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technique

Sewing – Pink Boucle Purse

19 August 2008

My first experiment in building a structured purse.
I used the Dorothy/Evelyn pattern from Emma Brennan’s Making Vintage Bags. Charming bags and good instructions – a lovely book.
The pink boucle fabric jumped off the shelf at me in JoAnn’s one afternoon. It seemed like something that should be made into a Chanel jacket but I can’t [...]

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New Techniques

28 March 2008

I’ve got a shiny new copy of Photoshop CS3 and have been experimenting.
In Photoshop Creative Collection v3 (no link available) there’s a technique that mimics pen and ink. Something that is similar to some watercolor and ink work that I did a couple of years ago.
I did the tutorial and got this effect.

Which I liked [...]

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