templatez tutorial
Here’s the tutorial I promise on using the library cards template. Be sure to check out SMJ’s great stuff (I used her miss green thumbs kit for this tutorial) because she rocks. (Please excuse any typos… I have a squirming baby in my lap and they tend to cause crazy fingers)
April 12th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Oh my gosh! I just tripped across your blog, and I’m speechless. I wish I had words for how beautiful it is. Top to bottom, side to side… it’s just the most amazing feast of eyecandy. And you are so unspeakably generous with your freebies! I have to tell you that I went through and got everything! I am absolutely in love with your understated and just flat-out gorgeous style… Thank you, thank you, thank you… Just… wow.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I love SMJ too!!!!!!! These library card thingies you’ve been showing us are so pretty - thanks for all the work you’ve put into everything!
April 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I haven’t stopped by for a few days and look at all the wonderful goodies you have shared. I LOVE the family photos! Your Easter looked like it was great! The baby is so adorable and the whole family is so good looking! Thanks for the great tutorial too!!
April 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Thanks for the tutorial! its great!
April 12th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
So cool! Thanks
April 12th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
This looks like Fun…Thanks for taking the time to share your talent with us.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
great tut! you are an inspiration to all of us lesser scrappers! thanks!
April 12th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hi Anna -
Well, I am having trouble today. I love the library card template! And the tut is just what I needed. So, I am trying to print out the tut and I only get the first page, then it skips all the other pages of the tut and goes directly to the Thursday post. So I thought I would look at the print preview, and that is the same as that too. Why/ I con’t have any idea! Sigh!
So, then I tried to highlight it all and copy and paste it into a word document. Well, it highlighted but the pasting only went as far as one page and all of the items were squished together so I can’t read them. Then I tried to paste it to PSE 4.0 thinking you probably made this in PS, but you can’t Paste a IE document into PSE!
HELP Anna!! I would really like a hard copy of this tut. Anything you can think of that I am doing wrong? Please advise me.
Thank you so much.
Hugs, Nancy P
April 12th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
NancyP - what’s happening is because it’s a continuous image that’s too long for an individual page. I had the same problem so I cut the image into page sized portions and pasted them into Word.
Anna, hope you won’t mind but since Nancy was having problems, I thought maybe I could share the word doc? It’s here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/13992736/ebaf8337/Annas_Template_Tutorial2.html
Let me know if it’s okay, and if not I’ll delete it immediately. Cheery!
April 13th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Wow! First off, I don’t see a “subscribe” link to your blog, so would you stick me on whatever sort of mailing list you have please? I’m at orachel54@yahoo.com .
I’m just absolutely blown away by your blog, all the amazing freebs (faves are the antique buttons, cubby’s room kit, unique bows and flowers, and the wings! Love the wings!). Its like flippin’ christmas in April at my house right now! Can’t wait to go play with my new goodies!
You are a very talented woman. I’m just totally a fan of yours right now! LOL
I would really like an opportunity to chat with you if you ever have time. You can reach me by email anytime. I’m recently disabled with fibromyalgia, so I’m home constantly. That’s actually why I got into dig scrap in last month or so…needed a creative outlet, and really loving learning dig design and making freebies. Thats one of the things I want to chat with you about, actually.
I don’t know if you take requests for freebies, or tutorials…and you’re probably taking a WELL DESERVED break right now, but there’s a tutorial/product I’m dying to get my hands on, if you’re up for the challenge. Its actually a combination of a few things. First of all, do you know Scrapgirls.com? Its a fab little boutique with one of my fave designers, Thao Cosgrove. They’ve got these products there which I’ve never seen anywhere else…Scrap Simple paper templates and embellishment templates. If you’d like to take a look at what I mean, some good examples of embellishment templates are “bottles and buds” and “le jardin” and some good paper templates are “garden gate” and “le jardin”.
Ok…got a look at those? Heres what I’m looking for…and I know a bunch of people are looking for the same. I’d love to see Templates for your embellishments…mostly the flowers, bows and wings. This allows us to take your element shape, plop it down on any one of your papers, other elements etc, and make that the “filling” of the embellishment. Totally customizeable! Also, I’d love to see templates of your papers, simply so we can take one paper design and combine it with another…so those subtle designs of damask and rose, placed on top of each other, play with opacity, grunge it up and suddenly you’ve got a whole different look, while still maintaining the artistic integrity of the originals. Make sense?
I’d really love tutorials on how you make some of these more complex elements. If you look around, its nearly impossible to find tuts on how to make embellishments that arent totally basic, like buttons or the simplest flowers. I wanna be able to make cool stuff like you do! LOL I’ve been trying to make a shabby tattered paper flower (sort of a cross between a rose and a ranunculus) for ever! Want the petals to be made of craft paper with cupids, old stained newsprint, and old french love letters. You should see the pitiful thing I came up with! Its not pretty. I think tuts on flowers and bows would be amazing.
And finally…the piece de resistance…the BIGGIE that I’m desperately trying to figure out (and this pretty much negates the need for all of the above stuff, except some element tuts would still be fantastic)…I need to figure out how to take a completed element…ie: a bow, and turn it into one of those element templates like Scrapgirls has. That’s totally do-able, right? I know its not overly complicated…I just have very very limited background in ps and computers in general. I’d absoluely love to take your ribbon bow, for instance, and fill it with sequins. We could all create anything we want if we had the ability to make templates of objects. I see photos all the time of shapes, objects and think “wouldn’t it be cool to make one of those out of that snazzy silk paper I got the other day?”…but can’t do it! LOL
So…hope I haven’t overwhelmed you too much, but from what I’ve seen you’re just incredibly generous with your creative skills, and clearly very experienced and talented at design…so you seemed the perfect person to ask! Hope that’s ok…subtlety isn’t one of my strong points!
Ok…blathering on forever now…sorry to take so long! When you get time, I’d really love the opportunity to start a bit of a chat with you…has nothing to do with me freebie beggin’, either! LOL
Again, thank you so incredibly much for all of this amazing stuff! Hours upon hours clearly went into the creation of these fabulous tidbits..and I for one am extremely grateful! I’m gonna email your addy to about 10 people when I sign off here…so if they burn up the downloads today, you know who to blame!
I’m so thrilled I stumbled onto your blog! Thanks again for everything!
Rachel Kendall
orachel
PS…I’m about 2 weeks from starting my own “freebie” blog…just finishing up my first MEGA freebie…would love your opinion on my work if youd like to see it when I’m done…should be a fun kit to play with. I’m a “moon” too! Was my mother’s last name…Not sure whether the blog will be “MoonWorks” or “Moon’s Madhouse”…they both have interesting stories attached to my mom…But I think we’re the only scrapping “moon” girls! LOL
April 13th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Thank you not only for the tutorial but for a glimpse into your amazingly creative mind.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Thanks for the templatez tutorial.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:21 am
WOW! This is great! Thank you for the tutorial Anna, even though I couldn’t follow the directions last night I am sure I can do it this weekend after some sleep etc.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:32 am
thank you for the awesome tut!!! have a great day!!
April 13th, 2007 at 9:44 am
WOW, your library card envelope tutorial is awesome. Is there a way to save the tutorial so that I could print it out so that I could use it, or put it in a word document? I have visual & physical limitations & use special aids. I had never thought to use this in a layout before, but I definitely will now. I also sent you an email from yahoo dot com. Your tutorials are written so explicit that the concept is visually shown for the best impact. Again, thanks.
April 13th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Thank you for the great template and tutorial. I love your idea of making a “designer” list for the day to warm up your creativity. The library card will be fun to use to make a list for a day.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:20 am
You never cease to AMAZE!!!! Thank you so very much! - Kristi
April 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Wonderful tutorial - thank you!
April 17th, 2007 at 7:31 am
Thanks for this - must have a play now - and thanks to Christeph for making my life easier too and enabling me to print out the tutorial - I still have some hair left now
April 17th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Thanks alot for this tutorial. I am still new in scrapbooking and this really open my knowledge and mind in what photoshop can do for scrapbooking. Your steps are very clear and thanks for the freebies as well. Hope to learn from you as much as I could ; )
August 19th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Such wonderful work you do! Thank you ever so much for all the goodies you provide. How lucky we are to have someone like you to help out those of us who are “art challenged” but really do want to create!
October 21st, 2007 at 6:54 am
I just found your blog this morning and I have to say that I’m in heaven….LOL Thank you for sharing your talent through your scrap kits and your tutorials….
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
What a great idea! My husband and I both collect.. EVERYTHING! I could use the template and tut to make cards for family and friends to check out our books, cd’s, dvd’s, vhs’s, computer games and platform games. It can be impossible to remember who borrowed what, some of the times. We have hundreds of each. Our home looks like a warehouse, but with animals instead of kids, it’s do-able. (Thats just one O!) My dream is to invest in lawyer bookcases. (a bookcase with glass drop-down doors)With all our stuff, that’s only a few thousand dollars. I think we’ll wait until we won’t be moving for awhile. Well, I’m rambling again…. sorry…..