Digital crafting is the up and coming trend in the craft world. I feel it is, in my opinion, appealling to people who say are not craft minded, ie, dont usually knit or sew or crafting comes easy to, it as it is a massive aid to colour paletting, so you do not have to know what colours go with what, although the colour wheel rules do help; also if you are stuck in one way of making cards, eg, decoupaging, or embossing, etc, then digital crafting can widen your scope more easily. For me crafting never came easy, for my SISTER she's great, beautiful christening gowns, beautiful popping up squares for pram blankets, knitting, sewing, anything and a natural born cardmaker - it just seems to be a natural God-given talent, so digital crafting has for me done away with a lot of the nitty gritty measuring and getting it right, choosing your own colours, traditional matting and layering cut at the guillotine, etc, and everything can be measured for you so you just cut round the edges, colours are colour matched for you, which is an area I struggled with - can you imagine.
It has endless variations on a theme, one background image can be changed to myriad of couples, opacities, split in half, swirled, blurred, etc etc You can using My Craft Studio Elite, for example, chose what parts of an image you wish to decoupage and cut it out and print out.
I love digital punching, which means you can cut pre-designed shapes out of materials, backgrouns, etc. So, if you want a black cat or a ginger cat, providing a cat is in your digital shapes you can have one. My favourite, digital punching is the leaves and the flowers, and so if you vary your backgrounds, etc, your flowers and leaves can be many coloured.
I wish I could encourage more people to have a go, and others to work on extending their knowledge. My mum is 77 and she has conquered the art of digital crafting and loves to make sentiments for her own cards, and inserts too.
Craft Artist 2 is a fantastic digital crafting, and more, tool. It usually comes with a few digikits, which means packs of say 10 background papers, 20 embellishments, some frames, some letters, some materials etc which you drag and drop. The letters are great and you just type in your words and press insert and hey ho the words are in a fancy font on your card or scrapbook page etc.
There are scissors, to cut up material. You can make embellishments as big or as little as you wish for your page, and they keep great resolution.
You can go to Daisy Trail and join for free and download numerous free digikits for you to enjoy.
There are templates you can use to make it easier for you, or start from a blank and the blanks are in all sorts of sizes, eg A4, A5, A4 folded portrait, A4 folded landscape, A7, endless arrangements. Also, there are templates for gift bags, cupcake holders, place names, crackers, etc
It is produced by Serif so have a peep, and see if you can be tempted.
You can I believe download a version of craft artist for free to use with the digikits.http://www.daisytrail.com/free_stuff.html
its craft artist compact
ALWAYS READ THE SMALL PRINT CAREFULLY
I HAVE DOWNLOADED AND USED IT BUT I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS, PLEASE READ THE SMALL PRINT
I have bought Craft ARtist 2, last time I saw it it was £8.99 plus £2.99 pp from Create and Craft.
have a blast!
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