Mickey PaperClips - Tutorial and Special Freebie for my Followers

I want to say thank you to those of you who follow me in my journey through this blog.  Mine isn't the happiest journey and I want to thank you, my digi-friends, for being there.  I made this new freebie for you full of lots of fun Mickey Clips all hand made by me in Photoshop!

I will be sending this new freebie out to my newsletter subscribers and putting it on my facebook wall for my followers there.  If you are a blog follower but aren't a newsletter subscriber or facebook follower, you will need to email me at agrievingmommy@yahoo.com and request it with your blogger name because Blogger often does not give me info on how to reach you.  Want to get it?  Become a follower on Blogger or Facebook.

And here's a little tutorial for use with these paper clips...
Want to make your paperclips look like they are actually on your paper strip?  Here's a little tutorial to show you how to do that.
First, place your paperclip on your paperstrip where you want it like this:

 Next, duplicate the paperclip layer and move one of the layers below the paperstrip like this:

 Then, choose your top paperclip layer.

 Finally, making sure you have selected the top paperclip layer, erase the part of the paperclip that should be behind the paperstrip like this:

The 2nd paperclip behind the first allows you to erase easier.  You can then add shadowing to the bottom paperclip layer if you'd like.

You can use this same idea with ribbon, wire, strings, etc. to get one thing to wrap around another!

Sending hugs to you :)
Denise aka A Grieving Mommy