Beaded Wire Words
by PCArt
Find a cursive script font where all the letters join and where the line of the script is even. Or choose any other font you wish. Set to Vector and anti-alias.
Open a new canvas 440 x 160 pixels at 300 pixels per inch transparent
Write your word at about size 30 points or 125 pixels colour white. Convert to Raster.
If it appears too thick for you, go to selections select all, selections float, selections defloat, selections modify, contract x 1, invert and delete. This should make your word lettering appear thinner and more like wire.
Apply effects, texture effects, sculpture with these settings,
Set to default, choose - silver from your pattern drop down list
Size 100, smoothness 48, depth 16, ambience 0, shininess 58,
angle 315, intensity 47, elevation 47, colour #808080
Save as wireword sculpture preset so you can use this setting again in the future.
Apply effects, 3D effects, inner bevel with these settings,
Set to default, choose - Bevel shape 9 (it looks like a curved back to front L),
width 8, smoothness 15, depth 20, ambience 0, shininess 40,
angle 315, intensity 50, elevation 35, colour #c0c0c0
Save as wireword bevel preset so you can use this setting again in the future.
IDEAS - Try painting glitter on to your wire words or use other plug ins like Eye Candy or Super Blade Pro to jazz them up. Make your wires other colours. Or, how about making some lovely doodles and decorating them in this way?!
On A New Layer
Find your bead tubes and place them wherever you want them on your word.
Merge visible and Apply a light drop shadow if you wish.
Mine is saved as .png
As with so many of our Christmas traditions, the idea of hanging a stocking up on Christmas Eve, was popularised by the Victorians. The first representation to achieve mass distribution is believed to be the illustrations by Thomas Nast, who in 1886 illustrated the George Webster story Santa Claus and his Works. The illustrations showed stockings hanging on the mantleplace by the fire.
The tradition actually goes back much further. Many people trace it to 16th century Holland where Dutch children would leave their clogs by the fireplace in the hope that Sinterklaas would fill them with treats.
There is a story of unknown provenance that tells of a father who had three daughters. Since the father couldn't afford dowries, the daughters remained single. One winter St Nicholas decided to help and dropped three gold coins down the chimney of the house. The coins were caught in the stockings which the girls had hung up to dry by the fireplace. The next day they discovered the coins, were soon married and lived happily ever after.
Today
Today there are many variations on the Christmas stocking tradition. Sometimes it is placed by the fireplace (warning: be very, very careful if you are lucky enough to have a real fire). Other children place them at the foot of the bed - this has the advantage of keeping the kids occupied for a while when they first wake up!
http://www.wyrdology.com:80/festivals/christmas/stockings.html
