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samirka · #1 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007

As I can say I'm still new to scrapbooking,I'm learning how to make some ribbons and ties and other elements..
The closest thing that I could do is the pink ribbon..but it's not realistic enough I wanna know,how do you make ribbons and ties Like the brown one in the attachment.
I will be Thankful if you helped me with a tutorial

moxie · #2 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007

Hi Samirka...Actually your pink knotted ribbon looks great!

I usually make a real bow and photograph it then load to my editing program where
I extract it from the BG. (I use a black BG so there won't be any shadows. This works
best for me, but I know there are other designers who like to create their bows with
their program, and do a very good job of it. I'm not very good at that. Here are a couple
of samples of bows I did:

http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...0&ppuser=64393
http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/galle...0&ppuser=64393

Hope this helps.
Hugs,
Toni

shelleyrae · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2007

The brown one is very dark - but I'd almost assume it was scanned - many are as Moxie said scanned and extracted. There are also some actions that do all the work for you (google digital scrapping for bow actions)
I think the pink one looks good too though the shadow is a bit heavy

Ill add the idea to my tutorial list and see what I can come with for you

Ive had reasonable sucess making my own knots look realistic but not with actual bows

samirka · #4 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007

Wonderful! Thank you so much girls!
Moxie your bows are just beautiful!
And Shelley, I will wait for your ideas and tutorials! By the way,you do a great job up there! Love all the tutorials! Thank you,I've learned so much!

LDesjardin · #5 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007

Bows and knots are really hard to do and take a lot of practice. I gotta agree that yours look great. I have made my own, but now I photograph them and extract. If you photograph it, it will be much easier if you use a background with a contrasting color. If it's pink use green; if it's white use grey or black. Then it will make extracting much easier. I have a tutorial on photographing flowers against a background and extracting them on my website, but it would work well for flowers as well. You can see it here:
http://desjardindigitaldesigns.com/p...tract-a-flower

samirka · #6 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007

Thank you dear!You helped a lot!

moxie · #7 (**permalink**) 10-25-2007

Great tut, LaWanna! TY!

shelleyrae · #8 (**permalink**) 10-28-2007

Still working on it