An 8 part (ish) video course specially designed for paper crafters. Covering topics such as backing papers, 3d Decoupage, pyramid papers and more. All of this using the fantastic free graphics program, Paint.Net.
The course assumes that you haven’t used a graphics program before. If you have you may want to skim watch the first video as much of it will be familiar to you. Do ensure you watch the bit on layers if yo haven’t used them before, these will come up often in the rest of the course. We hope you enjoy the videos. Each lesson the video will be support by text and images plus we will be supplying a download of the images used. These should enable you to practice exactly what we have done in the video.
In order to follow this graphics course for crafters you will want to install Paint.net which is a windows only program. If you don’t use Windows then you won’t be able to install it but many of the techniques shown in this course will be possible to do on other graphics programs which use layers. […]
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This is the second part of of course which covers Rotation Resizing and Plugins. Slightly shorter video than the first one and also more practical. We obviously assume you now have Paint.net installed on your computer. If you use a different graphics program then some of the techniques shown may be similar depending on what […]
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This is a small additional video we made about using layers to combine two or more images. There is a general example to show you the overall methods and another which is speciiffically geared towards card making. N.B. Although we have done this as part of the Paint.net course, using Paint.net, the same technique should […]
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Making Your Own Backing Papers. Editors Note. This is the third part of the course which concentrates on making your own backing papers. Since Version 3 of Paint.net is no longer supported I will be leaving out the information related to that although you will still hear it mentioned in the video. Plugins for […]
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All of the free downloads on this site may be used in your card making, scrap booking, glass painting and other crafts either for personal use or to sell. However the images aren't copyright free. The Backing papers, Decoupage Sheets, designs etc can not be made into Craft CDs or sold or distributed on the internet or via hard copy. If there is something you would like to do with our free designs and aren't sure about please do contact us. We try and be as accommodating as possible to other crafters who want to use these freebies in other way.
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