You only need 4 basic colors that should be in most sets of 12. I wanted it to be accessible to everyone and also I think it is smart to try a limited supply project if you are new to a media so you can see if you like it before spending a lot of money on supplies. All you need is a red, yellow, blue and green, cool huh? Watch the video to see how I did this (and how you can too!)
EnableComp partnered with the LP Pencil Box for our 3rd quarter charity project. The LP Pencil Box is a 503(C)3 nonprofit that supplies Metro Nashville with classroom essentials such as pencils, crayons, paper, glue sticks, etc! It allows teachers to shop for new school supplies for both their classrooms and their students FOR FREE!
This project started off with a pledge. Each team came together and committed to certain number of backpacks to stuff. EnableComp provided the backpacks, but the teams did the rest. The initial company pledge was 101 but we quickly exceed that! We donated a total of 173 backpacks which filled over 15 shopping carts FULL!
LP Pencil reported that our drive was the LARGEST company drive they had ever seen and would likely be the largest donation they would receive all year. One of the supervisors, Katelyn Boulanger, was truly touched by this project and shared her story.
I am not quite finished with the cat portraits but found I was not loving the process so I started a new project. After all, if there is one benefit of retirement, it is that I can generally CHOOSE what I want to do. Life is good.
I finally had some time to "play" with colored pencil (Stampin' Up! Watercolor Pencils) on dark cardstock. I started with a basic gray focal layer. I masked it off using blue painter's tape (TIP: be sure to apply it to clothing repeatedly to lessen its stickiness and test it before applying) to two sides. The floral bunch from Southern Serenade was applied using versamark over the painter's tape corner followed by the Happy Birthday Sentiment. White embossing powder was applied and heat embossed. I was not concerned with a little extra white scattered around so did not use an anti static tool.
Next came the coloring. Starting with white as a base, I colored the entire image with white colored pencil. Next; Rich Razzleberry followed by Melon Mambo. Pear Pizzazz (from the Lots of Happy Card kit) was used on the leaves. Basic Black was added for shadows to give more depth followed by white gel pen for even more depth. I have attached a video demonstrating the techniques used to color this project. Video length 7 min 27 sec.
The second colored pencil project was pretty quick and easy. I colored the "hello" sentiment from Calligraphy Essentials. I decided to emboss an Early Espresso background after cutting it with the background stitching die from Stitched All Around. I keep a spare parts envelope and used extra pieces from the envelope. I put it all together and added Granny Apple Green glitter enamel dots to...
If Pencil crashes when saving a file (it may happen with both save functions) that file will get corrupted, no chance to open it.
If opening a saved project (that is NOT corrupted) after a pencil-crash without closing the program and loading it again, it will make that project corrupted as well, with no hope to open it again.
It's all about textures! A great project for beginners, learn simple methods to create the illusion of drawing textures without really drawing them - wood grain, soft fabric folds, and a smooth shiny apple. Plus, learn how to create deep shadows that create depth and contrast from veteran colored pencil artist Ann Kullberg.
To facilitate access to precision medicine for all children and adolescents with cancer, regardless of their area of residence. This is the objective of the SEHOP-PENCIL project, developed by the Spanish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (SEHOP) and coordinated by the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and the Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders group of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), which has been financed with 2 million euros by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III, dependent on Ministry for Science and Innovation, with European funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. It involves 12 hospitals and research centers together with medical-scientific and patient associations which, over a period of four years, will design and evaluate a nation-wide sequencing program for childhood tumors in order to implement personalized medicine among the standards for diagnosis and treatment and to improve survival.
The project will involve more than 500 patients with pediatric tumors treated in any hospital in the territory, and is especially aimed at high-risk cases, i.e. those with a higher mortality rate. Using different techniques, the tumors will be sequenced at the time of diagnosis or at relapse. "Knowing the molecular biology of the tumor will help to identify specific alterations that allow us to offer targeted therapies to improve survival", explains Dr. Aroa Soriano, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases group at VHIR. These analyses will also help to improve diagnosis and stratify patients according to their risk, which will allow to reduce the intensity of treatment in those patients with better prognosis and, therefore, to reduce toxicity and long-term sequelae. Finally, they will study the existence of hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes, which exist in up to 10% of childhood cancers and whose detection allows us to start early detection programs in patients and their families.
The ultimate goal of SEHOP-PENCIL will be for precision medicine to be incorporated into the service portfolio of any hospital, and its usefulness and effectiveness will be studied. This will allow Spain to join the leading European countries in pediatric oncology which have already incorporated these studies at the first line. Initially, the project will be carried out in patients with high-risk tumors, but once it is implemented it is hoped that it will be able to reach all pediatric cancer patients.
SEHOP-PENCIL is an eminently collaborative project of all hospitals and research centers in childhood cancer coordinated by VHIR and the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, from where it will also work on advanced sequencing techniques and the search for new treatments for patients whose cancers have relapsed. Also participating are the Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario la Paz, Sociedad Española de Hematología y Oncología Pediátrica, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe - Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla - Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras-Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fundación de Investigación CRIS CONTRA EL CÁNCER, Fundación de Investigación del Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona - Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biocruces Bizkaia and Servicio de Salud de Castilla la Mancha.
Another cool thing is the Stencil Generator. I have no idea what this is, but it sounds good. Apparently, and Imight be completely mistaken here, this allows you to take existing images, run some kind of Sobel edge detectand create negatives, which you can then later user as sort of blue prints from your project, rather thandesigning entire new objects from scratch. Maybe.
Mockingbird is a HTML5 app for creating wireframes, meaning that everything is done in your browser and no installation is needed. Take me to Mockingbird. You can only have one project at a time with the free version, but otherwise it is a neat wireframing tool with no restrictions on the number of stencils and pages you can create in that project.
To start a new project in Windows, go to File > Open Folder... (go to File > Open... for Macs). Navigate to where you want your new project to be saved, then create a new folder. This new folder is where all your files for the project will be stored. Select your newly created folder, then hit ok.
When we make websites, we start with making the html file. Html defines the structure and content of your webpage. The html language is made up of html tags, that look like this: content. Let's try writing some html. Add a new project in Atom as described in the instructions above, then right click the project folder in the left hand pane of Atom and click on New File. Name the file index.html - the naming here is very important. In a website, the index.html page represents the home page, or the first page the user will see upon entering your website. Copy and paste in the following lines into the html file:
After defining the structure of the page, we also need to customize the styling of the page elements, such as its colour, size, or font. It is possible to do this in the html file itself, but it can make it very messy. Hence, we use css to define the presentation and styling of our html document. We write our css code in another css file separate from the html file. Let's try applying css to our html document created in the section before. Right click on your project folder in Atom, click New File, and name it style.css. Copy and paste the following into your style.css file:
But... If you run your project you won't see the styles being applied, and that's because we haven't "linked" the html and css file yet. We need to add a reference to the css file in our html file. Copy and paste the reference right under the title tags of your html file, like this:
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