Andrea's Bits and Scraps and Little Ironies: So many questions!

Monday, March 05, 2007

So many questions!

10:24 AM |

I have had some great questions. Some of them about scaling. All of the templates are scalable. The 12x12's can be resized to 6x6 or whatever square size works for you with no distortion. The 8.5x11's are best scaled to 4x5.2 if you want them to fit in a 4x6 brag book with no distortion. Maybe a set of 4x6 brag book templates will have to be next on my list after the boy templates! So many things to do.

YES, I am still working on the boy templates. They are almost done and there are 9! I've been soooo busy. I decided to do two sets though. The first set will be a set of 9 little boy templates (those are the ones that are almost done) and the other set will be for big boys (teenagers...and yes, husbands too!) Here is a sneak peak for you!

These will be in my store very soon!

Thanks to everyone who purchased stuff from my store over the weekend! I appreciate it! The sale at GDS went great!

6 comments:

Stephanie said...: You are such a tease!!! I love the rocket ship template!! I can't wait to see the set.; 12:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Oooooh - I love this! It's so cute! Am waiting in excited anticipation! (I'll try to be good and be patient...probably won't work lol) Have a terrific day!
MamaB; 5:36 PM
LVMommy22 said...: YAY!!! A ROCKET!!! BOY STUFF!!!
:)))) M; 3:09 AM
Shell said...: Love the rocket template ya tease you. When I looked at your blog & saw the rocket that song Come fly with me popped right into my head.; 5:06 AM
HG said...: Andrea, I love all of your templates. I admit, I'm addicted to templates :) That rocket ship is adorable!

Is there a tutorial out there that you know of that tells how to create your own templates? I've got a million ideas running around in my head for templates but I'm not sure how to start making one in photoshop.
Take care,
Heather; 8:14 AM
Andrea said...: Hmmm...I don't know of a tutorial for creating templates. I think the best thing to do is just jump in and start creating your layouts in shades of black/white/grey. Make sure your all of your layers are rasterized, including text layers (labels). Make sure you crop the image to get rid of any thing outside of the canvas (Select-->All, then Image-->Crop). Save them in PSD and PNG. I include each layer in PNG also. You can find scripts floating around the interent that will export the layers to PNG.; 11:06 AM

My Little Ironies

I just had to tell my daughter that there was little probability that she could do eighty chores in two hours and 10 minutes to earn a giant lot of pet shops on Ebay that she wants to earn before the auction closes. That's at two chores per dollar. :)
We are helping my father sell an old vehicle and what do we find in the glove box...an unused 12 guage shotgun shell...that's my Dad!!
How does a three year old end up at church with no underwear on, especially when you dressed him and you know he had underwear on at one point during the morning?
The root of all toilet clogging evil is apparently a ball point pen and it's nearly impossible to dislodge one of those from the inside of a toilet.
You know you have to do some serious laundry when you actually consider wearing your 11 year old daughter's Hannah Montana shirt.
My 6 year old daughter got a comb stuck in her hair and we had to cut the comb into little bits to get it out of her hair.
My kids keep breaking the toilet seats! I guess I need a bulk package of those too!
Chocolate chips are not a food group.
My toilet seat says "Hailee" on it!
If there's work to be done, all of the kids need to use the bathroom or get a drink.
All two-year-olds think the baby swing is for them!
When you have 6 kids, carpet is your enemy!
You know you have a large family when your grocery receipt is 4 feet long.
The toilet is clogged and my husband found a plastic easter egg in the pipe.
My daughter just asked me if she can put chocolate sprinkles on here melted cheese sandwich (really???)
I burned up another hard drive on my PC! Can I buy a bulk package of those too?
Well actually, my sand pile is full of socks and silverware!
My sand pile is full of socks!
The key to my treadmill is missing again...can I just purchase a bulk package of them???
I fixed my daughter's glasses with JB Weld!
I have a pile of sand on my leather couch.
My daughter lost her glasses in the snow on the way home from school in January. Someone found them in March and turned them into the school office! Amazingly enough, the school remembered we lost them in January. Wow!
Just when I think he knows better, my 10 year old son plugs the bathroom sink and the emergency drain in the sink basin to soak his grow creature, turns on the water, and forgets about it until we notice water flooding out from under the bathroom door! And yes, he locked the door so no one would bother the grow creature!!
It's time for another worn out pair of the hubby's pants to disappear! Aren't kids suppose to be the only ones who are attached to clothing?
My 4 year old says she needs "peace and quite"!!!!!
My Husband says there's a perfectly good reason for the leatherman being in my dish drainer.
I have a leatherman (fancy pocket knife) in my dish drainer. I don't know why.
My kids are storing a tumble weed in my garage for the winter!
My 10 year old son informed me that people have only discovered about half of the world's caves (thank you BBC and planet earth!)
My baby's car seat is full of finely crushed graham crackers (?? Little babies don't eat graham crackers)!
My husband's shoes are filled with Mr. Potato Head parts!
My two year old thinks the new baby swing is for him! He can even climb in by himself and work all the controls. Boy, does he have a rude awakening coming!!
I have a giant mud hole in my back yard.
My vacuum is fully of plastic easter grass.
My kids are too full to finish their dinner, but they have plenty of room left for cake!
I have a giant laundry basket full of socks, and we can't find a single match!
Miscellaneous items found while cleaning out my kids' toy box include a flashlight, rocks (no suprise), a sea shell (we don't live by the sea), a drill bit, a stapler, and some tree bark!
My daughter's medical bills added up to about $18,000, but we got a free sippy cup and a ball signed by the Utah JAZZ Dancers!
I put safety locks on the tops of my outside doors to keep my three year old from escaping and she figured out how to open them with a broom in approximately five minutes.
I bought the EXPENSIVE vacuum this time only to find that my 3-year-old took it apart with a screwdriver!
I haven't showered for 3 days, but my house is clean!
I have 38 winter gloves of various sizes in my coat closet and none of them match.
We're out of peanut butter because my husband used the rest to catch a mouse in our garage!
Yes, my son won 1st place in the science fair at school, but he didn't turn in half of his assignments this term?
No matter how many toys my toddler got for Christmas, I still find him in the middle of my kitchen floor sitting in my crock pot!

So many questions!

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