of the three Easter saying individually fit perfectly into the banner that the "Joy Bunny" is holding. This digital stamp is the perfect starting point for your own creations.

"Joy Bunny” is Digital Stamp created from an original drawing by Jen Norton. Image size is 6.5” x 3.15“, Hi-Res 300 DPI file, big enough for use on a tee-shirt or tote bag. It may also be easily reduced in size to fit on smaller projects like greeting cards. "Joy Bunny" digital stamp is available in JPG and PNG format (transparent background).

The "Joy Bunny" digital stamp will be available in our Etsy Shop in about a week, as soon as the challenge is over. In the meantime go here and vote for us and then go take a look at our other artwork in our Etsy Shop.

© Spectacular Printable is a small family of artists; Lyn Norton, Amber Kathrine and Jen Norton. We create clip art and digital stamps from our original artwork to produce product designs that are the perfect starting place for your own creativity. Purchasing this clip art digital file does not mean that you have purchased the copyright. The original artist maintains the copyright on their artwork, illustrations and designs.

Please help us win by voting for us. You will have to sign up to vote, but there is no cost or obligation. After you sign up, scroll down to the bottom of the page and our two bunnies are at the bottom. There are yellow stars that you click on to vote, you are allowed 3 votes. Go to "THE CDAC DIGITAL DRAWING CHALLENGE/ DIGI CLUB" Thanks!!!

       




 

Sweet Amy Clip Art

"Sweet Amy" Clip Art         "Sweet Amy" Digital Stamp

Sweet Amy is an original piece of Clip Art that was drawn by Amber Kathrine and digitally colored by Lyn Norton.

Both pieces of artwork are available in my Etsy Shop

Sweet Amy Digital Stamp: Click Here

Sweet Amy Clip Art: Click Here

She is big enough that you can use her as a fabric transfer to decorate a tee shirt, tote bag or a pillow. If you desire a small image for embellishing a handmade greeting card, stationery, note pads, calendars, invitations, gift tags, bookmarks or any other wonderfully creative thing you can think up, you can easily re-size this Clip Art. My prefered graphics program is Photoshop, but you can use  MS Word or Paint. Paint comes on all Windows operating systems. I have written and posted a tutorial for each program.

Click here for the tutorial for Word

Click here for the tutorial forPaint

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Using MS Paint for Digital Stamps - Tutorial

Microsoft Paint is not the most flexible graphics program available, but it is a program that comes with the PC's operating system. It has its advantages; it is free and you don't have to download it from the internet.

I’m using Windows 7, if you are using another operating system your screen may look a little different, but it will still be similar.

Finding the Paint Program on your computer:

To find “Paint” click on the “Start Menu Icon”, the list you will see will be different on your computer. Choose “All Programs”, it will be at the bottom of the list.

To read more Click Here

Digital Stamp Guide

What are Digital Stamps?
Digital stamps, or digi stamps, are black and white digital image or illustration files, usually .jpg or .png format, that you buy, downloaded and print from your computer to use in crafting. One of the great things about digital stamps is that they can be resized, duplicated and manipulated to fit you needs. It saves a lot of time especially if you are constructing a card with multiple images. You can compose your design once, and then click to print as many copies as you need. Suddenly the thought of holiday card making or invitation making isn’t so daunting!

Printing and Coloring Digital Images:
Simply arrange you images on a sheet of paper, print and color them in the same way that you would color a rubber stamped image. You can color them with watercolors, pen, colored pencils, chalks, any medium you would use on stamped image.  Click Here to Read More

How to Make Tape From Wrapping Paper

Make Your Own Fancy Tape

I found this great idea for making pretty tape from your favorite wrapping paper. This idea could even be expanded to making fabric tape.

To make rolls of pretty tape, round up your favorite patterned wrapping paper, and purchase double-side mounting adhesive.  To read the complete tutorial click on Country Living

Valentine Clip Art Freebie

Are you new to digital stamps and digital clip art?

I would like to give you an opportunity to see the high quality of our digital products. This piece of clip art is a sweet little cluster of hearts and a ribbon measures 4 1/2"x1 1/2" at 300 ppi. It is the perfect size for embellishing a greeting card or envelope. 

Simply right click on the image and copy, save to your computer and start creating!

I am happy to provide you with this freebie for you to try.

Please be respectful of my generosity and DO NOT use this Freebie commercially or sell or give it away. If your friends would like this image, please send them here to get it. Check back often because the Freebie image will change periodically. Thanks!

Please don't forget to show your gratitude by posting a comment.

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Changing the Line Color on a Digital Stamp

To stamp with a color other than black you may change the color of your digital stamp in MS Word. I am going to show you how to do it in this tutorial. I am using Microsoft Word 2010, if you have a different version it may look a little different than my screen shots, but it should work similarly.

1. Open a new blank Word document and “Insert” your picture as I instructed you to do in the tutorial entitled, “Using MS Word to Print Digital Stamps”.

2. Adjust the size of the art fit the article you are planning on using the digital stamp on. You may wish to change the margins to allow for a larger printing area if you are planning to use the digital stamp on something large like a tee shirt, tote bag or if you want to save a little paper by having the image printed near the top left side of the paper.

3. Click on the tab “Page Layout” and then “Margins”. You will see a drop down menu. At the bottom of the drop down menu is click on “Custom Margins”

Read more . . . Click Here

Using MS Word to Print Digital Stamps

No "special" computer program is necessary to use digital stamps.

Most computers have Microsoft Word, and it can easily be used to size and print digital images. This little tutorial will show you how!

You may want to create a special file folder called "Digital Stamps" on your computer, and download and save all of your Digital Stamps to that folder. After you have downloaded your Digital Stamps to your "Digital Stamps" folder you will need to uncompressed them (or unzipped them) so that they are ready for you to use. . . Read More Click Here . . .

The Valentine Animals Welcome a New Baby

This beautiful card was made by Hadar Berman:

Hadar created this lovely card with the "The Valentine Animals" Digital Stamp. This Digital Stamp is available from Spectacular Printable on Etsy: http://tinyurl.ms/3egp

Hadar first layered her cardstock with bright colorful papers. Then she printed the Digital Stamp and colored the image with Copic Markers adhering it to the card.

If you have never used Copic Markers then you might want to watch this video by Cindy Lawrence to learn more about how to use these amazing markers. 

Hadar made a card that would be a perfect card in honor of a new arrival, either boy or girl. Other possibilities for the use of this Digital Stamp are many.  Wouldn't it be cute as a framed picture in a baby or child's bedroom or the decoration on a tote bag. Yes, the original image is that large! The image is a large, high resolution 71/2"x71/2" image. Of course you can easily scale it uo or down to scrapbook or greeting card size.

You may purchase this card from Hadar's Etsy Shop at: http://tinyurl.ms/3egq

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Happy Crafting, Lyn

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Lyn

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