Tut: Scalloped Edges

Posted on | January 31, 2009 | 4 Comments

Woah, a tutorial!! It’s been a while, huh? This one’s an easy one. Basically it’s learning how to be cleverer than Photoshop, ha! I use this trick to outline a lot of stuff with my magic wand. I use this to create pieces for my KnK too (which I’ll share soon enough… the converting to different extensions is a bit challenging since there are different machines out there). I just dump a solid color (black) to the selected area, save it and import it to KnK to cut.

Here’s a sample layout that I did. See the scalloped piece on the top right? Scalloping is cool. I use it a lot for my paper craft too!

This tut was done in CS3 but the technique/idea can be used in previous versions -- maybe Elements. You tell me.

Well enjoy and hopefully I can get on the video tutorial momentum again. Oh, if you can’t see the video very well or the High Quality is a bit much, go to the YouTube video page. It is though much better looking in HQ. For my tuts I’ll probably stick with HQ even though I figured out all the settings for HD. HQ is clear enough and not as slow.

I’m going to the city. Hopefully I can sucker hubby to take me to Archivers. I forgot to subliminally insert it into his head last night, ha!

Tut: Photoshop Styles

Posted on | September 27, 2008 | 3 Comments

It’s been a while but here’s another Photoshop tutorial. The subject was an email request from one of you, I hope the video helps. My styles file size after saving the two styles: 3kb. I haven’t been playing much with digital and got clueless on what type of tuts to make. So thank you for the suggestion!!

Not sure what the kids (one hubby, one child, and two fur babies) are doing. They left me alone to finish my real estate stuff but here I am blogging. Ok, this will be short, I want to finish so that we can get out of here and have some good times. Laters!

Tut: Extracting Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool

Posted on | August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

NOTE: This is a tutorial created in Photoshop Elements 6 but this function is also in Photoshop. Remember, if your background colors are just too close to whatever you’re extracting, try a different method (watch my other extraction videos).

Another digi page (but you can easily lift this using the traditional method). This picture is actually an interesting picture. She doesn’t sleep like this anymore but her daddy, when he was little, used to sleep like this too. It’s so weird! She’s never seen that picture and actually she was too little and as you can probably see was quite in the sleep zone and so this was all unconscious on her part. Aren’t our genes so interesting that way? Do your kids have habits that are similar or just like yours or your significant other?

I created this page a few weeks ago. I just haven’t had a chance to share it with you until now. I used Tara Sroka‘s kit, just a variety of them, for this page. I extracted the hearts from a full page, from her valentine’s kit.

Speaking of Tara… due to personal reasons, she won’t be producing a lot the next few months. My CT business with her will be super casual which I think will be nice for me too. I’ll be with her until the end of the year and then who knows what I’ll do then. I think, unless something great comes a long, I want to focus on stamping, paper and hybrid with occasional digi just to keep up with what’s going on out there.

Hope you all had a great weekend. M and mine was great but hubby had to work. That’s also why M was with me all day Saturday at the crop… did I tell you this already? Ah… loosing my mind…

Tut: Extract Pattern Paper

Posted on | July 22, 2008 | 4 Comments

It’s been awhile since I did a digi tut. This is a super easy one. Just a how-to on the page I created last week using Corina’s freebie kit. I received a couple private messages that basically said: how did you do it exactly? Since my explanation was a bit unclear. So here it is:

–> You can also watch it on YouTube in high quality <–

This is a really nice technique actually for those who aren’t into digital. I printed a little bit, in color, on transparency paper and voila… my very own, I can make as many as I want, transparent overlays or cool, again, Hambly-ish looking transparent. You should try it out!!!

I have a few cards to share but I’ll do that tomorrow. It’s for my very first class at my lss. It’s kind of weird though. They scheduled my class for 10:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and I work in the day time. So I was asked to drop the materials off for the morning session. I hope nobody in the a.m. session knows me and will be disappointed if they find out that I’m not going to personally be there.

The cards… they’re not something you’ve never seen from me… I wasn’t feeling super creative since I have to prepare cards that somebody else will need to know how to teach FAST and I can’t go buck wild on Thickers or any sort of packaged alpha since they do get expensive. I don’t like the Cricut machine. It’s a great machine but it’s not for me. I’ve used it twice and it was good for me. I’m saving up for a Klik ‘n Kut or Pazzle so that I can use gazillions of fonts and cuts through thicker material. If you want to know about the difference between the two, go to PaperThreads. The forum is an awesome place for this type of Q&A and research. If you do the math, by the time you buy 10 cartridges for the Cricut, you can buy a Pazzle and some more accessories or a KnK. At the end, you get more varieties from the Paz or the KnK. So that’s how I justify my need for an expensive machine. I’m not sure if tight wad me can do it… hand over my $$ {::SMILES}.

Tut: Quick Extract and Happy 4th!

Posted on | July 4, 2008 | 5 Comments

I am taking advantage of WordPress’s ability to publish on command even when I’m not in front of the ‘puter {::SMILES}.

Just a little happy fourth post. Hope you all, in the U.S., are having a fabulous day and (long) weekend. Stay safe and take care!!!

Here’s a page that I did for my lss.

Material:

Elements: Prima rhinestones and My Mind’s Eyes rub-ons
Pattern paper and stamp set: Sassafrass Lass
Cardstock is… hmm… starts with a C… ha! I am so helpful, huh? It’s not as heavy as Bazzill.

I also want to share a video. It’s another extraction video. My first one was using a pen tool. It’s my favorite method. But, here’s another method I use when the area I want to eliminate isn’t so busy but still busy enough that the regular magic wand tool will not do. You try it out and tell me if it’s worth it.