Make it Colourful Challenge No Black Lines

"No Black Lines"

Morning guys, I have quite a long post today so I hope you can stick through it as theres a short tut that might be helpfull to some.

I will start with the challenge, this week Make it Colourful have a really fantastic theme called
"No Black Lines"
Sponsored by Make it Crafty

So what do we mean, simple, just by using an ink in a light colour or changing the brightness of you digi's. I used the lovely Cici from Make it Crafty which I brightened using a free programme called GIMP.

For a change I decided to alter a couple of things instead of making a card, I am all carded out at the moment.
So here I decorated a Jam jar and rolling pin.
I have got two giant pieces of crepe paper that I hadn't used for ages so decided to try my hand at making some flowers. They are so easy to make, all you do is cut little strips, roll it a few times then twist back and forth as you carry on around, then just glue

Here I have added a few pic's of how to lighten your digi images.

If you have gimp you may already know so this is for the guy's that may not. Firstly open your image in Gimp and on the top bar you will see the word colors, click that and it will open a box of options, you need to scroll down to brightness-contrast and click

This will then open another box with brightness and contrast, move the bar all the way across on the brighness as show then click ok

Now you are ready to save this in a new folder, remember to change the name of your image as you don't want to alter the original, so press save as and this will open another box

Here you can rename your image and save it either to your desktop or another folder.

"PLEASE READ THIS"

It's very important to remember when you save your image to save as the same type of image it came in, for instance PNG is an image with a transparent background so you don't want to save it as a JPG or it will give it a white background. So say for example your image is called Cici.png you need to rename it as your new chosen name with .png at the end and remember the dot before png. I hope that has explained it for you

Also please be sure you are allowed to alter your images, so read the company terms first, if your unsure ask for permission.

With the image above I have to stress I had to repeat the tut a second time to get it really light, after I saved the first one I reopened it and brightened it again.
Please let me know if this tut was helpfull or if you have any questions. I really hope you will have a go and join us at Make it Colourful this week.

Just before I go I need to tell you about the new Make it Crafty GALLERY . That's where you will find all the teams challenge samples and join us in the current themes there you can view all the fantastic MiC designs and upload your's as soon as you register. Making it's a great place for load's of inspiration for your MiC products.

I think that just about covers everything, please hop over to see all the beautiful samples from my teamies, till next time have a fabulous weekend guys.
xXx

Cici coloured with copics
Face, E000,00,02
Hair, YR00,20,21
Dress and Flower, RV23,13,25
Cherry, R14,8,27