“Costume” Earrings

Do you have any outfits that you just can’t find the right earrings for? Or perhaps a cute pattern on, say, a shirt of which you would love to have matching earrings? For example, I have two tropical shirts with the same pattern but different background colors.

The design is a scattering of postcard beach scenes, tropical flowers and tropical-theme postage stamps. I thought the stamps would make cute matching earrings for both shirts. I selected a stamp which says “Barbados Experience” and scanned it into Adobe Photoshop.

I rotated the canvas to get it vertical (Image>Rotate); then used the Crop tool with Perspective checked so I could correct the slight skewness of the original. Next I enlarged the canvas (Image>Canvas Size), adding one inch to both the height and the width.

I created a new layer for the scalloped stamp border, selected the Brush tool and loaded Mandy Steward’s Layer your own Postage Stamp brushes from Scrap Girls. Using the Eyedropper tool, I selected a pink from the Barbados stamp design for the brush and stamped the design.

I put it on a new layer so that I could adjust the size to exactly frame my Barbados stamp (Edit>Transform>Scale). You need to double-click to apply the transformation. Next I cropped away the excess and saved the file as a JPEG.

I finished my earrings in PrintShop because I find it easier to lay out a single page there.

Find printing and assembly instructions to finish your"Costume" Earrings here.

Tags: digital graphic how-to, Scrap Girls, earring how-to, Photoshop, PrintShop