Monday, February 22, 2010

State your case!

I started playing with some ideas to play with state identifications whether for a scrapbooking page or to show where your from or where you've been! Doing an internet search for "US states svg" gave me a state map that I could take into Inkscape and ungroup and pull the state I wanted which was Nebraska. There are also county maps that give you the option to pull out your county. I found mine by searching for "Nebraska box butte county svg"

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I'll include this file with the nebraska state file for those that like this script -
File Here!




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Another idea is to use parts of maps to customize your state silhouette or highlight where your from or an area you traveled to in that sate.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Creating a Monogram

I found this beautiful font called monogram kk via a craft edge forum post (thanks, Kay!) and played with some color combos in Inkscape (still using .46) Using the inset and outset features in the Path menu makes it easy to create the shadows. I may set up a file for cutting but I think they would be beautiful for print projects like stationary, envelopes or seals for envelopes.








Another idea for creating a monogram for a couple...
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This simple border available here. (It's about the tenth post.)
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Helloooo Baby!

This cheesy rhino was in some old sign files I'm going through so I thought I'd convert him for a scal cutout and png files....link here about the fifth post.

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