OK, so I'm back to making background papers for you. The benefit of having background papers you make yourself in Inkscape is the ability to change the stroke and fill to different colors to coordinate with your project. I made this one high contrast so you could see the pattern. The more subtle color contract is really beautiful but doesn't photo too well.
The pattern for the spirals came about with a new video from Carolyn at CuttingTime and I'll have a link below for you to view. Carolyn has some great tips for using the spiral clump she makes to make cut outs, I just did a print background, but you should really try her method.
 |
| Blow up of pattern for visuals |
The pattern was created with the large clump and Tiled Clones. The smaller pattern was a size reduction of the larger image that I make into a line and aligned and then copy and pasted into place. I did try to do the Tiled Clones with the smaller ones but I couldn't figure out how to get the spacing correct to fit into the larger pattern. Who knows someone of my friends may see this and tell me how I could have done it.
The spirals have a stroke color with no fill. According to the instructions in the video I increased the size of the stroke until I got the effect I wanted. Then I combined all of the design and made the rectangle border and played with fill color on the rectangle and stroke color on the spirals.
You can convert the image to a png to take to your printer. If I wanted a 5x7" background paper I just did a screen capture of a piece of the whole at 5x7 since it is really easy on my Mac to do it. I don't know if you can capture something in the size you want with a PC, again someone may come along and tell me how, maybe YOU. This methods saves INK when you only need a smaller size piece of paper to work with.
Resource
Spiral Project Part 1 - cuttingtime
There are a lot of videos on YouTube for making designs with tiled clones. I have a couple in the Video Tutorial list on the right, but look at as many videos as you can as they all have some different tricks.
Download
SpiralsbkgPS bkg5PS.svg
Come on by Inkscape Cutting Design Forum and see some of the other great backgrounds and helpful members if you have any problems.
Ciao for today.
5 comments:
Susan
These are really pretty.
Myrna
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the Cutting category today [29 Jul 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
The backgrounds look great.
If you want to use two elements together, group them and then do the tiled clones, play with spacing in shift space them.
Thank you for the great plug as well.
I look forward to seeing more of your projects as they always inspire me to try new things.
Really gorgeous papasue. I so enjoy your designs.
What a great idea! You are an inspiration:)
Post a Comment