Saturday Special – 1.8.11: Cutting Irregular Shapes
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Hello and welcome to the first Saturday Special of the New Year!! It’s Jen D here to show you a little trick that I enjoy using over and over again. Have you ever seen layouts with funky paper cuts and wondered “how the heck did they do that?” Well today you will learn…
First you want to open your editing software, place a back ground paper, and open any additional papers you want to “cut”.
Next, select the paper you are wanting to “cut” and select the Polygonal Lasso Tool:
Then simply “draw” an irregular shape on your paper with the lasso tool:
When you shape is complete you will have marching ants around it as a “selection” of that paper, then go to Edit and select Copy
Then go back to your original layout and Paste your irregular shape on top of your bg paper:
Continue until you have all the irregular shapes you desire on your layout:
Then finish your layout with pictures and elements….
Here is what I created using My Playlist: Teenage Dream by Amy Stoffel:
And here is some inspiration from our ubber awesome CT….they got paper cutting CrAzY!!
Andrea created this fun page using Everyday – daily alpha, Everyday – Ordinary Day, Everyday – Paper Flowers and Everyday -Basic Solids = all by Scrapmuss Designs
Jenn had some fun too and here is her amazing creation using WM[squared]‘s Lil Explorers and Stolen Moments NEW Round About Alpha
Fiona cut some pretty amazing papers in this one using Find Beauty Within by Chelles Creations:
Challenge reminders:
-You will receive one point for posting in Saturday Special 1.8.11 thread & in the Saturday Special gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!
-You have until the end of January 2011 to complete this challenge to earn MOS points.
-Remember no double dipping…your photo and/or layout must be unique to this challenge.
-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but we love it when you do!
Can’t wait to see your crazy cuts!!
