I’ve been play­ing around with Paint Shop Pro since the 1990s. It made for incred­i­ble art ther­apy as I learned how the pro­gram worked. I then moved on to cre­at­ing sig­na­ture tags using other people’s art­work, then learn­ing to do spe­cial effects with fonts to cre­ate more orig­i­nal works. I finally began to learn how to draw and paint on my own and I loved it. I cre­ated a cou­ple of paint­ings with a focus on flo­rals. Dur­ing all of this, a free email pro­gram came out called Incred­i­Mail. The com­mu­nity was very excited! If you paid for the Pro ver­sion, it came with the Let­ter Cre­ator and you could cre­ate your own email sta­tionery. This was a huge pas­sion of mine for sev­eral years.

I have to admit that at first, I didn’t under­stand copy­right laws and I would use what­ever art­work I liked at the time. As the copy­right aware­ness began, I read and stud­ied the law for a long time. Once I was sat­is­fied with a cer­tain level of under­stand­ing, I started teach­ing a free, online class on Yahoo with a cou­ple of other women. We learned about email­ing artists for per­mis­sions and now, most artists post their Terms Of Use (TOS) on their sites. From then on, I only used my own art or work that I had per­mis­sion to use when I cre­ated Incred­i­Mail Letters.

Since it is free, I hope you will take advan­tage and make send­ing emails more fun by down­load­ing the IM program.

If you already have it, that’s won­der­ful! I just cre­ated my first stat in prob­a­bly a year or so and I’ll even­tu­ally share it all. Hope you like it!

(This par­tic­u­lar one was made using a free vec­tor graphic from Dry Icons.)

Click on the image below to down­load the zip file.

Unzip and double-click on the .imf file and it will auto­mat­i­cally load into your IM program.

Love Bub­bles

I should be post­ing at least one of these a day for a while in addi­tion to what­ever else I find to chat about!

xoxo ~ Melissa