Last Friday I showed you my first 'proper' attempt at digital scrapbooking and mentioned I was itching to try hybrid card-making and scrapping. Well, I'm pleased to say I've had a go.. and it wasn't that difficult!
Here are two very simple cards I made using the FREE 'Dream' mini-kit by Vinnie Pearce:
The kit is available for immediate download from Vinnie's gorgeous blog (which is well worth a look - she is a brilliant designer as well as an inspirational hybrid scrapper).
Here's a picture of the whole kit, to whet your appetite evern more!
So here's what I did:
- Downloaded and unzipped the kit using Winzip.
- Opened the flowery background paper in Photoshop Elements 7.
- Opened a new canvas and resized it to A4 (210 x 297 mm) size.
- Dragged the background paper on to the new canvas and resized it to 5 inches square.
- Copied and pasted it just below the first one so there were two on the page.
- Printed it out on white A4 card.
To create the butterflies:
- Opened a new canvas and resized to A4 as above.
- Opened a butterfly and dragged it to the size I wanted.
- Copied it a couple more times to make a few large and a few small ones.
- Repeated this with the second butterfly and the banner, creating an A4 sheet of butterfly and banner elements.
- Printed it out on white A4 card.
To make the card:
- I cut out the background paper to 4.75 inches square and distressed the edges with a BasicGrey edge distressing tool.
- Stuck this onto a 5 inch square pink base card.
- Cut out a large butterfly and inked the edges in turquoise chalk ink (Colorbox).
- Embossed the butterfly with Cuttlebug and Script embossing folder.
- Inked the raised script with turquoise chalk ink.
- Stuck the butterfly to the card using a sticky dot.
- Added the Papermania vellum sticker greeting.
Hope that makes some sense! If you're interested in trying hybrid scrapping, have a look at Vinnie's blog - she has some incredible examples of her hybrid pages for you to drool over! ;o)
