![]() ![]() Be sure to check that the scale of the letters does not exceed the space on half of the card. This will merge the letters and clean up the cut path. Now we can individually scoot the letters until they touch, align, select them all, right-click, and weld. Write your text, then select, right-click, and ungroup. We also need to cut out the design for our pop up! Grab the text tool and a cool blocky font, like Showcard Gothic. Select and delete the original image and then you can duplicate the new heart-shaped cut line as many times as you want! Import your png, then use the trace function, turn off the high-pass filter, and trace the outside edge. My heart shape was a creative commons licensed heart shape. We'll be sure that the cut-outs don't cross over into the pop-up portion. On our other (outside) card, we can cut out some text or hearts (or whatever - go crazy!) to show through. Select the card we just added the pop-up tab to and scale it down just a smidge. Yes we've created a rectangle, but we needed half the lines to be perforated for our creases, so we need to do this manually.Īfter cutting my test pieces (red on purple, pictured above), I realized that the cards would work better if the inner layer was a little smaller. Once you're satisfied with this, select all of the components of this card and right-click, group. These two horizontal lines will be perforated though, since we'll fold here for the pop up. ![]() Let's do the same thing, but with lines perpendicular to these to close them into a rectangular box. You can see in the third picture that aligning center will put the lines over top of one another unless they've been grouped prior to aligning. Select the box as well, then align vertical - align middle. We can select them both, then align on center. You can draw one, duplicate it, and move the copy over with the arrow keys. These should be centered on the crease so that it's the same length on both halves. On one of our cards, we'll draw two identical, parallel lines near the center, crossing the crease. Paste it elsewhere on the screen - we'll come back to it later. Select it again and duplicate it (Ctrl + D). With the outline and crease selected, right-click and press "group." This will lock them together so that we can reposition everything at one time. Go into the align tab and align vertical - align middle. Select the crease line, then hold shift and select the rectangle. We don't want to cut this like out outline, so go to the line tab and change it to a perforation/dash. At the midpoint, let's draw a line from one side to the other. I like the line my card up on the grid for the rest of the layout. You can toggle the gridlines by pressing the "G" key. You can tweak these to your liking, but the default shape suits me. ![]() I chose to use the rectangle with rounded corners. Be sure that the aspect/ratio lock is turned off while you set it and locked once you're done. Don't worry about getting it perfect by hand, because we can go into the scale tab and fine tune it. We'll create a rectangle freeform with the rectangle tool. My document is set up for the 12x12" mat, even though I don't plan on using the bottom of it. Let's start by designing the card itself. ![]()
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