Check out my stuff on Pinterest

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Check out my stuff on Pinterest

Rachel has: 110 pins 7 pinboards 7 followers Check out my stuff on Pinterest Hi wordpress entry, I set up a Pinterest profile where I can share the things I like and I want you to follow me so you can see it! Once you join Pinterest, you’ll be able to create your own collections and share your taste. Thanks, Rachel To sign up for Pinterest, follow the link below: http://pinterest.com/invited/?email=&invite=dd1f21e6 Pinterest is a Cold Brew Labs, Inc. production based in sunny California.

I’ve Moved!

I am very excited to announce laraquelita.com/blog is officially up and running. All my postings will be over there now and hopefully this site will be redirected there next week.

Pantone® matching between psd and indd

Okay, this is a little tip I just learned from the InDesign Secrets blog (which is great, fyi.) I have this problem all the time within CS. My Pantone colors in InDesign and Photoshop don’t match! I will use Photoshop for one aspect of my project, then have to use InDesign for another using the same swatch and the colors are completely different! I finally figured out how to fix this irksome problem.

In InDesign, go to your print menu, click on the “Output.” then click on “Ink Manager.”

When your “Ink Manager” comes up, check the box next to “Use Standard Lab Values for Spots.”  Now you can “Cancel” out of the print menu.

Output screen in Print Menu in InDesign

Ink Manager

You will notice immediately in your Swatches Palette the Pantone colors show a Lab Color icon instead of the 4-color icon earlier.

Pantone swatch with 4-color icon

Pantone swatch with LAB icon

Hope this helps someone else out there! Here is the original post from InDesign Secrets!

Pie in a jar!

Why have I not heard about this till now?!? Not that I EVER bake, but this make me want to, kinda. Anyway, they are so freakin’ cute.

I was browsing around and found them on this site.

Fabric Search (part deux)

The fabric search has resumed. I was trying to take a break from it and maybe the perfect fabric would come to me, but alas, not so much!

So, today I found this cute chevron pattern from Premier Fabrics. I really am liking the black and white, but there is also this pretty blue/natural.

The great thing about these are that they are only $7.99/yd., compared to the fabric I have looked at, $25/yd., this is a steal! Also, I can change this if I get sick of it (not that I ever would,) where as the others were much more of an investment. I will keep you posted on my decision!

Shake It like a… ♫

I never buy apps for my phone. Never. But this app was so cool, I totally splurged 0.99¢ for it!

Shake It Photo is where it is at (I have no idea why I just typed that, but it’s staying!)

Here just to show how rad it is, I have posted a few pics I took with it!

Be forewarned this app might be very addicting once you get your hands on it!

Buy it, Do it, Do it…

My baby

I was snooping through the iPhone apps earlier and I came across an app called, Sound Touch, for children. Normally, I would not look twice at it (I only have a dog, though she is a perpetual 3 yr old.) but realized it used my vector art on the icon!

Here it is for sale on Graphic River. Since Graphic River does not tell you any information about the purchasers it is nice to see when my designs are being used.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

@home workspace

I am finally getting my workspace at home to be some what complete. I’ll try to post a pic tonight or tomorrow of it all together, but here are some pics of the items I used. Also I have the cart from the previous post in there right now with my printers. Hopefully all this will get the creative juices flowin’!

New Skirt for my Printer Cart

So I saw this post from Little Green Notebook a few weeks ago and decided to try it on my old white boring printer cart. I figured it would be a good test run and if that was a success I would continue and make a pretty cover for my Cali girl’s kennel.

I went to Joann’s Fabric and got this great heavy canvas like gray fabric ($6.99/yd.) Also, I bought blue ribbon for detail (I’ll post more pictures of the fabric and ribbon later) and the fabric glue.

Patience is the keyword in this project. It only took about an hour and a half to create but I definitely had to not get in a hurry. Since I do not cut the straightest edges I had to make sure to measure the middle of the panel, rather than 2 inches on one side or other because I could be a 1/4 inch off sometimes. Also, when I measured it, it was on wood floors, well I moved it into my carpeted bedroom and now it is about and 1 inch too long. So definitely have it where you want it before you measure.

Well I think it was a good learning lesson and I will be off to Joann’s this weekend to get more fabric for Cali’s kennel.

Hope you enjoyed and definitely let me know if you have any questions!