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Well, I know I just released part 3 yesterday, but I have come to the conclusion that the computer and I need some time apart.. so rather than make you wait for part 4 of Sunset Peach kit here it is. I hopefully will be back in about 1 weeks time with some more freebies and tutorials for those who are interested! I have another big kit, and a few small packs or bits a pieces on the way.
Download here… leave some love!
Here is the third part of Sunset Peach! I have been pleasantly surprised by the big response…. now surely someone out there has a layout they would be proud to show, made with this kit! I would love to see them and maybe share the link for other people to have a squizz!
As always if you download, leave some love! ….tootles
There is a couple of ways to do this. The first method involves either going out and taking pictures of interesting textures- such as fence palings, grass, gravel, pebbles etc, or downloading textured image that a photographer has released for public download (please read their conditions of use). You can find such images here: The Ephemeral Victorian, The Lune Rouge and Wetfish scraps. Please note if there is conditions for commercial or personal use and ABIDE BY THEM.
- If the photo you have taken or downloaded is coloured, open it in Serif Photoplus ( or your image editor), select the Image menu, then Adjust, then Grayscale.
- Now open a new or existing image 12″ x 12″, 300 resolution. If a its new image, fill with the colour of your choice.
- Now open your texture image file, copy.
- Now go back to 12″ image, select paste new layer. If smaller than 12″, stretch to fit, or tile it. Your textured image should overlay your ‘paper’ now
- Go to your layer manager tab- making sure the texture layer is on top and selected. Now muck around with the options in the layer properties drop down box, and the opacity value.
- Find something you like save it or export it under another file name and keep playing.. you can get a plethora of papers!!
Let me know if this is helpful… And please always read the conditions of use when downloading images from the net! DON’T BE A PIRATE!
WooHoo… 10,000 hits… well who would of thought!
Here is the second part of Sunset Peach. I was a little surprised at how rapidly the first part racked up the downloads. Thankyou very much for all the lovely comments. I try and read all of them.
For those of you who read my tutorials ( I know there is only two posted so far…more too come), another freebie designer, Netta (the Creative Victorian) has had a fantastic and generous idea of a blog with freebies for FREEBIE DESIGNERS!!! Click here.
Peach Sunset Download here
Presenting……
Sunset Peach Part 1
This is the first of a four part kit available on my blog. The flowers came about quite by accident as I made one new discovery after another- I’m still a novice to making digiscraps, but totally addicted. I have to really make the effort to disconnect my self from the internet and scrap designing for a day or so more regularly. But just to fuel your own addiction, you can grab my latest freebie!
Please take the time to leave some feeback.
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Hey there,
I have just a little something to brighten your day! Some frame freebies!
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We have been very busy with this and that, and on Sunday afternoon we visited a train museum with our train mad 3yr old. Took lots of photos- our little boy was even allowed to help change the points on the steam tram ride, - so I have been inspired to work on a train theme kit! Still in the sketch phase though!
I have been working on another kit that just seems to grow and grow, as I discover new techniques. It will hopefully be released at the end of the week. It is called Peach Sunset, and it is in four parts. Here is a preview:
tootles
Well, you’ve got an image editor (see previous post) and you want to make some custom brads. You will probably like to have a plug-in to make it easy. A plug-in is a small software extension that can be downloaded, usually free of charge, to add capabilities to an existing programs such as Photoshop or Serif Photoplus, etc.
To make brads and buttons I use Border Mania. A free downloadable plug-in. Download the file, and install into the plug-in folder that is found in your image editor folder.
- Now start your program, create a new image 2 inches height and width, with resolution set at 300, fill with the colour or picture of your choice. The fill icon can be found in the tool bar- it is the picture of a bucket.
- Now from the Image menu select the Plug-in Filters option. Then find Border Mania. There are many button making filters to play with in this menu.
- For round brads the last three options are great. “Round Button #1 or #2″ for conventional shapes, or “Round Button #3″ to make an eyelet. After you have selcted your filter you can mess around with the different parameters to get the brad you like.
- Then after pressing okay, using the round select tool in the tool bar, select the actual button and then from the Image menu select “crop to image”. You should now have your brad.
- If you were to now use this image it would look a bit rough around the edges on your page. So, in the Image menu, choose ‘Blur’, then choose ‘Gaussian blur’. Again you need to fiddle with the options to get a balance between blur and sharpness that is acceptable. You can apply this a few successive times, with a decreasing radius each time to get a good image.
Now you are ready to use your brad… well almost. If you are making up your Scrap pages in another program such as Canon Photo Record (it was free with my camera), you need to ‘Export’ your image so it is in a recognisable format that supports transparent regions.
- Choose Export from the File menu, then select where you want to save image to, then select in ’save as type’ the ‘portable network graphics .png’ option. There you go!
- If you want to add a drop shadow or add a bevel edge before you save, choose the ‘Layers’ menu and then the ‘Effects’ option.
Thats all for now! Just experiment lots with the filters- its the best way to learn. Let me know if you find this helpful.
Sorry!!! Try again on the Cool Blue link! 
Well, what a response- guess I shouldn’t hold out on you too long! 
Thank you to all those who kindly take the time to write those lovely comments.
Here is the second part of Cool Blue:
Enjoy!
G’day,
Whew!! What a busy weekend. And this week is starting off busy, a lovely friend had bought tickets to take the kids and I to a Colin Buchanan concert! He is an awesome christian musician and writes the most fantastic children’s music that adults can enjoy too. We have already worn out one of his CDs in our car as it is almost permanently playing. The concert was just ‘tops’, as our 3 year old would say.
You can now download part 1 of the Cool Blue kit that I previewed last week. I am just so rapt with the floral paper and the blue pebble texture. Enjoy!!
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Thought I give you all a sneak preview of a kit just passin’ thru will be posting very soon.
I just love royal blue, especially set against white. It will be released in three parts. So keep an eye on the blog!
Hey there,
About to hit a busy weekend- we are having a surprise birthday party for my mum-in-law. It was a bit of a nightmare to get a date all her friends were available for. They seem to book themselves up months in advance - the social butterflies! I think its because they are all empty nesters and out making the most of life!!
So, now to the business end of the blog!!! The Freebie.
Enjoy!
This is not a how-to step by step make your own digiscraps, but what you can get from the internet -FREE - to do so.
So you don’t want or can’t afford to buy programs like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro? There are free image editing programs around. I use Serif Photo plus, which is an older version of the program that the company sells. They have this older version available for free download from their site. There is also a Photoshop copy called GIMP. I haven’t used this so I am not sure of the stability.
The Serif Photo plus program allows you to open and work with many different file formats such as JPG & PNG. It also works with layers in your images- very important. The ability to work with PNG files is important, as unlike JPEG files they allow areas of transparency- important for embellishments which are not rectangular or square.
You can also use the program to put together your own pages using designer’s scrapbook layout templates. Although the disadvantage here is that if they are a Photoshop template -while you will be able to open them, the layers will not be separated- but you can ’separate’ them yourself. More on that later.
Next time: What you need to make buttons & brads.
Well, winter has ended and this week summer has kicked in - we don’t really have spring in Sydney. Our best (read most comfortable) weather is Autumn. We were in jeans and jumpers a fortnight ago and this week the aircon is on!!
Here is the download for the elements I created for the Isla May kit .
Please leave some love either with this post or on the download page! ‘Thanks’ is just a small contribution of good will you can make to keep the freebie machine well oiled and I’m not just talking about just passin’ thru, but any creator’s freebie you download!
