Sunday, February 20, 2011

SOCK IT TO ME VALENTINE - CARD

I need to start off by saying I had such a difficult time coloring this image. :( It was not the image itself, but more like a problem with my printer. Yes, that's it we will blame it on the printer. ;) After printing, I always heat set my digi images with my heat gun. Well after the first four attempts at coloring and my ink still smearing I decided to heat set a little longer....thus scorching my image and turning the paper a not so lovely shade of BURNT. Sigh....so I tried again and took it really slowly. I didn't do much shading as I was afraid to smear the ink. It still smeared near the little seam lines but I tried to cover it up with a darker color. Anyone have any tips or tricks they would like to share...please?

The digi image and sentiment is called "Sock it Monkey" and is from Whimsie Doodles. The paper is from a older DCWV Spring Matstack that I have had for awhile. I made this card for my daughter Caitlin who always cracks up at those Kia sock monkey commercials. LOL
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  1. Alice February 20, 2011 at 1:00 AM

    awww..... this is so very sweet! love the cute image. have you tried clear embossing right after the image was printed? i have heard that it works to avoid the smearing.

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  2. Jeanette (Forest Ranger) February 20, 2011 at 5:21 PM

    Oh my... what a cute card! Love the monkey and the layout is fantastic.

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  3. debby4000February 20, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    Love your cute card.
    luv
    Debby

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  4. Wendy RamlakhanFebruary 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM

    It's the ink in the printer and there isn't much you can do other than buy a different printer. I have a Cannon and I can color the second it comes off the printer and ZERO smearing. No heat setting either. But your card is just precious!! Love how you did the sentiment!! I can't see any smearing at all.

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  5. Cindy HaffnerFebruary 28, 2011 at 2:20 PM

    SWEET SWEET SWEET!

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  6. ~Jeri~March 12, 2011 at 4:52 AM

    Yeah like Wendy said, mine is the same way. I'm lucky to have a HP that is ready to color as soon as it comes out. BUT I did learn a lil trick and you could try it...try heat setting from the back side of your image if you don't already. That way if there's any slight burning or color change, it's on the back side of your image and you don't mess up the front. Hopefully it'll work for ya! Has for me when I emboss.

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