annamarie's: let's inspire each other

Freebie "Passion for Red" Mini Kit, 6 papers, 2 overlays & embellishments

Hey Everyone, How are you. It has been a few weeks since I have posted. I have been swamped at work (this is our busiest time of the year, and it lasts thru July). It's our company's annual meeting the 3rd weekend in July and agents from all over the united states come to us in the home office (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). There is a flurry of planning and my team designs and creates exhibit booths representing the various areas of our company. It's fun, exciting, but also very busy.

Also, I have been using any spare time developing my web site since taking my dreamweaver class and creating my digital merchandise that I will sell there. I'm not ready to go live quite yet, I am loading it with products as we speak, which is why I have been quiet on my blog.

But, I'm making time today before I get totally consumed with my other tasks for this afternoon, plus I want to enjoy the weather, it is suppose to be 70 here.

Today's freebie is a mini kit that I will also have as a freebie on my site.

 Here is what the papers look like:

Here are what the embellishments look like, you can also see there are 6 papers, 2 overlays, 1 photo button, 2 flowers and 3 coordinating ribbons:

Here is the link for the zipped file of papers and embellishments: 

http://www.4shared.com/file/48873177/7a7e5a28/passionforredminikit.html

Enjoy your holiday weekend everyone, I'll try not being gone so long between postings, It's just very busy when you are first getting things up and running.

I am still interested in finding my niche for an artella shop, still searching for what I can contribute here.

Tiny Treasurers Feebie Photo Frame

Here are a couple of tiny frames to incorporate into your digital projects, It's just my first one.

Here is a 2nd one, see links below.

You can just add text and/or a photo on layer one, then put this on layer two, remove the white and save.

Here is a link for anyone interested:

http://www.4shared.com/file/47100423/777dfa40/400lovingyouframe.html

http://www.4shared.com/file/47101458/1752d26a/440-midnight-blue.html

Freebie Nature Overlay and Tutorial on creating that Artist Grunge Look

Today's Freebie is a Nature Overlay.

This is what it looks like:

 

 

Here is what it looks like adding it over orange paper and playing in the layer's palette options, have fun, use gradients, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have fun, experiment making your own and building your own collection.

 

Here is the link to the overlay for those interested.

 

http://www.4shared.com/file/47083122/ef283fb7/nature1.html

 

Now a little tutorial on making your own grunge papers as seen earlier in my blog.

These effects can be use on the above overlay and/or any paper and overlays.

In your layers palette, in the upper left corner, you'll see a drop down option defaulted to NORMAL. Click on that and all these wonderful options appear:

Dissolve, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Linear Burn, Screen, Luminosity, etc., etc., etc.

1. You can take a paper, color block, existing photo or whatever and put it on layer one.

2. Then bring another block of color, or a overlay on top and have fun changing the different features until you get a look you like.

The artists grunge backgrounds were created by making my foreground color one color and the background color a different color, then drawing a square to fill the entire space.

3. The go to Filter, Render, Clouds. This will mix up the two colors and both will show like a soft cloudy effect. You can render again, render difference, etc., until you get something you like.

4. I then picked two more different colors, one for the fore ground, one for the back and created a 2nd layer again doing the filter, render, clouds.

5. Then go to layer one and with your magic eraser, tap on the first layer and remove some of the clouds, do this for the 2nd layer also. You should now be able to see all the colors.

6. Now apply the layer palette options, color burn, luminosity, difference, etc. until you get something you like.

7. You can keep going and add a 3rd layer, etc., you get the point.

Have fun!

2 Freebies, a pink quick page and matching overlay

And here is what the overlay looks like by itself. Put it over any color paper, gradient, etc. then hit colorburn, luminosity, screen, etc, etc.

Add brush stokes and keep going!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here is the link for the overlay:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46434661/c0e3fd86/floweroverlay4.html

 

Here is the finished quick page make from the 1 overlay:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here is the link:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46435481/e5586303/butterflykisses.html

Have fun!

 

Freebie Overlay & Tutorial: The Power of a Overlay

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I am off of work today so I had time to put together a tutorial on the power of just 1 or 2 overlays. I hope you find it useful and encouraging.

step 1:

Open a page and select any color, gradient or background you like. I am going to use a simple pre-set gradient. Here it is:

Step 2: Let's add a grunge overlay (this one that I used is included as a freebie today, but do have lots of fun making your own too.) Ths is what the plain overlay looks like before playing with any features:

Step 3: Let's change the layer mode now to say Difference, this is what you will now see:

Step 4: Let's change the layer mode again and choose Linear Light:

Step 5: Let's keep it at Linear Light but use the magic eraser and remove the white:

Step 6: Let's go back to the original overlay and choose Overlay this time:

Step 7: Now let's choose Darken:

Step 8: And now let's choose Screen:

Step 9: Now keep the screen feature on but change the opacity to 25%:

Step 10: Now duplicate the screen at 25% layer, rotate a 1/2 turn, change the feature on the 2nd layer to overlay and add a little dimension, like shadow, glow, etc. whatever you like:

Step 11: Now let's add a totally new overlay and change the layer feature to difference:

Step 12: Now change the layer feature to luminosity:

Step 13: And let's change the layer feature one more time to soft light:

As you can see you can go on and on, changing features, layers, bevel and emboss, patterns, textures, etc.

Most of all have fun, experiment, your styles and likes will come out of YOU!

I hope this tutorial was easy to follow and you will have fun and give it a try, the above was done in photoshop, but just look and see if your software has any of the same features, you would be surprized. I have some low cost packages and can do many unique things with them and things that I can do in illustrator and photoshop too.

Today's Freebie is the grunge overlay above to experiment with, use as it, add layers of leaves, flowers, swirls etc. to it, to make it your own.

 Here is the link:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46292459/5f135679/annamaries_grunge_overlay.html

If you want some of the papers above and others, here they are too:

http://www.4shared.com/file/46294031/25f08ecd/annamaries_power_of_a_overlay.html

Happy Saturday, it's rainy here in my part of wisconsin but the birds are chirping, it's spring, so I'm off!