If you’re old enough to remember when VHS tapes were still popular, sometimes an error would occur causing a clouded glitch effect. This once annoying visual effect is now seen as aesthetically pleasing. After this simple tutorial, you will be able to create a glitched RGB text effect in Photoshop.
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Tutorial: Aging Paper
Hey, ya’ll below are the steps on how to “age” paper.
Materials Used:
– Coffee grounds
– Water
– Paintbrush
– Paper towels
– Paper of your choosing*
– Heat gun**
Tutorial: Embossing
Hey, ya’ll! I hope you enjoy this quick tutorial on embossing.
Materials used:
– Moxy embossing powder (high gloss and opaque white)
– Ranger “Emboss It” pen in black
– Heat gun
– Black crafting paper
Tutorial: Poppy Flower Color
Hey, ya’ll! For this tutorial, I am showing you how to color a poppy drawing using Tombow Dual Brush Pens. This is the same illustration seen in my “How to Use Tracing Paper” blog post. Please refer to that post if you need help getting your drawing on the final material. [Click here for the tracing tutorial]
Materials used:
-Tombow Dual Brush + Blending Pens
-Canson Watercolor Paper
-Aquastroke brush [this is optional, any brush and a cup of water also works]
Tutorial: How to Use Tracing Paper
Tracing paper is low opacity paper. A benefit of this see-through paper is the ability to copy an image or drawing by hand. The purpose of transferring an image is to avoid damaging the final product. Heavier stock paper, like watercolor paper, can tear easily while fixing errors.
Materials used:
-Strathmore Tracing Paper
-Graphite Pencils [2H and 5B]
-Canson Watercolor Paper
Tutorial: Halloween Treat Tags
Halloween is right around the corner! Okay, maybe it is still over a month away, but crafting should come early. Whether this is for a party or just fun treat bags these Halloween tags; would be the interest of any ghoul.
Materials used:
-Tombow Dual brush pens
-Optional Halloween craft stamps [ I only used stamps on 2/4 of the tags]
-Paper tags
-String or ribbon to attach tags to bag or other items
-Aquastroke brush [this is optional, a small brush and a cup of water also works]
Tutorial: Watercolor Background
Hey, ya’ll welcome to my very first tutorial.
For this project, I created a watercolor background using Tombow Dual Brush Pens on mixed media paper. [Tip: For best results use watercolor paper with Tombow Dual Brush Pens.]
MATERIALS USED:
Tombow Dual Brush Pens
Canson Mix Media Paper
Aquastroke brush [this is optional, any brush and a cup of water also works]