Posted by karooch on
August 12, 2008
Texture Tuesday with Wildheart
Wildheart of Wildheart’s Works brings you Texture Tuesday. Wildheart is a Paintshop Pro expert, but I know you’ll enjoy the tips and tricks even if you’re not a PaintShop Pro user. And you’ll find plenty of ideas to help you work with textures in your own program.
This week I finally discovered the value of subscribing to certain sites as well as subscribing to feeds in Google Reader. I found a site that allows you to make simple easy textured background tiles.
The site is Bgpatterns.com.
You have control over the following areas:
In the colors you are able to adjust the foreground and background. In the canvas tab you have access to five textures, you are able to control the pixel ratio as well as the texture opacity. In the image tab you have 70 Images to choose from to include scrolls, stars, flowers, hearts, signs, trees, and misc. You can control the image scale, image location, and image opacity. And last but not least, in the rotate tab you can rotate your image in 7 different angles or free rotate them.
Once you have an image you like you can choose to apply the background so that you can see what it will look real time on the web.
You can also download it in an image editor to see what it looks like and possibly use it in addition to other design elements to create your next design.
If you register to the site you also have an added ability to add it to your patterns. There is a series of web 2.0 buttons that allow you to spread the word of the site as well and they do ask for donations to support the site.
I think this is a useful tool for folks who may not have an image editing program as well as a tool to enhance those who do.
Here are a couple of tiles that I created while trying out the site.
As you can see this is a fairly versatile tool. I would love to see what you create.
Note: Wildheart Works site is currently undergoing a rebuild, but you can always contact Joe on her email at joecheray@gmail.com
Other Articles You Might Like:
Texture Tuesday -last week’s segment
Top 10 Scrapbook Ideas to Rekindle Your Scrapbooking Inspiration
Posted by karooch on
August 10, 2008
Scraps of Mind - The Magazine
Welcome everyone to the New Look Scraps of Mind.
As the Olympics dominates our thoughts and our TV time, bringing together the World in sporting challenge, it seems just the time to launch the new Scraps of Mind format.
I have thought of this site as an on-line scrapbooking magazine for some time. With its regular weekly segments and Guest Posters adding their own variety of style, it seems to grow more and more in this direction every day.
So the time has come to format it to be more in keeping with its magazine direction.
Scraps of Mind is now in a fixed width format so that it can be better viewed by those who want to read it in a window, rather than in a full screen (thanks for that contribution Tink). And by clicking on the displayed articles you will be taken to a full page view of them so you can read them in full and perhaps leave a comment or even give them a vote on StumbleUpon or the social media of your choice.
I’m a bit excited about this new look and I hope you like it. The Scraps of Mind Technical Division (that would be my daughter, Seona) and I still have some tweaking to do over the coming week so if you discover any little gremlins I would really appreciate you letting me know so we can get on to them right away. I was too excited by this to wait until we had got everything perfect before launching. And frankly I think perfection is a bit over-rated anyway.
And I also invite readers who would like to contribute to the Scraps of Mind Magazine, either as a regular segment, such as Texture Tuesday, or with a one-off article to let me know. I just love the variety that you bring and I’m more than happy to send some extra traffic your way too.
So thank you all for your fantastic support of Scraps of Mind, and I look forward to delivering even more great scrapbook related stuff to your computer monitors in the future.
Other related articles:
Scrapbook Challenges - Are We Challenged Out?
Posted by karooch on
August 9, 2008
Saturday Scrapbook Ideas
Saturday Scrapbooking Ideas #18
If you use an embossed paper on your scrapbook layouts, try sanding back the top a little to really make the pattern stand out.
Learn digital scrapbooking now!
And take your scrapbooking to the next level.
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Posted by karooch on
August 8, 2008
Five Freebies on Friday - 8 August 2008
Well it’s the end of the week and time for Five Freebies on Friday. Check out these great Scrapbooking Freebie goodies I’ve found for you to enjoy.
Just don’t forget to leave some love when you download your freebie. Remember a simple thank you comment makes all the difference to the designer who will have put a lot of time and effort into creating your freebie.
- A bright and happy kit here from Blissful Pixel to start us off.
- Have a look at these lovely flower overlays at This and That by Claudie. You can create your own papers.
- DigiScrap.ch has a gorgeous dripping chocolate alpha that’s perfectly yummy.
- And Jenni has a luscious mini kit called Candy Jar over at Chaos Lounge.
- If you’d like to see your family as a garden of flowers, Take a look at this template from Freebies by Lottchen.
Other related posts:
Five Freebies on Friday 1 Aug 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 25 Jul 2008
Five Freebies on Friday 18 July 2008
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Posted by karooch on
August 7, 2008
Mid-week Mashup
Here’s a round up of snippets from the week.
Kangaroos can save you money
Last week I told you about the exciting news of Blog Mastermind reopening.
If you haven’t seen any of the videos, or read the Blueprint or listened to the million dollar blogger interview, you can start right now (it won’t cost anything) by going here -
Already over 300 people have joined and are busy studying the materials, interacting in the community forums and using the Social Traffic Club to drive traffic to their blogs.
But here’s the thing, Yaro explained to me that he wanted to charge in $USD, but his Australian bank would not accept the currency, and since it was so close to the opening of his program, he decided to just go with $AUD. So if you’re from the US that gives you an ongoing discount of at least 10% because of the currency conversion.
In case you don’t know, Yaro is from Australia, though he sounds a lot like a Canadian sometimes because of his parents. He did say that his bank would change in the near future, and as soon as $USD is accepted he would switch back. But he’ll honor whatever the price was when you joined. And I can vouch for that because that was what happened when I joined last year.
So if you’ve been considering joining the Blog Mastermind Program and you want to lock in the discount by paying in Australian dollars, you should join as soon as you can.
Scraps of Mind featured at Databazaar
I was a little bit excited when Databazaar asked to interview me. I created a special layout for the occasion and waited eagerly for publication.
Well they’ve published the story, as well as the layout and you can read it here.
I have to say, I’m tickled pink.
Guys Scrapbook too
Last week June from Scrapping by Design had a guest post written by Alun Maxwell who shared his thoughts on how guys feel about scrapbook designs.
Alun is not just your average Scrapbooking Widower, he’s a scrapbooker himself and runs Themed Scrapbook Idea so he has a pretty informed bunch of views to share.
The article is well worth a read and it made me wonder if we have any male scrapbookers amongst our own Scraps of Mind readership. If there are then I’d love to see a comment from you, just to wave the flag.
Digital Scrapbooking Blog Carnival
This round of the Blog Carnival was sadly very small but have a click over and check it out anyway. Perhaps you can submit some entries for the next round and really kick some digital scrapbooking goals.
Calling all Beginners to Digital Scrapbooking!
Learn how to digital scrapbook the easy way.
With no long and frustrating learning curve.
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