The November 2012 Giveaway of the Month - Gift wrapping with Xara

[Barbara B]

Gift wrapping with Xara

For this month's XaraXone Giveaway, Gare and Angelize worked together to present you with Holiday gift boxes. It is an elegant illustration just in time for the Holidays. The Giveaway includes wrapping paper textures, and a detailed tutorial on how to customize the drawing--adding the wrapping patterns and how to change the bow colors using Named Color in Xara.

Show us your wrapping prowess here. Feel free to use the provided wrapping paper patterns or invent your own.

[Gare]

Thanks, Barbara.

Actually, this month's Giveaway might also tie into our Holiday celebration, seeing as the tree that members are going to decorate might need some presents underneath. And if you work Frances' steps this month, you have two closed boxes to begin with, three different sheets of gift wrap, if you've been following the Xone this year, you know how to make seamless tiling textures, and the bows on the gifts are Named Colors, so they can instantly become gold, blue, and if you can do Argyle, I'll hoist my flagon of hot chocolate to you.

This is fun and spirited stuff. Tuck in!

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

Here's four additional sheets of seamless tiling gift wrap, so you don't have to run out to the store in the freezing weather last minute!



Thanks to the folks at Filter Forge for creating such a wonderful product that makes kaleidoscopic imaging a snap!

If anyone needs higher resolution files (for printing or whatever), let me know.

My Best,

Gary

[wizard509]

Thank you Gare, those might come in handy.

[Scotty]

Hi,
Thanks for the gift Wrapping textures and the other free stuff...never know when I willl be looking for textures.
Jim

[Gare]

You're welcome, Jim.

Now, your end of the deal is to use the tutorial steps to put them on the boxes, and then post an image so we can see your work.

Fair's fair, dude.



-g

[stygg2003]

Looks like I'll be getting another Argyle sweater for Christmas from Aunt Emma


Stygg

[angelize]

That looks warm and cozy Stygg!

I've raided my files and come with a couple of holiday tiles. You can easily recolour the snowflakes tile by changing the contone colours.

[stygg2003]

Two nice tiles Francis, thanks for sharing.

Stygg

[Filter Forge]

Hi everyone,

Here are a few more textures from the Filter Forge team generated specially for this thread.

-- Mark