Digi Tips Week... Final Day and a sponsored CONTEST. :)

Hello!

It's the final day of my digi tips week. I hope you have enjoyed it, and maybe learned something new.
HERE is the link to the Day 5 tutorial PDF.
  I've had loads of lovely emails which makes me think some of you needed this resource. I'm so glad that my little baby girl sleeps so well and gave me the time to do the week.  One person asked if I made the peacock card BEFORE Lily arrived - oh YES. That was a LONG process... back in the days when time was slow moving and the laundry bin was never full. :)

Anyway - today I have a few questions to answer for you, and I have great news. The fab people at Hero Arts have been following along with my week, and have offered to sponsor a little contest here on my blog. Yay for Hero Arts. :)  More on that later...

First up... a couple of questions:
Paper

A few people have asked about paper for printing on.  You know, I am not that fussy about paper.  I tend to find that most papers give good results.  For white paper, I tend to buy THIS brand. It is a bit more expensive but it's nice and smooth so the ink goes on really well. It's good for stamping on too.

I do a LOT of printing on kraft paper - and I always buy THIS brand.

And of course, the Hero Hues Layering Papers are awesome.  Especially for tone on tone printing.
Importing
Some people emailed to ask about how to import the stamps into Word.  Go to Insert (along the top of the page), Picture, From File, then find your folder and select the stamp.
Storage
Sometimes it's really hard to find your stamps when you've downloaded them. I usually download them and save them straight to the Desktop so they are clearly visible.  Then I store them in My Documents (Finder for Macs) (arranged by Company (i.e. Hero Arts, Echo Park, Pick Petticoat etc.) and then within those folders, by type (i.e. Sentiments, Birthday, Christmas, Love etc).)  This makes it so easy when I want to design a card.  I also save the Contact Sheets / Overviews of each digikit into a separate folder so I can quickly glance at all the kits to refresh my memory without having go into every kit one by one.
Mac Users
Someone commented about having a Mac.  I am using a Mac - all of these tutorials were done using Word for Mac. :)  It's just the same.

CONTEST
OK - now it's YOUR turn.
Time to put all that learning into practice. (Can you hear the teacher in me...?)
I want to see what you can create, so get your digikits ready, and have a go.
The details:
Create a card that features some kind of digital element - paper or stamps.  To be eligible to win the prize, please use a Hero Arts digital product.  Upload all entries using the Inlinkz tool below - even if you do not use a Hero Arts product, please link me up so I can see your creation. :)  Oh, and if you use one of this month's Hero Arts contest themes you should enter it there too.  See HERE for details.
The prize:
Hero Arts let me choose a favourite digikit to award as a prize - and I chose Make Your Own.

I love the mix of cute and vintage, sentiments and images in this kit and thought it would be a fab prize. :)
Please upload direct links to your creations here.  You have until midnight on 25th March.


And finally, here's a card I made using this kit and For the Archives - Words.
Simple paper piecing and  digi masking here. :)

I hope you have enjoyed my week of digi tips - maybe it's given you a bit of an insight into how I work. I do hope you've learned something and that I have inspired you to give digi a go.
See you soon.
xx

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