Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
OUTDOOR GIRL - available at TKO Scraps
Liv Luvs Scraps' new "Outdoor Girl" kit has been designed for all those who have nature-loving ladies in their family or group of friends. Featuring colours of moss, leaf green, salmon, dark umber and more, this kit is perfect for taggers capturing spring, nature or the outdoors in their designs.
Usually, you would be paying $3.00 (US) for this tagger-size kit, but until April 24, Outdoor Girl will be on sale for $1.50 (US)...that's 50% off!! Plus, all other Liv Luvs Scraps products are on sale as well!! But only until April 24!!
Outdoor Girl is available exclusively at TKO Scraps -- which is running the 50% sale, so take a look around and see what bargains you can find!!
Enjoy! :)
--Liv--
Freebie: OUTDOOR GIRL Sampler Kit (Personal use only)
For more information on the full kit, please see the post above this one.
Enjoy! :)
--Liv--
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Tutorial: Keepsake
This tutorial was written by Livia @ Liv Luvs Scraps on April 19, 2009 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to another tutorial is a coincidence! DO NOT take anything from this site and claim it as your own, including my ideas. Anything you create from this tutorial is yours, as long as you don’t make any money out of it. Please remember to only use images/tubes that you hold a license to, or are free for personal use. (Check an artist’s TOU before using their work!)
Supplies you’ll need:
Tube of choice – I’m using “Green Angel” from Irulana for the first tag, and “Lil’ Punk” from Melissa Diaz for the second tag (at the bottom).
Scrap kit of choice – the kit I’m using is “Keepsake” by Kirsty’s Scraps, which is a free-to-use kit that can be found at Kirsty’s blog.
Font of choice – I used Echelon by Larabie fonts
REMEMBER…Save your work often!!!
I will be referring to specific elements from the kit I’ve used, so if you aren’t using the same kit, use the elements you like from your kit of choice. At the bottom of this page, I’ve included an example using one of my own kits, to see that you can make this tag with any kit of your choosing. :)
This tutorial assumes you have knowledge of Paint Shop Pro and its features.
Open up a 600x600 canvas – you can resize it later. Fill the canvas with white (for our background).
Open up the tube you will be using, duplicate it and close the original. Minimise it for now.
Open up, copy & paste the Keepsake-Matt on your canvas, duplicate it, hide original and work on copy.
Using DSB Flux – Bubbles – bubbles=21, density=50, frequency=50, tune=50
Now with DSB Flux – Blast - Percentage=49, Direction-Left
Repeat Blast 3 more times but change directions to right, then upwards & then downwards.
Change opacity to 50
Unhide original matt.
Maximise your tube. Copy & paste it onto your canvas, resize if needed, and move this layer to the top.
Open up Keepsake-Lace2 – paste, resize by 70%, move layer under tube, position towards the bottom of tube.
Keepsake-Bracket – Copy & paste it onto your canvas, resize by 70%, rotate to an angle you like, and move to left of lace. Drop shadow
Keepsake-Doodle1 – Copy & paste it onto your canvas, duplicate, mirror –move both layers under lace, add drop shadow
Keepsake-Flower5 – Copy & paste it onto your canvas, resize by 30%, move to right of lace, drop shadow
Keepsake-Dragonfly – Copy & paste it onto your canvas, resize by 30%, position where you like, drop shadow
Keepsake-Dragonfly - Copy & paste it onto your canvas, resize by 20%, position where you like, drop shadow
Open Keepsake-Glitter1
For your text/name- font=Echelon, size=120, foreground=dark colour from glitter, background=glitter
If you have EC5 Impact – Gradient Glow: Glow type=Outside Glow, Mask Selection=(yes), Glow Radius (pixels)=7.00, Soften Corners=35, Overall opacity=100, Distortion amount=30, Distortion lump size=100, Gradient- Smoothness=100, the colour should be a light colour from your tube
If you have Eye Candy 3.1 – Glow: Width (pixels) =7, Opacity=65 (or whatever you feel looks right), Opacity dropoff=medium, color= (a light one from your tube), draw everywhere=(no)
Add a drop shadow of choice.
Now all you have to do is add the copyright/licensing info, and your watermark!
Save it as a JPG...and you're done!!!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
MORE STRING THINGS Commercial Use elements - available at TKO Scraps
Basically, they are pieces of string (a bit thicker than the first set) that you can use to add an extra je ne se qua to your tag or scrap layout - and if you're a scrap kit designer, you can include them in your kits!! Brilliant!! :)
There are 10 "string things" included - they are all greyscale, and have been created in 300 dpi.
More String Things is available exclusively at TKO Scraps. The usual price for this set is $1.50...BUT TKO Scraps is having a 50% sale until April 24th... which means you can get this product for $0.75!! Yep, that' right - 75 cents!!! Cheap as Chips!! :)
Have a look around TKO Scraps and see what other bargains you can find!! Lots of designers are participating in the sale, so there's lots to look at! :)
Enjoy! :)
--Liv--
Freebie: FREE STRING THINGS CU freebie
Enjoy! :)
--Liv--
Monday, April 13, 2009
STRING THINGS Commercial Use elements - available at TKO Scraps
Friday, April 10, 2009
TKO Scraps are having HUGE Sales!!!
TKO Scraps has Crazy Sales all over the store.
Butterfly33 Designs has her items for .35 cents!
Marianne's Creations has .50 Cents
We are still celebrating Designz by Lou's birthday with $1 sales all over the store until Tuesday....
Then.......50% through the 24th!!!! Whooohooo!
Come Play the TKO way
Saturday, April 4, 2009
TKO SCRAPS SPRING TAGGER SIZED GRAB BAG - available now
Team TKO has done it again!
Team TKO Mystery Mega CU Taggers grab bag.
100 commercial use items stuffed in this grab bag!!
What does that mean for all you taggers?
8 cents per item...You can't beat that anywhere!!!
It's a Mystery Bag...but I'll give you a bit of info
9 awesome designers & 65% of this bag is elements!
It's available exclusively at TKO Scraps for $8.00 (US).
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
CHILDHOOD FRIENDS: FREDDIE available at TKO Scraps
Introducing Freddie the frog. He was made in the same factory as Ted and Tubby, and is good friends with both of them. (All the little ones made in the factory are friends!) Freddie loves swimming and dancing, so he's a very active frog!
Freddie is the third toy to join the Childhood Friends collection of commercial use templates.
Enjoy! :)
--Liv--
Freebie Kit: ROCKIN' THE SUBURBS (Personal Use Only)
It's called "Rockin' The Suburbs" - yes, named after that catchy song by Ben Folds! :)