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Ribbon

Tutorial here.

Not too much here, just a little practice.  I still need to practice how to use gradients in Illustrator, it is so confusing!!

Flowers.

Tutorial here.

Just chose different colors.  But I had no idea about the transparency window!  So useful considering I'm almost, almost a pro at Photoshop.  Rather very advanced amateur.   But still!  But by the time I actually understood all the steps to this I realized it was ONE BUTTON I forgot to press.  I'm smart.  But I'm glad it worked.  It also taught me more of the buttons on the left toolbar too.  Like, look at color dodge flower.  How awesome is that?!  Anywhosits.  Onward we go.

Shapes

Tutorial here.

I totally didn't realize this, but his was a photoshop tutorial and I was totally doing the shapes in Illustrator.  After I noticed, I just imported the shapes into Photoshop and did masking and layer options from there.  I know it's a copy, but for me it's just understanding ways to use simple shapes to create something more detailed.  Hopefully I'll apply stuff like this to anything I do.