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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Hello fellow scrappers! Rosy here with one of my favorite little digital scrapping tricks. A few of you have been asking about how I turn stripes to plaids in my layouts.
I have no idea if this is the “proper” way of doing this, but I’m going to show you my method. It’s super simple.
First I open my striped paper. (this one is from the Tropical Winter kit)
Then duplicate it.
Rotate the top layer 90 degrees.
Turn down the opacity of the top layer to 50%.
Merge the two layers together.
Right click on this layer and select “layer from background” and then rotate it 45 degrees and you have a plaid paper!
Just remember not to permanently save your paper this way or you will lose your original striped paper!
I often use this when I want the linear look of a stripe, but don’t want it to be directional (like when I use it to mat a photo). A lot of SP’s kits have a beautiful plaid in them already, but I’ve found this a handy trick when the papers I’m using don’t have a coordinating plaid in the kit.
Here are a few of my pages where I’ve done this. (linked to the gallery for credits)
I hope that answers the questions that anyone had about it! If not, just let me know in the comments and I’ll try to clarify.
Thanks for checking out the blog today! Casharina will be with you tomorrow to share some of her scrapping inspiration with you.
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Mar 15, 2012 @ 11:47:04
Hi, I’m really in love with the last 2 layouts. They’re really lovely!! Thanks so much for sharing the useful tips:)
Feb 10, 2012 @ 09:16:30
Thankyou Rosy for this wonderful tip about plaiding it up! I love your LOs! gorgeous. I am looking forward to using this technique! so simple but effective. hmmmm I wonder what else we can come up with then!
Feb 09, 2012 @ 09:17:50
love this… i will be ‘plaiding’ it up… maybe try a few of my own with some stripes! thanks for the inspiration! :O)
Feb 08, 2012 @ 21:41:06
Thank you, ladies! I’m glad you all find this as fun as I do!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 18:58:42
That’s so easy! Thanks for sharing. And your layouts are awesome!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 18:22:40
What a simple and useful tip! I love plaids! Thanks!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 14:54:30
Thank you so much! What a great tip. And it is SO easy!!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 12:10:25
I would have NEVER thought of that! So easy, too! Thanks for the super trick:) Love it.
Feb 08, 2012 @ 11:22:21
Tricky Tricky! LOVE it! I have wondered how you did that! Thank you for sharing!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 10:09:38
Awesome tip! I do love a plaid, but many designers don’t make them ….
Feb 08, 2012 @ 09:43:28
Very exciting! I love plaid!! Thanks for sharing :)
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:49:02
I thought this would be super complicated, but it is not. Now I can use all the stripe pages that I wished were plaids. Yeah! thanks for the tip/trick.
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:58:11
It is really simple! I never thought of it as a technique until I started getting asked about it! Thanks for stopping by!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 07:41:29
Awesome! Super simple and so fun. Off to make some plaid paper now!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:06:45
You can never have too many pretty plaids! (in my opinion) Have fun!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 06:21:02
YAY! Thank you…I can’t wait to try it!!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:09:12
Great! Hope you have fun playing!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 05:30:38
Thanks Rosy – great trick! I will definitely be trying this :)
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:05:27
Good! I can’t wait to see how everyone uses their plaids!
Feb 08, 2012 @ 05:12:29
ha ha, this is so simple but looks so good! thank you, I will feel clever (and probably just a little bit smug -ekk!) for the rest of the day now! :o)
Feb 08, 2012 @ 08:03:11
You’re too funny! and now you’re making me feel all clever about a simple thing! :)