Here's my entry for the MMS Blog Train. I'm the first stop on the train. Collect a special word from each of our blogs and then send an email to
lisaj@mymemoriessuite.com when you've completed the train. All entries are entered in a contest for a free copy of MMS version 2, 14 Designer Template kits or 1 of the current Quick Design Club CD's.
Valentine’s day is quickly approaching and I am already planning my pages for February. As I have recently posted, I am doing a top ten list for every month this year. When I got my last Design Club CD I found a perfect template to start my month. The kit is called “Cross Your Heart” and has super cute quilted papers with hearts all over then. I want to show you a quick tutorial of how I made the page match my theme for the year,
Here is a picture of the page from the kit.
This is going to be the first page of the month, so I am going to modify the page a little. First I am going to delete the “Cross my heart" wordart and replace it with my own word art, using the new Word Art Designer in MMS Version2.
Here you can see that I have clicked on the Word Art Text box. By default if added from the right hand tool bar MMS adds a box for the word art and it has a gradient color. You can also choose word art from the left hand side toolbar.
I resized the Word Art box and added my text.
Next I am going to adjust the color of the text. This option on the Word Art Designer is called Fill.
To Change the color, I want to make sure the Enable Fill checkbox is checked. This will active four options under type. You can fill it with a gradient color or color, as shown, a solid color, an image (or paper), or a texture.
The Stroke option shown allows you to trace the word art. You can vary the width of your tracing and the color.
Next is the Shadow option, which is similar to other shadow features on MMS.
The last two options, not pictured, are the Beveling option, which give height or depth to your word art, and the Shape option. Under the Shape option, you can choose to arc, shear or wave your word art. If you choose to arc it and it is long enough, it can form a circle.
Just a side note, the text option on V2 also allows you to form shapes with your text. It provides an outside circle, inside circle, outside square and inside square option.
I have completed my wordart and am going to add a tag to begin my numbering for February. I click on the paper toolbar on the left hand side, click the Add as Shape object box, locate the paper I want and identify the shape I want for the tag.
I copy the shape three times, add my number to each box and add my pictures. Here’s my finished product!
***MAKE*** something special today!
Sarah
