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Making Your Own Templates:

Scallop Edged Template

By Miss June: Di Hickman,

Creative Team Guest Member

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Scallop edges are so HOT right now! Everywhere you look you'll see scallop edges on patterned paper and cardstock, from big scallops to small everything comes with a decorative scallop edge! You can make your own scallop template and turn any digital paper into a scallop,

I'll show you how...


* First open a new document 12" x 12" @ 300 dpi, with a transparant background



* select your brush palette, ensure that the round brushes are selected (this should be your default set)



* select [brush tip shape] and you can change the brush diameter and spacing. For this template I chose a brush diameter of 300pixels (1") and the spacing to 90%. You can use anything from 1 - 100% depended on the depth of the scallop you wish to create.





* Press shift and then click and drag a line of the brush along the page




* Copy the layer, select the new layer and rotate the image 90 degrees, then move to overlap the original layer


Then Merge the two layers together (control E)



* Again copy the layer, rotate 180 degrees this time, and merge the layers. You should now have a frame of dot brushes




* open a new layer, and using the selection tool click and drag a square overlapping the scallops, fill with the same color and merge the layers (this avoids any stray pixels not being filled)






* once merged as a single layer, save as a .png file to retain the transparant background




* Use the template the same way you would any other template.
* Open your template and the paper you wish to scallop. Drag the paper onto the same document as the scallop template, and use control G to create a clipping mask


and VOILA! (credits: pink paper by Sarah Meyer, SarahB Designs, www.gottapixel.net )



Final layout
Credits: Gummy Grins Girly kit by Sarah Meyer, SarahB Designs, www.gottapixel.net ; font: SP wonderful wendy, Scrapsupply.com


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