November 6, 2010 Saturday Special
Happy DSD everyone! I hope you have fun shopping and playing around digiland this weekend! I also hope you enjoy today’s edition of ScrapMatter’s Saturday Special!
My SIL just started digi scrapping and as I’ve helped her a bit I have been reminded about how far I’ve come in scrapping since beginning two years ago! So much of what I have learned can be attributed to these amazing Saturday Specials here at SM too!
One thing Kimberly recently asked me was how to cut paper into shapes. So today I want to talk about the Shape tool. Being able to cut a circle, a heart, or a shape with rounded corners will add so much to your layout!
You will want to start with your background paper and choose another piece of coordinating paper to cut into whatever shape you want. One of my favorite paper scrapping tools was my corner rounder, so I’m going to use the rounded rectangle tool for my layout. If you take a look at the screen shot, you will see that I’ve chosen the shape tool, and then selected the rounded rectangle tool, but you can also see there are several other choices there.
The custom shape tool can be a lot of fun, and if you select that as your shape tool, you will go to the top of your program and select a shape that you will cut your paper into. Here are a selection of shapes that came with my photoshop program:
Ok, so now that I’ve chosen the rounded rectangle tool, I will need to set the radius. You will find that in your top tool bar. The radius basically determines how round your corners will be. I’m choosing a radius of 40. So, with my patterned paper selected in my layers palette, I will bring my mouse onto my paper, left click and drag until I get the size I want. If I want to cut a perfect square, I will hold down my shift key while dragging my mouse. Otherwise I will just drag until I get the rectangular shape I’m looking for and then let up on my mouse. You will see the shape appear. You will now need to select your shape by going over to your layers palette and clicking “paths.” You will then hold down your ctrl key and left click on the shape icon. My screen shot explains it a little clearer.
Once you do that you will see marching ants appear around the shape that you have drawn. You will then go to the top of your program and hit select/inverse and then hit the delete button. Voila! You have just cut your paper into a custom shape! Here is mine:
And here is my final page using GG Digital Designs kit Funk-A-Dily
So for this challenge all you need to do is use the Shape tool on your layout somehow. You can cut any shape you want…just have fun with it and get creative!
Here is some inspiration from our marvelous CT!
From Amanda:
From Andrea:
From LoriBear:
From Liz:
And for the nitty gritty…
You have until the end of November to complete this challenge. You will get one point for completing the challenge and can get an additional point for using a new release. I will choose one random winner at the end of the month for an additional bonus point. Once you have completed your layout, upload it into the gallery under the saturday special category and come in here and link us up. You don’t have to use SM products but we love it when you do! Most importantly, have fun!
I can’t wait to see your pages!! Happy Scrapping!
-Becca1976
