Change the colors if you wish using any of the methods explained on the Working With Digital Fabric CD.
We wanted red and blue-green for ours.
Open the Paisley digital fabric or whichever one you have chosen.
Make sure your page Rulers are showing and that they are set to inches.
Choose the Rectangular Selection Tool and Click-Drag a square Selection slightly larger than 6 inches - which is the size of the pinwheel. The “marching ants” are hard to see in this picture, but they will be obvious on your screen.
Hold the Shift Key down while you Click-Drag to restrain the Selection to a square.
Choose Copy under the Edit Menu.
Click back to your template window (right).
Select the Magic Wand Tool again, and this time Click somewhere in the black. This should Select the entire Pinwheel area.
Step 9.
Choose Paste Into under the Edit Menu. (see photo below.)
About the Paste Into Command:
This is a skill we learned in Virtual Stamping 101 - when we made the Gallery Greeting Cards with photographs (Chapter Three).
But, we know many of you have light bulbs going off in your heads right now - realizing the possibilities of being able to paste any image into any other image or any shape.
It’s probably our favorite PhotoShop trick of all - it’s magic!
The results are that your pinwheel is now “covered” in “fabric”!
Print the file, and, before cutting it out, apply a smooth coat of some waterproof paint to the backside in an area bigger than the pinwheel. You could leave it white if that works for you but a coordinating color is prettier in the end.
When the paint is dry, cut the pinwheel out carefully and punch out the eyelet holes.
Now, we are ready for the hardware.
