OK, I'm on a DIY kick... but doesn't it make sense to know some of these little tips and tricks to do your own scrappin' stuff? These are tips, not a tut, but I think they are worth a few minutes to learn.
I had to go back to Pracken's site to remember how to make rickrack. (I love Pracken's site, she's a total inspiration!) Lines 5 and 6 in my example are made from Pracken's Rick Rack tut... I added two different Inner Bevels to get the variations of the same piece of rickrack I made from her tut.
But what about stitches? We all have an idea of HOW to do it. Simple, just use Lines and text. Vectors! Yep, I refuse to do "raster anything" that I can do with vectors because vectors can be quickly manipulated and changed with a couple clicks. Once I got what I wanted, I converted them to raster and added inner bevels, drop shadows and texture.
Lines 1 - 4 are done with vector lines, using the pen tool. Line #2 is an old friend, the bead curtain we loved so much.... grin. I made it small, and added a horizontal blinds effect to it, added an inner bevel and for the illustration, a drop shadow (on a separate layer). I will gladly share the lines I have in my cache if anyone needs them.
Lines 7 and 8 are text, the plainest text you can find. Line 7 is obvious. X's all the way across to make a simple cross stitch border.
Line 8 is done by making a row of L's... converting them to raster, duplicating the layer, flipping it and dragging the top layer down to the original row, positioning it anywhere it looks good to you.
For a simple zig zag stitch of course you use the \ and /. The top layer had white foreground and background... and I used the metalic innerbevel on it.
The bottom layer had a foreground set to white, stroke width of 1 and a pattern fill.
I will send the sample stitches I made to Toys for anyone who wants them.
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