Making Paper (w/smoky undertones)

[LeslieA]

Wendy, can you teach us to make paper like the one you have in "Making Glossy Buttons"? I love that smoky effect in the paper. I fooled around with all kinds of effects but I couldn't seem to find it. It's really pretty!
LeslieA.

PS. I know you probably get tired of it but I have to say how much I appreciate you and all your contributions to tutorials and answers to peoples problems. Thanks for your help and guidance

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Glad that you like the tutorials :)

Now the Paper is from one of my kits "Birthday Flowers" and for one layer I used two similar shades of the same colour with a Filter>Render>Clouds. Then I seem to have used a couple of filters on it ... but I don't know which ones.

Over the top of that are four layers all in different shades. I used a brush on part of the layers ... but its a couple of years since I made it and sadly I can't remember which brush I used.

Sorry :( I really can't work out what else I did on it ...

Wendy

[LeslieA]

Always my luck! I did mess around quite a bit with the clouds but it didn't get that smoke effect. Guess I'll have to try some more. Do you sell your kits? Do you have a website?
Thanks anyway,
LeslieA.

[NMarti]

Leslie
Wendy is a designer at DigitalDesignDen.com

If you are a subscriber there are some cloud brushes in the download section that you could use to erase with that would give you a more "smoky" look. They are from a tut I did last year for the newsletter.

[LeslieA]

Thanks for the info. Yes, I am a subscriber and I will search through the past newsletters to see if I can find it. Thanks again,
LeslieA