New words on the Enchanted circle stamps please...

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New words on the Enchanted circle stamps please...

This is for Brooke Gazarek....

I love your Enchanted circle stamps but was wondering if you could please do some with words on them for Christmas?

ie, Christmas, HO HO HO, Rudolph, Wish, December, Dear Santa, Merry & Bright, Jingle Bells, Tis the Season, to name a few..lol!

Thank you and look forward to hearing from you smiley

Hi Tanya,

Brooke quit designing quite a while ago, although she does sometimes visit the forum. Maybe another designer can take a stab at something similar?

I've sent her an email to see if I can get a template to work from smiley

Awesome, thank you

Yay! I can't wait to have some more of those awesome circles too!!! I love 'em smiley

If another designer wants to do something similar that would be great, thanks!

It's fairly simple to make your own. You'll need whatever text you want it to say, a couple of lines to make the rings, and a pack of light grunge brushes. Start with a square and put your text and lines straight across the middle. Put a space at the beginning of your text so it won't crowd together when you make it a ring. Make sure the text goes almost all the way across the layer, so adjust text size if you have to. Now, rotate the layer 180 degrees so the text will be right side up when you make the ring.
Your next step is to go under Filters>Polar Coordinates, and you're converting rectangular to polar. You'll probably need to adjust the x/y scaling so the letters don't distort badly--try x250 and y100 for a start (those might be the other way around, it's been a while...).

Once you've got a look that you like, load up a light grunge brush pack and use one of them as your ERASER brush, just putting it over the ring and using it like a rubber stamp (i.e. just click it once) to remove a few spots. Then set the eraser opacity to about 30% and stamp over your stamp a couple of times to give it some less - opaque spots, and save your finished circle stamp!

I might find time to whip up a few this evening....depends on how exhausted I am when I get home.

Just a test one right now, but there may well be more coming soon. Still refining them to match Brooke's style as closely as possible so you can mix/match them... I need to make the lines a little narrower, but it's getting there.

Feel free to use it if you can--consider it a service to the community or something.

Oh Holly I love love love these.
Yes please i would love more.

Thank you

I've got 15 of them done--all the ones on your list, plus a few I want to use for myself.

Download here or click on image.

Holly - you ROCK! Thank you so much for doing this!

Oh my word.....Holly thank you so so much for this. Its perfect and so what i wanted. You rock!

Glad you like them. Enjoy! smiley

Holly these are awesome!!! Thank you for sharing with us.

I've created a template here which you can customize with any words.

Thank you so much, Marisa! This will be great for all sorts of things. smiley

Thank you Marisa!

Thank you, Holly for making these and many thanks too, Marisa for making a template which I had been hoping for!

I wanted to ask for more words, but didn't want to be a pain. Now I can make my own. Woo hoo! Thank you so much Marisa!

*shrug* It wouldn't have been an issue, Penny. They're not too difficult once you figure out how to make them from scratch.

Thank you Holly. You are always so willing to jump in and help. Next time I'll ask. I have Photoshop Elements and tried for an hour or so to get it to come out right and couldn't.

Eh, mine aren't an exact match, but they're close enough that they'll work in the same album. It took me a while to get the first one adjusted so they'd come out right, but after that it was just a case of changing the text and adjusting it so it'd fit evenly around the circle.

Those are awesome, Holly!

Marisa, do you have a video tut of how to make these? I downloaded your template, but I'd love to make my own. I tried using the template, but the words went wonky. I can't quite get Holly's tut to work for me, but I'm still playing with it.

It took me awhile to figure out to make the lines from one edge to the other. So, I've got that, but what about the words and dots (or stars, etc.)? No matter what I do, the words end up both right side and upside down.

I'm still googling, but haven't found any tuts yet.

-Lisa

I think this tutorial should help. What you're looking for is how to adjust text on a path, if you need to do some more Googling. smiley

Thanks, Marisa. I was actually looking at how to do the stamp using the polar coordinate tool. But, like the link you put, I found I can just do the text on a circle path and the black lines using the shape tool. Leave it to me to make something easy difficult!

Thanks for the link!

-Lisa