All that Fuss and I figured it out

October 21, 2010

 
Last night Travis taught me how to use photoshop elements.  I am actually embarrassed about what a baby I was.  You should have heard all the b~ing and moaning.  The title up there should really be "All that Fuss and he patiently waited while I worked through some crazy fear of photoshop".   This morning he quoted me saying "THIS IS THE STUPIDEST PROGRAM EVER!"

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Now I am hot after fixing up my crayon art folio pictures.  This pattern has been one of my best sellers for a long time but the pictures needed some serious updating.  I used the Rae method that I talked about in this post.  I almost just used pictures of crayon folios made by AmyDunnDesigns since hers are super cute (thanks Amy!) but I felt like that would have been more than a little L A Z Y since I already had these folios made.  Here are the new pics…

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Last, yesterday I made this little pouch thing and I think it will be my next tutorial.  Elsie immediately packed it full of tiny things and took it on the bus with her this morning.  This version was a little fussy though so I need to make something simpler.  It's a challenge to get around all these tiny corners.

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