My good friend and Paintshop Pro extraordinaire, Cassel is running a free 12 Days of Christmas event. So today I'm sharing my tutorial on making a card with Photoshop Elements.

Do you want to prepare some holiday cards to send or to hand out? Join the 12 Days of Christmas event in the Campus. It is ABSOLUTELY FREE. You will get 12 templates to create your own, using your own supplies with tutorials and inspiration from various designers (paper and digi, so there is something for you too). Register now

Join the Event for your free Templates

Register now to get access to the card templates over at Scrapbook Campus.

Create the Card in Photoshop Elements

You can see a full video of how I create cards in Photoshop Elements here, along with a free step-by-step handout.

Open the PSD template in Photoshop Elements. Each file will look something like this.

Open up the kit you want to use on your cards

Drag on the papers from the photo bin up onto your card

Clip papers to the template shapes using Ctrl+G (Cmd+G on a Mac)

Clip some photos to the white areas. I filled each photo spot with a recent picture of my children, Emily, Edward and Lucy.

Drag on the embellishments. On the card I used a word art strip, tag and bow.

For the envelope I popped a leaf and two flowers on the bottom left where the white boxes were and added some more hand lettered word art.

Print the card and envelope onto cardstock

Finish the Card on Paper

Trim it with the Fiskars ProCision Rotary Trimmer (LOVE this trimmer - but you can even just use a craft knife and metal ruler)

Cut out the envelope by hand (though I could have used my Cameo!)

Fold the card and envelope

Glue the envelope with my ATG tape runner

Now it's all done and ready to give away!

 

Want to grab the template I used? Register now

Happy scrapping!