by Linda | Sep 14, 2010 | DIY printables
Hi folks! I’m exploring a handdrawn digital stamp style and have you seen all the girls from a previous post? Although I’m not a big fan of scanning and cleaning designs, I’m certainly in more control when sketching and drawing by hand.
I still have not gotten the hang of using the Wacom tablet so I can draw directly into Photoshop or Illustator. Still lots to learn…but I wanted to share two of my handdrawn characters with you and let you try them out and see what you think!
Introducing…Miss Mary and Mr Jason! Please let me know what you think and what you look for in designs and drawings. I would appreciate your input and will continue to sketch and create new characters as you read this. I still haven’t worked out the best process yet, but it’s sure fun to create characters and see them come alive, with their own personalities. They are my little ones!
Download ZIP of Miss Mary and Mr Jason jpgs
Thanks a bunch for stopping by and please pass on the link to this post to your crafty friends! Enjoy! Also, I would love to see how you use these digital stamps, how you end up coloring them and how you incorporate them into your works of art. Please feel free to comment below with links as well. Can’t wait to see – ciao ciao!
by Linda | Sep 9, 2010 | DIY printables
Continuing with my hybrid card design adventures, today I designed a “thinking of you” classic styled card.
It’s super fun to create designs, but I realized how difficult it is sometimes to cut out the shapes as I’m not a very good fussy cutter myself. Now that I finally have a Big Shot, I think I will try to use die cutting more in my crafting. I suppose the idea is to use our digital tools in some way, but the card is still handcrafted as there are some things easier about just punching shapes or rounding corners with a chomper.
Free printable card download
Download the thinking of you hybrid card design PDF
I hope you’ll have fun creating this card and please spread the word! I started up these hybrid card designs, all because of the computer card tricks class over on JessicaSprague.com, so check that site out as well for digital classes and products. Enjoy!
by Linda | Sep 8, 2010 | DIY printables
You might have noticed that Wednesdays happen to be freebie days here on tortagialla.com. In my mind I like to celebrate the middle of the week (hump day) by sharing something with all of you. This past week, in my attempts of planning and organizing, I whipped up some printable notepages for myself. They have motivational quotes at the bottom, to help encourage me to follow my dreams, believe in myself and move forward. I’m big on quotes, if you haven’t noticed already…I collect them like stamps 🙂
Download Printable Notepages with Motivational Quotes ZIP file of PDFs (3.4 Mb)
These notepages have been designed on A4 paper, the normal size here in Europe, so I can just print and cut in half. So for all the USA’ers you’ll have to Fit-to-Paper when printing or set it to a smaller percentage to make it fit on your paper size. Otherwise, you can make them even smaller to be notecards as well. Enjoy and feel free to spread the word. Ciao ciao!
by Linda | Sep 6, 2010 | DIY printables
Happy Monday! I’ve just recently purchased a Wacom tablet, so that I can draw directly into the computer with programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator – super exciting! I’m super lazy when it comes to scanning my sketches, so normally I draw directly in programs with the mouse. I thought the Wacom tablet and pen would be a great resource, but it’s certainly proving to be a bit of a learning curve. I haven’t gotten it all down yet, but I do believe this will help me create a lot more digital stamps moving forward! It’s so much easier to create in this way, just takes a bit getting used to how to use the tools!
To start with, I’ve drawn up a cute little cake fairy and wanted to share with all of you in celebration of my Wacom tablet 🙂 Please enjoy and let me know what you think!
Download the Little Cake Fairy Digital Stamp ZIP file of hi resolution PNG
by Linda | Sep 1, 2010 | DIY printables
Happy September lovely blog readers! I’m still pondering over how I can organize and refine a posting schedule for my various blogs, including this one…see the last post for details. I’m always open to suggestions, so do let me know what you think. What do you want to see, learn, share, discuss about? In the meantime, I thought I would post this little printable freebie. I’m going into a lot of scrapbooking and minibook making for all my vacation photos, so these were some journaling notecards I whipped up to use. There’s space to put in the date, location and notes…especially good for itinerary types of memory keeping.
Download Date Location Notes Printable Journaling Notecards PDF
Hope you enjoy and until next time…when I get my scheduling sorted out! Thanks and ciao ciao!
