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Ways to use your Digital Photo Art: How to Make a Wrapped Canvas
One of my favorite ways to use my digital photo art is to print it onto fabric and make wall art by wrapping it onto a stretched canvas. Wrapping a canvas is really easy to do, and you can use cheap wrapped canvases found in the craft store, so it’s also quite inexpensive. This was …
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How to Make Complex Repeating Patterns using Photoshop Elements
Using the same technique for making simple repeating patterns and simple half drop patterns, you can also easily create more complex repeating patterns. By combining several images into one design, you can create complex designs that are visually interesting and can be made in no time at all using Photoshop Elements. To make the main …
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How to make textured edges for your photos using layer masks in Photoshop Elements
This tutorial is presented using Photoshop Elements and I use floating documents so your workspace may look different. You can activate floating documents in the “General” section of the Preferences panel in Photoshop Elements. Textured and decorative framed edges for your photos, can really set the mood and turn your photos and images into something …
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Ink-saving technique for printing your own fabric using an inkjet printer
Although printing your own fabric using an inkjet printer doesn’t use any more ink than printing on paper, at times you may want to be a little more frugal with your printer ink. This ink-saving technique is perfect for printing simple designs onto fabric with stunning results. Printing bold black designs onto plain colored fabric …
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How to Make a Half Drop Repeat Pattern using Photoshop Elements
In a previous tutorial I showed you how easy it is to make simple straight repeat pattern in Photoshop Elements. However half drop repeat patterns are also just as easy to make, and are also a little more visually interesting. A half drop repeat pattern is a pattern where the images are not aligned in …
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My new digital art quilt Wildflowers in the Mist
It’s been quite a while since I made an art quilt, however I’m participating in an upcoming art exhibit to be displayed in the Deland City Hall (see more details at bottom of this post), so I took the opportunity to make this digital art quilt titled Wildfowers in the Mist. This quilt was made …
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How to Make a Simple Straight Repeat Pattern using Photoshop Elements
Repeat pattern designs are the most common way to create designs, and straight repeat patterns are one of the easiest to make. Although you can make these types of designs using complicated programs such as Photoshop CC, you can also easily make repeat pattern designs using Photoshop Elements. 1. Download the image Use this sample …
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The basic equipment needed to design and print your own fabric
Designing your own fabric is a fun and creative way to make unique fabric that you can use in your own sewing projects, or even sell. Although professional designers invest a lot of money in the software and equipment that they use to create their designs, to get started in fabric design you don’t really …
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How to change the color of your metal charms and beads
If you’re anything like me you never seem to have metal charms, beads, buttons or embellishments in the right color when you need them. I always seem to have more silver than gold or copper. Here’s a quick and easy way to change the color of your metal embellishments. Next time you’re visiting your local …
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Getting organized for the new year
I’m looking forward to a super creative year in 2016 and I hope you are also. One of the best ways I know to stay creative and inspired is to use a notebook to keep track of thoughts and ideas as they come to me, because otherwise they would just fall out of my head …
How to make bead dangles
Beading is one of my favorite methods of embellishing my art quilts and other sewing projects, and I like to use lots of bead dangles which are made using several strands of beads which are strung onto lengths of thread and allowed to hang and well … dangle. I just love the way that the …
Pretty Little Things
This year has been quite full and busy with this and that, and I haven’t really had much time to make any textile art. But as this year nears its end, it’s time to think about what the new year will look like. And for next year I think I’d like to make more textile …
