How to Make a Scalloped Oval Digi Scrapbooking Element in Inkscape

This tutorial assumes that you have both Inkscape and Gimp installed on your computer, and that you have followed at least some of our previous tutorials to
get an idea of how the free software works.

Open up Inkscape.
Choose the ellipse or circle tool and Make a oval (770.196 w x 1359.67) or any size you like, hold down the ctrl key as you make the shape so that it will have a perfect form. Make sure that it is vertical.
Choose a color from the palette at the bottom of the page, I will choose a pale purple because that matches a photo I will be using it in. Click on the oval to fill it with the color. Now right click on stroke at the bottom palette toward the left of the page, and when the menu appears, click on the “X” to choose no stroke.
Now click on the Text tool and type anywhere on the working area the capital letter O. You can choose any font you want. I picked Rockwell Extra Bold and for the font size I chose 144.
Click on the letter to make it the same color as your oval, now click on the 10th icon on the top of your page, (the second one underneath the word Text), to make sure that your letter "O" on top of your oval. Now click on the letter so that the arrows will appear all around it and stretch it a bit to make it larger.
Click on the letter and put right above your oval (that will make it easier to group them), now, while the arrows that select the "O" are still active, hold the shift key down and click on the oval. That will select both objects at the same time.
When they are both selected, go to Extensions, Generate from Path, Scatter. Click on the first two boxes, then click on Cloned, and then choose apply. Wait till it applies and now you see that you have an oval with an open scalloped edge. Click on the oval and while it is selected, go to Object, Ungroup. Then click on the open scallops, and go to Object, Ungroup. Now you see all the small “Os” around the oval. Now, holding the shift key down, stroke with your mouse to select all of the objects (the oval and the little circles must fit into the selection), then go to Object, Group. Now you can move the whole thing around, because it has become one object and it won’t fall apart when you move it.

Now go to File, Export Bitmap and export as a PNG file.
I like my images to be smooth, so I took my scalloped oval to Gimp and applied a simple blur.
Then saved it again.


You're done!
Now use in your image as I have done.

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How to Make a Nice Swirly Paper in Gimp

Fire up Gimp. Go to New and select the size of paper you want. I will choose 640 x 480 for the sake of making the image
easy to load. Make the image a little larger than you want it, if your memory allows you to, because we will have to trim the edges later on.
Go to your bucket tool, and click on the Foreground color. Write down the following color in your HTML notation: 383838 and click Ok.
Now click once on your image layer to fill it with the color. Now go to Filters, Noise, HSV Noise. When the menu opens, move the Holdness lever all the way up to 8.
Move the Hue to 0, move the Saturation to 0, and the Value all the way up to 255 (the maximum). Click Ok.
Now go to Colors, then Colorize. Move the Hue lever to -118, Saturation 31, leave the rest as is, and click OK.
Now go to Filters, Blur, Motion Blur. When the menu opens, make sure your Blur Type is Linear, Length: 110, Angle: 0. Click Ok.
Select the crop tool or choose Ctrl plus c, select the part of the image you would like to keep, avoiding the edges that don't look too good. Once that is selected, click
once on the center of the image to crop it.
Now go to Filters, Distors, IWarp. Click on Move. Set your Deform Radius to 40, and your Deform amount to 0.30. Make sure Bilinear is selected. Then click on the preview
image randomly in different spots, pulling the mouse as you go to distort the direction of the color in the page. Now choose Swirl CW and click twice and then click on Swirl CCW, and click once, all randomly.
You can also choose Grow and Shrink, move the color around according to your taste and then click Ok. Save as a PNG.

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How to Make Scrapbooking Papers in Gimp---Part 2

There are many, many filters and brushes for Gimp online. Most of them are free. You can Google to find them and install them in your computer.
They will allow you to make quite a bit of nice things with this software!


For another paper, click File New, and choose any size of paper you want. For the sake of expediency in photos, I will continue to choose 640 x 480.
Go to the Toolbox and click on the Foreground color, we will be choosing a lovely shade of pink, #EE3A8C. Now, click on the bucket fill tool and
fiull your paper with this pink color. Now go to Filters, Artistic, Clothify. When the menu opens, choose Blur X: 10, Blur Y: 10, leave the rest as is.
Click Ok. Now you have a textured paper! Save as a PNG file (to do this, choose Save As, then Select File Type by Extension and scroll down to PNG) and use as you want!

Here are some examples of scrapped pages that incorporate the paper made above into the design.

Your creativity is your only limitation! Enjoy!

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Digi Scrapping Cute Toys---Part 2

I love to do scrapbooking to present my toys. I think it increases the fun and the excitment for the lovers of Amigurumi, handmade toys!

Here are some scraps I made of other toys that I have designed. All these are Funmigurumi dogs, and they have been very popular around the net.

All my toys are brightly colored and funny. Beloved of children and of Ami collectors of different ages!

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Digi Scrapping Cute Toys---Part 1

I'm an artist and craftster. I design, among other things, cute toys. I also love scrapbooking so I merge the two by using digital scrapping to present my toys in a creative and fun way to the public.

I call my Amigurumi toys Funmigurumi, because I see them as the fun in amigurumi crocheted toys, full of color and cuteness!

Here are some of examples of how I have done it, using, for the most part, free software.

Hope you enjoy my scraps!
The first scrap is of Peanuts, one of my many Funmigurumi monkeys.

The second toy is Hoofer Moolove, a lovable Funmigurumi bull.

This is Blockety Ducky. It has been a very popular baby block/rattle combination.

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How to Make a Grunge Stamp

I love this stamp! It was fun to make. I downloaded a grungy set of brushes that was free and that made it very easy. If you want to make it with a brush, just Google grunge brushes for Gimp, and you will have quite a selection of downloadable brushes to choose from.
You download the brush, click open, and you will see a list of br files.
Go to your Computer then to Program Files, look for Gimp, then click on Share or look around until you find a folder that is called Brushes, open it.
Then go back to your list of brushes, click on each and copy it and then go paste them in the Brushes folder. Once you have all the brushes you want.
Close everything and fire up the Gimp.

Choose new image, pick the size you want your stamp to have (I chose 640 x 640)
Now choose the Text tool. Pick the color you want to use.
I chose an orangey red (Hex color CD0000) (CD3700 is a good one too) but you can choose whatever
you want. (If you want a specific color or hue, Google a Hex chart and pick that color by number.)
Write your text in that color. Change the size of the font to the size you want. Now click on the brush tool, look for your grunge brushes and pick one of them. Cloick on the color and change it to white. Apply the grunge
brush to your text until you like the result.
Change the color back to the red you have chosen before or whatever color you picked at the beginning.
Then go to to Layers and make a new layer, name it border. Now, using the square selection tool, draw a box around your text, then go to Select and then Border, I choose 7, but you can choose whatever amount of pxs you like best. Then choose Edit then Fill with FG Color (which will be your chosen red or whatever color you have picked.) Then go to Select None.

Now, change the color to white again, click on brush and choose the same grunge brush you used at the beginning and apply it all around the border of your stamp. Go to Layers and Merge Down your layers. Then choose Save as (click to select another format than the one that is native to the Gimp, I chose PNG) naming your stamp whatever you like and that's it!

Here is the original tutorial where I learned most of this technique:

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/create-a-simple-grunge-stamp

Experiment!

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How to Make an Easy Ribbon In Paint.Net #2

Another easy ribbon for your digi scrapbooking which you can make while still a beginner with Paint.net to get your feet wet with this software and still come up with embellishment for your scrapbooking pages!

Choose File, New.
Select the Follwing Settings: Width 50, Height 600, Resolution 96, leave rest untouched.
Select the gradient rool from the tools meun. Pick two colors you like. Make it a linear grandient. Choose Linear reflected.
Pull the mouse down so that the colors will change from top to bottom. Go to Effects, Distort, Stitch, choose distance 25, With 2, leave rest untouched.
Save your ribbon and use as you like!

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Paint.Net Another Terrific FREE Software How to Make a Ribbon- Part 1

Continuing with our tutorials to learn the basics of Pint.net, another free resource that you can use to make embellishments or enhance images for your digital scrapbooking.



This ribbon was made with Paint.net, it is very easy to make and very good looking. Even a beginner out of the gate can make it. I explain how to do it below.



















If, after watching the 2 previous tutorials, you are interested in downloading Paint.Net, go here:

http://www.paint.net/

There are a number of filter plugins that you must know about to be able to make the most of your Paint.net software. In the Paint.Net Forums you will be able to find the free plugins and download the packages. They are essential to be able to create textures and made other wonderful effects.

For the following tutorial you will need to have downloaded and installed
(to install the filters you simply click on them to open the list. Then go to computer, C Drive, Program Files, look for Paint.Net, open the folder for filters and then copy one at a time the filters in the list and paste them in the filters folder. Open Paint.Net when you are done and look for the filters, if you did it right, they will be right there! ) Get Pyrochild collection of Filters and also all the basic filters and effects.



Easy Ribbon in Paint.Net #1-

Choose File, New.
Select the Follwing Settings: Width 50, Height 600, Resolution 96, leave rest untouched.
Select the gradient rool from the tools menu. Pick two colors you like. Make it a linear grandient.
Pull the mouse down so that the colors will change from top to bottom.

Go to effects Distort Ripple

Choose Amount 2.0, Ripples 10.53 Ripple Phase 0.00 Highlight 10 Edge behaviour Clamp to Edge Quality 4.00 Than click to apply the effect.
This will give your ribbon a soft linear texture, as if it was made of grossgrain but woven diagonally. Play with the amounts if you want this effect to be more noticeable.


You're done!


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Another FREE Software with Tremendous Possibilities!

Paint.Net is a terrific open source software (which means it is free) with tremendous possibilities for any creative person, including digi scrapbookers! you can downlead it easily at its own site.

The Very Basics of Paint.Net Tutorial 1





The Very Basics of Paint.Net Tutorial 2

Easy Inskcape Ribbon:

There are different ways of making a ribbon in Inkscape, but for a beginner, I found an easy one that will give you satisfying results. you must tinker with it till you get it to work the way you want it to, to suit your particular taste and creativity.

The steps are pretty simple and you can learn them very quickly. To make this ribbon, choose the pen drawing tool. Choose a color you like, I decided to pick a pretty aqua in the basic palette.
At the top of the page, choose the following settings: Width: 38; Thinning: 100; Angle: 30; Fixation: 90; Caps:0.00

Then draw a ribbon. With Selecting tool, select your ribbon. Then go to Filters, Blus, Cross-Smooth. Then Filters, Color, Fluorescence.
Then Go to Filters, Materials, Metallized Paint. That's it, you've got a very easy ribbon for any digi scrapbooking project you might have.

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Inskcape tutorial: Basic

If you would still like to practice more with the potential that this free software has for your digi scrapbooking projects but don't want to jump into the deep waters of a very invloved and difficult tutorial, here is a basic one for beginners to get your feet wet in this vector software's potential.

By the way, the star in my illustration was a made with the star polygon tool (choose the number of points or spokes you want for yours), I colored it
a bright medium pink. Then I selected it and went Filters, Shadows and Glows, then Glow.
Then, to give it an interesting texture, go to Filters, Materials, Enamel Jewelry and then you just save it.

Enjoy!

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How to Make Your Own clipart with Inkscape!

When you start using this powerful open source software one of the things you will eventually wnat to learn how to do is to make your own clipart for scrapbooking themes and special digi scraps. This informative video tutorial will get you started in that direction!



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How to Use Inkscape Filters

Inkscape comes with many filters and there are many other plugins that you can get to add power and versatility to your software. This video tutorial will show you how to use some of those filters in a creative way.



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Another Simple Flower Embellishment for a Beginner

When you are starting to use a software that has as much potential as inkscape, you feel elated when you can create something, let alone a nice looking embellishment! So, to keep your creative juices flowing, here is a very simple to make embellishment you can try on your own and transform into many other pretty flowers! Open Inkscape. Select Star. Make sure the following are selected at the top of the page: Corners (that will determine how many petals your flower will have), for this tutorial we will select 8. Spoke ratio: 0.500 Rounded: 0.000 Randomized:0.000 Choose the color Yellow. Now, go Path, and Choose Dynamic Offset. A little node will appear on one of the star's spokes. Pull on that node to make the star fatter and more into the shape of a flower. Now go to Path, then object to Path. Now go to circles, ellipses, and draw a circle while you hold the Ctrl button down. Give it a red color (it will look orangey over the yellow flower.) Drag it to the center of your flower. Go to Object, then choose Align and Distribute, and look for the position that will align your circles vertically and horizontally in the center of the flower. Click and close the dialog box. Make a second, smaller circle while dragging the Ctrl key down so that it willnot be an oval. Make a little draker than the first one. Click on the slect arrow and drag it to the center of the flower. Go to Object, then choose Align and Distribute and look again for the position that will align your circle vertically and horizontally in the center of the flower. Close the dialog box. Click on the smaller circle at the center of the flower and choose Filters, Ridges, Metallized Ridge. Now with the ink pen tool make a swirly line in red. Copy it. Now click on it to select it, and click again to move it and to position it on the first petal of the flower. Now click outside the flower and paste, to produce the worly line again, click twice on it to bring up the rotating handles and turn it to the position it should go for the second petal of the flower. Choose the select tool and move it to where it goes, repeat this process for every petal. Now choose the first line, and with it selected, go to Filters, Shadows and Glows, then Cutout Glow, repeat with all the lines. Now Select the whole flower. Go to Path, then Union. Then save. 

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When you do digital scrapbooking, if you like to embellish your pages genereously, you will never have too many elemnts to use! Flowers are one of the most useful when you want your pages to have that dainty, lovely, faminine look of bygone years or when you just want to add a pretty look to a page that just needs "something". Learning to make your own flowers is pretty useful, expecially if it costs you nothing.
This tutorial will show you how to make your own basic flower using inkscape. It is very easy and simple!





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One of the things we use most in scrapbooking, is embellishments. Inkscape is a software that can unlock your creativity and allow you to create your own clip art and embellishments for your digi pages. In the following video you will learn how to make swirls and flourishes that you could use to decorate your pages.





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How to Creat a Pretty Heart with Inkscape

This is a really terrific, well-explained video tutorial on how to create a shiny heart on Inkscape. This heart is superb for many uses including scrapbooking.
Here is the free tutorial:





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Wonderful FREE Software for Scrapbooking Images: Inkscape

Inkscape is a vector graphics editor that is distributed freely under a free software license. It is quite powerful and if you learn it well, you can make amazing images in it to enhance your digital scrapbooking. Since Inkscape is an open source software with capabilities similar to those of Illustrator and Corel Draw, you can create an endless amount of images with it, and because it is open source, it will always be free!

You can download it for FREE from this safe site:

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We will be learning some nifty things using this software so, why don't you download it now?


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