67 Cheap Date Ideas for the Recession-Era Romantic - Global One TV by Kyle O'Connor on April 29, 2009 When you’re in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression, it’s not always easy to come up with the cash to impress your date. Luckily, there’s still tons of fun and romantic things you can do that take little-to-no money—all that’s required is a little creativity. Here’s our 67 favorite ideas for cheap dates: 1. Browse the local farmers’ market. 2. Dating doesn’t have to be expensive. Tags: dating, love, romance, soul-mates, spiritual-blogs, spiritual-communities, spiritual-networks, spirituality Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. This photo is the result of adjusting the color curves, adding two vignettes, and a color fill, which we will walk through step-by-step. First, open your photo in Photoshop and make sure your foreground color is set to white in your side tool bar. You will see the above dialogue box. Now, switch your foreground color to black, and repeat the same steps as above by creating a new fill layer, but this time, check the box that says Reverse, and leave the Scale at 100 and adjust the Angle to 150 degrees. As you can see here, there should be three layers – your Background image, then your two gradient layers. Now, let’s adjust the color curves.
My Bamboo is Peacock Blue I have to say thank you to all of you for your suggestions on what color to paint the faux bamboo chest I scored last weekend while out thrifting. Quite frankly, it’s one of those pieces that would look really good in any color, but there were a few comments that coaxed me toward peacock blue. Ooh, rich bluey-turquoise . . . Make the gold hardware pop, yes that’s a must! Yes, me likey colors of the ocean, thanks for reading my mind Andrea. Amen sister, peacock is da bomb. So I busted out of my ‘just paint my furniture white’ box I fit so nicely into, and pulled off a bold shade of glossy peacock blue. Check out this hottie now: Now that’s what I’m talking about! I love it, don’t you? From the start, this find required some minor repairs. Next came the broken leg, with a piece of bamboo falling off. Now it looks like something you’d pay top dollar for on 1st Dibs (double fist bump to the chest, followed up by peace sign to the crowd): Bowl from Marshalls ($3 dolla, holla!)
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25 Handmade Gifts Under $5 If your gift list is long and your budget is small here are some great Handmade Gifts that you can make. Keep in mind that handmade items are not just beautiful but special… I love to give them and I love to receive them. Jersey Knit Bracelet Lovely! This would make a perfect gift for any of your girlfriends. You can choose the colors and recycle t-shirts that you have around the house. Cheap and cute! tutorial Paper Clip Earrings Tutorial This is a brilliant idea… and the possibilities are endless. Love it! Printed Candles Who doesn’t love a candle? Think about how many different stamps you could use to customize this project. tutorial Hot Chocolate Art! What a great gift for neighbors and teachers… I am personally a hot chocolate lover so this would make a great gift for me tutorial Tile Coaster You can buy these plain tiles at Home Depot for under a dollar. I’ve seen them with family pictures also… Way cute! tutorial Bow Belt I was amazed how easy this tutorial was. So Pretty! tutorial Paper Plate Clock Cheap?
Making Complex Selections in Photoshop - DesignFestival » For Web Design Trends | Inspiration | Design Theory | Colors | Web Fonts | UX | Photoshop | Tutorials and more Making precise selections in Photoshop is an essential skill that every designer needs. As a print designer, you will find yourself using selections to remove objects from their background to place within ads. As a web designer, you might extract an image and place it on a website with no background. So, what do you do when you have something that is extremely difficult to select with normal selection tools? Even with the masking and channels, you can’t make a precise selection consistently. You can try the quick selection tool, which does a great job of making a selection of the bulk of the image, but making a more refined selection is difficult with this method. In comes Refine Mask to the rescue. The Refine Mask menu is one of the best tools for refining your selection. Each view has its own purpose, but the best views for contrast would have to be On Black, On White, and Black & White. We can fix this by using the Smart Radius Slider. This is called fringe.
East Coast Creative: How to Paint a Mosaic Accent Wall {Bedroom Makeover} Yesterday, I shared my daughter Kira’s Colorful Bedroom Makeover with all of you. Check it out here if you missed it. It’s interesting when you’re doing a room for a little person… there’s this part of me that wants to go all crazy blogger-designer-nutso on the space, and then there’s the realistic mom side that reminds me that her room will be a disaster of toys in about 3 minutes flat and that I don’t need to go over the top to make her happy. Honestly, I’d kind of be going over the top just for my own self-interest. Today I’m going to share with you the focal point of the room… The Mosaic Accent Wall! I’m a total sucker for an accent wall. How to Create a Mosaic Accent Wall Since this is the room of my 5 year old, I asked her what she wanted, and she told me LOTS of colors. I bought a sample size of each color and a gallon of white paint to use as my base and for all the other walls. This unfortunate event occurred as soon as we got home with the paint. Here’s my supply list: Pencil
Wind Map An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind.
Free Photoshop Brushes from BrushPortfolio.com - Original High Resolution... - StumbleUpon I love how much cool free stuff you can find on the web. Designers are always sharing their talents and you can find some pretty amazing stuff. To help with your search, I have compiled a list of 20 great sites where you can find awesome freebies. There’s no way to include all the great sites online. If I have missed one of your favorites, leave a link in the comments section. 1. Design Shard offers a lot of valuable resources for designers including design tips, inspiration and free resources like Photoshop brushes and textures. 2. Texture King has an amazing selection of high quality textures for download. 3. Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not! 4. Great collection of free Photoshop resources: brushes, shapes, patterns, styles and gradients. 5. I love this blog and find myself reading it all the time. 6. This site just rocks! 7. The artist behind this blog is Jen Furlotte. 8. Design Freebies Heaven. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
This Little Miggy Stayed Home: Gauze Swaddle Blanket Tutorial Over a year ago I decided to make my own gauze type baby blanket for Lamp. I wanted something lightweight to wrap her up in and decided I could definitely make something as cute as any aden + anais swaddle blanket. So I tried a star print using a sweet potato as a stamp. The color was wrong and the stars were either too big or too small, in short it was ugly, ugly, ugly. So I never posted it. So even though I've been running around like a crazy woman with a crazy-long to do list, when inspiration struck I just had to stop and make her another blankie. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Note: I didn't plan for the feather to have the variations you see above with the paint being lighter on some prints, but I really like how it turned out. 8. And your done! But the real test...how does Lamp like it? She'll stick with her ugly star blanket thankyouverymuch. Figures...
How to cut glass I posted a picture about 1 week ago on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter of me cutting glass using just string. I got LOT’S of requests for a tutorial on how I DID THIS! So here it is. FINALLY! You will be able to learn how to cut glass. I want to warn you. It’s best to triple your yarn because it will burn longer! Soak it GOOD! I like to tie my yarn where I want my glass to “cut” then quickly pour polish remover over the string again. Get a big bowl with ice and water ready. VERY IMPORTANT! Slowly turn your bottle. You can’t let the flame go OUT then dunk it in the ice water. YAY!!! I reallly hope you enjoyed this tutorial because I had ALOT of requests for it! © Copyright jaderbombllc, All rights Reserved.