Digital Card for a Boy

 Printable all digital card front

 matching printable all digital inside of card

I'm excited to share today's project, 

a 100% printable card I created !

Why I am I excited about sharing it ?

I won the image by participating in a recent challenge!

I then challenged myself to color it in digitally.

A challenge it was since the image was 

just a flat jpg image, ready to print.

I wanted to color it in digitally so I could

enter the card in the newest challenge at

the Digitally Sweet Designs challenge blog.

This months challenge is "travel".

This may not fit the true "travel"theme

the challenge coordinators were thinking, though.

This is the jpg image I won from

The Stamping Boutique,

AJ's Race Car.

(I altered it slightly, not intentionally,

just happened with my trying to color it digitally)

Although I am getting decent enough at making digital 

projects with digital kits and My Memories software,

I want to learn how to use Photoshop Elements.

Using Photoshop Elements 14,

I managed to muddle my way through making a copy of the

jpg into a transparent png to use for my colored image.

Yes. that was time consuming and it is not an exact 

copy of the image, but it worked well enough. 

I used the jpg image as bought as my background layer.

I then colored it in on a couple of other layers 

(this is all new to me, trial and error!!!).

I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out

how to lightly blush his cheeks, too.

Once I was happy enough with the coloring,

I put the transparent png image on top to

get the details back in to the image. 

It was then saved as a jpg and imported into the

My Memories Suite software along with elements

and papers from the Speed Limit digital kit by JMC Designs

to create the card. 

Aharoni font was used for the sentiments,

italicized on the front.

They were then saved as a jpg to share here.

I do have a lot to learn about digital coloring,

but overall am pretty proud of how this turned out :)

In addition to entering this 100% digital card in the 

Travel challenge at Digitally Sweet, 

I'm entering it into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door Anything Goes

Crafting By Designs July Anything Goes

Thanks for looking !

EDITED TO ADD:

July 8, 2016 - my card was featured 

August 1st, 2016 - my card was a Top Three Pick