Gettin' digi with it . . .

Talented Amy Teets was kind enough to send me a Crafty Secrets CD  *Creating with Vintage*. Digi has always intrigued me, although I can't say I'm a digi kind of gal.

I like the touch and feel of things.  And most important, I don't know anything about Photoshop.  I have Photoshop Elements 7.  I can upload photos from my camera.  I am able to crop and print.  Period.  If the photos don't turn out well, I retake the pics.  I don't know how to manipulate them, make them look better or change the coloring.

And I am too busy to stop and read directions (at least that's my excuse) usually because I don't even understand the terms they're using in the directions.  F-stop means something entirely different to me than it does in photo related print.  just sayin'.

But I do so love Crafty Secrets that I popped in the CD

pulled up Photoshop Elements

tried to figure out where I was to look for the CD

and then had to figure out layering.

LAYERING!

Layering to me means dressing like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.

But I did promise Amy so I give it my best shot . . .

and it worked. 

So easy!

I found the designs I wanted to use and opened those in Photoshop Elements.

They were sitting there, all in a row, at the bottom of the screen.

I dragged (drug?) the images I wanted to use to the main screen

and there was a little window on the right that showed the layers.

Layers = different pictures (at least to me) one on top of another.

I dragged (or is it drug?) each picture where I wanted and then flattened the layers (which meant click on the *flatten* icon).

Once the layers were flattened, I printed out that paper.  You can see it below.  It's the one with the doily and the chicken.  I decided I wanted to stamp a Crafty Secrets image and like to do that on printed paper instead of plain paper.  So I stuck a piece of Copic Marker paper in my printer, chose another image from the CD and printed that out.

 

Because I have an inkjet printer, I heat set the paper and then stamped the image with Black Memento Ink before coloring with Copics.  And here's the final result:

Really simple, but I am so happy with the images offered on the Crafty Secrets CD and how easy it is!

Thank you Amy! This CD rocks - and better yet, I can do it! 

Going back to play more.  Have a great Sunday!

Comments

[AmyT]

Yeah!!! This turned out gorgeous!!!