Thursday

New Greeting Card

Dear Everyone,

These are some new greeting cards that I designed for special occasions this past year.



This one was for this past Thanksgiving.


Two birthday cards I designed for my cousins:

For Sonny

For Colin

And finally for this post: I felt so touched by the amount and sincerity of the Christmas cards I received this year that I created a brand new card to commemorate the occasion. The flower on the card is a Christmas Cactus.


I'm pleased to be able to share all of these with you and I hope you've enjoyed this latest post.

~Ariel

Friday

The Graffiti Createor

Hey Guys! I just found this great website called The Graffiti Creator and I made my name into graffiti! Please check this website out: http://www.graffiticreator.net/

Thursday

Flash Tutorial - Scrolling Image Gallery

Here are step by step instructions on how to create an image gallery's scrolling button bar in Flash.


*Don't forget to save your file after every so often so you don't lose any information.


Photo Gallery Instructions
-create rectangle frame or desired background for scrollbar
-make it a movie clip and write down its name (case sensitive)
-in properties panel click "export for actionscript"



-enter editing mode for the rectangle movie clip
-put image buttons on rectangle with desired actionscript
- extend the rectangle as far over from the registration point as the buttons need a background (make a note of the size)


-make rollovers for buttons in up, over, and down states
-exit editing mode
-delete movie clip from stage
-drag scrollpane component onto stage from components panel on right-hand toolbar.



-give it a unique instance name


-define its size with this action script:

scrollPane.setSize(x,y)

where "scrollPane" is the unique instance name, and (x,y) values are for width and height

-Define source with this actionscript:

scrollPane.source=content_mc

where "scrollPane" is the unique instance name for the scrollbar, and "content_mc" is the movie clip you wish to be contained within the scrollpane at runtime.

*Do not apply this AS to the ScrollPane itself, but to the layer it is on; same for actionscript for the buttons.

Actionscript for buttons is as follows:

function gotoframeLabel(e:MouseEvent):void{
MovieClip(root).gotoAndStop(60);
}

btn_frameLabel.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK,gotoframeLabel);

where "frameLabel" is a frame label in the main timeline, "60" is the frame number, and "btn_funkLogo" is the button's instance name which corresponds to its frame label.

Your full size images for the gallery must be on the main timeline for this to work.

Hope this tutorial works for you!

Saturday

Cat Eating Bird...

The title's pretty self-explanatory, but long story short, I went over to my fiancé's friend's house and his cat, the mighty hunter, was having herself a feast.








Amanda's Camera

Here are some pictures I took with my cousin's Nikon.

Hide and Seek

A Whole 'Nother Ball O Wax

Hanging It Up 1
Hanging It Up 2
Washed Out Wax

Candles In Shadow
Daypack and Lens Cap 1

Daypack and Lens Cap 2
Black Widow Feasting

Black Widow Feasting 2

Pollenation