Friday, December 16, 2011

Personalized Tape Tutorial

Maybe I have too much time on my hands...but I say I'm just having TOO much fun.  I bought some double-sided tape.  You can find it here.  I was thinking how much fun it would be to have tape with the grandkids' pictures on it to use when I wrapped their Christmas packages.

Here's how you do it.  Find a picture that you want to use and duplicate it (so you don't lose the original one.)
Crop the picture using the Square constraint.

Select the area that you want on the tape.  I used a close-up of her face.

And crop the picture.
Open a Word document and change the Page Setup to landscape.  I did this so I could have longer pieces of photos for the tape I was making.  Change the margins as shown below.
Insert the picture that you cropped.

Format the picture so the layout is set to "Tight..."
and the size is set to .5 inches (or whatever the width of your tape is.)
Drag the tiny picture to the top left corner of the Word document.
Copy the picture and paste the copy beside the first one.
I placed 4 side-by-side and then copied the four together (so I didn't have to copy and paste one at a time.)
Continue until you have a string of pictures all the way across the page.
(I then copied the whole row and pasted another row below the first one, so I could have two rows for my tape.  You could make as many rows as you wanted, of course.)  

Print out the page.
Cut the rows apart.  (I used my rotary cutter.)
Cut a piece of tape the same length as the pictures and place the picture strip on  it.  Be careful because the tape is very sticky and the pictures cannot be moved once they touch the tape.
 And then...
have fun wrapping those presents!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Tree shirts for the girlies


 From this...
 ...to this.
I used red and green ribbon to make the tree
and put a yellow star button at the top.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Hee Hee

So I've been working on Christmas projects.  Can you tell?
What you can't see is the big pile of ironing  in the background
waiting for someone to rescue it from its wrinkles.










Christmas Table Runner



Tutorial here