Recoloring digital stamps and a freebie! {or two!}

Happy October everyone! Hard to believe that September is gone already! A new month bring us a new guest designer at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff but first, have you ever wanted to print your digital stamps in different colors? Heck yeah! I’ll show you an easy way to go from black to bright, it’s like having a million new inkpads 😉

Here is an example of the recolored digital stamps. See below to learn how.

All of the new stamp sets at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff offer png files as well as jpg files, they give you more versitility and the transparet background allows you to layer images. Let’s learn how to recolor our stamps:

Stamps and paper: Lindsays Stamp Stuff. The Sentiment and the background paper are today's Freebie! See download links below 😉

In the above example the stamp has been changed from black to yellow, the pattern paper was made from recolored stamps as well.

In these examples I added color to colored stamps with my bic Mark its:

After Printing my recolored stamps I added another layer of color with solvent based markers.

Quick and easy, that's my type of card! Stamps&paper: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff

you can make these cards in a minute since there is no elaborate coloring involved, nice!

here is how to recolor a stamp:

Step one: Open your graphic editing software. I’m using Paint Shop Pro Photo software but Photoshop elements is quite similar. Open the file you wish to recolor. A png file is best but this will work on a jpg file too (I tried it to make sure;)

Click on the Adjust tab and choose Hue/saturation/lightness.

Click adjust and pick Hue/saturation/lightness. If you are not using PSP look for works like hue, color, channel mixer or red/green/blue. you will find there are many ways to adjust the color of your stamp in any of the graphic/photo software you use.

Click the default button and you will see two preview boxes that look the same. Click colorize, then play with the sliders to get the color you want (top slider), the brightness aka saturation (Left slider), and the lightness (right slider). Note if you are using a jpg file you will need to keep the lightness towards light because the fader will effect the background too making it black or grey, with a png file you don’t need to worry as the background is clear.

Here is what it looks like is PSP. You may have faders like I do or you my have boxes where you type how much red, green and blue you want. Just play around until you get the color you want;)

I layered the colored leaf stamps over one another (see, because it is a png I can overlap them and you see the colors beneath) to make this free card background paper for you. I even put a “created by” spot on the back for you to sign your name because DT Tracey gave me heck for not signing my cards 😉

Here is a freebie for you, print and cut the paper in half and you have 2 card bases ready to go! It is easy on the ink cartridges too!

Download the free card base paper here

Click below to download this Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Free digital stamp!

Download the free “So Grateful” stamp here for a png version, and here for a jpg version.

Here is a peek at the Leaf prints stamp set. I included a printable sheet too (not shown) with the sentiments inside the frame as shown in my card samples because I know not everyone has (or wants) fancy software, sometimes ya just want to print and color!

Now lets see what the fabulous Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff DT has cooked up for us this week. I want to welcome Ceal Pritchett as out October Guest DT, I want to thank Ellen Smith for giving us a bonus project this week and big hugs to Shannon Neparko who designed the way cool stamp preview and who has been helping me tirelessly zipping up stamp set files (this chick knows her stuff) and I’m happy to report she is joining the team Full time!

Ceal Pritchett October Guest DT

Shannon *Welcome to the team!

Cindy

Katt

Diana

Margie

Lisa

Janet

Melissa Craig

Kim

Tracey

Ellen Smith AKA “Tink” September Guest DT Bonus Project!

Now that you are all inspired I want to remind you that we are sponsoting Insparational Card Sketches again (see yesterdays post for my take on the sketch) this week where you can win some Lindsay’s Stamps! Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

Freebie for the kids (and kids at heart:)

Happy Sunday everyone, sorry I didn’t have time to post over the past 2 days, my kids got out of school for the summer on Friday and yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon with my high school classmates for our 15th class reunion. What fun! I was nice to see (despite my classes reputation for being slackers and partiers) that we all turned out OK!

Today I made a little card kit. I was drawing with my children this morning and I sketched a couple “party animals” and I thought hmmm, that would be cute on a kids card, then I thought, hmmm why not make a card that a kid could color:

Party Animal Card Kit Freebie: Lindsays Stamp Stuff

Just print and cut the sheet in half and you have two cards already embellished, let junior color in the animals and you’re done! There is even a “handmade by” on the back so your little one can proudly write their name when they are finished. Now you will never be caught short handed when a child’s birthday rolls around!

Download the ready to color card kit here.

If you just want the stamps you can download the elephant digital stamp here and the party chicken digital stamp here. *Note, I literally drew these on a scrap of paper with a ball point pen this morning, these are nothing fancy but if you can use them enjoy 😉

While I have your ear I woulds also like to ask for your help. My Friend Terry over at Creative Cuts and More has a customer with a sick child. She has a brain tumor that is inoperable but there is hope with chemotherapy. They are selling handmade cards to help with the financial strains on the family. If you have any extra handmade cards that you could send to her shop for them to sell, all money will go the the family to help with hospital bills I would appreciate it. You can mail any handmade cards to:

Creative Cuts & More
10940 South Parker Road #435
Parker, CO 80134

Thank you so much! Also Creative cuts and more is looking for some guest designers. If you can rock a die cut you should apply and I have to say that Terry is a dream to work for! Interested? Click here for details.

That’s all for today, thanks for stopping by, enjoy the freebies and till next time happy crafting!

Card Kit Freebie!

I am a hybrid crafting kinda girl. I love the flexibility of digital but I still love to get my hands dirty with traditional supplies. When I make cards I usually just use scraps leftover from other projects. I love digital paper but I wouldn’t want to print out a full sheet just for a card, ink is expensive you know. So I designed some printable card kits. each kit has enough paper and embellishments for 3 cards. Just print, trim and glue it to a pre-folded card, add a stamp and you’re done.  I made this kit in a school theme for my lovely blog readers just in time to make end-of-the-school-year teacher cards. All of the pattern paper and elements came from one printed sheet. Take a look:

these 3 cards were made with the freebie cardkit printed once, the middle card uses the freebie digital stamp (Lindsay's Stamp Stuff) other rubber stamps are by Inque Boutique.

Here is a closer look at the digital stamp. I colored it with colored pencils and blended it with a pointy Q-Tip and goo-gone:)

Here is the card kit sheet:

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Card Kit Freebie (download links below)

Here is a digital stamp I made to coordinate with this kit but if digi-stamping isn’t your cup of tea you can use a stamp from your stash.

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Digital Stamp Freebie (download link below)

Download the printable card kit here

Download the digistamp here.

here is a preview of the other card kits available at Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff:

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Card Kit: Elegant Black and Cream

Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Card Kit: Birthday

Here is the same Elegant kit but without the color. You can print this on white or whatever color of cardstock you like and save on ink!

Since this id the first time I am offering the kits I’d love your feedback, let me know what you think 😉 The kits will be $2 each and you can print them as many times as you like!

Have a great Memporail Day, thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!

Christmas Word Search

It’s that time of the year again! Black Friday the official start to the Christmas season. I’m spending this day crafting with my kids rather that hitting the sales. I took some time this morning to make an element for my Christmas cards. I found a nifty word search maker on line and created a Christmas word search for my handmade Christmas cards. Of course you could make a Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or winter themed search too. After you create the search you can right click on it to save it then print as many as you want. Here is one I made.

Word Search Freebie, Credits: Fonts: Arial, DB Banners 2, DB Dainty Swirls, Celeste, Word Search Maker: http://www.griddler.co.uk

Till next time happy crafting;)

30,000 hits!!! Freebie time!

I can’t believe my blog finally got 30,000 hits! Wow! Thank you so much for visiting and special thanks to all of you who have left comments over the past months, it makes this so worthwhile. As promised I have a big ole freebie…well several actually…I started making this kit and I just couldn’t stop! I have a big digi-kit here plus 2 sheets of printable tags and a file folder for you hybrid gals and a huge SVG bundle for my Scal/Cricut friends! I hope you enjoy this, it was a ball to make!

Watercolor Whimsy Kit copyright Lindsay Weirich 2008

Here is the link for the kit

here are the links for the printables:

watercolor tag printables by Lindsay Weirich

Tag sheet 1

More printable tags!

Tag sheet 2

Print and fold in half, a cute file folder!

File Folder

Watercolor Whimsy SVG pack Lindsay Weirich 2008

Here is the link for the SVG pack

Most of the elements are actual watercolors (there would have been black and white versions too but I was painting with my kids and an unexpected splash hit my drawing before I scanned them, oh well) I think the texture of the paint and paper is unique. It is also a great way to make your own custom supplies, stamp, collage or paint up some paper, scan it and you will have it whenever you want it! Cool huh?

The digikit and svg pack are zipped files(.rar) so you will need to extract them by right clicking on the folder and choosing “extract files” but the printables are ready to go, just download and print just like a photo. The printable sheets are included in the digi-kit so you don’t need to download them twice. The SVG files are separate. If you would like to cut these files with your cricut you will need SCAL software and you can buy it here for $70 (cheaper than a cartridge at full price and you can cut almost all the fonts on your computer!) not bad.

Enjoy the freebies, tell your friends and thanks for stopping by and as always happy crafting…oh and if you make something with this leave a link so I can marvel at your work. BTW this is S4H OK!