Saturday
Place Mat or Memo board Tutorial Paintshop Pro
Open a new canvas in Paintshop Pro 11 inches x 8,5 inches @ 300 pixels per inch.
Use a decorative Brush or Ding to decorate & repeat and rotate to get the different angles down the right side and bottom - then duplicate - mirror and flip to match the other side.
For the centre - Use Preset shape rectangle, no fill, line style dashed, width 7 to create the stitched edges.
Net pattern for the netting.
Heart shape with cut-out for the hearts.
I used a free Dover black and white pattern to create the central design which I coloured and bevelled. Use this Quick stitch font for the wording.
Print and laminate your design on cardstock.
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Or create a Laminated Dry Wipe Memo Board
(Write notes on it with a White Board Marker) From your 8,5 inch x 11 inch layout.
Tuesday
Digital Greeting Card Tutorial Paintshop Pro
The result to view here is resized to view online.
Journal Art Words PNG Freebie
Available on A4 size ready print and cut out to paste in your journal.
Message me for the PNG Freebie.
Saturday
Love Yourself First.
Post Card Template Scrap Freebie PNG
Thursday
Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun
I discovered Canva.
Tuesday
Free Flower template PNG to use in PaintShop Pro
Above and below are samples of the flowers you could make using my template.
Monday
Voyage of Art
I am self taught, and as with any craft, experimenting and learning go hand in hand.
Have the courage to try and you can accomplish almost anything.
I enjoy drawing and painting and to be honest, over the many years of my lifetime, I wish I had dedicated more time to art. As with many people, real life of work and paying bills and raising your family, will always be foremost in priorities. Sometimes being creative was simply put away on the back burner for far too long.
The voyage of art can be so satisfying. This voyage can be one of self discovery, it can be a voyage where we are able to block out the negative vibes in the world and to calm our minds. Art can be a form of therapy or a form of relaxation and meditation or an expression of opinion and imagination.
Many people would say, "I cannot draw or paint, I wish I could."
Art is not only using pencils, pens, charcoal and paint. Art can be any form of creativity and made from many materials, using a variety of mediums.
Digital art is something I enjoy and am by no means an expert. It is a hobby to me. I am under no pressure to produce anything at any given time. I create for the enjoyment, on the spur of the moment, when I feel like it.
For digital Art, I use PaintShop Pro, it is used by many for Photo Editing. I only use it to create graphics as I am not a photographer. I have been using this program since 2002 with the Anniversary Edition 7 which I received as a gift from my husband.
At the time I was keen to learn use it because I had no art materials and no space for creating art in the traditional ways. This program gave me the freedom to create anytime I wanted to and there was no cleaning up afterwards. Since then PaintShop Pro was taken over by Coral and has gone through various updates all the way up to the current 2020 edition that I am using.
Originally I started to learn how to use PaintShop Pro in a Yahoo Group PSPMadeEz, it was an enjoyable time in my life and the members were wonderful in encouraging one another. There were weekly challenges and lessons.
Now there are groups on Facebook that are dedicated to PaintShop Pro and Photoshop, again there are members with similar interests and lots of inspiration and encouragement within those groups.
I have gone through a lot of creative stages, making signature tags, writing tutorials (some featured in this blog) in the earlier days. Creating digital scraps for Digital Scrap Books. I have used it to create birthday cards and posters for events at work. I have followed many written tutorials, still available online.
I used the PaintShop Pro to create Wedding invitations for my daughters. I was so proud that they asked me to do this.
Recently I have been dabbling in Scrap Journal Art and painting with water colours. Both of these mediums are very new to me. I have been visiting Youtube for examples of how to do this. Even more recently I discovered Canva which is an amazing free online tool that you can use anywhere you can connect to the internet. With the templates available, you can create a graphic item within minutes.
Saturday
Recycled Junk Journal Page Tutorial on BUDGET
I am using an old readers digest book for a junk journal.