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A Personalized Sleeve for a Coffee Cup

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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coffee cup cover photoI got the idea from Pinterest (of course) to give a Starbucks gift card in a Starbucks cup so that’s exactly what I’m going to give my hairstylist for Christmas. Making a sleeve using Artisan and printing it on brown cardstock adds the finishing touch. I lined the cup with wrinkled brown paper to look like coffee and added cotton balls to look like whipped cream. If you mention to the Starbucks employee, when purchasing a gift card, that you would like a cup and straw for packaging, they are not likely to say no!

coffee cup sleeveDownload this template and make the finished size 10.75″ x 3″ (Right Click, Properties). Add your decoration in the middle, group the elements together (Arrange tab), and, if necessary, Rotate 90 Degrees Clockwise (Arrange tab) so it will fit on standard printer paper. To center it on the page: Home, Align, Center on Page. Then Save, Print (File tab), Print, Current Page, Print. The Christmas tree is from the Digital Variety Kit (I reduced the opacity) and the font for Jenny is Xiomara.

If you want to save it as a shape so you can add a border and/or easily find it to use again, you will have to go through a few more steps. Make the sleeve 10.75″ x 3″. Flatten (Arrange tab). Using the Wand (Cut tab), cut away the background. Click on Outliner (Insert tab), Right Click, Shape, Save As… Give it a name and Save.

When Outlined Text Shapes Overlap

15 Sunday Nov 2015

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text shape overlapSometimes, when typing a word using the Text Shape feature (which includes the option of creating a border around each letter), the borders overlap and it doesn’t look quite right. An easy solution is to type the word, a space and type the individual letter(s) that are overlapping.awkard letters one

Zoom in to about 200%, insert a vertical line on one side of the original offending letter and a horizontal line on the top or bottom of the letter. Cut the extra letters away from the original word (Cut, Straight, Straight Edge, OK to flatten, move line between word and extra letter, Keep Both Areas, Cut) and then move the individual letter on top of the word using the alignment markings. awkward letters fixFlatten it all together and it will look all cleaned up!

Note: font is Leokadia Deco

Front & Center

15 Sunday Nov 2015

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front and centerWhen working on pages for a book, the binding throws the center off from the left page to the right page. To ensure that your elements are properly centered on each page, create a brightly colored bar that is 11.436″ by .5″ (for a 12 x 12 page) and place it at the top of the page, out of the way. Line it up with the edges of the page excluding the binding.center barNow, for the fussy detailed scrapbookers like me, all the elements can be centered with the bar. If the page is already created and all the elements need to be moved, group them all together (except for the temporary bar and the background) and then line up the grouped elements with the bar using the alignment tool (Arrange tab).