Archive for February 1st, 2010

Feb
01

Dino card Silhouette quick tips…

Posted by DeAnna

Kyle recently went to a birthday party of a friend from preschool. The theme was dinosaurs, so I made a dinosaur card using a dinosaur silhouette cut out on my Silhouette (haha).

To make sure all my elements would fit on my card I started with a standard 8.5 x 11 inch document. I drew a rectangle the size of my card, in this case a 5.5 x 4.25 inch card. I chose the dinosaur silhouette I wanted to use, and scaled it down to fit inside the rectangle. Then I used the type tool and typed out the word DINO-mite and scaled that to fit as well.

Once I had everything laid out the way I wanted it, I started a new document and moved my dinosaur to the second document because I wanted my text and the dinosaur silhouette to be on different coloured paper. On the first document I also deleted the rectangle I drew since I was only using it as a reference. I then sent both documents to output and voila, I had everything I needed for my card cut out and ready to put together.

I don’t have a picture of it yet, but I will get one soon. I was really happy with the way the card turned out, especially since I’m a bit of a novice card maker. I’ve really only made our christmas cards and a few birthday cards for friends.

On a side note – I’ve reached 100 downloads of my templates and kits! Woohoo! I’ll be back later today or tomorrow with a freebie that I’ve been working on.

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