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.

Bible Universe

New Sculpted Badge for Your Blog, Store or Website

This tutorial assumes that you have already gone through our last tutorial and learned the basics of Fill and Stoke in Inkscape. Please, take a look at previous tutorials here to be able to prepare for this one. You must have Inkscape and Gimp installed in your computer to be able to make this badge. You can get them for free!

This one has a 3D kind of quality to it and it just as easy as the previous one.
Open Inkscape. Choose a color (I picked a medium pink, but follow your own taste), click on the ellipse or circle tool and while
holding the Ctrl button down, make a circle of a size you like. Click on the stroke at the left side of the bottom of the page.
Choose Edit Stoke and change the color of the stoke to red (or a darker color for you) choose a decorative stoke you want and apply it.
Make a smaller circle also holding the ctrl key so that it will come out perfectly round. Fill it with a darker shade of the previous color,
and change the stroke to white and to a different stroke paint. Apply.
Now Export your file as a bitmap (a PNG) take it to Gimp.
Open up Gimp. Open your file. Now Go to Script-Fu, Bevel and Emboss.
For your style choose Inner Bevel.
Depth: 20
Direction: Up
Size: 15
Highlight color: White
Shadow color:black
and leave the rest as is.
Click Ok and wait for it to apply the bevel.
This will give your badge that almost geometric edge that it has.
Go to Layers, Merge down.
Then save as, select file type by extension and pick PNG.
Now go back to Inkscape.
Open the badge.
Choose star, select a darker pink for the Fill and a light pink for the Stroke, and do not choose a dotted stroke, but a straight line stroke.
For your star's corners, choose 30, spoke ratio: 0.752, leave rest as is.
Center your star in the middle.
Now click on the text tool and write anything you want.
Go to Edit, Copy and Paste, to reproduce the text. Change the second bit of text to white.
Click on the black arrow and move the white text on top of the black one. Now click on the canvas to deselect and click on the arrow again.
Select all the text and to to Object, Group. Now click on the text and move it to the center of your badge.
Export as Bitmap again.

Done!

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The Hand of Trust

Striking Badge or Sticker for Your Blog or Store in Inkscape

Continuing with our tutorials on how to make attention-getting sticker or badges, this one is very simple to make but it captures the eyes of a browser, which is what you want.
If you do not have Inkscape, download the software, it is free.
Open Inskcape. Go to File, New, Default. Once you have your working area, select the ellipse or circle tool.
Holding the Ctrl key down, draw a circle with the ellipse or circle tool. Fill it with the color Red form the palette at the bottom of the page. Make this circle bigger than you think you will need it for your text. Now click the arrow tool and then click at the top of the page where it says Affect: Make sure the first two symbols there are selected. At the bottom of the page, to the left side you will see two lines of color, one says Fill, the other Stoke. Now, right click on the Stroke.
A little menu will appear, choose Edit Stroke and let the next little menu open. Go to Stroke Paint. Choose White as your color and make sure you select the solid color that is beside the X.
Choose the solid color that is next to the X. Then, go to Wheel and pick the white. Now go to Stroke Style.
Choose the following Options:
Stroke style
Width: 40.000 px
From the little menu, choose Dashes (the style will be the little lines) and 7.00 on the little menu beside Dashes leave rest as is
Now click somewhere on the canvas so that your changes will apply.

Holding the Ctrl key down, make a circle with the ellipse tool that is quite a bit smaller than the first circle. Click a darker red in the palette at the bottom of the page to fill your circle.
Now we want to decorate the edges of this circle like we did with our last one. So right click on the stroke at the bottom of the page and go into Edit Stroke, then Stroke Paint.
Choose the solid color that is next to the X. Then, go to Wheel and pick the white. Now go to Stroke Style.
Choose the following Options:
Width 20.00
Dashes (but for the style this time choose the dots) and on the little menu beside the dashes selection choose 6.40 Now click somewhere on the canvas to see how your
selections apply. Now, move the smaller circle to be inside the larger one. center it well. Click on the arrow tool and draw a selection that will cover both circles. Go to Object, Group. Now you have joined your two circles into one object

With Black, write the words Great Buys! then select the font
Paperback, size 144
Click on the arrow tool and copy the text, paste elsewhere on the canvas. Change it to white by clicking on the color at the bottom palette.
Now, the text will be impossible to see but you can still see the selection where it is contained. click on it and move it so that it will be
on top of the black text, just barely showing the black text. Now click on the canvas to deselect, and choosing the arrow tool again, draw a selection
that covers the text. Then go object, Group. Now your text is one group and you can move it safely.
Move it so that it is inside the inner circle of the badge.
Go to File Export Bitmap and choose a name for it and a place to put it and it will export as a PNG file with a transparent background, ready to be used!
This is another version of the same badge with different settings for the dashes and a different font and message. I also added a little drop shadow to it. Play with the different setting until you get an effect you like!






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A Courageous Attitude