@Véro, it's not that hard (one of my daughters is named Véronique, by the way!!)... if you can make a scrapbook page, you can make things like Journal Cards. There's heaps of stuff you can use to get you started, right here, at DigitalScrapbook.com... have a look at the ready made elements and try to make cards with them to start. You will get there. How long have you been scrapping for?
@ Vero: also this challenge Ania hosted Journal Card Templates you will find some inspiration there, and a few templates you might want to use.
When I first started "designing" I grabbed a few templates from the designers here and started changing the colours. There's helpful tutorials here on how to change colours and add colours to templates. Or you can use some of the already made assets and build from there. I think Ania said she used a lot of them on her kit at the moment as she didn't have time to draw herself.
There's a lot of copyright free stuff out there, but plenty here to keep you busy for a bit! Give it a go, make one journal card from assets from DigitalScrapbook.com...
Vero, I'll second France's advice there; it's really no different than starting a layout, just in a smaller size and with a large chunk of open space for journaling. I'll grant that clustering is a bit of an art form all in itself, but that's something you learn by doing and there's not really any other way to get good at it except by practicing. (An understanding of artistic composition helps, but I've seen some great journal cards that break the basic composition rules--you just need to know them so you know when and how you can break them and have it work out!)
Check out brag book templates as well--some of them might make good journal card layouts if you remove an image and its frame from the template.
One of the simplest journaling spots I remember making when I started out paper scrapping was for a birthday layout; it was a rectangle of solid colored paper with two ribbons in an off-center cross and a bow at the intersection. A small gift tag served as a space for a title. Start from basics like that and work your way up to the more intricate ones like Ania's. If you've got a kit you're using and don't have a journal card, all you need are some papers and elements from that kit, plus some shapes. If you're just making them for personal use and to learn, you can use things like tag and bracket shapes from elements you already have and then just add one or two elements from the specific kit you're using. It takes a little time to make one, but it's nowhere near as long as creating an entire clustered page layout.
Give it a try, and feel free to post pictures asking for comments/criticism; my experience here has been that the ladies are generally more than happy to see someone else start designing, even if only for yourself!
hello ! je suis heureuse d'avoir fait mes cartes mais je ne sais pas comment les mettre à la bonne dimension... ni comment insérer la photo ici ..
Et je vais retravailler sur la dimension après . Merci à toutes pour votre aide et vos encouragements, je les ai faites à partir du kit : many thanks que je trouve superbe (merci à Janet Scott !!!)
Vero, you'll want to make them 900x1200 pixels for the 3x4 cards, and 1800x1200 for the 4x6 cards. Usually we put our cards on a square preview template which is in the templates section here, and then resize the whole image in Photoshop to somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels on a side. Then that smaller JPG image gets uploaded to someplace like Photobucket.com or Flickr.com, and we get the link to share the image from the storage site. We use the yellow icon above the reply or edit comment box to put that image into our reply, and give it a size of 600x600 which is usually good in the forums.
Hope this helps!
Btw, I don't speak French; thankfully Google Translate could make your message understandable.
oui la première fois France, mais je pensais pas que ça soit si bien que ça en fait , je croyais trop chargé . Merci à toi pour ces encouragements, j'apprends à me servir de photoshop éléments et ce n'est pas facile , je cherche sur le net les tutos et ici je trouve beaucoup d'informations même si je dois traduire ce que vous m'expliquez . merci merci !!!
@Véro, la plupart du temps les journal cards c'est pour écrire dessus mais moi j'aime bien m'en servir comme accessoire sur ma page, alors que les cartes soient un peu chargées, ça ne me dérange pas vraiment, ça dépends des gens
Just telling Vero that some people prefer journal cards with blank space to write in/on but busy journal cards don't bother me as I like using them as papers/elements sometimes
ah oui ! tu vois tu m'as encore appris quelque chose car moi aussi je pensais m'en servir comme élément de décoration mais c'est vrai que pour écrire quelque chose c'est bien aussi
Ladies, all the Journaling cards look great
Here are mine
ania I like your journaling cards so much !!! oh I would like to be able to do that ....
@Véro, it's not that hard (one of my daughters is named Véronique, by the way!!)... if you can make a scrapbook page, you can make things like Journal Cards. There's heaps of stuff you can use to get you started, right here, at DigitalScrapbook.com... have a look at the ready made elements and try to make cards with them to start. You will get there. How long have you been scrapping for?
France, great advice.
Vero, Marisa: https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/marisa-lerin/kits/pocket-templates-kit-1-layout-project-life-black and Violet recently released some journaling cards templates you can play with.
@ Vero: also this challenge Ania hosted Journal Card Templates you will find some inspiration there, and a few templates you might want to use.
When I first started "designing" I grabbed a few templates from the designers here and started changing the colours. There's helpful tutorials here on how to change colours and add colours to templates. Or you can use some of the already made assets and build from there. I think Ania said she used a lot of them on her kit at the moment as she didn't have time to draw herself.
There's a lot of copyright free stuff out there, but plenty here to keep you busy for a bit! Give it a go, make one journal card from assets from DigitalScrapbook.com...
Vero, I'll second France's advice there; it's really no different than starting a layout, just in a smaller size and with a large chunk of open space for journaling. I'll grant that clustering is a bit of an art form all in itself, but that's something you learn by doing and there's not really any other way to get good at it except by practicing. (An understanding of artistic composition helps, but I've seen some great journal cards that break the basic composition rules--you just need to know them so you know when and how you can break them and have it work out!)
Check out brag book templates as well--some of them might make good journal card layouts if you remove an image and its frame from the template.
One of the simplest journaling spots I remember making when I started out paper scrapping was for a birthday layout; it was a rectangle of solid colored paper with two ribbons in an off-center cross and a bow at the intersection. A small gift tag served as a space for a title. Start from basics like that and work your way up to the more intricate ones like Ania's. If you've got a kit you're using and don't have a journal card, all you need are some papers and elements from that kit, plus some shapes. If you're just making them for personal use and to learn, you can use things like tag and bracket shapes from elements you already have and then just add one or two elements from the specific kit you're using. It takes a little time to make one, but it's nowhere near as long as creating an entire clustered page layout.
Give it a try, and feel free to post pictures asking for comments/criticism; my experience here has been that the ladies are generally more than happy to see someone else start designing, even if only for yourself!
many thanks all , I'll try to do one or 2 and I'll send you them here, you will be say me what you thing about my work ! as soon !!!!
hello ! je suis heureuse d'avoir fait mes cartes mais je ne sais pas comment les mettre à la bonne dimension... ni comment insérer la photo ici ..
Et je vais retravailler sur la dimension après . Merci à toutes pour votre aide et vos encouragements, je les ai faites à partir du kit : many thanks que je trouve superbe (merci à Janet Scott !!!)
Vero, you'll want to make them 900x1200 pixels for the 3x4 cards, and 1800x1200 for the 4x6 cards. Usually we put our cards on a square preview template which is in the templates section here, and then resize the whole image in Photoshop to somewhere between 600 and 1000 pixels on a side. Then that smaller JPG image gets uploaded to someplace like Photobucket.com or Flickr.com, and we get the link to share the image from the storage site. We use the yellow icon above the reply or edit comment box to put that image into our reply, and give it a size of 600x600 which is usually good in the forums.
Hope this helps!
Btw, I don't speak French; thankfully Google Translate could make your message understandable.
merci pour ta réponse Houx Loup mais ou je trouve l'url de mon image ? j'ai refait toutes mes cartes et j'aimerai vous les montrer.
Vero, Here is link to tutorial: how to post images in the forum: https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/forum/general-discussion/posting-imagesphotos-forums
I can't wait to see what you made
Ania, love your cards!!
-Lisa
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voici mon travail, dites moi ce que vous en pensez, première fois pour moi ... faites avec le kit "many thanks"
Vero! fabulous job for a first time (and even if it wasn't a first time!) well done!!!
Tu dois être fière de toi! Et avec raison!!!
oui la première fois France, mais je pensais pas que ça soit si bien que ça en fait , je croyais trop chargé . Merci à toi pour ces encouragements, j'apprends à me servir de photoshop éléments et ce n'est pas facile , je cherche sur le net les tutos et ici je trouve beaucoup d'informations même si je dois traduire ce que vous m'expliquez . merci merci !!!
Vero, beautiful cards!
-Lisa
@Véro, la plupart du temps les journal cards c'est pour écrire dessus mais moi j'aime bien m'en servir comme accessoire sur ma page, alors que les cartes soient un peu chargées, ça ne me dérange pas vraiment, ça dépends des gens
Just telling Vero that some people prefer journal cards with blank space to write in/on but busy journal cards don't bother me as I like using them as papers/elements sometimes
ah oui ! tu vois tu m'as encore appris quelque chose car moi aussi je pensais m'en servir comme élément de décoration mais c'est vrai que pour écrire quelque chose c'est bien aussi
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