A STITCH IN TIME
Many of us had grandmothers who sewed the garments worn by her family. My own Grandmother had one of these sewing machines that had been passed down by her Grandmother. My aunt, who did sew, inherited it and created a prom dress for one of my proms in high school. It was not powered by electricity but by a foot pump and side wheel that was turned by hand. They say that days gone by were simpler, but our Great Grandmothers and their mothers had harder lives, working fields, making clothing, washing by hand. I look back and I marvel at what my female ancestors achieved and how hard they had to work. Memories not only serve to preserve these things in our hearts, but inspire us to be better women ourselves!
SUPPLIES
A STITCH IN TIME SUPPLY DOWNLOAD
Open a 1300 by 1150 blank canvas.
Choose a color that will complement your main tube, that being the Seamstress or one of the colors in the sewing elements. Choose your preset rectangle shape, with line width set to 15, foreground in the color you chose, and background white, draw out the rectangle into a square in the middle of your canvas, then OBJECTS/ALIGN/Center in Canvas.
Select the border with your magic wand. Images/Texture/Texture/Choose Texture provided in supply folder and using these settings:
Place the texture provided in supply folder in your MYPSPFILES/Textures
As you can see it leaves a sewing edge on your border with stitching inside the border.
Place the STITCHED UP Preset Shapes in your MYPSPFILES/PresetShapes folder.
Set your background color to a deeper shade of your border color. Turn off foreground color. With line width set to 2, draw out the STITCHED UP_BG 8 preset shape inside your back above, just slightly within the borders. Convert to raster. Choose same shape and colors and draw out the shape on the outside of your back above, line width 2 and just outside the border of your tag. My results:
Open Pattern Orchid35 in your workspace. Go to patterns and find that pattern and place in the foreground color. Set size to 144.
Use your magic wand to select INSIDE your tag back, the white interior. Promote selection to layer. (You do that by right clicking on your image in the layer palette)
With still selected, flood fill with the pattern. In layer palette right click and select properties. In the Opacity box put 44.
When we teach layer palette, right click, it means to go over to the right side of your paint shop where your layers are shown and listed. Select the layer we are showing in tutorial, right click, (this means the right button on your mouse) and choose from the options. Promote selection to layer was the first, PROPERTIES was the second. Like this:
Open Seamstress 2 and copy and paste onto canvas. Rename Seamstress 2
Open Seamstress 1 and copy and paste onto canvas. Rename Seamstress 1
Highlight Seamstress 1. Effects/3d effects/Drop Shadow/ 3 3 Opacity 30 BLUR 1
Do Same for Seamstress 2.
Open Octagon and place on right bottom of your tag. Open the Sewing Box and place inside the Octagon back. Apply Drop Shadow 3 -3 Opacity 30 Blur 1 Open Dotted Circle and place beneath the tag back and the octagon back. Like this:
Open your thread tube and place on top of the Octagon on the right. Apply drop shadow 3 -3 Opacity 0 Blur 1 Like this:
I did give you extra stitching preset shapes, you can use them to devise your tag with your vision!
I've also given you extra sewing elements which you can place or replace the others.
Open Sewing Supplies Tube and place on bottom left corner covering legs of table. Apply drop shadow. 3 -3 Opacity 0 Blur 1. My results thus far:
Image/Resize/All Layers/60%
Crop image evenly on all sides leaving about 3/4 of an inch around top, sides and bottom.
Flood fill bottom layer with complementing color.
Load the masks provided in your supply folder and choose a mask to apply to the bottom color filled layer. I chose Mask 214. My results:
If you choose NOT to animate, Merge Visible and save your tag.
ANIMATION STATION
Select Seamstress 1 and close out Seamstress 2
Select bottom mask layer. Effects/DSB Flux/Noise/Mixed/33
Select stitching border.
Effects/Xenofex/Constellation/Use these Settings (For the remainder of this filter)
Select Dotted Circle and apply same Xenofex filter.
Layers/Merge Visible/Save as PSP 1
Edit/Undo Merge Visible
Edit/Undo Constellation
Edit/Undo Constellation
Edit/Undo Noise
With Seamstress 1 still selected, apply same filters in the same steps above, only use random for xenofex to change the effect, and increase the noise to 38 in DSB flux. Merge Visible/Save as PSP 2
Repeat the same UNDO steps.
Seamstress 1 still selected, repeat above, changing noise to 43 and Xenofex constellations to random.
Merge Visible/Save as PSP 3
Repeat UNDO steps.
Close out Seamstress 1 and open Seamstress 2
Go through the filter steps again, THREE times, changing the constellation with random seed clicks, and noise increase by 4 each time.
Save as PSP 4..... PSP 5....and PSP 6
ANIMATION SHOP
File/Animation Wizard/Next/Next/Next/Frame Properties 13/Import images/Numerical order
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