tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63981737766674082402024-03-05T04:20:54.629-08:00Digital Musings from AnnetteDAnnettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-84848579201324595282019-04-24T14:35:00.001-07:002019-04-24T14:35:36.896-07:00Giveaway time.https://www.quikly.com/joannstores/s/EekzPmgZ?utm_content=bloggerAnnettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-69973916516419105322018-05-01T07:03:00.000-07:002018-05-01T07:03:03.126-07:00CS Blog Hop April 2018 ShiboriSo it is not quite April but ... Kay's spoiler has appeared on the blog and who can resist playing around with those colors!!!<br />
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This month I have decided to use a template which came from Jana Oliviera.<br />
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I think that the colors from the kit will make a great layout based around this template. I personally love playing around with brushes and Jana has made a really nice layout here using brushes. There is of course, no guarantee that this will remain the way it currently looks but bear with me while I start playing around.<br />
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Also open on my computer right now is Kay's spoiler blog post so that I can make color selections directly from it.<br />
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To make use of the template, I think that using clipping masks and additional layers will work well. The background for this is going to stay white for the time being.<br />
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Select your first color using the eyedropper tool and then make a new layer and fill using the selected color with the paint bucket tool then go to layers>create clipping mask>enter and you get something that looks like this.<br />
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It is amazing how just one step can change the whole feel of something isn't it?<br />
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Continue doing the same procedure until you have built the background using selected colors from within the Shibori kit.<br />
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OK - moving on, I have got to this point. Some things have moved, some have disappeared and a photo has been added.<br />
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I do like the slight curvature to the right side of the photo and I like the drop shadow for this as well but now I think I want to put a small and very light vignette on the photo. Below you can see I have added a light shadow style vignette.<br />
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The vignette ended up being a bit heavy so I erased parts of it and also made a new title using a free font from Dafont called Moyko.<br />
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Now all I have to do is wait until Monday to finish this layout and blog post.<br />
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Oh Joy! The kit is here!!!<br />
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Installing it now and I do so hope that there are lots of things for me to use to finish this layout!<br />
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Here you can see that I am beginning to build the layout with embellishments from the Shibori kit.<br />
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Still building the layout, I am now using a slightly recolored flower from the Blues which came out in May of 2015.<br />
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Also used above is the texture stamp as a brush to add a little more color to the background.<br />
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I just decided to move the title and this one is finished and so is my blog entry. I do hope you like what I have made here and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.<br />
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Here is the finished layout.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-1765050134149776032018-04-09T11:07:00.002-07:002018-04-09T11:07:45.385-07:00Acrylic PouringHello everyone<br />
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You have probably noticed that there are lost of posts about Acrylic Pouring popping into your news feeds on facebook. There are in my feed too so I thought that I would have a go at this totally addictive if expensive and wasteful art form.<br />
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First off you need to gather some supplies.<br />
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OK there is no exact science to measuring ingredients and everyone who I have spoken with mixes their paints very approximately.<br />
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You also need a bunch of plastic cups and it is absolutely essential that you cover whatever workspace you use because you get all kinds of overspill from the pouring. I have used some construction style brown paper because we have loads of it in the house.<br />
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As many of you know, I have made a series of 6 panels using the colors above and the method I used is called a dirty pour.<br />
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What you do is add some white glue, Floetrol, and paint to some cups and mix up the color really really well. Once you have mixed all your colors in separate cups, add a couple of drops of 100% silicone and stir each cup.<br />
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Then take another cup and "layer" your paints in the cup you will pour from. When I did this each color remained fairly separated. Once you have all your paint in your pouring cup you are ready do do your "dirty pour".<br />
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The way I did this was to put some plastic handled push pins in the back side of the frame of 6 canvasses so that they were raised above my work surface. Once all were in position, I was ready to start playing.<br />
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Here is a quick shot of a couple of the cups ready to be mixed.<br />
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As I said above, there is no exact way of doing this.<br />
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When I did my pour, I poured all the paint in three swipes across all 6 panels. Once that was done, I picked up each panel and "moved" the paint by sloping the panels in each direction until the entire canvas was covered and I got some paint running down the sides of each panel as well. Once that was done for all 6 panels, I stood back and looked. I had absolutely no idea what these panels would eventually look like but while they were still wet they were totally awesome.<br />
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On a slight side note here, you need to do your pour in a relatively still air atmosphere. That prevents dust sticking to the pour.<br />
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Below you can see all 6 panels with their overspill. It took about 4 days for them the dry completely. I then sprayed them several times with clear lacquer and they are ready to be hung.<br />
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They are actually going into the guest room/nursery as a grouping and I am now waiting on Mr. Wonderful to work his magic and hang them for me.<br />
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Mr. Wonderful has now hung up these 6 panels in our guest room/nursery. This room has a bluish grey wall paint and dark grey curtains in it.<br />
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Since I wrote most of this I have tracked down a recipe. This one says:<br />
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I have not tried this recipe (yet). Also I have to point out that I used Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic paint. Most other people have used regular liquid acrylic paint which I have not yet tried.<br />
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If you decide to try this asbsolutely wonderful technique, please post with details.<br />
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Thank you for looking.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-28334930883504389892018-03-14T14:09:00.000-07:002018-03-28T05:26:36.251-07:00CS Blog Hop March 2018 DaffodilsOh Joy! This kit is truly to die for drop dead gorgeous. As I mentioned at the beginning of the month, I got photos that were perfect for this kit almost immediately. You have probably all seen the many photos of my new granddaughter Elliot on a multitude of different papers already but ... what a photo worthy subject she is.<br />
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We are very fortunate to have such a great baby grand and even more fortunate in that we get to see her almost every day for baby huggies!<br />
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Anyway enough rambling. I am here to write a blog post for the hop.<br />
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As always, open up a blank transparent background 12" x 12" at 300 ppi.<br />
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I use the full Photoshop CC and you can see how easy it is to make a new page.<br />
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Then open up everything from in the Daffodils kit. To do this I go to my Bridge>documents and type 0318 in the search box and hit Enter.<br />
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Here I have opened a new document and pulled in a photo of Elliot. This baby is so photogenic it is hard to choose photos to use but this one shows her being a little startled - hence the big eyes!<br />
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This photo has such hard edges that I really want to use a mask to soften all the sides.<br />
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In Adobe Bridge, I have opened up my folder that has all my masks in it.<br />
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From here on it is realtively straight forward. I need to find a mask that will soften the right side of this photo quite a lot and also the top and left side as well. The bottom I can deal with using eraser brushes.<br />
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I think this one will work but I may need to resize. Anyway, drag the mask and position it on top of the photo. Once there, go to Edit>transform>scale and a binding box with handles will appear for you to change the size of the mask. If you want to keep the proportions the same, use the shift key when you drag out on the handles. Once you are happy, hit the enter key or check mark. That sets the mask. Then move the mask behind the photo and select the photo layer and go to layer>create clipping mask and voila!<br />
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I am not sure if you can see this but at the top of the photo there is a distinct straight line. I do not want anything with straight lines on this layout so I am going to use a very soft fuzzy brush to remove the straight line part of the mask and photo. When that is done, you may want to merge your layers so you can resize without losing the correct aspect ratio of the photo. Below, you will see that I have already resized the mask with the photo and brought in one of the cut-aparts.<br />
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Now it is time to bring in a background or two or four! Here you can see that I am looking at the quadprint from the kit. Trying to decide what I would like to do is hard.<br />
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Of course anything is possible here. I do really like that bottom left print, the really light one so I selected part of that and brought it onto its own layer and resized. Now I do not like this cut-apart but I also brought in another embellishment.<br />
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What happened here is that I used one of the square cut-aparts and added a layer to it and brought in one of the cut out daffodil blooms so that the complete flower is visible above the green frame.<br />
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I like this a whole lot better and now feel that I am able to complete the layout.<br />
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This is now coming together!! I have added some more embellishments to the layout and now all I need is some word art!<br />
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Above is the completed layout. It is really very simple. The most difficult part of digital scrapbooking in my opinion is knowing how to do things.<br />
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Anyone is welcome to contact me directly and ask questions but I do have to point out that I use the latest version of Adobe CC and am not too familiar with Photoshop Elements and am not at all familiar with any other non-Adobe product but of course will help where I can.<br />
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I do hope you all like my layout and of course my grand daughter too.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-71944849749280120712018-02-09T10:38:00.003-08:002018-02-28T04:36:31.197-08:00CS Blog Hop February 2018 SteamworksHello all<br />
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By now you all know that I became a granny on 28th January to a very cute little girl called Elliot Alicia. You have also probably seen a whole bunch of pages appear in our facebook arena. Needless to say she is cute as a button but I am not sure that baby photos will work with the brand new Steamworks kit.<br />
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You have also problably seen that I have made some layouts and cards already with this awesome kit but right now I am drawing a blank as to what I should show you all how to do here. So I will come back when I have an idea.<br />
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Well here we are a week later and I still do not have a clear idea of what I want to do so I went ahead and opened up all the kit elements from Steamworks hoping that inspiration will strike!<br />
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Above you can see all the Steamworks goodies together with some other backgrounds which I thought may work well with the kit.<br />
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Now on to find some inspiration.<br />
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As you know, we recently went to Universal Orlando to hang out with Ariauna and her boyfriend who were visiting from Australia. While at Universal, we went to Hogwarts and of course, this kit is absolutely perfect for Hogwarts photos. Here are two of the fire breathing dragon on top of Gringotts Bank. <br />
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These photos are both rather blue so I think they will contrast well with the muted tones of the kit. Here you can see I have brought in a background and created photo mats from the quadprint.<br />
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Hopefully embellishing this base will not be too hard. One of the things I have noticed and would love if Club Scrap brought back to the digital kits is fibers and dimensional elements. Of course, since I own EVERYTHING that Club Scrap has released in digital form, I do have lots of these elements and recoloring is pretty straight forward.<br />
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Anyway, now to go look at what I can do with the rest of the pieces of the kit. You can see that I am now beginning to build the page. I have added a resized journalling box and 3 strips from the cutapart sheets.<br />
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Text is now added in a Harry Potter style free font.<br />
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Notice here that there are no layer styles, shadows or anything else on this page. A lot of the time when I am making digital pages, I do not know how I want the page to look when it is finished so I usually add all those additional details when I have finished constructing the entire page or spread.<br />
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As mentioned above, I really feel that fibers would be a welcome addition to the digi hybrid kit so I have decided to stray a bit from Steamworks and see if I can find some fibers that I can add to this layout. Back in a sec.<br />
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OK. Here you can see a trial of 3 different bows. These are from Connections, Lock and Key and Serenity. Of course I can still recolor everything.<br />
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All three of these bows work from a color standpoint, but I think that the one I like best is the one from Serenity so I am going with that one. All I did was the make sure that I resized the bow and do two duplicate layers.<br />
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You can see the page is shaping up quite nicely now. On to doing something with styles and shadows. Shadows add dimension to the page. Most of the time, I use drop shadows which are extremely versatile and have limitless possibilities. I think that this layout does need some drop shadows so I will add some now.<br />
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In this screen, you can see the drop shadow I have selected. this one is rather small with a low opacity. I really do not want to overpower any of the elements or photos in this layout.<br />
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Note that I have not yet done anything with the title inside the box at the top left or the blank space at the lower right.<br />
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I have to say thank you to Lisa Dolezal who used some of the elements from Full Circle for one of the challenges this month. I copied her idea and made the little cluster on the bottom right.<br />
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Now all that remains in the text in the top left. Both words are on separate layers but the font size is the same. I think a bevel and emboss should work here. I have also decided to add a small lens flare to the word Gringotts.<br />
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And now the layout is complete. Thank you for reading my blog this month. I hope you have enjoyed it.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-47807157942359476252018-01-31T04:57:00.000-08:002018-01-31T04:57:01.658-08:00CS Blog Hop January 2018 - SurpriseAnd surprise it was when I got my download email on January 1st!!!<br />
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Happy New Year everyone.<br />
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I got up on New Years Day hoping that my download email would be in my inbox and there it was. Of course, I downloaded, unzipped and installed and when I opened everything up, I was blown away by the vibrancy of this wonderful new kit. Of course, it was even more vibrant than Kay's "surprise" spoiler and even more so since I have spent a lot of time playing with A Night at the Met! More on that kit later on.<br />
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Anyway, after playing around with Surprise and doing all of the current challenges except the project use it one for January, I decided to write my blog post. So here we are on 4th January and it is freezing in south Florida so I am bundled up in my art cave writing my post.<br />
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First of all I was looking at the stamp images that come in the digital kit and decided to open up this sheet and take a close look.<br />
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There on the right center there is a stamp with 3 parcels. That is the stamp I am going to play around with.<br />
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Here it is on its own transparent background.<br />
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You may be wondering what I am going to do with it - let me show you. Many of you know that Taryn Cornelius has given permission for me to use some of the wedding photos from her daughter Shay's wedding last October in the New York Botanical Gardens. In fact, you have probably seen a bunch of layouts appearing in the forum and on Facebook. This is going to be another.<br />
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I have selected a photo and layered it above the stamp.<br />
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What happens now is a bit of magic within photoshop. Go to Layers>createclippingmask>enter. This is what you see!<br />
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Now for some tidying up before creating a full layout. You can see that the photo has partially obliterated the left and right parcels of the stamp and also the bow at the top of the center parcel. I am going to remove the parts of the photo that are superfluous by using the edit>cut function after selecting those parts to be removed. The hardest part of the photo to remove is the bow so I used the lasso tool to select that part of the photo.<br />
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Now the stamp is beginning to evolve into a usable component for a layout. Here you can see that I have created a balloon on a string and added a copied ribbon bow to the top of the center gift! Not sure if I am happy with that but ... we shall see.<br />
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Ok - this has now evolved. I did not like the bow on top of the center gift so created some balloons on strings instead.<br />
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Now I think I can proceed. I opened up the quad print and selected colors for the balloons from within the quad print. To make the balloons those colors I created 3 further layers and used the paint bucket tool to flood each of those layers and made clipping masks as shown above. This is where we are at. At this point, I think it is necessary to add some layer styles to give this some dimension. Also it is time to create a new 12" x 12" on transparent background at 300ppi document and start building the final layout.<br />
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So I spent a quite a while playing around with building this layout. I got rid of the left and right side gifts completely. Added a bunch of additional different sized balloons and added a recolored background and word stamp and ended up with this as the final layout.<br />
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I do hope you like what I have done here. Please enjoy the entire blog hop and again Happy New Year.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-75991162907202610752018-01-26T12:47:00.002-08:002018-01-26T12:47:42.890-08:00Making Quad PrintsHello all<br />
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Adeline Brill has requested a quick tutorial on how to make quadprints from your digi stash.<br />
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Here you are.<br />
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First off open up a new blank document 8.5" x 11" at 300 ppi on a transparent background.<br />
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In this case I have chosen backgrounds from Artifacts and Celebrate.<br />
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Here I am starting with a background for Celebrate. <br />
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All you need to do now is select a piece of it 4.5" x 5.5" go to the edit menu and select copy, then go to your blank document, use the edit menu and select paste and voila!<br />
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Do this for the remaining backgrounds and you will have a quad print. Of course you will need to move the backgrounds into their respective places. Note that I have put each selection on its own layer just in case I want to change something later on. You can save this if you wish and print directly on 8.5" x 11" stock.<br />
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I hope this tutorial helps.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-91961895584789598352017-10-24T06:00:00.000-07:002017-10-25T05:09:35.777-07:00CS Blog Hop October 2017 - ScandinaviaHello everyone<br />
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You have probably all noticed that I did not manage to complete a blog post for September. This is the first time since CS has been running a blog hop that I have not participated. I just ran out of time so this month I am yet again starting early.<br />
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Hopefully by starting early, I will actually have something done in time to add to the linky party in the blog hop.<br />
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Anyway, here we are a few days later and I noticed Wendy Bellino has a new challenge up for the technique this month. <a href="http://clubscrap.com/forums/topic/1017-technique-challenge/">http://clubscrap.com/forums/topic/1017-technique-challenge/</a> so I have decided to try to make something for this challenge.<br />
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Here goes.<br />
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Open up everything Scandinavia! I also opened a blank 12" x 12" background and pulled in one of the overlays which I also resized.<br />
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Looking at what I have started, it seems that I am going to remove some of the elements from this overlay and go from there. This is what I came up with.<br />
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I have added a bird and resized it and at this point decided that this should not be a 12" x 12" layout but a card. So I will be resizing it a bit later bu first I need to add a saying.<br />
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Perfect, there is a saying on a tag that works really well with this so I added it beneath the bird and made it look as if the bird was carrying it.<br />
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Now to resize for a card.<br />
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And there it is. I hope you all like it.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-17906042099599789242017-08-24T09:01:00.000-07:002017-08-29T12:56:13.926-07:00CS Blog Hop August 2017 - LagoonOK it is 4.06 pm on 27th July and I am looking at Kay's wonderful spoiler for this kit. I have to say I am a sucker for these type of colors. They always speak to me and this kit looks like it is no exception. And look - there is a seahorse!!! These are just such magical creatures. So far I have only seen them in zoos and special aquariums.<br />
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So I stole the mashup photo from Kay's blog post.<br />
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Recently, I acquired a beta test package of a software called Luminar. I started playing around with it in the last couple of days and came up with this photo earlier on today.<br />
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Above you can see the original photo and the split screen showing the photo with some of the additional filters in Luminar. As an aside, I think I am going to like this software a lot!!!<br />
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Here is the full photo that I am going to use for the blog post.<br />
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OK now that I have edited and played around, I have a blank 12" x 12" canvas with the photo on it and all the kit elements opened in photoshop as well.<br />
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This kit is just gorgeous. There are so many options here but first I need to get a background sorted out.<br />
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Here I have added a background and a cut apart.<br />
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Since I have used a cut apart with some wording I have decided not to use one of the word art stamps so I have closed that stamp sheet.<br />
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I think that I now need to start adding styles to this and see where it ends up. Just added a 5pt stroke in black to all the elements and am happy with that.<br />
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Here is my final piece for the blog hop. I do hope that you all like it and will come back and visit my blog often.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-25978768246384417132017-07-25T16:13:00.000-07:002017-07-25T16:13:45.517-07:00CS Blog Hop July 2017 - Vintage BotanyToday is my estranged daughter's 36th birthday actually 13 July, so I am feeling a little sad and blue.<br />
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I decided to open up all the components of Vintage Botany and see what I could come up with in the way of a tutorial/project. So far, I have been recoloring all the components except for doing the idea deck challenge this month.<br />
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In my vast stash of photos, I found this one.<br />
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As always open a new 12" x 12" blank canvas at 300ppi with a transparent background.<br />
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I have removed some of the left side and sky of the original photo.<br />
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Here you can see that I am beginning to build my layout. Instead of using one of the backgrounds, I made a new one using the purple color from the backgrounds provided. I then made 3 layers and "stamped" on each one using the dandelion stamp and a selected color from within the photo.<br />
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At this point, I felt that the photo was too angular so I applied a mask from my stash.<br />
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Now to add some embellishments. Also, I played around with opacities for each of the layers as well.<br />
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Finally, I used the same stamp to add some further interest on the print layer. I do hope you like my layout and will continue to visit my blog each month.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-51948719830741688212017-06-06T15:56:00.002-07:002017-06-27T11:16:23.238-07:00CS Blog Hop June 2017 - Pattern PlayOh Joy of Joys! I have been drooling every since I saw this kit. It is drop dead gorgeous and I feel like I need to play every day but alas, I do not have the luxury of time.<br />
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Anyway, I went ahead and opened the entire contents of this luscious kit.<br />
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Now off the find a photo and also decide what I would like to share with you all today. Ok found a photo. I took this while traipsing around in the back of beyond a while back. I really have no idea why I shot this photo but I believe it to be a cottage that was once home to someone.<br />
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I can quite imagine living in a cottage like this but in this day and age it would be essential to have at least an internet connection!<br />
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Now for what this blog post is going to be about.<br />
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You probably have all noticed that I do very little journalling. I like to try and make my layouts use the wonderful stamps which we get in our kits; occasionally use the alphas (of which I have thousands), and use word art from other sources. One of the things that I really need to get better at is journalling using the many fonts which I have installed on my computer and using the fonts which Tricia suggests in the blog which will work with the kit contents. For this beautiful kit, she suggests using Cinzel which is a free download but I already have it in my font repertoire.<br />
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Now to get cracking.<br />
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Open up a new 12" x 12" blank canvas on a trasparent background at 300ppi. This is very easy for me in Photoshop CC as I have a premade one click version. I also always use the option to make my canvas fit on my screen. That gives me plenty of real estate to play with.<br />
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Here - because of the shape of the photo above, I have decided to use two of the printed papers to create my background.<br />
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Now I am going to bring in my photo. I really like the grey and white border strip in the kit so I have brought that into my layout as well.<br />
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Here you can see that I have rotated and duplicated and merged the strip to make it go all the way across my canvas and given it a drop shadow for dimension.<br />
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Now for some text. Make a text box and choose the Cinzel font at a size that will be big enough to read once the layout is complete and you print it out. In this case, I am starting at 24 pts to see if it can be read. Also I have chosen to place my text on the photo and reverse the color so it appears white. At the same time, I have opened the dialog box for characters and I actually chose the Cinzel Decorative font. Now to start journalling.<br />
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You can see that my journalling is overlapping on each line so I am going to have to play around quite a lot to make it fit into the journalling box. This means that the leading (or vertical spacing) is going to be tweaked quite a lot. To do that look at the character dialog box.<br />
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There is a box on the right of that dialog box that has a double headed arrow pointing up and down. At the moment it is set at 14pts.<br />
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To change the line spacing for this journalling, I have to increase the points between each line. The next screen will show you the leading at 24 pts and you can see the third paragraph dropping off the photo. Don't worry - we will fix that too.<br />
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OK, to fix that there are a number of different things you can do. The easiest and fastest way to do this is the select your text box, then go to the edit menu>transform>scale and using the shift key to keep aspect ratio - just resize.<br />
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I don't know if you can see this, but the in the third line of the first paragraph, the word "wooded" has both the 'o's crossing over each other. To fix this, we need to kern the text a bit. To do this makes use of the same character and dialog box. Just above where you see the color of the text there is a VA with a double headed arrow beneath it. Currently it is set to 0 but if you left click it, you will see a number of options available. With this font at this size, I have set this at 100.<br />
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Immediately to the left of the VA adjustment control, there is a control which says V/A with a left facing arrow beneath it. Click that and turn that control to optical. Since the text seems to get a little lost in the photo, I changed it to a bold version of Cinzel Decorative using the top right control in the same dialog box.<br />
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Now for embellishments and finishing off the layout. You will see that I have played quite a lot with rectangular elements in this layout.<br />
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Here it is finished off.<br />
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Time is flying by this year. Not only am I now on restricted activity as a result of some additional dental surgery, but all my house and landscaping activities are at a stop. That means I have some extra time to write my blog post this month.<br />
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Today is Mother's Day so even though you are all reading this later in the month, I wanted to wish you all a happy day.<br />
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Anyway, I am not too sure what I want to show you with this kit so I just went ahead and opened a new 12" x 12" blank canvas at 300ppi and then all the elements and papers etc. from the new Adirondacks kit.<br />
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I also opened this photo which I shot at our local Cracker Barrel a few weeks ago. I am guessing that all these soft drinks come from different parts of the United States. Anyway, I thought that this may make a good starting point with the new kit.<br />
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Now you can see that I have decided to make this photo shape a rounded rectangle using the tool for that and adjusting the radius of each corner to 50 pixels.<br />
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I think that we as digital scrapbookers do not use rounded corners often enough and that is why I decided to use them for my layout today.<br />
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Now I am going to choose my background and bring it in behind the photo. I have also added a cut out and put a stroke and drop shadow on both of these elements of my layout.<br />
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I really want to play some more with the background now. So I have added another layer and used the blue wood grain background and blended it using a hard light blend mode at 59%.<br />
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And now I am off the look at the stamps to see what else I can do here. The map stamp seemed to make sense so I made a brush preset with it and added another layer, increased the size of the brush so that the entire screen could be stamped. Applied the stamp and used a gradient overlay preset to come up with this.<br />
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To me this layout seems a little naked so I am going to make some kind of embellishment cluster up. In order to do that I am going to make a template which I can re-use with different kits if I want to. It is very straight-forward to do. Open up a new blank canvas at 12"x 12" with transparent background at 300 ppi.<br />
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I actually keep a file of ALL template components separated just in case I need to make up a cluster embellishment. this is what I have come up with.<br />
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You can see from the above that I have made a layered template (no layer styles) which I am going to use. When I started working on this I simplified the cluster and this is what I came up with. I used colors that either came from within the kit or within the photo. Merge the visible layers in order to preserve the transparent background and make a new layer in the layout and drag in the cluster.<br />
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And here is the end product. I do hope you have enjoyed the creative process.<br />
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Meantime, I am also coming up with a sketch for the May Card Sketch Challenge so doing two things at once. You will probably see during the photos for this blog post that my screen is absolutely chock full of all kinds of different goodies. Actually I have made all kinds of progress already but if I add the screen shot of the card sketch challenge it would make you all rush out to play!!!<br />
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Cherry Blossoms - evoke all shades of pink! Normally I am not a pink person so to speak unless it is the really vibrant neon pink like the one from Fizz!! Anyway here goes with my creation for this month.<br />
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Open up ALL the kit components and a blank 12" x 12" canvas with a transparent background at 300 ppi.<br />
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I must explain that I actually have a minor technical issue here in that everything is opening as a smart object. Smart objects in photoshop are really cool. What they do is allow you to do everything in a non-destructive manner within the program. That means that anything you do will preserve the original as made/shot/created etc.<br />
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Anyway above you can see everything in the kit.<br />
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Now to the fun part. (Still looking for appropriate photo(s) on my external drives.<br />
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Well I found a photo! Not quite what I was expecting to work with but I think you will see why.<br />
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Now that I have my picture, I decided that I wanted to make it blend with whatever my background is going to be so I found a mask in my stash and played around with it until it worked with my photo and here is the clipping mask used with the photo.<br />
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I think that I have too much blue-ish sky to the right of the mountain which is the Matterhorn in Switzerland so i will erase some of it. To do this, use a fuzzy brush at a lowish flow and opacity. Since I am working with smart objects, I have to rasterize before making any modifications to any of the layers.<br />
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Here is the finished making process.<br />
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You will see that I have taken out some of the color on either side of the mountain.<br />
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Well that did not happen. This happened instead.<br />
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I think that it is a bit too purple for this photo so I am going to do some tinting. You will see that I have made the top and the bottom a bit better blended by brushing with an art brush in colors selected from the photo. Pinkish at the top and blue at the bottom. I also kept the opacity and flow fairly low so that the original background would be visible through my brushwork.<br />
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Now I am starting to play with embellishments. I have added a stamped word and one of the beautiful cherry blossom flower branches.<br />
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I now think that I have done what I want with this layout. There are added drop shadows on the cherry blossoms and also the word. The word also has a stroke and outer glow and the cut out has an applied drop shadow.<br />
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Above is the completed layout. I do hope you have enjoyed my creative process for this.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-75181594373106335942017-03-29T05:25:00.000-07:002017-03-29T05:25:05.772-07:00CS Blog Hop March 2017 - DelftOh my goodness!! I looked at the spoiler for this kit and liked the idea of another blue kit but ... when I opened my digital files today I was blown away but that pop of bright yellow!!! Love this combination of colors.<br />
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Anyway, I immediately started creating.<br />
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Opened up a 24' x 12" blank canvas with a transparent background and all the goodies that some in the digital kit. Also opened up a bunch of photos of Ariauna and Mimi which were shot at Disney and Epcot a couple of weeks ago.<br />
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I selected part of one of the background and brought that in then duplicated the layer and flipped the duplicate horizontally so that the join in the centre was not quite so visible.<br />
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This has actually turned into a very simple layout. A couple of cutouts have been added.<br />
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Since we do not get fibers with the Delft kit, I made one out of grosgrain and use it three times as an accent to this layout. This one is for the Monthly layout challenge so I had posted it in the forum already.<br />
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I hope you all enjoy this special kit and thank you to Hetty for suggesting it.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-19829243630291359842017-02-22T04:37:00.000-08:002017-02-22T04:37:25.795-08:00CS Blog Hop February 2017- SucculentsI could not wait to see what this kit had in store for us but I kinda knew that the greens would be exactly like those funny little plants that you see at the check out in the garden department at Lowe's or Home Depot.<br />
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In any case, I have decided to create a layout with the most unlikely photograph!<br />
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Some of you may have seen on my facebook that my husband and I went to the Kennedy Space Centre for a long weekend and of course we had to see the Atlantis Exhibit. A plug here for this. It is the most spectacular exhibit I have ever seen. What you are looking at is the REAL Atlantis that flew several times to the International Space Center and back safely. You really do not get the whole idea of size with this single photo but I can truly state that it is HUGE!!! <br />
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Anyway I have also opened up a blank 12" x 12" document on a transparent background as I always do. Now to open up all the components of this wonderful Succulents kit and see what I can do with the colors and goodies in the kit.<br />
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I opened up all the stuff that came with the kit and chose the background which seemed to have a toning color to the photo in it and made a new layer beneath the photo and brought in the background.<br />
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As you can see it seems to be a lot wishy washy so I am going to darken it and give it some texture as well.<br />
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To do that, on the layer go to image>adjustments>hue and saturation> There you can play around with the sliders and adjust to where you would like it to be. You can see that I upped the hue and saturation and made it much darker.<br />
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Once you are happy hit enter or OK. I have also given the photo layer a fairly severe drop shadow and a black stroke.<br />
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One of the stamp sheets has the perfect phrase for this photo so I selected it and made it a brush using the edit>define brush set tool.<br />
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As I said, this is the most unlikely photo to use with the succulents kit but I think it works.<br />
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<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-84295045466661030322017-01-24T14:47:00.000-08:002017-01-24T14:47:03.092-08:00CS Blog Hop Jan 2017 - Color Me HappyHappy New Year everyone. I do hope you all had a wonderful holiday period no matter how and where and when you celebrate. <br />
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Come New Year's Day and I could not wait to get on my computer and see what came with this spectacular kit to start 2017 off with. I did notice that there is a great brown in the color palette of this kit together with a great yellow. Combined those two colors would probably make a good sepia!<br />
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That being said, I opened up a brand new blank canvas 12" x 12" at 300 ppi and brought in a photo of a friend of mine when he was a baby. This friend has given permission for me to use this photo.<br />
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Then I opened up all the goodies and papers that come with Color Me Happy.<br />
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Since we do not get plain papers in the digital kit, I went ahead and created some blank layers which I filled with the paint bucket tool with colors selected from various components of the kit. You can see the several layers of different colors behind the photo below.<br />
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Now is the time to get creative and blend the colors to match the sepia of the photo.<br />
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To do this, you can play around with the opacity and order of the layers until you find some kind of happy medium. I am off to do that now. The top orange layer I took down to 15% opacity and the next layer down (the dark yellow) I took down to 20% opacity.<br />
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Here you can see that the tone seems to be a really good match to the sepia in the original photo.<br />
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The next thing I decided to do was to try and create something that looked a bit like tea stain digitally so that I could add a link to Lisa's technique blog challenge this month. That actually proved a whole lot easier than I though it would be. I just went to my trusty Club Scrap overlays. I could not find a really good overlay from my CS stash, so I found another and clipped the dark brown to the overlay so as to maintain the transparency of it. Then merged those two layers and brought in the new overlay below the photo layer.<br />
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While looking for a good overlay I also came across CS Inked edges Vol 1 which were released ages ago, and I have brought one of those in as well and used it on the edge of the background and on the edge of the photo.<br />
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Now I am going to make a separate layer with the text that I want to use which is actually a poem written by the owner of the photo. He has also given permission for me to use his poem. Here is the wording:<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">As I laid my tied body down in bed to fall asleep, scattered images started to unfold</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">as special thoughts of you started to creep.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Oh, how I wished I were back in your Life once again, sharing those special moments</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">we had when you were my closest friend.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">A smile came across my face just thinking of those special times, my thoughts were deep until</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">the phone range its forgotten chime.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">It was you that called and when you spoke my pulse started to race, you said our absence has</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">As I waited for you to walk through the door, I made a vow never to let you go and always love</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">The door started to open as your glistening smile entered through, my hear skipped it's beat as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">you looked at me and said "I Love You".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">We raced with open arms to each other as our love burst at the seams, but before we could</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">touch the alarm rang, it was all a dream.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">All alone I felt as a pillow in my arms just laid, disappointment entered the blood</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">as the vision of you started to fade.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">For now, that is all I have to hold, but at least I have my thoughts and they will never grow old.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">As I laid my body down again a smile entered my face, wide awake I shall begin my day and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">your memories will never be erased.</span><br />
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OK, the text layer is now in place and I decided to increase the size of the photo and move it to the bottom right of the layout.<br />
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It is now time to create the embellishment that I would like to use. I opened up the sheet of stamp images. Back shortly when I have made what I think will work.<br />
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OK Back again. Here is what I came up with. I used that cluster stamp in the middle of the bottom row of images and one of the border strips to make what you can now see.<br />
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Just went off in search of a bow and found one that works with the tone of this layout. It came from May 2008 so I think it is Body and Soul.<br />
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Anyway this is what it looks like now.<br />
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I do hope you like what I have done so far. Now the only thing to do is to add tea stains! For that I went off to find the wonderful cup stain that came with memoirs! I loved that kit which came in July 2009.<br />
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This is the stamp.<br />
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To make it into a stamp, go to edit>define brush preset> enter. At this point I added several layers and lightly stamped in a matching color and in various places and orientations.<br />
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Here is the completed layout.<br />
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I hope you like this layout.<br />
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Also, a heartfelt thank you to Robert Vanelli who kindly gave permission for me to use his photo and poem in order to create this.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-57718083261108528722016-12-28T03:55:00.000-08:002016-12-28T03:55:33.678-08:00CS Blog Hop Dec 2016 - Shades of WinterI am in stressed out mode about my blog entry for this month. It started as wanting to do an animated gif but that did not go so well - obviously I need a whole lot more practice playing with this concept - not something I have time for right now. So this month I am doing a basic layout using the components from this totally delightful kit.<br />
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First off I opened all the components from Shades of Winter and created a blank 12" x 12" canvas at 300ppi as I always do.<br />
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Also opened up a wonderful photo of my friend Jayne with her fur baby - Archie!<br />
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I have brought into the layout part of one of the quad backgrounds and enlarged it to fit. Now I want to make a gradient overlay using some of the colors from within the photo and once done, I will edit it to allow for opacity of not more than 40% so the original pattern of the background shows through.<br />
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Now I am adding a few of the really lovely elements from this kit. Be right back.<br />
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Here is the finished product.<br />
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Enjoy.<br />
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I would also like to take this opportunity of wishing you all a wonderful, happy and healthy 2017.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-33153295166360391002016-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:002016-11-30T06:00:21.170-08:00CS Blog Hop November 2016 - ParadiseOK so it is 1st November and the new kit is here, downloaded, unzipped and installed and Photoshop CC and my Adobe Bridge are now open and I am looking at a blank canvas!<br />
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It took a while, but I have now opened up ALL the lusciousness from this wonderful Paradise kit. I think CS has outdone itself with the vibrant color palette this month. Just gorgeous.<br />
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All these super colors make me want to go off and do all the challenges for November in the forum.<br />
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What I have now done is build a template to use with a single photo. I decided to use a single photo as my background here and this one seems to have a really nice tropical feel to it, which I think will work with the colors and elements in the kit and the photo that I have in mind.<br />
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These water color style leaves and hibiscus flowers are amazingly awesome - Jac you have outdone yourself with these!! Anyway, <i> </i>I am now playing around with embellishing this photo and you will have to wait and see what I have come up with momentarily.<br />
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Here you are - the finished layout.<br />
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I hope you like this layout. The colors are just drop dead gorgeous and the digital kit really does speak to me so you have all probably seen all kinds of stuff in the galleria from me.<br />
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Please enjoy the holiday season and stay safe.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-71084432407664064262016-11-25T13:07:00.000-08:002016-11-25T13:07:39.182-08:00CSBlog Hop - 2016 Garden Holiday or Christmas ThymeNo sooner than Karen puts out a call for interest in a blog hop for this cute Christmassy kit than I have to open everything in the kit up and see what I can do!!<br />
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Now open up a blank canvas on a transparent background. In this case I am making a card so chose 7" wide x 4.5" high at 300ppi.<br />
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Looking at the printables, I really like the one on the bottom left and I think I will use a selection from that one as my background. Of course, I will rotate what I choose by 90 degrees.<br />
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Here is what the top layer looks like after being erased.<br />
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Above you can see that I am beginning to build a card with various of the components from within the kit.<br />
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Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas.<br />
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OK it is now Election Day - 8th November and the invitation states that we need to make 3 cards or one layout or one project so what I will do is make a layout a bit later in the week when things have calmed down a bit here.<br />
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Today is 19th November and things have not calmed down since election day but I thought I better get the rest of my blog entry done prior to the lunacy of next week and 4000 calorie meals!!!<br />
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This one is a layout utilising some of the beautiful elements of this delightful kit. I have a stock photo of the Petronas Towers in my stash that I have never used. This is the layout that I created with the photo. It seemed like a good way to use some of this kit.<br />
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Your next stop is <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://craftycolonel.blogspot.com/2016/11/club-scrap-christmas-thyme-bloghop.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">http://craftycolonel.blogspot.com/2...</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-57762338424593886172016-10-26T04:56:00.000-07:002016-10-26T04:56:28.885-07:00CS Blog Hop October 2016 - LiteratureHello everyone<br />
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So the new kit, Literature arrived 12 days ago and in the meantime, we have had Hurricane Matthew! The house got boarded up, supplies got stashed, bathtubs got filled, laundry (interminable) got done, basically it felt like we were preparing for war! The hurricane came and went with a whimper luckily but it took us two full days to take the shutters off, tidy out and clean the garage so we had space to store the shutters and clean the house twice - once before the hurricane and once after. I really have not had too much time to play around with the kit.<br />
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I think the coloring of this photo will work very well with the Literature kit. Also I think that I may use some of the new textures and overlays that came out recently.<br />
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Back to the kit. I have selected the dark coral color from the quad print and filled the base layer with that color. Created another layer and applied and cream colored gradient across the screen horizontally. I have added one of the overlays and applied basic styles to the overlay to add a bit of depth.<br />
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I really feel that this photo needs to be blended into the background more and that the color of the background needs to be adjusted so I am going off to do both of those things. Back in a while! I just used a mask which I had in my stash.<br />
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For text this stamp was crying out to be used. So I made a brush out of it.<br />
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To use the brush, I make a new layer and have the brush on its own layer. In actual fact, it is always a good idea to make a new layer for every element, word, embellishment that you use. You can always rearrange layer order, hide layers, change layer styles or do pretty much anything in a non destructive manner.<br />
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When I made the brush preset it was at 738 I think. When I wanted to use it I used the right facing square bracket on my keyboard to increase the size of the brush. To decrease the size you can use the left facing square bracket. These two keys will do the same thing for any brush.<br />
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OK now for embellishments. I really like the semi opaque flowers that come with the kit so made a selection of that embellishment and of course made a new layer as well. <br />
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When I added the flowers, the stems hid Leia's face so all I did was change the layer order to hide the stems behind the mask. Then made some more layers and pasted the flowers in various places and in various orientations multiple times.<br />
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I hope you can see but I have turned off the eyeball to the left of a few of the layers because I felt I had added too many flowers. I will still turn a couple more off but I think you get the general idea.<br />
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Also added narrow stroke and nominal drop shadow to the text stamp. I do like the scatter of these delightful flowers behind the masked puppy photo and hope you do too.<br />
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Happy hopping!Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-91963296942914346092016-09-27T17:09:00.000-07:002016-09-27T17:09:45.153-07:00CS Blog Hop September 2016 Garden ShedWell who could resist playing with such a delightful kit immediately. Well not quite immediately for me as I got very busy and spent most of Thursday 1st September in the dentist chair.<br />
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Anyway, I downloaded and installed this fabulous kit and started off by making my own overlay. <br />
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To do this, I made a transparent blank background 12" x 12" at 300ppi. Then cut and copied part of one of the 4 way prints and played with the opacity and flow. Added a couple of the cute semi transparent images and then on the 4 way print layer erased a very large circle using a very fuzzy and very large brush and ended up with what you see above.<br />
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Then I opened up a new transparent background, 12" x 12" at 300ppi and dragged in this overlay. Added a white fill layer beneath the overlay and now I am ready to start.<br />
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I hope you can see this, but the shading around the plant and the butterflies has become much brighter.<br />
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Found the photo and have come up with this.<br />
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I hope you like what I have made here. Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-76834307752243720202016-08-31T05:44:00.000-07:002016-08-31T05:44:19.521-07:00CS Blog Hop August 2016 SunflowersHello everyone.<br />
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By now you must all know that the CS digital offering each month has changed somewhat dramatically but there is still lots and lots of goodness and versatility in the current offering. What you actually get are the digital versions of the stamps, some of the embellishments, a 4 way print and some other stuff but in my opinion the most important part of the kit is the color palette. This month the Sunflowers kit does not disappoint in terms of color and I wish I had had more time to play.<br />
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Anyway, I am trying to decide what I would like to show you all this month with this luscious palette of colors and images.<br />
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One of the things that I should use much more often is the justify text tools in photoshop. Most of the time CS comes up with wonderful stamps which are perfect for me to use in place of journalling (mainly because I am lazy) - Anyway I thought we could visit justified text this month.<br />
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As always open up a new blank document 12" x 12" at 300 ppi.<br />
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Now I always open up the Bridge and search for everything in the kit.<br />
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Time to go look for a photo or two to use. This time I am going to open up my temporary pictures folder which I keep on my desktop and select the folder called Copyright free images.<br />
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And here they are!<br />
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What I am going to do now is build a layout using one or two of these photos and the color palette and kit items from Sunflowers. Back in a tick.<br />
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Found the picture I am going to use.<br />
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And here you can see all the Sunflowers goodies opened up with the photo. I am sure you agree that the color palette of the kit will work really well with this photo.<br />
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The layout is made and I created a tag using one of the premade tags and filling it with matching background color. Now to type some text and show you all how to manipulate it to justify. Open up the sub-menu for type and paragraph and then click the paragraph tab and the lines symbol at the top right of the box.<br />
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That brings up a menu that has justification in that. Click justification and the submenu will show on your screen as above. Here is a quick explanation of what each of those controls does.<br />
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~ Word spacing the space between each word.<br />
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These are all things you can play around with to get your desired effect. The settings you choose will depend on the font you decided to use. Some of the more fussy fonts are much more difficult to deal with because the letters are all different point sizes. This is not an easy thing to master. It does become a lot easier if your journalling words and the space you are journalling in is are both of a reasonable size. You can see from my box with text that my words just do not work for left and right justification using the font I have chosen.<br />
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To finish the layout I added the cute round cut out and placed a lens over the top of it. I do hope you like my final layout. Also I hope that you play around a bit with text justification for journalling.<br />
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See you all next time.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-87824602345435437652016-07-26T15:23:00.003-07:002016-07-26T15:23:36.693-07:00CS Blog Hop July 2016 - Office SpaceWith the advent of the digital kit membership changing in August, I thought I would play around a bit with making a digital swap page using the color palette from Office Space, together with some of my own art and some stamps which I have in my stash. The reason I am doing this is to show an example of what can be done and also to show my fellow quick page swappers that there are a gazillion ideas out there and in our own imaginations. <br />
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The digital scrapbooking arena is totally infinite. You are only limited by unfamiliarity of your software.<br />
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Anyway here goes. As always open up a new file 12" x 12" at 300 ppi set on transparent. I also went ahead and opened all the papers and elements of Office Space in Bridge.<br />
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Here you can see that there are some absolutely stunning colors and patterns in the backgrounds and overlays.<br />
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Go ahead and open up some of the backgrounds so that you have your color palette to choose from.<br />
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Now you can start to "paint" your background using brushes together with layers and layer styles. The world is now your oyster and you can get very very creative with using brushes and layer styles.<br />
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All I have done so far is select two of the background colors and a couple of brushes from my stash and painted with the brushes on two separate layers.<br />
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Here you can see I have added a bunch of layers with an assortment of different brushes. As yet I have not added any layer styles, patterns or textures.<br />
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Having got several layers painted, I have now started adding textures and styles.<br />
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As you can see, my created background is beginning to look like a canvas that has been painted. There are thousands of styles that you can add into your photoshop program which can be found on the internet and you can also create your own.<br />
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Further addition of styles and layers as well as an overlay yield this.<br />
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I also rotated the overlay - just because and duplicated the overlay layer just in case. You can see here that I have selected the rectangular marquee tool and made a selection on the canvas layer beneath the overlay. Go ahead and cut your selection and you should have a great hole in which to place your photo. Voila!!!<br />
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Now we can add some layer styles and shadows etc. to the layer with hole in it. In this case I have just given it a fairly dramatic drop shadow.<br />
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The time has come to add a stamp or two. In this case, I just want to use one stamp so I opened up the word art sheet that comes with the kit.<br />
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Now for the final layout with photo!<br />
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I hope you like my layout and will visit my blog again.<br />
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Meantime, for those of you who play in the digital page swap hosted by Cathy Gray, I do hope that I have given you some food for thought here and that this terrific swap continues and will get some new players too. <br />
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Happy scrapbooking everyone.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-25965795134198973612016-06-29T03:43:00.000-07:002016-06-29T03:43:03.012-07:00CS Blog Hop June 2016 - BoardwalkEvery time I hear or see the word Boardwalk, I think of Bruce Willis and his wonderful rendition of Under the Boardwalk. So today, I am digging around in my archive photos for a special photo to use for my layout this month.<br />
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Here is the photo I am going to use.<br />
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As usual, open up a new file, 12" x 12" on a transparent background at 300 ppi.<br />
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Now open up everything Boardwalk. I do this in my Adobe Bridge which is a great filing system for all my digital kits, goodies and components.<br />
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As you can see, we get lots of fun things to play with. I have already started building my layout using my "Under the Boardwalk" photo.<br />
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I hope you agree that this photo really lends itself well to the colors of this kit. As yet I have not added or applied any layer styles or other goodies to my page under construction.<br />
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Here is the next stopping point. I have used brushes created from the overlay extras and erased some of the frame work and background papers and then "painted" using varying sizes of the same brush at different opacities and different sizes to create the idea of the beach overflowing from the photo.<br />
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Also added the cute side by side deckchairs and umbrellas and a stamp made from the stamp sheet. You will still note that the only thing that has a layer style so far is the deckchairs graphic. Now I have gone ahead and added layer styles to all the layers apart from the side by side deck chairs. Outer glow is what I used but at lower opacity than 100% and not too big either.<br />
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Happy July everyone and enjoy fireworks day!<br />
<br />Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398173776667408240.post-22093472248178451342016-05-25T05:13:00.000-07:002016-05-25T05:13:36.911-07:00Club Scrap Blog Hop May 2016 - Creative LicenseMay Day came and went without a flurry of activity here except for the arrival of my digital kit from Club Scrap. Who can resist playing with a new set of digital toys the moment they arrive? So I did the two page layout of the month challenge and posted in the forum via a fairly circuitous route, assisted by none other than our very own Julie. So here is a shout out to you Julie. Thank you very much for your help and on a Sunday as well!<br />
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So when this arrived yesterday, of course, I downloaded and installed and opened everything up in my Adobe Bridge.<br />
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What an absolutely gorgeous array of goodies and what a wonderful color palette. Since today is only 2nd May, I have no clue yet what I would like to share with you all so I am going to put my thinking cap on and come back on another day to complete a digital project.<br />
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Now it is 17th May and I am two dental surgeries later. Time to actually write my blog post for this month!<br />
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First off when I reopened my bridge only the alphas and stamps came up so I cut out one of the stamps and made a brush with it. <br />
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To make the brush, select the stamp you want, go to edit>define brush preset and you have your brush. Now on to open the papers and embellies and other goodies that came with our kits. At the same time as opening everything in our kit, I went off in search of a photo and found this of my friend David with a close friend of his in Australia.<br />
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So now I think I have everything that I need to make up a new page.<br />
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Ok - I chose my background and a simple embellishment and photo and this is what I have so far.<br />
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This is such a happy photo!<br />
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At this point, I have selected the brush preset that I made earlier and am going to use it as an eraser.<br />
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I brushed the stamp as an eraser on the aqua background paper and as a result have revealed another background paper beneath.<br />
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Also used a layer style to "extrude" the lower background paper through the aqua paper. Now all I need to do is sort out a style for the photo.<br />
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All I did was add a soft drop shadow and an 8 point white stroke to the photo and there you have it. This is a really simple and quick layout and I think the simplicity really makes this photo pop out.<br />
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Thank you for visiting my blog today.Annettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11803440030443796754noreply@blogger.com16