April Blog Calendar | 2018

April 3 - TUT | Rikki (READY in forum)
April 10 - Article | Jenn Mc (making custom sticker sheets for planners from Digi Scrap Kits)
April 15 - Challenge | (Round Robin - Mirjam, Gaelle, and just need one more volunteer TBA)
April 17 - Hybrid | Geraldine
April 24 - Pretty Pages (GSO) - Jenn Mc (READY)

HI Guys... I just realized I will be away for the April tutorial. We are going on vacation from 3/28 through 4/7. Do you want to switch it for later in the month? I can try to put something easy together - non tutorial related, but I'm kind of scatterbrained at the moment (ok, most of the time it seems, but now, more with the dog and stuff).


ETA.... I know if 2 layouts that have used my tutorials in the gallery. I could spotlight them, and then link to the previous tutorials. I saw one with the Pixelizing awhile back, and then Dalis just created one with the crinkled paper. Just a thought. :)

Let's see if Rikkii wants to jump in and do something for the blog that month ...

Hey,

I just recorded a really short video about how to dodge and burn tape to make it look a bit more realistic. I used that technique on this page that is alreadx posted, but if you like we could use that, The video is actually only with the photo and one tape and otherwise naked, just to show the technique.

On the web version it's a bit hard to see but in the video it is clearer... it's the green tape at the bottom right of the photo



Not done with it yet, but it would be an easy thing to do.....

Rikki ...that sounds great! And that photo is just so COOL! WOW

Can you please make a new thread in this section of the blog forum area, titled with the Tut name and date it goes live. You can add .... in progress while you are tweaking it. Then when it is done add ... READY for Blog. This way Mirjam knows when it is OK for her to grab it.

Thank you!

Jenn - enjoy your away time!

Thanks, guys!

April is the perfect month to began my balcony vegetable garden.

I sowed radish and lettuce seeds. And with my children we planted potatoes, strawberries and tomatoes plants.
I created several garden tags to decorate and to remembrer where are my different crops.

Several years ago, Pink Reptile Designs and Amy Wolff Designs created a collaboration on garden theme.
I used this kit named Homegrown to create my tags.

I created my tags on photoshop then I printed them.

The first step was to draw a rectangle to symbolize my tag


I decided to create three different designs, so I created three tags. I decorated them :




My tags will be fold in two. The left part is the recto and the right part is the verso of my tag :


I added name of my crops of the verso :


When I finished my tags, I colored the rectangle in white to be print :




I printed my tags.

Then I cut them to obtain paper tags :


I glued a piece of double face tape on each tag :


I added a toothpick on the double face tape :


And I folded in two the tag :


I obtained three garden tags :


I planted them in my vegatble garden. My tag among my strawberry plants :


And two weekds after the seeds sowing, I saw the first radish seedlings :


My garden has beautiful tags !

Super cute Géraldine!!!

I agree with Mirjam ... this is so super cute!!!