Adorable - By Hanne

ADORABLE

This was my grandson Matt when he was little and of course all grandmas think their little ones are adorable.

Items needed:

Red card stock

Blue Card stock both fom Scrapbooking Oasis (Grab Bags)

4 Photo anchors and brads from Making Memories

One 4 inch of red fiber cut in half

One red and one Blue Button

One large blue brad

Red Ribbon

Blue Ribbon

One ready made tag

One number

Blue Ink

Foam Stickers

Blue Card stock is the background and the red is used in behind the pictures. A strip of red was added about a fourth of the way down across the paper width. One of the pictures was cut out and red card stock was pasted in behind it for contrast and colour. Then I used foam stickies to raise it a little of the page to make it look three dimensional; for the #1 ribbon I used a ribbon spool to make the round shape and cut two pieces of red card stock to make the “ribbons”, inked the edges, and glued them together. I pasted the 1 and the Cute letters and added the # symbol in front of the 1.

The Tag

I used a ready made tag from Scrapbooking Oasis; ripped two red, and one blue piece of paper and glued them on the tag for a different texture effect and inked the ripped edges and the outside. Then I cut one blue and one red ribbon and glued them on the tag diagonally, added two ribbons in the hole, added two buttons using the fiber, and then the name Matt was glued on with foam stickies

Making the letters using Macromedia Fireworks

Open Fireworks

Go to New 8 inches by 6 inches Transparent

Before starting got to the tabs till you find Window and Select : tools, Properties, Optimize, Layers, Frames, and Styles. You have now got split windows on the sides and the bottom.

Go to the Tools on the left hand side and find the Vector tools: Shapes

Select the desired shape and draw it with the mouse.

Colour-fill the shape with desired colour

Select Edge Anti-alias

Texture of choice ( Say Line horizontal-4 at 23% )

Then go to the right hand side of the screen find Effects-Click on Bevel Boss-

the next screen will pop up and select your bevel

Width 5.77

Height 50

Smoothness 75

Click on inside marquee and click of shade interior

This looks like a button now.

Back at the first screen

Go to the text tool on the left hand side and select it

The at the bottom of the screen select the font desired (I used Baskerville Old Face 63 colour black)

Type in one letter in the shape, center it and size it.

The go back to the bottom right hand side and select effects again and select Shadow and Glow from the drop down task bar and decide what colour of shadow wanted (I used white since I used dark colours in my shapes)

The Select the square and the letter (by holding down the shift button you can at the same time select both the shape and the letter on it) and go to the top of the screen and find Modify and scroll down till you find Group. Once your shape and letter are grouped you can move it around on the canvas.

The next shape is done the same way just using different colours, textures, and letters; making sure to buttonize the shape by using

Eye Candy and the Shadow and Glow for the letters.

Once all your letters are made this way, you can lay them out anyway wanted and by holding down the shift you can select all the letters and group them to make one image. At this point you can move the word all over on the page, make it bigger or smaller.

This is not as hard as it seems, actually it is quite simple once you have done it a few times; sometimes I use Paint shop Pro.

If you have any problems contact me at: hannesauve @ yahoo.com