Welcome back to letter boards. So, in last week’s “Old Signage” post all the steps/images for creating that grooved felt for the background took up a lot of real estate, heh? None of it was overly complicated…just a lot of steps. Sadly, I didn’t get to discuss letter board characters. You may recognize the background in the featured image at the top of this post. That’s the letter board grooved felt I created last week. And today I can get…
Last week I talked about ransom style word art. Today I want to talk about some old signage – Letter Boards as word art. If you’ve read my “About Me” page you likely already know I had a long stint in the corporate world. Over the years I planned more than one conference or other corporate “get together” that generally required some form of signage. Way back in the twentieth century, letter boards were a very common form of signage….
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been working on a layout with a very specific theme and thought I had the perfect kit. Then low and behold, even with all the fabulous word art included, I can’t seem to find what I need. Nothing said I had to stick with only that one kit. I just usually tend to do that since it saves time trying to find bits and pieces from other kits that will coordinate nicely…
I know I’ve posted multiple times about creating grunge overlays. Most recently I shared a layered technique in my “Artsy Layered Overlay” post back in September. There seems to be countless ways for us to achieve a grunge look for a piece of paper or even an element. But today I want to show you how to create some grunge with the use of the Wave Filter (within the Distort category). The Wave Filter is somewhat hidden and rarely used…
Over the past two years in countless posts, I’ve talked about the importance of proper shadows. This goes all the way back to one of my first real technique driven posts, “Don’t Let Your Pages Look Flat” from April of 2023. Between April of 2023 and a recent post about creating folds in July of this year, I’ve talked about shadowing countless types of elements from buttons and bows to complex things like hot air balloons. Oddly enough, I’ve never…