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Laura Coyle and Kim Kight on ReneeTV
If you happened to miss this most informative and fun Live video chat on Wednesday night, you can watch it here.
It was a fun time here this past Wednesday as Laura Coyle discussed designing for fabric with our special guest Kim Kight. Kim answered attendee questions and shared her insights with a very excited group of attendees. A great time was had by all!
There was a give-away of classes, and Kim awarded a lucky attendee a signed copy of her new book, A Field Guide to Fabric Design. Near the end, Kim gave a demonstration on using the Adobe Illustrator Recolor Artwork feature to mix up your color palettes and incorporate the Spoonflower Color Guide colors into your design.
A link to this recording can also be found on the ReneeTV page. If you missed this live chat, you’ll want to check it out.
Write. Click. Scrapbook: Energy and Creativity
April is such a lovely time of transition. I often find myself with bursts of energy and creativity. How about you? Do longer days, bluer skies, and signs of a new season help you, too?
Let’s use some of our newfound energy to put together some layouts! Such fun! Let’s do three layouts each starting with a different prompt. (more…)
Kim Kight on ReneeTV Wednesday
Join us this week for a great “Meet the Pros” live segment at ReneeTV:
Kim Kight
Fabric Design Blog TrueUp.net
Wednesday, April 25 at 9:00pm ET
We’re excited to introduce our special guest this month on Meet the Pros: Kim Kight, of the popular fabric design blog TrueUp.net. Every week she shares information about fabric finds and showcases beautiful prints and the artists who create them.
Recognizing the need for technical and design information among those new to the world of fabric, Kim published her book A Field Guide to Fabric Design, in 2011. This Wednesday you’ll have the chance to ask Kim questions and find out more about the growing craft of custom fabric design. The chat begins Wednesday, April 25, at 9pm ET on ReneeTV.
Mark your calendar and don’t miss this opportunity to interact with a real “pro.”
Web Freebies: Photoshop Text Effects
Meet Fabric Designer Kim Kight
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 25, at 9pm ET when we’ll welcome Kim Kight of TrueUp.net to ReneeTV’s “Meet the Pros.” Kim is also the author of A Field Guide to Fabric Design.
Share the date with your pattern-loving, digi-artist friends. You don’t want to miss this one!
Tiffany Tillman’s Scraphic Design Core is Back!
What happens when you marry graphic design principles with scrapbooking? You create the Scraphic Design process, a set of steps beginning with blank canvas and finishing with a kick-butt, completed page using your polished design sense. Once you know the whys and hows of this process, you can adapt it to fit your crafting style.
Rejoin Tiffany Tillman for Core, the second part of the Scraphic Design series. For an additional four weeks, add the complexities of layering, color usage, pattern alchemy, element addition, text work and realistic shadowing to the journey. Class concludes with a final critique of your finished class assignments.
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Draw Ribbons and Streamers in Illustrator
In this video tutorial, I show you how to create two custom calligraphic brush tips in Adobe illustrator. Grab your tablet and the Paintbrush tool, and you’ll have the perfect brush for drawing flowing ribbons and flourishes. Drawing with these fun brush tips is a great way to develop freehand skill with your tablet. I also demonstrate how Illustrator’s Smooth Tool allows you to iron out the bumps to make your linework look effortless. (If only it were that easy outside of Illustrator!) I’ll also show you some tips for editing and shading your linework to add to your bag of tricks.
FREEBIES: Textures by Jocosity
The winner of the Creating Keepsakes subscription giveaway is commenter #3, Sharon Grey who commented:
Cool trick! Love seeing how to do it with text. I would like to learn how to create a text path around a shape as well. Thanks for the template, too, I hope to use it today
Congratulations, Sharon! Please send us an email to claim your prize.
A quick post to let you know about these free textures from Deviant artist Sabine Fischer aka Jocosity. Quite nice…and they’re large, too!
Wanna Learn How: Distorting Shapes
Hey RP fans! Deena Boese from Creating Keepsakes magazine back at the table with another Photoshop tutorial! I was recently talking with a reader who mentioned that all her digital layouts were starting to look the same. She was seeing the same boxy grid designs reappear throughout her albums and wanted to learn how to add some visual variety. I encouraged her to get to know the Photoshop mode called “Free Transform”. It allows you to take any shape and add perspective or distort the edges to create modern shapes. So today we’re going to break out of our box and shake things up a bit with this super simple technique.
Here’s a layout where I used Free Transform to add interest to my text boxes and help create additional movement.
What’s Cool? by Deena Boese, as seen in the July/August 2010 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
In this layout, I used it to create the slanted rays as well as skew my title text.
State of Mind by Deena Boese, as seen in the February/March 2009 issue of Digital Scrapbooking magazine
Wanna learn how? Read on! (more…)
Calling All Storytellers
Hello fellow storytellers! I’m so proud to announce my participation in a brand new idea book—Everyday Storyteller: 33 Practical Ideas from Real World Scrapbookers. Go behind-the-scenes with real world memory keepers to learn practical ideas for skillful scrapbooking.
Come to the Party
I’m personally inviting you and a friend to be my guests at the Everyday Storyteller Launch Party on Friday, May 4 at 8:30pm CDT. All you need to do is register at the Everyday Storyteller site to make sure your name is added to the VIP list—and to be one of the first to know when Everyday Storyteller is released. Oh! Did I say there’ll be prizes at the party? There’ll be prizes at the party!
See you there.