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1. Make a small heart with your own text  http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/
2. Here is the ACME heart maker http://www.acme.com/heartmaker/
3. Some eatable candy hearts with very funny quotes can be found here 
    http://www.despair.com/bittersweets.html. I especially liked 
    "U left seat up" or "Dork magnet" - LOL. 
  
Tip: To make the text on the Valentine candy heart look like 
       it is carved into the heart, do like this in PSP:

a)    First make some pink text and keep the selection (I used font Arial, bold)
b)    Apply "Effect", "3D Effect" and "Cut-out" with shadow color black from top/left
c)    Apply "Effect", 3D Effect" and "Cut-out" with shadow color white from bottom/right
d)    Adjust the text layer opacity to about 85-90%, to let the candy heart texture be slightly visible through the text
e)    Apply "Gaussian blur", radius approx. 0,6 in order to soften the edges a bit

This week I made a few circular tags and some "Cloudy papers". The papers are a bit coarse with different edges - folded, curled, ripped or worn, size 3600x3600 pixel. Maybe nice for some "dreamy" layouts ???

Click on the different thumbnails above to download. As the papers are made in .png format, the files are a bit large. 

Credit: The worn paper overlay is from http://happyscrapgirldesigns.blogspot.com/

Thanks SO much for all the comments on 4shared.com, on e-mail and in my guestbook, I really appreciate that. It makes my work all worth while to read the sweet comments from all of you. :-)

Then I received the "Look how cool blog" from Lizz at http://www.digidesignsbylizz.blogspot.com/ 

And last but not least the "Friendship award" from Toni at http://tonishasplayground.blogspot.com/. 

So be sure to check all the great blogs above, these girls makes some really cool stuff! Thank you SO much all of you for the awards, I really appreciate that. 

I will pass the awards on to some of the cool blogs I have visited recently: 

The "Lemonade award":
http://www.wordartfun.blogspot.com/
http://happyscrapgirldesigns.blogspot.com/

The "Look how cool blog award":
http://miradesigns.blogspot.com/
http://scrapmaori.canalblog.com/

The "Friendship award":
http://scrappingalltheway.blogspot.com/
http://liviascorner.blogspot.com/

http://www.4shared.com/Little_tags_4.html

http://www.4shared.com/8_pins.html

This crack is very easy to make, and you only have to make tree new layers to do it. The layers are (from top):

a. White cutout layer

b. Egg layer (this one is made already!)

c. Drop shadow layer

d. The inside of the egg

The tutorial is for PSP 9.0, but you should be able to make something similar in Photoshop too.

2. Use the freehand selection tool (lasso) to make a selection for the crack in the egg. Keep the selection.

3. First we are going to make the "Inside of the egg" layer. If your egg has an "egg-like" texture, like this one above, then just adjust the brilliance, so that the selection becomes almost white, but a slight texture is still visible. Promote the selection to a layer and delete the same selection on your egg layer. Move the new "Inside of the egg" layer to the bottom. Keep the selection.

3a. If your egg has no "egg-like" texture, you will have to make one for the inside of the egg yourself. Fill the selection with white color, use "Adjust", "Ad/remove noise" and add some noise (35%, Gaussian, monochrome), and then use "Adjust", "Blur" and "Gaussian blur", radius 1. Promote the selection to a layer, and delete the same selection on your egg layer. Move the "Inside of the egg" layer to the bottom. Keep the selection.

4. Now for the "White cutout" layer, which is made to make the edges of the cracked eggshell visible. Still keeping the selection, add another layer, use "Effects", "3D effects" and "Cutout" (vertical and horizontal offset 2, shadow color white, opacity approx. 100% and blur 3). Keep the selection. Move this layer to the top. Keep the selection.

5. And finally the "Drop shadow" layer. Add another layer. Chose "Selections" and "Invert". Depending on your crack size and position, add a slight drop shadow, so that you can just sense the curved inside of the egg. Move this layer down, so that it is just above the "Inside of the egg" layer.

6. Merge all visible layers, and you have a cracked egg!

I started out with an almost white overlay, but when I tried it on the papers above (green paper made by Gina Miller, blue beach paper made by me - and available for download later), I discovered that I actually liked the grungy brown edges, which in this case came from the paper itself. 

So I decided to make another worn paper overlay which included some brown grungy edges too, and this is how it looked when I used the overlay on an orange and pink floral paper (again made by Gina Miller), which had no grungy edges:

This is how to use the overlays. You paste your own paper into the paper template and make a new layer and paste the overlay into this layer. You might have to move the overlay a little around, but it will cover the paper edges completely. I tried to make a layered template, but the file size was about 45-65MB, so I decided to do it this way instead to make the file size smaller.

http://www.4shared.com/Worn_paper_overlay.html

And now for the fun part -  here are this weeks freebies......

http://www.4shared.com/Popsicle_sticks.html

Hi there! Easter is coming up, and I really didn't plan to make any holiday freebies, but then this little bunny came hopping along... Be sure to pick up this "Easter bunny twill ribbon", because I have attached some other goodies as well - LOL. Here is a sneak peak:


Have a nice Easter everyone! 

http://www.4shared.com/Easter_bunny_twill_ribbon.html

Ups, nearly forgot that I made six Easter bunny paper curls as well, you can download them here.

I have been working on some different word art lately, and this is the first one I made. You can se a preview of the content here (there is also a "Happy Easter" attached):

These words are made in .jpg format on a white background, and works best if you apply them on a light colored or white background. You can maybe use them on a small tag or something like that, as the letters are not too big? Paste them in their own layer and change the layer blend mode to "multiply" to make the white background invisible. Here I tried it on some of my tags:

Download here:

http://www.4shared.com/Happy_colours_word_art.html

This weeks freebie is 20 tiny tickets (5 different colors). 

I have attached a grey scale ticket, so you can make some  tickets with your own text too. I used the free font “Trashed” (size 72) by Gyom Séguin which can be downloaded here: http://www.abstractfonts.com
Download the font, unzip it and save it in your C:\WINDOWS\Fonts folder.

Open the grey scale ticket and recolor it to your liking. Make a new layer using layer blend mode “Overlay” and opacity approx. 70%. Copy the "Border overlay" which is included in this bag, and paste it into the top layer.  

Write your own text with a black color, using the font “Trashed” (size 72) and paste it into the empty middle part of the “Border overlay”. If you like, use the “Eraser tool” to slightly erase part of the text, so that it looks like the “Border overlay”. I used a grunge-style brush tip.  

Merge the visible layers and your ticket is finished. 

It might be easier to understand with some pictures, so have a look below.....

Download here: http://www.4shared.com/Tiny_tickets.html

So this is the second and last of the "Happy colors word art", and it contains the following words:

Now, I should of course have made these letters in .png format instead of on a white background, so you would be able to use them on all type of backgrounds. However it is a bit late now I am afraid, and instead I have posted links to the different free ornamental/western fonts I found here below, so now you can have a go at it yourself  and make your own words.......... ;-)

Download freebie here: http://www.4shared.com/Happy_wordart_2.html

Romantiques  Cast iron   Monbijoux  JFRingmaster  Tropicana  Showboat  Rage normal  Carnivalee Freakshow  Chipperfield and Bailey  Circus  Egyptienne Zierinitialien  Algerian    JF Springfair  JFFerrule FT Rosecube   Extra Ornamental  Shadowedserif   Coffeetin  Circus ornate  Wild wild west Toskanische Egyptienne iDirty Ames

BTW have you checked out http://www.stumbleupon.com/ yet? I found so many cute and interesting links here, some of my favorites are:  Glass jar picture frames      Cute robot      Birthday-party-candy-sushi     Heart-shaped-paper-clips.html

I really need some new inspiration, so if you have got any ideas for new freebies, drop me a line either in the guestbook or on e-mail, and if possible I will try to make it. 

1. Open one of the frames, make a new layer and select all (keep the selection). 

2. Open the floral overlay, select all and copy.

3. Paste the floral overlay into the selection you just made on the new layer (1).

4. Change the layer blend mode on the top floral overlay layer to "burn", "multiply", "overlay" or whatever appropriate. 

5. Merge the visible layers, and paste your photos into the frames. Add different embellishments etc. etc.

Download here:

http://www.4shared.com/Stamp_frames9.html                        http://www.4shared.com/Stamp_frames10.html

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These graphics are made by Gunhild Storeide

My freebies are for both personal and commercial use. If you use my freebies, please give me credit by mentioning my name. Do not claim these freebies as your own. Feel free to alter these images to fit your scrapbooking needs, including resizing, recolouring and cropping, as long as credit is given to the designer. Do not share these freebies with your friends, but send them to this page to download. I would love to see your work, so feel free to e-mail me a link to your project (click on the small envelope to the left to e-mail me). A link back to my webpage is always appreciated. 

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