Something is Slightly Askew this Saturday–

Hi everyone–Andrea here. The week has just flown by–seems like it just Saturday yesterday! We’re still working on the CT–hopefully we’ll have something to announce soon.

Sorry this is so late today–have you ever had one of those days when everything that could go wrong does? Well that is how mine is going. I started the draft for this post two days ago, my new kit has been done for several days also and I thought I was so ahead of the game! I only had to change my LO into a quick page and write the tutorial. I could whip the rest of it up in an hour. Wrong! I didn’t count on computer problems, server issues, power failures in the middle of uploading, my computer bogging down. So far it has taken me 7 tries to get my new kit uploaded–cross your fingers. Everytime I would start either the power would go off, the cat would jump on my computer and stop the upload somehow, or the server would burp for about 1 minute. Enough of my belly-aching–now onto the real post!

When I paper scrapped a lot–I would take a fine point marker and edge all of my pictures, tags and such with a thin line–of either black or white, whatever fit my LO best. These little thin lines were a great unifying theme throughout my scrapbooks. Now that I do almost all digital scrapping, I realized that I missed those little lines. They weren’t necessarily doodles, just a finishing touch. So I decided to make a very basic kit that had little frames, journaling strips, papers and flowers with those little lines. They aren’t perfect–the strips and the lines, look remarkably like my old hand cut, hand drawn layouts used to. Here is a preview of my new kit Slightly Askew–

As you can see it is very basic, which I love, because I can use it to get all kinds of different looks with it. There were just too many elements/papers to put them all in the preview. There are 18 papers, three designs in 6 color combos. 12 frames–two designs in 6 color combos. Lots of journaling strips, blocks and circles. There multiple flowers, arrows, thought and speech bubbles too. The kit will be on sale for $4.00 for the next few days. Here is a LO that I made with it featuring DD#1.

I thought this layout would make a cute quick page and I have been going to write a tutorial on how to make a quick page for the longest time. So using the above layout I will show you how easy it is to make a quick page. I did the following tutorial in PSE6 but the concept should work in almost any image editing software.

Start with your layered, completed layout. Using your magic wand, select the first area to erase. I selected the inside of the small frame. Then using a large eraser start erasing the first layer. Do not deselect your frame.

Continue erasing each layer of your layout until you are left with a transparent opening. You will need to copy your background layer because you will not be able to erase it, since it is locked. Make sure you deselect your background layer.

When you get to this point all you need to do is decide which of your elements and what text portions that you want to keep intact on your quick page. Deselect the layers that you don’t want to show up in your completed quick page.

Eventually you will have your layered quick page how you want it to be for the exchange. I chose to leave the flowers and the blue circle on for the quick page I am giving to you today. Now you need to save it twice—once as a layered file (I usually save as tiff files) and as a flattened, transparent png file. The png is what you upload to the quick page exchange.

You can download the quickpage from 4shared here.

The kit should be in the store shortly. Can’t believe it has taken me literally all day to get this post finished.

Hope your Saturday was special and free from computer woes!

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