{"id":72688,"date":"2021-12-17T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=72688"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:57:15","slug":"featured-designer-clever-monkey-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/featured-designer-clever-monkey-graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Designer – Clever Monkey Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"

How is your December going so far?\u00a0 Busy if it’s anything like mine, it seems like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I want to get done.\u00a0 Scrapping is pretty high on that list and I think I’ve gotten one page done this month.\u00a0 Hopefully you’re better at multitasking that I am.\u00a0 \u00a0 One thing I have found time to do is to introduce our next Featured Designer, Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphics.\u00a0 As you know, our fabulous designers are celebrating some of our most memorable days in our new A Day To Remember series of goodies, and Toasting the Day<\/a> is Tracey’s take on our challenge!\u00a0 Wow, you guys, this kit will make you want to stay up until Midnight and capture some memories, even if you usually are in bed by 9 on New Years Eve!<\/p>\n

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I just love all the colors she used and Tracey has the most fun and unique elements!\u00a0 You’re not going to want to miss adding this one to your collection!\u00a0 If you’ve been following this feature at all this year, you know we\u00a0ask the designers a series of questions and it\u2019s so much fun sharing all of those with you!\u00a0 Let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n

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Walk us through a typical “day in the life” of you!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am an early riser and usually start my day with a quick stretch and then settle into my favorite chair with a large mug of hot water with lemon juice in it, birds and naughty squirrels checking out our bird-feeders outside my window, and my 17\u201d laptop propped on a pillow so I can peruse my social internet world, say hi to friends, and begin designing.\u00a0 Breakfast\/lunch doesn\u2019t come till 11 on most days but if hungry, I will eat earlier. I love the quiet of the morning and don\u2019t like to be disturbed much during these hours.\u00a0 Some days may involve a walk, a bit of exercise at home, grocery shopping, a Target run just for the fun of it or to get out of the house. On Mondays I enjoy a long zoom chat with my girly cousins and family. Sometimes we cook family recipes together over zoom and recently we all bought the same cookbook and we are now trying recipes from that. Strangely, covid has brought us all closer. One day soon I will teach them all how to do a digital scrapbook page. On Friday afternoons, I await the magic text from my daughter that says she is ready to zoom chat with me from her college apartment. I am the chef in the household and if hubby is lucky, I won\u2019t screw up dinner and he\u2019ll get something good to eat; since he retired a year ago, he started doing the dishes for me!!! Evenings might have me watching something on the television, or still designing, and often multi-tasking doing both.<\/p>\n

If you could visit anywhere (anyone), where would you go \/ who would you see
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I would like to go back in time and have long wonderful chats with my Nana Bebe.\u00a0 She was incredible and warm & loving \u2013 a little bit spicy in her thinking, and filled with practical good advice. Cool story for you about her; as a 5-year-old, she and her family were getting ready to shortly emigrate to North America but a huge fire in their village forced them to wait one more year to get together enough belongings and money etc. They had to miss their boat because of that fire.\u00a0 Their boat was the Titanic.\u00a0 My Nana Bebe lived to 102.<\/p>\n

What kit are you most proud of creating in the last year? Why?<\/strong>
\nI absolutely adore my Zootastic Collection. It represents my work in learning procreate on the ipad and learning to paint in texture on each of the more than 50 animals I drew and then bringing it back into photoshop to complete each of these elements. This kit and collection makes my heart sing. There are definitely some close seconds to this one like the Fire Season and Eek a Shark and the And Bake Collections.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a quick tip, trick or tool of the trade that you can share with our
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I have a pretty cool tip for Photoshop users to speed up productivity. It allows you to color code or \u201chighlight\u201d menu and sub-menu items so that they are really quick to spot when you need them.<\/p>\n

Example \u2013 This shows a number of sub-menu items which I have chosen to change to red colors.<\/p>\n

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Here is how to do it.\u00a0 There are two ways in Photoshop to access it \u2013 either EDIT>MENU or WINDOW>WORKSPACE>Keyboard Shortcuts & menus. This brings up a secondary menu. You can choose to do this next part for the application menus and\/or the panel menus.\u00a0 You will see menu items listed with drop down arrows to see all the sub-menus. To their right is a visibility eyeball and color. Highlight the item you want to assign a color and then simply choose the color in the color column. Once you have chosen what you want colored, simply hit the save button.<\/p>\n

Example \u2013 this shows the Edit>Fade being changed to a red color.<\/p>\n

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Do you have a fail-proof meal or recipe that you can make over and over? What\u00a0<\/strong>is it and are you willing to share the recipe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have a favorite easy past recipe by Alison Roman that is so simple and yet delicious –\u00a0 Caramelized Shallot Pasta.\u00a0 I do sometimes add extras like a bit of cut up sausage or maybe mushrooms, but adding no extras is equally delicious!\u00a0 Here is a link to both the recipe and her YouTube video in which she makes the recipe.
\nhttps:\/\/www.dakandju.com\/alison-romans-caramelized-shallot-pasta<\/a><\/p>\n

Are you ready to see Toasting the Day in action?<\/p>\n

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Now it\u2019s time to go fill up your shopping cart with $10, and Toasting a Day<\/a>\u00a0 will be automatically added for FREE! This special offer will only be available through Friday, December 31st when our new releases go live, so don\u2019t delay! And don\u2019t forget to come back next Friday for a sneak peek at Tracey\u2019s Feature Designer 15 sale.\u00a0 It will start Tuesday, December 28th.\u00a0 \u00a0Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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