# Creating a Project
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/create-project/index.md

## Overview {#overview}

This tutorial guides you to:

* create a new project
* generate the credentials required for testing in the Sandbox environment.

## Creating a new API project {#creating-a-new-api-project}

1. To create a project, in the top-right corner of the screen, click **Create New Project**.
2. Enter a relevant **Project name**.
3. Select **Yes** if you are creating the project on behalf of a client.
   1. Provide the **Client company name**.
   2. Provide the **Client company address** . ![Creating a new API project](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/tutorial-5/create_sandbox_project.png "Creating a new API project")

## Select API service {#select-api-service}

1. From the dropdown list, select **MDES Digital Card Art Service**.
2. Select the **commercial countries** and click **Proceed** . Note: If you are creating a project on-behalf of a client, the Commercial countries represent where your client is doing business.

## Project Credentials {#project-credentials}

1. Enter **Key alias** and **Keystore password** . A key alias is a label for specific key within a keystore. Ensure that you make a note of the key alias and the keystore password as you will need this information when you send the API request to Mastercard. ![Add Sandbox consumer key alias and password](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/tutorial-5/project_credentails.png "Add Sandbox consumer key alias and password") Note: To use a custom CSR to generate the project keys, click **Skip this step**, and continue with the project creation.
2. Click **Proceed**.

## Additional Sandbox Credentials {#additional-sandbox-credentials}

1. On the Additional credentials page, you will be able to generate additional credentials required for this service. As this service requires only the Client Encryption key, it will be generated when the project is created.

![Additional sandbox credentials](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/tutorial-5/additional_credentials_sandbox.png "Additional sandbox credentials")

2. Click **Create Project** .
   ![Generating sandbox credentials](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/tutorial-5/creating_new-project.png "Generating sandbox credentials")

3. Click **Open project**.

## Ready to Test in Sandbox {#ready-to-test-in-sandbox}

You now have everything you need to start sending MDES Digital Card Art Service API requests to the Sandbox.

1. From the Mastercard Developers project summary page, navigate to Sandbox Credentials.
2. Under OAuth keys, next to the consumer key, click the copy icon to copy the Consumer Key and provide it to your CIS IM. ![Sandbox credentials](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-digital-card-art-service/documentation/tutorials/tutorial-5/sandbox-key.png "Sandbox credentials")