Well I made it, a year of projects. It's ironic I started with Feng Shui and ended with the same type of activity. I managed to clear ...

I've never made good enchiladas, until now. The sauce recipe came from All Recipes . I made a few changes but their recipe is excell...

I had a bookmark for High Tea locations in the Twin Cities. I think I should have planed this better since the premier location, the Saint P...

My hubby is bonkers for caramel; I usually make it in a crock pot.  Cover a can of Sweetened Condensed Milk with water and leaved in a Crock...

Tattooed Martha has a tasty idea for squash and no, I have zero tattoos. I took a few shortcuts with my version but I liked it a lot. ...

Design Seeds does pretty color palettes based on photos. These photos were taken last summer at the Farmer's Market and the Water Lily ...

You can make repeating patterns in Photoshop but I prefer Illustrator since they are vectors. I made some notes about how to do this from a ...

I'm waiting for the book Making an Impression: Designing & Creating Artful Stamps to come in at the library, the problem is, I wan...

The way I learned to wrap text around an object was outrageously complicated. You needed to cut and paste sections and nothing ever lined ...

When I was choosing the tape colors in the last entry I wanted orange and the eyedropper kept picking up browns. I was going to show how...

If I could only stick to the digital version... Nichole's Classes has an excellent YouTube video. I used a pretty swan photo that I fou...

Instagram effects make photography even more fun but I don't have a smart phone so I have to do it myself. I feel like such a Lud...

I love the tilt shift effects that you are seeing lately where you take an actual scene and make it look like a model. The opening credits...

10 Steps.SG has a sweet tutorial for making a simple Letterpress effect on text. My Notes: Place a paper background into Photoshop. T...

This came out a bit too bright but the examples in Photoshop Essentials look much better. I did the final mask at 40% opacity on the ...

Spoon Graphics , Digital Yard Sale and Design Shack have really good tutorials for using texture as layer masks. One uses the channels tab...

 This is the same stock photo from Morgue File that I used yesterday. I tried Abduzeedo's Tutorial for using Photoshop's High...

 I got this lovely cat photo from the stock photo site, Morgue Photo. The tutorial for this fun effect came from Design Nocturne . It w...

Wegraphics has a interesting way to color a live trace image. I haven't found a way to easily choose where the color goes but it is e...

Matt at Design Nocturne has a terrific surreal tutorial on using halftones. There's also another good informative halftone tutorial a...

I have a fascination lately with Bokeh effects and this tutorial from Matt at Design Nocurne covers faking it in Photoshop very well. I th...

I'm not certain why I bookmarked this tutorial from Vectips ; perhaps to remind me of the effects that are seldom used. It's good to...

Sometimes you want to see the detail of a photo's background while changing it's appearance. puglypixel has a nice tutorial.  (oop...

Thank you NASA for your wonderful photos (in the public domain) and DesignNocturne for a fun tutorial. The body of water is Lake Mille Lacs...

I was inspired by a clever movie poster tutorial on Wegraphics . Conor had taken stock images and made a grunge Western movie poster. I was ...

One of the great things about Photoshop is there are so many ways to get the same thing done. In We Lived Happily Ever After she crops phot...

Grain texture is another option that I seldom use in Illustrator. If I need a grain texture I go to Photoshop but there is a very nice tut...