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Here is a peek into the latest releases now available at Ztampf!Shop:
Enjoy your weekend and treat yourself with the versatile and beautiful Paper Park once you got Ztampfever #44!
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There are two new exclusive gifts for all Ztampfans there! If you are already there, you should have already received a message with the links to download them. If you haven’t joined, well now is a good time to do so! Once you joined, leave a message on Ztampf! Page and I’ll get you the download links a.s.a.p.! Yeah!
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Of course, there are some new stuff waiting for you in Ztampf!Shop:
Burnin’ Love Album: my first 8.5 x 11 QuickPage Album made mostly from the Burnin’ Love Kit.
GelloGlass AlphaSet – it’s cool, it’s fun, it’s versatile!
And… for all your sewing needs, a colorful sets of Haberdasherie Packs which are also available as a single Haberdasherie Package Saving! Automatically save yourself $6.00 with this Package Saving – and get a cool Bonus Pack too!
The separate Color Packs:
From each Color Pack you’ll get 29 unique, highly detailed elements:
– 4 Various Stitches, a little over 12″ long
– 4 Various Stitched Buttons
– 1 Frayed Piece (can be used for journaling note or photo mat)
– 4 Various Pinked Pieces (1 is Tulle, provided with and without drop shadow)
– 4 Various Lace
– 1 Inserted Needle
– 3 Inserted Needle with Thread in various positions
– 3 Various Pins
– 2 Various Wavy Ribbons (1 is Shimmering Semi-Sheer)
– 2 Various Bows
– 1 Twill Tape
Get all the colors in the Haberdasherie Package Saving – they will come in handy :). Enjoy!
Look who’s being featured at Shutterfly Digiscrap Blog :). More articles will be revealed there over time so stay tuned!
So! In response to some interests expressed by some people here in Hong Kong to learn digital scrapbooking, I decided to hold some digi workshops! How exciting! I have several workshops planned, ranging from the basic to advanced hybrid projects. Let’s start with the basic first:
Introduction to Digital Scrapbooking
A small workshop for beginners to get you started with digital scrapbooking.
Maximum 3 participants per session.
What it covers:
1. The Principals of Digital Scrapbooking
2. The Basic How To
3. Creating Your First Page Using QuickPages
What you will get:
1. US$20 (approx. HK$155) worth of products of your choice from Ztampf! Shop + a 25% OFF Discount Coupon for your next purchase at Ztampf!
2. Print out of your pages on an A3 Canon Photo Pro Paper and on an A4 Canon Fine Art “Photo Rag” Paper. FYI: one A3 size paper will fit one 12″x12″ layout or a few of smaller sized layouts/cards, while one A4 size paper will fit one 8″x8″ layout or a few card sized layouts.
3. The necessary knowledge to start doing digi, plus some tips and tricks!
4. Three hours of fun :)
Fee:
HK$450 per person per session, to be transferred to my bank account* by three days prior to the workshop date at the latest. Upon receiving the payment, I will email you a US$20 Gift Certificate to use at Ztampf! Shop. Download the products you want to use for the workshop and bring them with you to the workshop (either in your laptop hard drive or on a CD-Rom).
Bring along with you:
1. Your laptop (make sure the battery is fully charged, and bring along the DC power with you)
2. You have to have an image editing program installed in your laptop, i.e. Photoshop Elements, Corel Photo Paint, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Picture It or anything similar
3. Photographs that you want to scrap with, along with the Ztampf! products you got
4. A Folder or a Paper Tube to keep your print outs later
Snacks and drinks will be provided. You are more than welcome to bring your own to share too :)
Time:
Monday, February 23rd 2009
Morning Session, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
and
Tuesday, February 24th 2009
Afternoon Session, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Where:
Greenish Court*, Greenvale Village, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
If you are not familiar with DBay, I can also meet you down at the DBay Ferry Pier around 30-45 minutes prior to the workshop time.
*Complete address along with banking information will be disclosed upon registration.
To Register:
Email me with the following information (you can copy and paste this to your email):
Name:
Mobile No.:
Session Preferred:
Operating System you are familiar with:
Image Editing Program you have/use:
In the scale of 1 to 10, how familiar are you with your Image Editing Program?
Have you worked with Layers in your Image Editing Program before?
That’s it! Hope to hear back from you soon :).
Thanks!
Natural, Realistic Looking Use of Digital PaperClips
Ever wonder how to apply the paperclips so they look realistic? Especially pretty tough when using on say, a short piece of tag, or a ribbon – anywhere when the lower bit would show. And how about on a sheer ribbon or a piece of vellum paper?
Well, Ztampf! makes it easy for you. In most cases, I would provide the paper clips in 2 versions:
• Full Version, showing the entire clip.
• Clipped Version, showing how it would appear when ‘clipped’ to a paper/tag/picture with the ‘back’ section partially erased.
Now, to use a paper clip in the most common way, you would just drop the Clipped Version where you want it, align it well with the edge of the paper and you’re done! It even has the natural looking shadow where it should have! Convenient!
For other type of usage as described at the top, you would need to use both versions:
– Place both version on your file, each on its own layer.
– Align them well, so they would look like there is just 1 paper clip. Use the top as the base to align them precisely.
– Next, adjust the layers order: place the Full Version layer to be BEHIND/underneath the layer of paper/tag/picture to be clipped.
– Now, while making sure that they are still linked together, drag them to where you want the paper clip to be.
– Voila! See the result for yourself!
On the left is the common way of using just the ‘Clipped Version’. On the right made use of both versions to create a complete paper clip being clipped through a short material, with the bottom part of the paper clip peeks out.
The samples above were taken from these layouts below. Click the thumbnails to see them larger:
I’ve decided to move the Tips’n Tricks Section on Ztampf.com here over the next few days.
Below is a tutorial I did upon customer requests to use with my The Ultimate Torn Pack, can also be used for similar products.
THE ULTIMATE TORN PACK – TUTORIAL
For using the Cropping Templates with Torn Overlays
based on Photoshop CS
• Choose the paper you want to ‘tear’, open it in your graphic software.
• Choose the style of ‘tear’ you want, noting the name i.e. Circle.
• Open the CroppingTemplates folder and find the cropping template for Circle.
• Open it and copy the layer on top of the paper layer.
• Open the the Circle torn overlay file and copy it on top of the cropping template layer.
• Link or group the Cropping Template layer with the torn overlay layer, they should be automatically aligned when you copy them. Otherwise make sure they are perfectly aligned before you link/group them together.
• Position them where you want the ‘tear’ to be done.
• Use your Select Tool with Color Range or Magic Wand Tool (set the tolerance level to Zero) to select the area, a marquee should appear.
• Now hide the Cropping Template layer and Un-hide the paper layer.
• If your paper layer is a background layer, turn it into a layer (Layer 0 in PSCS).
• Hide all layers except the Cropping Template layer.
• Select the paper layer, then cut/crop (Command X or Control X). Another way to do this is using the Create Clipping Mask under the Layer Menu (Opt+Cmd+G in Mac). This way your paper is not actually being cropped/cut.
• Un-hide the torn overlay layer.
• Remove the remaining unwanted portion of the paper using cropping tool.
• Delete the Cropping Template layer.
• Merge the torn overlay layer with the paper.
• If you want to add drop shadow to the paper, do this before merging it with the torn overlay layer.
• See the samples given to see how they look like.
• Compare the ZtampfTornThings_FloralDelight07.png with the ZtampfTornThings_FloralDelight08.png. The first one used the Framed Circle, while the latter one used the Circle.
• You can combine the tear overlays on 1 paper as shown in the ZtampfTornThings_ChatreuseBloom.png in The Ultimate Torn Pack.
Hope you will find this useful!
Need help making special Valentine’s Cards for those special people in your life?
There are 3 sets of Mini AlbuMail included. What is Mini AlbuMail? It is a unique mini album (and a card too!) designed to be easily folded for mailing which can then be hung on the wall for display by the recipient! Each Mini AlbuMail fits 3 photos with your own title/notes plus a short letter/message on the other side. It’s as easy to use as QuickPages. The unfolded size is half A4 (vertically divided). Can be printed on A4 size or US Legal size papers. Easily re-sized down to fit the size of your paper. Full Instructions is included with the pack.
See more detailed preview of each set below:
And there’s more… You’d love this set ;)
Yup, plant some passionate kisses on your projects with this “Been Kissed” ARTiStrokes Set! Just perfect for Valentine’s Day, Engagements and Weddings themed projects! There are a total of 24 kisses in this set: 6 Kiss Overlays – each provided in 4 luscious colors of Deep Red, Deep Peach, Bold Pink and Bold Red. Get yours now!
Enjoy!
So what’s new, you ask? Here they are!
See the papers a bit better here:
Spring Festival Album Set is available too:
Don’t forget the Spring Festival QuickCards Set and Hong Bao Envelope Templates Set:
And rejoice to romance and the romantic:
Of course… La Durelle Package Saving is also available! But better yet… read Ztampfever #41 just released today for the benefits ;). Yes, I said benefitS ;).
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Well, I think you will probably want to use what’s tucked in in the newsletter to get this newest series… Full of unique and delightful ztampfiliciousness! Honestly, the previews just can’t do justice to the dimensional details of the papers and elements in this Snow Country Series:
Also available:
– Snow Country AlphaSet
– Snow Country Ensemble Set
– Snow Country QuickPage Album
And of course… for the Best Deal, just get the Snow Country Package Saving: get them all at discounted pricing – plus receive a Bonus! Pssst… read the newsletter first for an even bigger saving ;).
And there is more… You can quickly create beautiful pages for a Brag Book as a gift option this holiday season with this new Frosty Noel BragBook Set! Most of the pages can be used to create holiday greeting cards too! They are in standard photo size of 4″x6″ – perfect for printing at home or at your local photo printer.
Now, you can get this set for FREE when you spend $10 or more in a single order from now through end of December! That’s a $6.00 value you’ll be saving here! Just use this coupon code upon checking out: braggingten08. Enjoy your week!
A while ago, KOLO USA asked me to use their albums as a way to show some creative uses of KOLO versatile albums. I have four albums shown in a KOLO event at C!ty’Super, Hong Kong in October 2008. I really enjoyed working with KOLO Albums – creating mixed-media and hybrid pages. What I love most about it is how versatile KOLO Albums are. Their post-bound system enables me to rearrange my pages quickly. Also, I can easily add more pages as I created more.
And these albums have been featured in KOLOIST, the KOLO official blog! Check them out:
http://koloist.com/index.php/2008/11/25/lie-fhung-kolo-albums
http://koloist.com/index.php/2008/11/26/mixed-media
http://koloist.com/index.php/2008/12/03/soar
http://koloist.com/index.php/2008/12/11/flight-journal-album
I have also uploaded photos of the albums’ content to the Ztampfest Gallery here where you can browse most of the pages I did. I try to give as detailed supply info when possible, along with some technical notes. While ordering photobooks online is fast and easy, creating your own hybrid albums is so much more fun and personal, I think! Plus, you have the flexibility to re-arrange your pages and let your album grow as you created more pages. Oh and I personally think they will make gorgeous holiday gifts ;).
– “Childhood Memories” – a Hybrid album in KOLO Newbury with Chartreuse cover
– “Soar” – another Hybrid album in KOLO Noci with Cobalt cover
– “Artisting” – a mixed-media art album in KOLO Noci with Mango cover
– “Flight” – a straight forward printed digital layouts in KOLO Newport with Chocolate cover
Enjoy! Hope they will inspire you to create your own!
Have you seen this latest addition to Ztampf! Shop?
Available in US English and Global English Versions
Use them to make Postcards, Tent-Fold Greeting Cards, Two-Fold Greeting Cards, Fridge Magnet Cards… The QuickCards can be used to make a mini album too! These make great gifts and keepsakes for your loved ones and yourself :).
What’s included in the pack:
• 3 5×7 inches Card Calendar pages in PNG format and transparent windows for your photos
• 3 5×7 inches QuickCards in PNG format and transparent windows for your photos
• 3 Styles of Dates Overlay (2009) in PNG format with transparent background for you to use with any papers/kits you want to create your calendars from scratch.
• 6 Unique Date Markers in PNG format as reminders for those important dates!
• 3 sets of matching Card Covers (spread, 10×7 inches)
• 1 Postcard Back
• 1 Tent-Fold Card Template
• Instructions with Illustrations
Created using various recent Ztampf! kits at 300dpi for optimum print out result. These are designed to fit into an A3 size paper to result in 5×7 cards but can be easily re-size down to fit into Letter Size, Legal Size, and other paper sizes. For Tips and Tutorials on resizing, click here.
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