Birthday invites made simple...

My son's birthday is coming up and I usually make his party invitations if I can. This year I decided to use my new Adobe Photoshop Elements program to make them. It was almost too easy.

I found a free image online of Spiderman and plugged that into a 4x6 size blank file then added some text and a free image of a spider at the bottom. Quick and simple! Then I uploaded them to Walgreens photo center online and had them printed at my local store. (sorry about the black lines being added for privacy)

The cost of a pack of 8 invites at Party City was $3.99 and to have these printed as photos at Walgreens was $2.42 and I got twelve of them. Yay for saving money and doing it myself!

Hello Photoshop Elements 6!

Where have you been all my life?!
So, my extremely generous and loving husband gave me PSE6 for my birthday this week. I had mentioned I would love it, but I doubted he would go for it for a birthday present. I am so blessed!
Also, I am totally in LOVE! It's an overwhelming kind of love, because there are so many neat tools and things to figure out, but I have confidence in my clicking ability. Today I figured out how to use the Magic Extraction Tool, which I have always been jealous of since I did not have this capability until now.
Here's a little something I made using the Magic Extraction Tool on my pup, Ruby...

Credits: Papers, elements, and black alpha from Funky Nature by Lauraskathi & Tara Dunstan.