Ten Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps: Idea Eight

Here we are already at idea number eight!

Using the Kellie Stamps November set: Summer 2016

IDEA #8: SAVE IT!

So this week, I wanted to show you how you can save your work after you alter a digital stamp and use it to create a Project Life® card! IF you remember from last week, we altered a digital stamp to color in one of the letters. Any of the previous week's ideas would work well also!

 I saved the file from last week, under a new name, but in the same folder as the rest of the Summer 2016 stamps from Kellie Stamps . Simply added the file to a 3x4 template in Photoshop, and printed it along with a photo on a 4x6 photo paper. This way I didn't waste the photo paper when I had only one more photo to print for this week! Win, win.

Week 47 Left Side
Supplies: Becky Higgins LLC. Photo Pocket Pages, Project Life® Everyday Edition, Kellie Stamps Digital Stamp set "Summer 2016", and Studio Calico Project Life® Kit Canyon Lands (November 2015)

 Week 47 both sides: "Sun-kissed" and "Hello Sunshine" from the Summer 2016 Kellie Stamps set, Adobe Photoshop CC2014, Becky Higgins LLC. Photo Pocket Pages Design A, Studio Calico Montly Project Life® Kit (November 2015 Canyon Lands), Project Life® Everyday Edition, You-version Bible App for the right hand page first 3x4 card on the left.




By saving the digital stamp I was able to quickly add it and create my own 3x4 card on the left that matched the right hand side. I like to add repeating elements to both sides to keep a cohesive look.




Thank you so much for joining me, and happy digital stamping!!

10 Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps: Blog Series Post Two

Hello crafty friends!

Today is the second post in my new blog series,

10 Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps

featuring #KellieStamps.

IDEA #2: CUT IT!

 Today we will be looking at using your digital stamps with an electronic die cutting machine.

I happen to own the Silhouette Cameo, so it's super easy to convert your SVG, PNG, or Studio files into a cut file using the TRACE feature on a Silhouette.

Here you can see the words at the top left corner from the Kellie Stamps Digital set

called "I am, You are, We are" and aren't the words amazing! (Dude, love that these are only $5) I love the font she uses, and it looks great paired with a script or handwritten font! I started in May of this year, using 6x8 blank pages in my Project Life Mini albums, and fell in love with the editorial style of the rectangle. So I am continuing to grow and adapt to this new way of designing! I LOVE it, and it seems so much easier for me! 

Here are the steps to cut the digital stamps on a Silhouette (You can also search on You-tube for video tutorials on how to use digital files with your Silhouette) I learned a lot from Ashley Horton!

1) OPEN Silhouette Studio® Design Software. You can either double click on the digital stamp you have downloaded to your computer to put it on your Silhouette Workspace OR at the top left go to FILE>IMPORT>IMPORT TO LIBRARY

2) Move and size your digital stamp to suit your project ( the ones above are about an inch high )

3) Click at the top right in your Silhouette Workspace the TRACE icon ( it look like a butterfly in a blue square )

4) Click Select Trace area 

5) Now move your cursor to make a rectangle around your digital stamp you want to turn into a cut file AND THEN UNCHECK HIGH PASS FILTER

6) Click  TRACE

7) Move the original digital stamp off your workspace by dragging it with the cursor.

8) Send to Silhouette to cut

9) Make something pretty with your digital stamp cut files! :)

Close up of the cut file, and note how I stitched through it with a sewing machine. Love the texture it adds when working with a neutral palette.

Ha! Love this funny girl! 

To DOWNLOAD the FREE PDF printable of today's lesson click here:

10 Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps: Blog Series Post Two

featuring #KellieStamps by Artful Leigh Creative

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Ten Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps: New Blog Series Every Sunday

I thought it would be fun to start a new blog series here every Sunday!

Featuring #KellieStamps by Kellie Winnell! 

 Week One: Punch it!

This is going to be a creative series to help you find new ways to use your digital stamps. We will be focusing on the different techniques each Sunday using Kellie Stamps.

Don't you love that you can create any size, color, and orientation with digital stamps? I still stamp in person, but I love adding this set of skills to the crafty bag!

As you can see above in the photo, adding foam tape under your punched piece really makes it a focal point of the card, and gives you that true hybrid scrapbooking result. You can really create any card for pocket scrapbooking, like Project Life®, or scrapbooking you would like.

I have created a free printable pdf for you with the steps, you can download it here:

10 Creative Ways To Use Digital Stamps
Featuring Kellie Stamps at www.ArtfulLeighCreative.com 

Week In The Life :Sunday Page Share by Artful Leigh Creative

Yesterday was one of those days,

and I just had to make something with my hands and journal.

It's therapeutic for me. 

So I made a sunday pre week page for August 16, 2015 #weekinthelife

in my 6x8 #ProjectLife album.

ALL Supplies: www.AliEdwards.com, 2015 Week In The Life, and the 6x8 digital page template from her digital section of her shop......LOVE!

I had never used the Ali Edwards digital templates before, and they ROCK! I simply added the photos and line art that I wanted for this left side and it's so cool that you can move each element of her digital templates...I didn't know they were so east to use!!

Right side is 3 3x4 photos and a quick 2.25x2.25 white card stock piece to go behind the label that came in the Ali Edwards WITL kit. Photos and words and minimal embellishment.

After I figured out the photos and printed this was a less than ten minute page! Dude! You can do this! :)