Chiyogami Monday

Chiyogami Monday is a cute project Lilfary put on a year ago. I really enjoy participating. We are a group of (mostly) French artists, and we find the Japananese "chiyogami"  prints so beautiful that we decided to try to make some of our own. The best way to study is to practice!
It's an ancient tradition between France and Japan to be inspired by eachother.

Chiyogami Monday published a brochure at Lulu.com

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It's not a big one, but every page is cute, with patterns and articles from Adelie , B comme Bérénice, Charlie pOp,  Doune, LaureVolume, lilfairy, Miss Trop, and myself.
It's a bit expensive, but it's home publication, no advertising, and a lot of hard work from our director, Lilfairy ( thanks for the hard work sweetheart).

This numero is all about Kotori ( small bird in Japanese). It's written in French and translated in English, too.
I'm very excited about it!

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Our theme for March is momo (もも, fleur de pecher).

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Sirène à colorier

From time to time I look at the google queries leading to the Non dairy Diary.
Most of the time you were looking for me, thanks! Another common query is Photoshop Brushes and Tutorials , so I created a special category. Then there is cute queries, like "happy bunny" "blue bird" and so. One I noticed 2 years ago and coming again and again is "mermaid colorbook". While there is tons of happy bunnies and blue birds on the Non Dairy, I can't remember drawing a  mermaid to play with. So I opened my "carnet magique" and draw one especially for you.

Here it is, you can download the picture, print it or import it in your favorite  graphic software and add the colors you feel like. You can show the color result on your blog if you have one, but please don't put the black and white original picture, and be kind enough to add a link to the Non dairy Diary , thanks!

Enjoy!

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Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007

De temps je regarde les recherches Google qui menent ici. Alors que chez les copines ca donne souvent des trucs super rigolos ( jalouse, jalouse) les premieres recherches sont simplement mon nom et celui du blog, c'est tres touchant merci!
Ensuite, et je l'ai remarque depuis longtemps , vous recherchiez des Brossses Photoshop et des Tutoriaux. J'ai cree une categorie speciale pour ceux que cela interesse. Ensuite il y a les recherches mignonnes, comme  "joli lapin " "Oiseau bleu " et ainsi de suite. Il y a une recherche recurrente depuis 2 ans , c'est "sirene a colorier". Alors qu'il y a des tonnes de joyeux lapins et  d'oiseaux bleus sur le Non dairy Diary, il n'y a jamais eu de "sirene a colorier". Tant de perseverance merite recompense, j'ai sorti mon carnet.

Voila donc deux petites sirenes a colorier. Vous pouvez telecharger l'image, l'imprimer ou la colorier dans le programme qui vous sierra. Vous pouvez montrer le resultat sur votre blog si vous voulez, mais s'il vous plait, pas l'image de base, et si vous pouviez ajouter un lien vers le Non dairy Diary , ca serait tres gentil, merci!

Amusez-vous bien!

 


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Souvenir du Luxembourg.

Le Luxembourg, or Le Luco, is a garden in Paris' Left Bank. 
It's the place where I used to play when I was a little girl, and hang out when I was a teenager.
When springtime is in the air I always miss my beautiful garden.
And No, I never ever was blonde, ever. It's not me on the picture.
We are moving on Tuesday, I won't be able to post this week, have a nice week!

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Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007

Le Luco c'est mon jardin d'enfance, et celui de mon adolescence aussi. Quand le printemps arrive il me manque toujours un peu, meme si j'ai acces a un grand jardin avec des bisons, des tortues, et meme parfois des coyotes, le printemps ce sera toujours le Luco.

(Et non je ne suis pas blonde, je n'ai jamais ete blonde, jamais!)

Nous demenageons cette semaine, pas de posts tant que je n'ai pas l'internet!

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Aging your patterns

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Now you know how to make your own patterns ( a tutorial here). But still, they have this peculiar digital look and you would be very pleased to add a little texture to give them more reality. I'm going to show you today 2 very quick ways to age your patterns.

1.First, scan a sheet of paper. Colors are better, a lot of grain is welcome. Cut a  square the exact size of your pattern ( here 256x256 pixels).   Or half, third if you want to repeat it. I make all my patterns in  a restricted array of sizes to be able to mix and match  (512x512, 256x512, etc).

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2. Apply the filter>offset  with (here ) an offset of 128 pixels. A seam will appear in the middle of your picture. Make it invisible with the stamp tool or the healing brush tool to create a seamless pattern.  Then you can make the grain more visible with one of the Sharpen filters.

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3. Aging with no change of the original picture colors.

Desaturate your picture ( ⌘+shift + U)
Then apply the filter>Other>High Pass. Set the radius so the picture keeps only the grain. Too large of a radius will create a seam. This filter keeps the grain and equalize the picture to a medium gray.

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4. copy and paste this texture in a new layer over your pattern ( here my bird pattern). Set the layer in overlay mode in the layer palette. Change the transparency of the layer to your taste, et voila! A bird pattern on paper.


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Here is another solution:

3. Aging and yellowing the picture.

Prepare your paper texture as in (1) and (2). Then using Image>adjustments>curves and Image>adjustments>hue saturation, change your texture to a pale yellow one with a lot of grain.

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4.Copy and paste this texture in a new layer over your pattern ( here my bird pattern). Set the layer in multiply mode in the layer palette. Change the transparency of the layer to your taste, et voila! A bird pattern on paper, with just enough of yellow to make it look vintage.


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Comme d'habitude, j'ai besoin d'aide a la traduction que vous trouverez ici:
Je patine mes textures

 

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3 sugar grains

2 sugar cubes. I played with the paper packing.
I'm not impatient. Am I?

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3 grains de sel, 2 morceaux de sucre, 1 feutre, froissons l'emballage...non je ne suis pas impatiente!

Notez que le sucre est importe de France, le sucre en morceaux dans un emballage papier c'est super rare ici!

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happy new Year!

Today is the beginning of the year of the pig, happy new year to you all!

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Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007


Aujourd'hui c'est le debut de l'annee du Cochon. Une annee pleine de promesses: tout est bon dans le cochon! Bonne annee a tous :)

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bad hair day

I'm cranky. For some reason the internet cable is not really working for a week ( thank you Comcast Ⓡ) Today my email box is a total mess. I can't send anything, and I receveid a second time all my emails since July 2004 (6067 emails+ junk). I went for a little baby shopping and it's just getting worse.

You know I have nothing against cuteness. I love anything cute. I love drawing and collecting cute things. But I'm fed up with baby cuteness. Sometimes it's too chichi, I feel lobotomised after an hour of looking for a bed spread without any teddy bear-cute bunny on it.  I just bought a car seat with a pattern of cows and stars, the cows look stoned, really.
I'm trying my best to find some cool stuff , it's really difficult. I'm overwhelmed with these patterns of sissy bears, sugar rabbits, naive birdies and other stoned tiny tiger. I mean, I like cute. But everywhere? My, let me breath!

So I did this pattern, for a change, as a reaction. It's a fun pattern for toddlers. I'd be happy to turn the Farting Giraffes pattern into a pyjama before my son is 2 so he can wears it and have a good laugh. Now I'm thinking of pooping triceratops, what do you think about it? Could be fun!

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Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007
You can use this seamless pattern for personal use only, thanks.

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tapet_kotori

   Ⓒdel4yo-Delphine Doreau 2007

Tapet means wallpaper in Swedish
Kotori (ことり) means Little bird in Japanese
And Delphine means イルカ in Japanese, I know it's quite a shock, but it's a very cute name in France.

Tapet ca veut dire papier peint en suedois ( une bonne recherche google ceci-dit)
Kotori ca veut dire petit oiseau en Japonais
Et Delphine ca veut dire イルカ en Japonais, ce qui fait bien marrer mes potines, mais c'est un tres joli nom quand meme.

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