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January 26 - Repeating, Transforming and Connecting Shape/s to Make a Frame

I made a star shape from the custom shape tool, shrunk it, rotated it, enlarged it, and warped it and then put them together as a frame. I then warped the frame.

 
I think I shrunk my frame a little bit too much, but going with it. I like how the frame turned out.

I started with a circle, enlarged and smooshed it, rotated the smooshed version, flipped the smooshed version and then strung them together touching and overlapping. I used a stroke on the shapes with no fill. Once I got the frame built, I merged them all and added a hammered metal style from Mommyish.

 
I used a heart shape and made a large outline image that I lowered to opacity on and placed on top of the background page. I then used smaller versions of this heart in both the outlline and filled version as well as an altered image of the heart to make it longer and thinner which I also filled and used outline versions in various sizes. I placed these hearts along the border of the largest heart in the background to create a heart frame for two of my focal photos. This was a really fun challenge. Thank you for the inspiration.
 
Here is my take #2. I made three different wonky stars (which was a new thing for me in GIMP!) and resized them and flipped them to make this frame. @bellbird please let me know if I did ok!

 
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I began with a simple 5-point star shape from Photoshop's custom shapes. I duplicated (many times), and changed the sizes and angles of some of the stars. I added patterned papers and solid colours to many of the stars. I applied Elif Sahin's amazing painted wood style to all of the stars.

 
This was very challengeing as I felt overwhelmed to use so many shapes to make a frame... Bt what would be MOC if there weren't some challenges te he he.

I hope I got this correctly.

I took a simple hexagon shape. First I used only the outline version, connnected a few to make a row, then grouped them and copied that row and flipped it to make a column. I mutiplied the row and the column to finish the other sides of my frame.
I had left another version of those multiple hexagons separated, filled version this time, so that I can use them as a kind of spread under my outlined frame and add a layer of framing to my picture, I clipped paper to them. They are transformed with rounded corners to contrast with the straight outline version.
The photo mask is also 2 hexagons with rounded corners merged together (1 vertical + 1 horizontal)



Edit: adding this close-up so my transformation (the rounded corners) on my hexagons are easier to see
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I used Photoshop's Custom Shape Tool, the Blob 2 Frame, with a Photoshop Moss Style applied to the outer circle and a Photoshop Wood Style applied to the inner circle, two different sizes of the shape and I placed brads under the outer ring of blob shapes for decoration. I used the shift key to constrain the shape to a symmetrical object because I wanted to create a nice wreath frame.

 
This is my 5th or 6th try. I really wanted to do something with letters but it seemed too complicated. Finally I settled on the butterfly shape in the PSCC custom shape tool. I duplicated it lots of times, transforming it and rotating it each time and arranging them so they all touched. Then I flattened the shape layers so I could clip a paper to all of them at once.

 
I used an asterisk from Sara Gleason's paper white alphas and stretched it, rotated it and recolored it.
 
I think I got this? This was a font - HarryP and my letters were WIZARD. In PSE, I couldn't group my layers as they were all text layers, so I couldn't apply the style to meld them into one layer. That said, I love that I got Phoenixes on the sides of the frame!

 
Your example made me think of the Art Deco style, so I knew right away what event I wanted to use for this layout!

I started with a rectangle and the letter V. The rectangle was duplicated twice and stretched/squished. The V was duplicated 5 times and rotated to create the diamonds.

 
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