Favourite things layout

Plan & Scrap a Layout of "Favourite Things"

What you need:

1. A Subject. It could be your Son/Daughter, your child's favorite school activities, your Parents, your families Military Member (what Soldier/unit wouldn't love getting these if you printed them as cards!!), your Friend, Yourself, or whom ever you choose.

2. Whether you chose yourself, or someone else, talk to them (now don't talk to yourself, lol. Just kidding ... you know what you like but do some prep work for yourself as well), pick up on keywords something that made their eyes sparkle when spoken of. Ask about their favorite flower, smell, date, poem, singer, poet, memory .... the possibilities are endless!! Get creative!! Take notes then make a list of those favorite things, and your ideas to scrap it.

3. Once you have compiled your list, put in into motion. This is where your creativity will come into play. Come up with images, creative ways to display their fav. poem or quote. Well, I don't need to tell you how to be creative ... I know you all are!!

4. You can make this as any item you wish. It can be a full size layout, a tag sized layout, a brag book page, a whole kit etc. The idea isn't to make you go all elaborate for this challenge, but rather to spark your creativity into trying something new. And if you share a preview with us, all the better!!!! I know I for one would LOVE to see what you can do with this. Please share your results to Art & Digital Art Friends on Facebook :)

**This is terrific for traditional scrapping as well!!

Here is my example

EXPERIMENT-INSPIRE-CREATE

Forget-me-not

Hi Everyone,

I know a lot of people dislike vectors, so I thought I'd share a simple vector tutorial, which gives a lovely result.

I have used the individual parts to this for a few things. The link for the tutorial is below.http://www.poppyfield.se/forget_me_not.htm

This is my example

I do hope you enjoy this. Please post your results to Art & Digital Art Friends on Facebook.
I look forward to seeing them. 

Michelle

Beaded Ribbon Drapes

Here is a quick writeup of the ribbon drape thingy I shared ... now mind you I am not a tut writer and am awful about doing this kinda thing soooo I am hoping I didn't leave anything out

Instructions for the ribbon beaded draping
using your pen tool set at beizer curve vector off and connect segments and show nodes on line style solid width ... what ever size you want your ribbon to be anti alias checked
choose the color you want on the edges of your ribbon for foreground color and turn your background color off .... now draw a straight line or curved ... just play around with it ... nothing exact just free flowing here ... lol ... now you should have a solid colored line go to effects > texture > blinds and choose size you want ... now select all > float > modify > contract >choose the width you like for the edge of your ribbon ... don't deselect but choose the pattern or gradient or whatever for your ribbon and fill...deselect ... go to effects .. distortion ... wave ... now play with the horizonal displacement amplitude if you made your ribbon up and down on your canvas ... use the vertical displacement ampitude if you went across your canvas ... now just play with both horz and vert wavelength until you are happy with the angles of your ribbon ... now all you have to do is choose a brad or bead or whatever you like and place how you want it and then using your warp brush ... carefully move each ribbon so that it looks like it is going through or gathered however you like ... kinda push the ends around so they don't look so blunt ... the warp brush is great for getting that twisted effect ... so play play play ... remember there is always the undo mode ... hehehehe ... I gave mine a small drop shadow on each ribbon before merging them
And that's it ...

the example I have inserted is about 400x1800 in size ... I set my pen tool at stroke width of 66 ... contracted 3 ...horiz ampitude set at 5 or there abouts ... I kinda change the settings for each ribbon ... just kinda gives you a guide

Janice S