Birthday Fishes designed in Serif Craft Artist Professional

Morning everyone

Today I would like to share a card I made for another friend's birthday, which was yesterday (I seem to have lots of friends with birthdays around this time of the year).  Anyway, this time it was a male friend, and I always struggle with male cards.  I finally decided to used the digikit "Fishing" to design a card for him in CAP.  I also challenged myself to use only the digikit and not resort to any of my crafting cds and I am pleased to say I did actually manage to do that.

So here is what I did in CAP first

I decided that I was going to use this as a topper for an easel card so needed a sentiment "stopper" to go with it:

I printed both of these off along with a sheet of backing paper, also from the digikit, and made up the card:

The card base is A5 and made from Centura Pearl card from Crafters Companion and the topper has been matted onto a couple of piece of matching coloured card from my stash.  Instead of cutting out the "stopper" I tore around the edges and inked them lightly with Tim Holtz distress ink in broken china.  The backing paper is also from the digikit and I finished the card with some card candi in matching colours.

I really love Craft Artist Professional - I can honestly say it is the best craft programme I have ever used and although I have had it since it launched I am still learning new things about it.  One of the functions which is rarely mentioned is the ability to use it to draw and paint - if only I could draw!  There is now a Serif Craft Artist Users Group on Facebook where all users, new and not so new, can meet to share hints and tips, information about free digikits and share their creations.  To join my group please click here and ask to be added to the group.  The group will be one week old this evening and membership currently stands at 107 so I reckon there must be a need for something like this.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Catherine x