Shan's Shenanigans
Wasting your time. one craft, recipe, or pet photo at a time!
Wednesday, August 4, 2021
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Qi Gong for Self Healing - 6-Min Self-Healing Energy Healing Practice
Monday, August 31, 2020
How to Create a Text Mask in PicMonkey
As you may know, I make and sell printables on Etsy! And one of my favorite looks is a Text Mask. That's when you see an image in the letters themselves! It actually is not as hard as you'd think. Just follow the steps of this PicMonkey (I highly recommend the Pro plan, but Basic is pretty good, too!) tutorial, and you'll soon have some gorgeous images or quotes of your own!
Step 1: Pick the image you want to see in your text. It can be anything you like. Personally, I prefer bright, colorful graphics! Just make sure that it is the right size to match your font. Or pick one that could be stretched or shrunk to the right size.
Step 2: Login to PicMonkey and click Create New and pick the size you want. I like to use 8x10 for most of my creations!
Step 3: Next, add your text. There are a lot of fonts to choose from on PicMonkey, and you can also use your own!
Step 4: Click the Layers icon at the bottom of the page, then click Flatten Image in the Layers Palette.
Step 5: Now click Add Image at the top of the page and find your photo. It can be something from your computer or one of the stock images PicMonkey provides. Your text will be hidden from view until the next step.
Step 6: With your image still hiding the text, change the Blend Mode to Lighten or Add. Unless you choose to go with a black background and white text, then you'd choose Darken or Add.
Now all that's left is to Download or Share your beautiful image! If you're creating it to sell on Etsy, you might want to save both a JPG and PDF version, because sometimes customers can print one out easier than the other, so you can include both options in your listing!
I hope you found this tutorial helpful! Please let me know in the comments, and feel free to share your creations!
Friday, August 14, 2020
Summer flowers
The butterflies and hummingbirds, amongst other things, really seem to enjoy it! 🦋
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Quarantined - A night out
The boys are Zeus and Beau! Beau is just three months old, and quite the handful. Just ask Zeus! LOL
I don't care about being quarantined. It's not fun. People are going a little stir crazy. But I just hope we can get through this pandemic without very many more deaths. I think people are really pulling together and trying to do the right thing. So hopefully it will be over by May or June, and this will be a bit of history where the whole world will have learned that we can do anything if we work together!
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
WV Mountaineer Snowman - A Painting
I thought I'd show you a painting I created before Christmas! I'm not sure how the idea came to me, but I think he turned out pretty cute! My friend Melody gave me the idea to use the Flying WV as snowflakes. LOL He's my whimsical tribute to two WV college teams. Obviously, WVU's Mountaineers in Morgantown, but also Glenville State's Pioneers. I grew up in Glenville, you see, and the Pioneers are very similar to the Mountaineers (the people, if not the teams).
I teach paint parties, but this isn't one of my classes. I would love to make some more and sell them, though! What do you think of him? Let me know in the comments below.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
And, of course, being the wonderful grandma that I am, I had to get a few photos! ;-)
My grandgirl is in the purple dress. :-)