Look what I made! First SCAL project

[Iris]

I hadn't thought about using paint. I tried it last night and it was easier to pull out a specific image first. I pulled out the oriental girl from the Small World Coloring Page from paint, then put it into inkscape. I still ended up using the nodes to create the missing parts of the girl that were covered from the original design - I am not really good at freehand drawing and I find the nodes easier to work with when I need to add or edit the image.

I made a quick cut last night with random colors. Definitely a bit of a time saver.

 

[123SA]

This discussion is really helping. The kids are back to school and once I get the house back in order, I'll give this a try again.

I'm going to beg for a favor here - -I need an image to work with. I'd feel much better knowing that the image I have will work -- then maybe I'll get the idea of which images are good to work with.

Can you post a link to image? At this point, I don't care what it is. THanks for your help.

 

[123SA]

I hadn't thought about using paint. I tried it last night and it was easier to pull out a specific image first. I pulled out the oriental girl from the Small World Coloring Page from paint, then put it into inkscape. I still ended up using the nodes to create the missing parts of the girl that were covered from the original design - I am not really good at freehand drawing and I find the nodes easier to work with when I need to add or edit the image.

I made a quick cut last night with random colors. Definitely a bit of a time saver.

This looks great!

 

[morgansmom2000]

I can't wait to try this! No time this past weekend, here's hoping I can stay awake one night this week to give it a try!

 

[Iris]

This discussion is really helping. The kids are back to school and once I get the house back in order, I'll give this a try again.

I'm going to beg for a favor here - -I need an image to work with. I'd feel much better knowing that the image I have will work -- then maybe I'll get the idea of which images are good to work with.

Can you post a link to image? At this point, I don't care what it is. THanks for your help.

This one works: It is fairly simple - not too many small pieces. It is Mickey and Goofy on splash Mountain:

http://disney-stationary.com/coloring-book/Disneyland-DisneyWorld/magic-kingdom/logflume.php

 

[ZeroToHero]

Iris - is that Bazzill paper for the hair? It looks amazing with the texture!

 

[123SA]

Yippeee!!!!!

I made something!!!! I downloaded the Nerf logo from hasbro site. Separaetd out the letters with the paintbucket tool. SAVed it a bunch of different ways. Used the re-sizing tutorial. I got a little stuck on the swoosh part and had to hand cut it out. When I get it altogether I'llpost it and then maybe someone can tell me what I should have done to get the swoosh!

I am sooo very excited about this!

 

[Iris]

Iris - is that Bazzill paper for the hair? It looks amazing with the texture!

Gosh, I don't even know what I used. I just grabbed a bunch of colors so I could try the cut. I think it might be from one of my DCWV stacks.

 

[Iris]

Yippeee!!!!!

I made something!!!! I downloaded the Nerf logo from hasbro site. Separaetd out the letters with the paintbucket tool. SAVed it a bunch of different ways. Used the re-sizing tutorial. I got a little stuck on the swoosh part and had to hand cut it out. When I get it altogether I'llpost it and then maybe someone can tell me what I should have done to get the swoosh!

I am sooo very excited about this!

Can't wait to see it!

 

[123SA]

Here it is!

My issue was the red piece. THe black letters are a silhouette and the yellow letters are inside the silhouette. I sized them to fit and then later realized I could have just cut the black piece out in yellow and used the negatives for the letters. The red is on top of the black -- that part is solid. I couldn't figure out how to separate it while still leaving behind the sihouette part to finish the letter F. I ended up cutting the whole thing in red and just cutting it apart, but you can see it is not perfect inside the F.

 

[Iris]

Wow, that is really great!

 

[hopemax]

Here is project number 2. I put the boy in so I can use it in the DL swap slideshow, and not have to take another photo of the 2 together.

But the very cool thing is this is the image I started from in Inkscape!

I got the image from an old Disneyland coloring book from 1983, that I had found at a garage sale. Most of the pages are like that, scribbles all over the image. This would have taken forever for me to cleanup in Paint Shop Pro, but in Inkscape, I played around with the threshold a bit, but a few clicks and it was a nice clean image.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Oh my gosh - more amazing pieces! Great job, Iris, Susan and Hope!!!

Thanks for the reminder about breaking apart my base and my box, Hope. I just didn't think of that - that was all I needed to do.

My idea of putting everything on one mat didn't work out so well. It was too many things to be able to resize it as big as I wanted and not have it go off the page, so I'll have to try it with the separate files. As soon as I finish my "chores" I plan to reward myself with a little Cricut time.

 

[Iris]

Here is project number 2. I put the boy in so I can use it in the DL swap slideshow, and not have to take another photo of the 2 together.

But the very cool thing is this is the image I started from in Inkscape!

I got the image from an old Disneyland coloring book from 1983, that I had found at a garage sale. Most of the pages are like that, scribbles all over the image. This would have taken forever for me to cleanup in Paint Shop Pro, but in Inkscape, I played around with the threshold a bit, but a few clicks and it was a nice clean image.

That is way too cute!! It is good to know that you are still able to create images from coloring pages that are scribbled on. We have two Disney Cruise Line coloring books (one for each girl) that we got back in 2000 and most of the pages have some coloring on them. I hadn't thought to clean it up in inkscape.

 

[123SA]

Which button is to clean up?

 

[hopemax]

No special button, just the same ol' paint bucket. I just increased the threshold until it filled in the whole space. A low threshold, and it would fill in like swiss cheese.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Okay, don't laugh, but I'm actually pretty proud of this for my first try:

His bottom half is completely messed up - I don't know what is going on with his shoes and that big black gap near his pants isn't supposed to be there. I also have several small pieces left over that I just gave up on trying to fit in, but aside from the missing umbrella handle and part of his collar, I am totally happy with his top half!! It was really hard to figure out where the pieces went - I'm used to having the Cricut markings to guide me. I'm just so so happy that I got to this point. I think with a little more practice I'll have this thing down!!

 

[hopemax]

Great job NEE! My first one of my projects had weird spacing issues too. On the future ones, I would put them not as close to the edge, so a bigger shadow effect. Also with those small pieces, that's where I started increasing the grow box, or whatever it's called, the one next to the threshold box. It makes it just a little bit bigger, and so they fit together better. But still, some piece were just entirely too small, so I ditched them too.

 

[New England Eeyore]

Thanks for the tips!

Also, I wanted to ask if you were all aware of the site http://www.vector-cartoons.com/ ? It has tons of Disney images (along with a lot of non-Disney cartoons), and if you download them in the WMF format, then OPEN them in Inkscape (NOT Import them) they are already broken apart for you. You just have to pull them apart and group them by color. You have to register, and you are allowed 3 free downloads per week. I have not cut anything with it yet, but I have downloaded a few things and pulled them apart - super easy.

 

[123SA]

Jiminy is great! It looks like you are definitely on your way. Thanks for the link. I'll check that out.