I love to embellish using beads. I sometimes add each bead one by one … … and I sometimes add strings of beads … Regardless of which way you bead, you can’t go past a good book for learning new techniques and also for a major dose of inspiration. I have favorites books and then […]
Last week I finished designing a new clutch purse using fabric beads in unusual ways – for handgrips and purse feet. You can see the finished design it here. Now the same clutch purse design takes on a whole new persona. Instead of using plain fabric, this one is being designed using using one of
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Very often, making a new design for a bag is a lengthy process that requires lots of tweaking and changing things to make a design that looks good and also goes together easily, but for the last few weeks I’ve been making an extra special effort to focus more on going with my intuition when
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Still using the “Last of the Summer Roses” design that I used to make the small shoulder purse that you can see here, this time I’m rearranging the design in order to make a printed design for a large handbag. One of the reasons I love using photoshop elements so much, is that it makes
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If you’ve been following along, I’m currently doing a review of all the cool new stuff in the latest version 9 of Photoshop Elements. In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate the layer mask tool. In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, in order to use layer masks basically you had to add a new layer,
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I recently treated myself to a new camera – a little Canon Powershot A3100. I needed something that I could throw in my purse when I headed out the door and my other camera is too large to fit and I was missing out on too many great photo opportunities! I’ve been so pleased with
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