Natalie,
I'm working on my new book.... My son was picked by Serigo the juggler in Italy to assist in his performance so I'm currently working on his special page. I remember seeing Tinkerbell's in outfits that represented the country on some of your journal pages you created. Could you share just the Tinkerbell's for the countries you did?
Thank you for your wonderful compliment on my new book. It's funny because I find myself looking at your layouts before I start a page for ideas!! My husband laughs everytime you load something to your bucket that relates to the current page I'm working on. It's like you can read my mind.
P.S. We were able to see Thumper at Animal Kingdom a few weeks ago. WooHoo a new character. He was with Miss Bunny.
Cynthia your books are amazing. I wanted to ask you how do you get Natalie's designs that are downloaded with the white surrondings, transparent in ur books? I have looked for a tutorial but have not been able to find one.
I use Photoshop Elements. I open a file of Natalies with her designs and then look for something I want to remove from it to use in my books. I use the rope tool to circle the item and then use the wand tool to start cropping in closer and closer until all that I don't want is removed. I hit Ctrl, ALT, and"I" twice. I open a blank file with a transparent background usually a 6X6 or 8X8 depending on the shape of her design. I go back to Natalies design and now click the image and drag and drop it to the blank file. I make sure it fits the the file and then click save as. I save it as a .png file and now I can use it for future use with other pages. I did this a lot with my new Around the World series I did at mousescrappers as I used a lot of her country characters and clipart.
I hope that helps. I've just had to experiment and learn by doing. I would really love to take a class but haven't found one or the time.
Thank you so much for the compliment on my book. I love my Shutterfly memory books. No trip is complete until the book is done!
My January 2010 Book is finished !!!
If you'd like to check it out.....
here it is!
http://community.shutterfly.com/gall...OWjJs4bAWMuwes