Day 151 – Some Added Elements

Here are a few added elements I’ve made for the kit from yesterday.

Day 150 – I’m on a Roll

Today was so productive as far as getting a digital kit started.  I went back to my Kuler account(Photoshop website for extracting colors) and saw a color combination that I had done a long time ago taking colors from a Coleus plant.  It struck me that I still love those bright and cheerful colors and so I started a new kit that I named Clearly Coleus.  Here is a sampler image….it’s a work in progress, but at this point I have 17 papers and a brush set that I created to make the variety of circles on the 3rd paper from the left.  I still have elements to make like bows and brads and I will probably make a sticker alphabet set too.

 

Day 149 – A “Me” Day

Tony and I went to lunch at Applesbees today…..then I went to the nail spa and had a pedicure and fill.  There was a woman there getting black tips on her hands…I really liked it…so I got the same thing.  The black acrylic has very small pieces of shell in the powder.  I had Cammie, the owner paint a little black flower on my french nail polished big toes then too.

Day 148 – Page With Color

Here is the same page with color added in.  Still working on this to try to find the right color combination.  I have created the color layers with a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer, so I can easily change the colors with a movement on a left/right slider.

Day 147 – A New Kit Theme

In my Art of Digital Design class….we have been looking at THEMES, MOODS, COLOR SCHEMES, etc.  So I have started another kit that I want to be Romantic papers.  I will still work on my Wheatfield kit, but in the mean time I wanted to explore this new mood.  The pattern is only a portion from the Dover Publication, “The Treasure of Chinese Design Motifs”, which is a Royalty Free book of images.  I actually had to go in close to the picture and redraw lines to creat one solid pattern that didn’t have any edges cut off, then I could stamp the image 4 times on the page.  The basic pattern had 2 full large flowers…and one that had its left edge cut of.  I had to copy and paste half of one of the other flowers and then try to line it up and redraw the connecting lines.  I really love how this page turned out…..I can’t wait to try to color in the page on a white background.  That will take some time.  I also gave this page a nice background texture.  Now I need to come up with a good name for my kit.  Any suggestions?  I kind of want a romantic oriental theme.  What do you think of this page?

Day 146 – Blue Patterned “Paper”

I gave this paper a bit of a texture.  Click on the picture to enlarge to better see the texture.  The pattern came from the Dover Publications “660 Typographic Ornaments” book.

Day 145 – Word Tree

I am working on a digital kit for my class…..I hand drew a tree with the branches drawn out as words.  Then I went into Photoshop CS4 and created the tree with text following my hand drawn design.  I was able to warp the text to create tapered ends.  I made this into a Brush for Photoshop.  I will add this to my kit.

Day 144 – My New Class Starts Today

My new class, The Art of Digital Design starts today and runs for 5 weeks.  Today we are just going over some basic things.  Jessica wants us to go to vi.sualize.us website, and create an account.  I actually already had an account because she recommended this website for an earlier class I took.  It’s kind of like Flicker if you’ve ever been there.  A place where people post their photos, digital art, etc.  You can add others works to your favorites….or other users to your watchlist. I went to the website and I realize I LOVE the photos with lots of color!!!  You can check out the photos in my favorites here:  http://vi.sualize.us/caffeenfree/   In the meantime in anticipation of this class really getting into the nitty-gritty, I have started making digital paper.  I’m sure I’ll improve as this class progresses…so bear with me.  Here is a “paper” I made yesterday.  It is a coordinating pattern to the one I posted yesterday.

Day 143 – A New Digital Paper

I used one of the clip art images to create this digital paper.  I thought I would get a jump-start on my new class.  I am making several shades of this.  Tan, pink, blue.

Day 142 – Supplies for My New Class

I’m starting a new online class at JessicaSprague.com on Monday….it’s called Digital Design. It’s a 5 week course on how to create “papers”, brushes, etc in Photoshop.  The items below were suggested things to purchase for the class as well as a watercolor paper pad, and sketch book.  I also purchased those, but I didn’t take a picture of them.  The books have clip art that is royalty free to use in making digital papers and brushes.

Day 141 – Like My Makeover?

The official website for the movie Avatar has a cool program there where you can upload a picture of yourself….and it will morph it into your very own avatar.  I can definitely see the resemblance in the mouth….but the eyes are VERY  big! lol

Day 140 – More Album Pages

Months 10, 11 and 12.

Day 139 – Months 5 thru 9

Here are the album pages for months 5 thru 9.  I may add a few embellishments….but this is a good start.

Day 138 – More Pages From Baby Album

Here are a few more pages of the baby album I’m making.

Day 137 – Baby Album

I’m making a baby album for my friend’s son and wife.  I think I posted the cover a few weeks ago.  I finally started working on it yesterday…..ALL DAY!!  I love how it’s turning out….it’s almost done….here are the first few pages…I’ll post more tomorrow.  BTW….the front and back covers came already cut to the shape with the paper already on the covers.  All the rest of the pages….I cut with my Cricut Expressions…..and I bound it myself with a binding machine called a Cinch.  This is my first binding project.