Friday, March 20, 2009

Cupcakes and Cards

Due to my never ending hunger and porkiness , I am of course blaming the steroids which I take post -chemo, I am rather into making cupcakes at the moment...............check out these which are all I have left after my book club meeting.

Thought I would share a couple of cards I made with a digital dowload kit by Zoe Pearn, she designs for My Minds Eye, the non-digital papers can be purchased at Sarahs Cards (check out the goodies that gorgeous girl has in stock. These cards were published in last months Quick and Crafty Magazine. Apologies for the carpet shots, I am not the best photographer in the world! Incidentally Zoe Pearn designed the Blog in a box I have used for my blog, her designs are so bright and cheerful.


If you have never used digital papers I urge you to try, it's quick and easy. You may find you need to scale down some of the patterns using graphic software as the kits are usually sized for scrapbook layouts, I used photoshop and Image, Resize, but it can be done using other software, try it out. I was sceptical about the print quality but it works fine on my ancient HP colour printer.
There is a free project online at the moment on the Quick and Crafty site featuring a card I made for this months mag - it's here
Happy Friday!

2 comments:

DillyDilly said...

Hi Sam, Just discovered your blog & think you do great work & I really wish you well with the Chemo. Was so impressed with th blog in a box look that I have purchased one myself. Have a problem in that I don't have any photo editing software so have no idea how to put it together - so downloads sat on computer going nowhere!!!!!! Also, you can never have two many craft "tools" - thats my mantra and I'm sticking to it.........

Carol Ann said...

The Cup cakes are lookin kind of yummy I guess they have found a home by now :)
I am not sure about paper downloads because my printer has very small refill cartridges so I think that it would not be economical? x