Celebrating a late Valentine's Day...get inspired!

Since Valentine's Day fell on a weekday, it gives people carte blanche to celebrate that day, the weekend before, or the weekend after. If you are celebrating later this weekend then you may just need a little Valentine’s day inspiration. Here are ways that a I dressed up some gifts by using my clip art and hand colored printouts of my digi stamps to decorate a gift bag & make a homemade coupon...

For card ideas for guys, try a collage design with scrapbook elements...

Digi stamps give you lots of versatility. Print them and color them to coordinate with the papers and cardstock you have on hand. Then create great cards like these (made with my What a Hoot set).

This shows inside and outside views of the card...

Don’t be afraid to mix traditional and digi stamps together along with your favorite embellishments!

And now that Valentine’s Day is over, don't let the artwork from this digi stamp go to waste. It isn't just for Valentine’s Day. Use it for making cute get well messages, birthday greetings, and thank you cards, just like this... 

Whooooo knows where your creativity may lead you.

Be inspired to live life creatively!

Anniversaries, Birthdays means Cardmaking Galore!

The other night we were discussing how there were so many kids birthdays this week which lead to the insight that these were probably to do with holiday celebrations leading up to New Year’s Eve. In glancing at my calendar I saw how far behind I am on cardmaking. My fastest solution? Use some ready made digitals or pull out some digi brushes to create fast, beautiful backgrounds in the colors of my choosing. With cooler temps promised this weekend in Florida, I chose a fall theme palette and my Au Naturale digital brushes as the basis for these designs. I also incorporated a fairly recent frame set called Frilly Frames that is so wonderful to add text and photos to. One of the birthday cards also incorporates svg diecuts from my Swirly QZs set.Here are some examples of my card creations...

Belated Anniversary Wishes

Frilly Framed Photo Anniversary Card

Masculine 40th Birthday Card

inside view of Masculine Birthday Card

70th Birthday Natural Swirls Card

inside view of 70th Birthday Card

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Father's Day Inspiration & Sale!

In case you need to whip out a last minute card, I am sharing 2 Father's Day cards (part of my Project 365 creations) created with a verse from my newly released Masculine Verses digi stamp & brush set and a FREE download Lighthouse digi stamp in my shop at www.Mygrafico.com. I am working on doing some tutorials or videos in the near future to show just how to use digi stamps.

  

These cards show two different ways to work with b&w printouts of digi stamps. The first card combines the verse with the stamp which is printed out and matted onto patterned and solid CS. The second shows how you can dress up a b&w stamp simply by sponging on some soft colors. The verse is printed separately, matted with buttons, brad and ribbon to embellish.

Download this free digi stamp set here.

Purchase this new set for great phrases and titles for guy projects...

Hey, dad's don't just get to celebrate on Father's Day, crafters have a reason too with the 40% one day sale going on at mygrafico.com. Check it out. Ends at midnight on the 19th!

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1. Check out my 5 new sets. 2. The retirement sale - just $1 each! 3. So many great designs inspire your creativity. 4. One of those new sets is a FREE digi stamp...perfect timing for Father's Day ;D. 5. Flowers make everyone smile...three of my new designs let you choose from cool brushes, pen-n-ink botancials and bright summer flowers.

Here is a peek at my 5 newest collections...

Pen-n-Ink Garden

A collection of 4 beautiful pen-n-ink botanical illustrations including a lily, rose, lenten rose and iris.

Lighthouse Digi Stamp - FREEBIE

Escape to the beach with this lighthouse sketch. Pair with the Father's Day verse in my new Masculine Verses set and you will have a quick and easy Father’s Day card, as shown. Download for free and tell all your friends!!!

Summer Florals

I can’t help but get in a cheery summer frame of mind looking at these brightly colored flower clip art designs. Use on cards, layouts, invitations and other projects. Take your pick of formats...eps, png and abr brushes!

Bold Floral Brushes 1

If you like to be in charge of what you create, there is nothing like Photoshop brushes. Use this set of 20 digi brushes and art files to create amazing flowers in patterns, textures and colors that you like. The eps files are scaleable and editable. Use the png for layering and also to selectively color or try the digital brushes for creating fast, easy one color floral designs. Combine with textures and styles in Photoshop to unleash the possibilities!

Masculine Verses

The set of verses and titles for creating projects for and about the men in your life. Includes brushes as well as eps and png files for use in your software programs. Just print, or colorize first, then print. Layer on cards and layouts either digitally or traditionally.  This is one of those basic gotta have sets!

I promise to catch you up soon on all of my Project 365 creations. It has been a busy time in our household and I am just getting caught up on photographing and uploading the projects so I can share my daily creative experiences with you.

Project 365 Challenge: Day 5/Masculine Hybrid Valentine

For this masculine Valentine’s card, I used the Restorations Collection from Crate Paper along with buttons & gems from Bo Bunny, and Glue Arts’s high tac adhesive with Glue Glider Pro and extreme adhesive squares. Note: I used a fiskars scallop heart punch and some pink mulberry paper for the heart. The digital frame is from my Elegant Frames set. See what inspiration you can get from today’s creation.