Let's get right to it, shall we - even though it's a little shorter than the last couple of posts.
Father's day. It's always a hard day for me. This year a little more than last. One blessing we do have is our 5 boys and 1 son in law and where they are in their lives now. This year's card was quick to make. The tie cut out is from Creative Fabrica. The font used is also from Creative Fabrica. Sheets printed and cut using SCAL and the Skycut C24 and my new Brother printer. All papers from my stash... and some of that stash is pretty old! ;) For the boys without children, I did make a slightly different card.
We still have several birthdays this month and not all of those cards are finished yet. I did finish one of them late last week. The digi stamp is from Vera Lane Studios. Papers from an old stack. Super simple card and I used colored pencils to color the stamped and cut image.
Thanks again for stopping by. Have an amazing week ahead with some creative time built into your schedule!
Playing with AI images
March 17, 2023
I've always wanted to create my own background papers, but found it quite frustrating when trying to create seamless backgrounds. Creative Fabrica has a set of AI tools on their site that you can access with a subscription. Thanks to Creative Fabrica's generous gift of 1 month's access, I was able to create a collection of images to use in a playful Pinterest inspired Paper Quilt.
While I didn't use all the images I created, it was fun to see what the tools would come up with using prompts and then tweaking the prompts for other images that could be used. Some editing was done in Photoshop Elements and Affinity Designer. I'm still a dabbler with Affinity, but I did learn quite a bit through this experience as well.
One of the images I created but didn't use in the project is this one.
It only had one line of flowers at the bottom of the image and I wanted flowers throughout on the stripes. So I downloaded and saved the file to my computer and put it in a folder shared with my iPad. Opened Affinity and played, creating a new image and incorporating the stripes and flowers into one new image.
It was a fun experiment -- I'm not sure I would use the tools often enough with my current library of digital prints to warrant the extra subscription, but in a crunch if I needed something I didn't have, I might use the tools again.
Here's a link to the completed PAPER QUILT project I completed using the SPARK tools on The Artistry. I used SCAL 6 Pro and the Skycut to make all the shapes and to save on ink -- you can use the pattern fill command and only fill the shapes with the desired digital patterns you create in SPARK.
If you give SPARK a whirl, I'd love to hear about it! Leave a comment!
Carve out some creative time over the weekend if you can. Enjoy your play!
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