Grograin ribbon

[Patricia Heere]

Somewhere, somplace I saw a tut for grograin ribbon. Not sure if it was referenced here or not but if anyone knows where I can find a tutorial that would give me the steps for the crinkling and edges I would appreciate it. I am going to check Linda's scrapbook site to see if it was there.

Thanks for any help.

Pat

[SarahMB]

I saw it on Linda's website
SarahMB

[Patricia Heere]

Thanks, I couldn't find it on her site but I probably didn't look hard enough. I hate trying to find stuff on the internet as I don't have DSL and after about an hour without results I've had it.

Anyway, I figured out how to get the result I wanted with the patchwork texture and a bevel effect set to 0.

I have been working for the past month trying to get down the scrapbook techniques to make pages that are interesting but not too busy.

I'm posting my latest efforts. The first one is my beginning attempt at this particular page. It was blah and the journaling wasn't really me so I slept on it and came up with version 2 which I like better.

I made the blocks with the 3D filter. My first block took forever but once I got the feel for it the rest were easy.

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...u6H1COgSUAFtt1

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...3hv7DQvBXX1Wnl


Pat

[Wendy]

Hi Pat ..

Really like the 2nd one ... it looks good No 1 looks OK but I do agree with you that No 2 is much nicer.

Great job on the blocks!

Wendy

[Patricia Heere]

Thanks Wendy.

I was going brain dead on ideas so I picked up a couple of books/magazines on the stuff. One of them, a magazine called "A Simple Guide to Designing Scrapbooks" put out by Simple Scrapbooks really turned out to be a gem in that it went into color schemes, use of focal point and eye paths, use of shapes (like ribbons) and a few other things I just wasn't using properly. Gave me quite a few ideas on how to "design" a page.

Pat

[Patricia Heere]

Forgot to add a little internet funny.

In all my photos I had very few pictures of the toys my kids played with so I went on the internet, looked up toys, found several I liked and downloaded them to use in my layouts. I didn't order anything or give any personal information, just found a picture I liked and dowloaded it.

Since then I get about 3 spam mails a day to buy baby products. Just goes to show how cookies are used.

Pat

[Wendy]

Pat,

The magazine sounds really good ... its nice to find something that stimulates you towards new ideas

Wow ... picking up spam that way is just incredible !!

Wendy

[bwolford]

Patricia,

I've been playing with the 3D transform filter after seeing your blocks... I'm trying to figure out how to get different images on every face of the block. Is there a tutorial out there for the effect?

Brice

[Wendy]

Brice,

You need to use Image>Tranform>Distort.

Make your box then import an image you want to put on one of the sides
Image>Tranform>Distort and a box will come up around your small image
You can then move each corner to fit to the corners of the box

that should sort it out

Wendy

[bwolford]

So what I am reading is use 3D transform to create a Box and then use the distort to make pictures match the surface of the box.

The problem I am having is when I create a 3D box, I get a white blob without edges that I can use for reference when distorting the images to be placed on the box.

I've tried creating a 3D transform onto an existing image and I can't get the edges of the 3D box to "square" up with the sides of the picture so I can then rotate the box to add more pictures... Is this something I can find in Scott's books?

Brice