Hello. Welcome to three bees in my bonnet blog. A blog of lots of things from nonsense to AI, PSD and AE tutorials. I also like to get proper hands-on and bake, sew, crochet, paper cut pictures and sometimes, pop-up cards and 3-d paper models.
Hi There! Today I’m sharing a fast and wicked little tip to show you how to create a background shape for text. The power of this tip is that the shape will extend or shrink to the length of the text automatically. Yes! Edit the text and the shape will stretch or shrink to fit.…
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Do you remember the little ditty from way back? A noisy noise annoys but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most? All well and good. Totally incidental. Well, maybe a tenuous link to my post today. I’ve been working on Ben Marriott’s Colour Bleed and checked the difference between using a Fractal Noise Blend (Soft…
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I’ll give you two, actually. Remember the tutorial from a previous post back in Dec 2020?: Do you wonder if there’s a quicker way to do something in Illustrator? There’s a tutorial on there to create the As in illustrator. I used them to create a very quick and simple animation in After Effects And you…
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Taking a break from tech stuff today and taking time to enjoy the natural wonders of the world. A good while ago now, I noticed that a hedgehog was visiting our garden—so I bought a hedgehog house to, hopefully, persuade her to move in… Then found a purpose-built, and far superior, hibernaculum. So she has…
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Like the struggle to reach a magical oasis in a desert, Ben Marriott’s spinning cube was a journey worth the effort of making. I was in love with the whole effect and had to know how it was created. And now I know! This is my version after following his tutorial. It’s glorious. Wonderwalls Wonderwalls…
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I’m determined to do something with this blog, I’m making an effort to add content. Thankfully, my life has lots of yellow splodges to look forward to. These are highlights I add to my calendar. I like to look at the month ahead and see lots of yellow dates highlighted – they represent fun days.…
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I posted this a while ago but it was nested inside a post about something else. This morning, I couldn’t remember the easy way to make puckered stars in Illustrator and went foraging for this cheat sheet. It’s very handy and needs its own page. Here’s the link to the pdf:
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My baking mojo has come back after abandoning me for so long! It all started with 24 lemon cupcakes at the weekend. Best Irish butter, organic, unwaxed lemons, free range eggs (let’s try for happy hens 🙂 ) … of course sugar and SR flour… little to commend them, I’m afraid but they do play…
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Oh so boho. I finally indulged myself with a pair of colourful DMs. Very happy feet. Hope you have a happy Easter and a break from work to eat lots of chocolate and watch a Bond movie. Seems to be a bank hol staple in UK/Ireland.
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