How to Make an Easy ribbon in Gimp

Fire up Gimp.
Create a new image size 1000 x 1000, choose Advanced Options, Transparency.
Now choose the Rectangle tool and create a selection that has the following settings:
Position 9 x 316
Size: 998 x 208

Click on the Foreground color and change it to #f69e64. Click Ok.
Select the Bucket tool and fill your selection with the color.
Go to Layer, New Layer.
Go to Select, Shrink and shrink your selection by 4 pixels.
With your FG color set to #f69e64 and your BG color set to White, click on the Blend tool, click on the little arrows so that the White color will be the first color in the gradient,
and choose FG to RG (RGB) Gradient, stroke with your mouse straight down to make your gradient.
In the Toolbox, right click on the top layer and then choose merge layers.
Go to Select, Shrink and shrink by 1 pixel.
Then got o Select, Invert.
Go to ScriptFu, Layer Effects, Satin. And choose the following settings:
Opacity: 75.0
Blanding Mode: Soft Light
Clor: Black
Offeset Distance: 11.0
Size: 14
Contour: Linear
Check :Invert
And check Merge with Layer, then click Ok.

Save as Png image
Done!

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How to make a Post It note in Gimp

We will make two different examples of a Post it note, which you can use to add little messages to your blog or website, even to your sales page!
Fire up Gimp.
Create a new image (640 x 400 will do), in Advanced Options, choose Background Transparency
Take the Rectangle Select tool and create a square selection (Position 125 x 26 and for size: 382 x 340 Fixed: Aspect Ratio)
Now, click on the bucket tool to select it and then click on the Foreground color to change it. Most people make their Post It notes Yellow, I personally like them in colors, so I will use another color. I will use color #a4f0a5, which is a lovely Mint hue. Once you have chosen your
color, click on the bucket tool and fill your selection with that pretty Mint green. Make sure your opacity is 100% and the Mode is Normal.
Now go to Select, None.
Now click on the Rotate Tool in the Toolbox (the fifth from the left) and once you have selected it, click in the center of your Post It note,
and a little dialog box will appear. Now, where it says Angle, write simply -7 and click rotate.
Click on Shift + D to select the Dodge and Burn tool, choose the brush size Circle 19, Scale 100% and Exposure 50.0, click on Burn and Midtones in the Dodge and Burn dialog box in the
Toolbox. Click on Shift to make a straight line and holding shift down, make a line across the top of the Post it.
Using the Lasso tool and working as straight as you can, make a square selection that is a little bit inside the Post It and a little bit outside. Change your Foreground Color to #585858,
and, selecting the Bucket tool, choose an opacity of 100% and fill the selection with the color. Then go to Filters, Blur, Gaussian Blu5, and set the blur to 5.0
Then go to Select, None. Now choose your text tool and write whatever you want on your Post It note, rotating it a bit to fit the direction of your note, until you have just right, where it looks natural.

Create a new image (640 x 400 will do), in Advanced Options, choose Background Transparency
Take the Rectangle Select tool and create a square selection (Position 125 x 26 and for size: 382 x 340 Fixed: Aspect Ratio)
Now, click on the bucket tool to select it and then click on the Foreground color to change it to e8adcf and click on the bucket tool. Fill your selection with this pretty pink.



Click on Shift + D to select the Dodge and Burn tool, choose the brush size Circle 19, Scale 100% and Exposure 50.0, click on Burn and Midtones in the Dodge and Burn dialog box in the Toolbox. Click on Shift to make a straight line and holding shift down, make a line across the top of the Post it.
Now go to Filters, Distorts, Pagecurl. Filters, Blur.
If you want to, you can write something in the little piece of paper that is left after the curl.


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How to Work on a Page

The most important thing to understand about scrapbooking is that it is worked in layers. Now, the problem is that most newbies do not understand how that is done. They get confused and frustrated and think they will never be able to make a single page and often, they give up!
Regardless of which software you use for your digital scrapbooking, the steps are the same.

What you need to understand is the order of placement.
Here is it:
Once you have decided to make your page and you have the photos you want to scrap picked out, and have decided on the colors, papers and elements you are gong to use, you need to begin to work IN ORDER.

1- Create your new document and lay down your paper or background.
2- Create a new layer and add a smaller piece of paper (a circle, a triangle, a star)
3- Create a new layer and add your photos
4- Create a new layer and add any frames or embellishments that go around your photos
5- Create a new layer and add a journaling tag
6- Create a new layer and add text to your journaling tag

Merge all your layers down and save!

It is as simple as that! Here is a page that was created following these steps.

Make sure that all your decorative elements and embellishments have a transparent background before you layer them together, so that you can stack them properly.

Let the colors in your photo or photos dictate some of the choices you make when it comes to colors, shapes, papers, elements and embellishments. Make it spontaneous and fun!

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