Sunday, November 28, 2010

Merry & Bright - digital freebies

Made this card with a wonderful freebie digital image by Wendy - available here.  Just love the row of light bulbs - coloured them with copics (refrained from using glossy accents - which is unusual for me!!) LOL!.

I then added the sentiment to the inside matching the font on the front - AmerType Medium BT.
Edited to add - Annika asked some questions in her comment about how I created this card.  I set up an A6 template in Word (very easy) get the measurements of the card blank from the packet! and create a "Custom" page setup.  Then I change the layout to horizontal (rather than portrait), then go to "insert picture" - "from file" - open the image and plonk it into the Word document and then move it around until you are happy.  Do a test print, do any adjustments (this is what my screen looked like when I was adding the inside text).
Then hit print!  I then coloured directly onto the card - quick and easy!  Hope this answers some of the questions you might have.  Lucy Abrams does a great tutorial here if you want to check it out.

Just a fun, quick and easy card.  Hope you get a chance to pop over to Wendy's blog and leave her some love!.  Tell her I sent you!  Have a great day.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so cute! I love the sentiment :)

CinnamonSally said...

Really like this CAS card Deirdre, great sentiment too, will check out Wendy's Blog!!
Sallyx

Barb said...

I love this fun card, Deirdre! That sentiment is so cute! My hubby can TOTALLY relate to this! Putting up the Christmas lights is his LEAST favorite thing to do! :)

Sassy Cheryl said...

This is really cute! I Love the sentiment on the inside! Perfect.

Isha Gupta said...

Love the cheerful lights Deirdre:)

Anne said...

Just a perfect card Deirdre- love the funny sentiment inside! Thanks for the link to the frere image as well :)

Anita Rex said...

Oh I love this card, really made me smile!

Dawn T said...

what a cute card - love the words you put inside, Just perfect.

Annika said...

HOW do you print images and sentiments straight on card base??? Do you have a template of some sort? What settings do you use on your printer???
Oh well, I actually just wanted to say that I am utterly in love with that card!!! if I wasn't knee deep in cards, that's the sort of one I'd buy myself!!
Hugs
Annika

Anonymous said...

Brilliant Deirdre! xx

Alice said...

love the simple design and the sentiment is fab, too!

Nancy in Iowa said...

Great tutorial - ran across your card along with mine on Wendy's blog. I love the bright white along with the 'bright' sentiment.
The inside greeting is hilarious and perfect! Now if they also came tangle free....
Thanks so much for sharing the how-to!

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