Decorate in Halloween Colors

 Always use at least two colors. Three may be better. Four may be too many.

Always go for more than one shade of the chosen color. Two or more shades can create the feeling of plasticity.

Orange and black are still the way to go. Just don't rely on orange and black only.

Purple is the new kid on the block Use it sparingly. It can be too hard for the eyes. Chocolate in purple comes in small packings for a reason.

Here is an example of few possibilities (don't forget the background!):

Haloween Colors by color-pencil is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Enjoy!

Simple picture with text in Inkscape

 Example of creation of simple image with text in Inkscape

Somebody wanted an image for example of profile page but didn't want to use anything real due possible copyright problems. While most of website owners won't give you a problem for using a print-screen of their website, especially if you give them a credit, your own imae is alway a safer bet.

Your copyright is just yours.

So I took Ikscape, my favorite grahic tool in recent weeks and wrote a short profile page with name, address, etc.

Something like that:

Of course some planning was a must but nothing dramatic. I just had to leave enough space for photo.

You can't have a decent profile without a photo, right?

MM will do just fine.

I took it from Pixabay. This service is exceptional. And their prices are within my budget, too!

Then I just had to insert the photo into written text, resize it and position it and - voila (that's French - and don't ask me what it means because I don't speak French):

If you are curious, here is also a link to the article, where the image is used. Lovely, right?

How to Make a Composite Picture in Inkscape

Use Inkscape to Manipulate PD Images into Attractive Background

Our client recently wanted to add a calendar with an image of Mother Goose for their online page with Free Printable May Calendars (The first of May is National Mother Goose's Day in America). We found a Public Domain book about Mother Goose, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow, but we noticed there are also many other beautiful picture books and other works by Mr. Denslow. Then, we decided to set up a mini website dedicated to this talented and controversial illustrator.

We tried to make the home page of this mini-website as attractive as possible. Mr. Wenslow created tons of great illustrations, after all. He is best known as the 'original Wizzard of Oz illustrator', so the choice was obvious - we took an 'endpaper' from this book and combined it with one of the photographs portraying him.

The 'endpaper' in our case, consists of two parts:

and

We also have a photo:

The first step was to make a composite picture of both parts of the 'endpaper'. This can be simply done in Inkscape (insert each of the pictures by ctrl-I and move them so they stand one by one).

Here it is:

As you can see, there is a poster on the left side with Tin Man standing in front of it just perfect for inserting the photo of the illustrator. We inserted it and moved it to the desired place. Some additional tweaking with resizing led us to the desired result:

The mini-website is still a work in progress, but there are already a few picture books presented. The project will grow in the next months and hopefully present the best work by William Wallace Denslow in one place.

If you find this article useful, share it with your friends, followers, and everybody who might be interested. Of course, every promotion of William Wallace Denslow's mini-website is highly appreciated as well.

All thanks to a few artistically inspired enthusiasts and Inkscape with its community.

Vintage Valentine cards

Do you like vintage Valentine cards? There are a lot of very pretty vintage cards we can send for Valentine's Day.

Take a look at few of them in my Vintage Valentine Cards lens on Squidoo.com and send it.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Calendar 2013

I found few beautiful calendars for 2013 with photos of nature on Zazzle.com.

 

Check them out in my lens Calendar 2013, http://www.squidoo.com/a-calendar.

Happy Halloween Orange Pillow

Happy Halloween Orange Pillow

Bread with sunflower and pumpkin seeds

And here is bread made with rye flour and sunflower and pumpkin seeds.