The Green Frog Studio

Inspiration Thursday

 

 

hi everyone!

Today, Melissa has a new tutorial for you! All I can say is you're going to LOVE it!

Thanks Melissa for such a beautiful project!

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 For this simple tutorial, I created a patchwork "quilted" look for my greeting card. This technique is very simple but makes a very dramatic statement!

First, you need to trim a block of card stock for your card base. I sized my card to 5" x 7" so that I could get two rows of 2" squares across the front.

I then cut a slightly smaller block of kraft cardstock and adhered it to the plum colored card stock. Then, I punched out 6 circles of card two different pattern papers that were double sided and that complimented each other.

 I traced out a square in the middle of each circle and then folded the edges along each line that I traced.

This created a 2" square that I then placed on the top of the kraft card stock.

fter placing all of my 2" squares down, I used my sewing machine to stitch down each row of blocks. This further emphasized the "quilted" handmade look.

I chose to finish off my card with a few buttons that I placed in the centers of each block. I could have easily finished the card off with a simple stamped sentiment as well. This simple technique could be used on cards or layouts! 

SUPPLIES

Papers (October Afternoon, Crate Paper); Card Stock (Bazzill, Kraft); Embellishments (Basic Grey, October Afternoon); Thread (Coats & Clark, DMC); Adhesive (American Crafts, Zots).

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Sketch Wednesday

 

Hey there!

I can finally share this week's Sketch Wednesday : the crappy internet connection we had at our hotel in Anaheim prevented me from posting this earlier this week. I apologize for that. 

I just landed in Montpellier 2 hours ago and wanted to post to go live before I headed to bed :)

Here's my take on this week's sketch...

A sweet layout, on white cardstock, with shapes cut with my Cameo. I sprayed colors with my Mr Huey Cameo, Custard & Dewey on the background, stamped, used masking tape on the top and bottom of the layout, sewed with my machine and voilà!

 

 

Supplies list

Papers (October Afternoon); Brads (Crate Paper); Mists (Studio Calico); Cutting machine (Cameo); Inks (Chalk de Prima); Stamps (WeRMemory Keepers); Round tags (American Crafts).

and here's Nulka's take on this sketch...

love Nulka's color palette on this! and the fact that she worked on a mini album cover! how clever is that!

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Don't forget to link up your layout below and be spotlighted on this blog next week!

Take care! :)

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Inspiration Thursday

 

Hello everyone!

Today, I'd like to show you a quick tip for editing your dark photographs on Photoshop.

On this photo of Karine I took in Budapest, the lack of light and the bad weather turned the picture into a dark and sad image.

Fortunately, it's easier to edit a dark photo than an overexposed one (impossible to edit).

1. Open Photoshop and your image.

You can click on each image below to make them bigger.

 

2. Click on Image>Adjust>Auto Levels. This will adjust the levels of the blacks & whites on your image.

Sometimes, just using this fonction can be good enough. In this case, not. :)

 

3. If your image is still too dark, click on Image>Adjust>Levels.

 

4. Change and work with the 3 different cursors in order to change the blacks, greys, whites on your image.

5. In Curves, you can also rearrange the levels of the lights.

7. Play with Brightness & Contrast in Image>Adjust if you need more work on your image.

Ta-da! You can now see the difference! :)

 

Have fun playing with Photoshop!

 

 

Sketch Wednesday

Hello there!

This week's sketch is so much fun : the layout I made thanks to this sketch is probably in my TOP TEN of my favorite layouts this month :)

It allows you to make a quick and easy layout, what I REALLY like.

Here's the  sketch...

 

I cut the Chevron background with my Cameo into white cardstock then glued it on my yellow October Afternoon paper.

I made a pocket with vellum paper and glued all my elements on top of it.

 

 

My supplies list

Silhouette CAMEO	Cameo spatula	More White	OA Rocket Age
OA Rocket Age	OA Rocket Age	OA Rocket Age	OA Rocket Age
OA Rocket Age Rubber Charms	Edwin Labels	Kesiart Edwin Stickies #2	Kesiart Edwin Stickies #3
Kesiart Brads	Kesiart Eyelets	Idea-ology - Bead Chain	Brad Setter and Piercing Tool
Cropadile

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and here's Melissa's gorgeous layout...

 

 

 

 

SUPPLIES list

Papers (American Crafts, Pebbles, Kraft), Alphas (American Crafts), Embellishments (Buttons by October Afternoon, Stamps by Studio Calico, Thread by Coats & Clark, Washi Tape by American Crafts, Ink by Staz On), Tools (Circle Punches by Fiskars, Marvy Uchida, & EK Success, Corner Rounder by Fiskars, Sewing Machine by Brother) Adhesive (American Crafts, Zots). 

Isn't Melissa's layout so inspiring? LOVE the colors here!

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Feel free to post a link to your layout and your name in the form below! :) Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Hugs!