Flower Card Tutorial
Using MyMemories Software to Customize your Flower Card

1. Download template file and install it into your software.

2. Using MyMemories Suite, choose Create Album From Designer Template and find your project

3. Now you can print and enjoy the provided template, or customize it with your own papers and embellishments.

Tip: You can right-click on the white guide and lock it in place to keep it from moving while you are working. Make sure this is the top layer of your project before printing.

Instead of adding the paper as a background paper, you can add it as an embellishment so that you can move the paper around.  This is especially useful when using papers with stripes or circles, so you can decide which part of the paper you want to use.

Once it is added as an embellishment, you can now select the paper and move it into the position you want it.

Just SAVE and PRINT on cardstock!

Flower Card Tutorial
How to Assemble your Flower Card

1.  Print your file on cardstock.

2.  Take your card template page and fold at all fold lines.  A bone folder helps make the creases nie and crisp to help your finished card to look nicer.

3.  There should be a total of 9 folds when you are done.

4.  Cut out your card.

5.  Turn your card over so that the printed side is down and pinch the sides of each petal together until all 6 petals are standing straight up.

6.  Gently push all the petals in one direction until they lay flat.

7.  You now have a flower card.

8.  Tie a ribbon (not included) or something equivalent around the card to hold it closed.

9.  Embellish as desired.  This card was embellished with a circle cut out from a piece of background paper.

 An ideal kit to use for this type of project, would be this lovely kit at My Memories called The Other Eve which is currently discounted by 20%.

An easy way of making a realistic “bump” if you have photoshop or photoshop elements or any image editor that will let you have layers and the ability to select a small section of an image and delete it:

1. Duplicate the pin.
2. On the bottom layer, draw a rectangle around the area of the pin you want to disappear.
3. Press delete to delete the selection.
4. Selecting the top layer while the selection is still active, inverse the selection and delete. It gives the pin a cleaner look.
5. Select the top layer, set the fill to ZERO, then click on the layer effects and add an emboss (set to emboss vs. inner or outer etc) Make it soft and large. Move the sliders to see what effects work best for you.
6. Add a layer underneath both pin layers and paint dark holes with a very soft brush.

I’ve included 4 files in the download – a shadow file and pinholes file for a lightly curved pin and a shadow file and pinholes file for a straight pin. There is also a text file with some simple instructions. The pin and paper are not included.

The shadows and pinholes for the safety pin look like this:

The TOU is simple, use it however you like, no credits required and use commercially if you want to. The only thing that I ask is that it’s not used for anything illegal.

Did you know that you can use MyMemories Suite Software to create a custom header?

Have you ever wanted to create a header for your blog that was just perfect, but couldn’t find that perfect template?

Now you can have the perfect blog header that looks just the way you want using MyMemories Suite Software.

Steps to Create your own Blog Header:

• To choose your own custom size, just create a new album and choose design your own.
• Then choose the Custom Size tab in the middle of the screen.
• You can set the size by inches or pixels. Usually a blogger header is around 1000×300 pixels and a WordPress header is 904×160 pixels
• Add whatever content you want, including papers, pictures, text and embellishments.
• Finally, click on Share Album in far right column and select Export
• in the Export Wizard, make sure that the image type is jpeg and the image size is the size you chose for your header and click finish
• Then all you have to do is load it into your blogger, see bottom of pdf tutorial below for more information on this step!

Have fun and enjoy creating your own custom headers! And don’t forget to share with us when you are done!

Need more help?

Here is a great tutorial in version 2 that shows you just how to do it.

Video Link: http://www.vimeo.com/21509560

PDF link: http://www.freewebs.com/lisaj/March Into MMS – Day TWENTYFOUR-FIVE.pdf

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In this case, once you have selected the layer you want to move, hold the control key down and click and drag. It forces it to move the layer you selected.

http://www.photoshopusertv.com/?p=274

I download the episodes and watch them later. I find them fairly instructive and easy to understand.

The following steps will guide you through how to do it in Photoshop CS3.

Open a new 12 x 12 inch file in Photoshop. I’ve flood filled mine to white so I can see what I’m doing.

Then, to create the square shape, add a new layer and set the fill colour for the shape, select the rectangular shape tool, select the fill option (this will fill the shape to your desired colour). Click and drag a rectangle.

Make sure that your shape layer is selected and click on filter > distort > wave

A new dialog box will pop up with the settings to make the edge wavy.

Set the number of generators to 5; wavelength min 1 and max 999; amptitude min 1 and max 5; scale both at 100% and the type at Sine. Click ok. If you would like a bigger curve, increase the max amplitude. See if you can turn your square into a hedge hog by increasing the max amplitude

If you want to distort the layers more, you can also use the warp tool.

Create a new layer and repeat the steps above for as many shapes as you need. Then, when you have all your shapes, you can start to insert papers and photos above the shape layer that you want it to appear in and clip it (ctrl-alt-G) to the shapes.

If the pictures are too small, click on them and Internet Explorer will take  you to the bigger version.

I’ve made a template of the layout and you can download it from NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

Fortunately, I have reviewed in the past various document management programs and some of these programs were really good for image organisation so I had a head start. I have tried ACDsee, but I found it unsatisfactory. Bridge, which comes with PS will do the same thing and a better job but I haven’t bothered with it either. I also have Paperport Professional which is far superior to ACDSee or Bridge but is also a bit pricey.

Instead, I use windows explorer which is simple, fast and it is already there. I’ve found a utility that enlarges thumbnails (not needed if you have Vista) so I can see them better and I use a logical folder and sub-folder structure.

ACTIONS & TEMPLATES
ELEMENTS
- Alphas
- Brushes
- Frames
- Dates Calendars
- Journals
- Stitches Buttons Staples
FONTS
KITS
- Water themes
OVERLAYS & SWIRLS
PAPERS
SEASONAL
- Christmas
- Celebrations
CT Designers
- Debra Tope
- Zig Zag Scraps

Windows has a really good search function and I use it to search file names. Between that and the larger thumbnails, I can find pretty much anything with a visual or file name search. I can also open multiple windows, something which some programs won’t let you do. So, while I’m scrapping, I will have two or three instances of Windows Explorer open. One for the photos, one for the supplies I’m using and one for searching.

I download new purchases to a folder called “NEW” and it stays there until I can organise it. When I unzip a new purchase, the first thing I do is delete the extra files like the piracy notice, rename the preview file to folder.jpg and make sure that the folder has the designer’s name at the beginning of it so that everything is in alphabetical order by designer name. Then, I copy it to a backup drive and move it to the right folder. The zip file is moved to another backup drive which I take off site.

The windows utility to enlarge thumbnails is called TweakUI and is found at Microsoft. This utility is not necessary for Vista but is a great help for earlier versions of Windows (eg XP).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d…powertoys.mspx

I hope this helps those that can’t buy another program or need to organise their digi scrapping supplies but don’t want to or can’t painfully index each file.

A Stitch in Time