Chatapalooza Chat (April 28) and Challenge with A Grieving Mommy
 

Join me on Thurs. April 28th 9:30ET for a Chat and Challenge!

I will be chatting about my best kept secret - my coloring book stash I use on my scrap pages! Join me for the chat to learn about using coloring book pages, then join the challenge and get a Mega Prize Package!!!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bnei7kAfd8...mommy_chat.jpg

Download the mini for the chat on my blog here

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zWtfTjIiob...ngbookmini.jpg

See you Thursday night!!!! :hooray:

We'll meet in the chat room here: http://client14.addonchat.com/chat.php?id=474111

Thanks to all of you who joined us for the chat!!! We had an awesome time. You can read the tutorial here on my blog.

Now for the challenge!
The challenge is to use a coloring book image on your page. You can color it in, use the outline, or make a sillhouette! You can use your own or you can use the ones from the minikit above that was for the chat.
You have one week! So the challenge will run from April 28 - May 5th!!!

The Mega Prize Package is a set of 100 coloring page images already extracted and ready for you to use :)

I will be in Disneyland this next week so please allow me time to mail out the Prize Packages and to respond to any emails/questions! You can contact me at agrievingmommy@yahoo.com.

Sounds really exciting but the chat is at 2.30am UK time which, with the kids, is WAY past my bedtime! I would love it if you could share some of your tips on your blog or facebook page!

Got it! And installed the action in my PS, works great, couldn't wait to play with it LOL! Looking forward to know some of your coloring tips!!!

Thanks so much for sharing Denise!

Can't wait to see what you do with this! Thanks for hosting!! :yeah:

Yes, I'll be putting up a tutorial here and on my blog!

Brilliant! Thank you so much.

AM or PM? Hoping to be able to make it! :)

930ET PM!! Sorry, I forgot that detail :)

I hope I can make it, I'm babysitting my grandchildren, so they will be going to bed early on Thursday night...:thumbsup:

Denise, you list 9pm and 9:30. Can you clarify the time, I really don't want to miss this one.

Yes! It's 930 EST. Sorry!:oops:

Here is the link to the chat room: http://client14.addonchat.com/chat.php?id=474111

See you tonight!!!

Oh, I really hope I can make this one! I haven't made a chat yet! :(
This one sounds really fun & useful--can't wait!

Oh, & what was the action that someone mentioned they loaded into PS? Do we need it for the chat?

Haha, oops! I must be really excited about joining in on this chat, because I logged in a hour early ;) I'll be back in an hour.

don't feel bad Cosmic--I just logged in early too, lol!

Thanks guys! Was fun learning and chattin! Had a GREAT time!:)

Thanks everyone for coming to the chat! I will be posting the tutorial and challenge info in just a bit here in this thread.

Thanks Denise. Had a great time on the chat and I learned something new. I figured how to do the coloring in StoryBook Creator and will post the instructions when I get them written up. It probably won't be until over the weekend since I have two huge deadlines at work tomorrow.

Awesome Charlene!! thanks :) :yeah:

:yeah: Thank you, thank you Charlene!! I have been trying to figure it out and haven't been able to and am getting so frustrated!! I want to color!!! Now I can go to bed a happy gal! :yeah: Looking forward to the instructions!

Thanks again Denise for hosting tonight! It was a lot of fun! Can't wait to test it out! :)

My pages that use Coloring Book images:

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos..._denisetys.jpg
I colored the Alice, Mad Hatter and White Rabbit on this one.

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...land_goofy.jpg
I used scribbles to make a clipping mask on the outline of Goofy on this one.

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos.../monorail1.jpg
I used a paint smear to color in the monorail outline on this one.

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...ys_mickey1.jpg
I used a coloring book image of Mickey to create a sillhouette on this one.

This was lots of fun. Thank you so much.

Loved the chat! THANK YOU! :yeah: It is 1130pm here and I have to get up at 630am...ahh! I scanned some coloring book pages but you can see through them...anyway to get past this? How did you get yours to come out so white? I try to get rid of the white with NO LUCK...any tips? Looking forward to the tutorial! Thank you thank you again!

Ok, so I finished writing up the tutorial and you can find it here on my blog with a freebie too :)

Thank you
 

Thank you for the chat and the super great tutorial. Thank you for sharing your knowlege. Hope you have a nice trip.

Denise, thank you so much for hosting this chat. The two technical chats we have had went really well. I thank you also for being such a generous person. You have spent a lot of time helping to make this place even more wonderful!

Thanks for posting the tutorial Denise. I really want to participate in this challenge.

Denise, thanks so much for this tutorial! I learned a lot last night at the chat!

Here's my LO for your challenge:
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...ore-puddle.jpg

I used two of the techniques - I outlined it in white, then on another layer underneath, I filled it with colour.

Here is mine... I used the paint bucket - and now I see what everyone was talking about "missing pixels"! Now I want to try the other ways of coloring these in!!

http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/a...eaPartyWEB.jpg

Credits:
Template (totally modified to fit all my stuff) Scrap Matters Tuesday Template 10/20/09 by HapEScrapr
A Very Merry Unbirthday by Manda Bean & Dani Mogstad
Alice/AO by Britt-ish Designs
Outlined Alpha by Sahlin Studio
Coloring book image by A Grieving Mommy
Font Tingle Institute

Also posted here:
http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...9&postcount=26

Hi Denise, I need a little technical assistance. I have PSE7 and installed the action. I scanned a page as a JPG and then tried to run the action. I get an error msg that says The Command "color range" is currently not available. Should I be doing something different here to get the action to work?

Here is my LO!! Thanks Denise for the awesome TUT!!! :yeah: This was so fun to do!
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...cakes_WEB_.jpg

Im going to work on mine tonight or tomorrow.

So how many of you went out and bought coloring books today? LOL. I bought 12! (and 1 for each of my kids)

Chatapalooza Challenge
 

Here is mine... I did a stitch style to make it look like embroidery. Thanks so much Denise. http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...=13921&cat=500

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...epetto-001.jpg

Donna, do you want to use this for the Weekly challenge or for this one? They don't actually allow you to double dip.

So Linda, I think it won't work in PSE. I'm so sorry! I thought it would, but I can't get it to work in Elements :(

Not sure if I will remember how I did this, but wasn't going to sleep until I did it. I used PSE9. I watched Youtube videos that you suggested. And got it to work. Again.....that was tough :) But fun! :) Time for sleep!:surf:

[IMG]http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...rbook-page.jpg[/IMG]

Where else would I put this page?

Thank you so much, Denise for this AWESOME Tutorial!

I like how you outlined Eeyore in white. I missed that part last night. Very cool!:)

I Love how the coloring looks textured. That is really neat! :thumbsup:

Coloring Book Challenge
 

Just read one of the other posts and thought a suggestion in there might help me. Do the outline first on one layer and the coloring on another. I had a problem with the outline getting lost under the color. This is going to take some more practice but it will be fun to do. Thanks for sharing your techniques with us. Here is the layout:http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...ey_China_c.jpg

Also posted here:http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...uote=1&p=62665