We did some Black Friday shopping this morning and then went to Downtown Cincinnati to skate on the ice rink. So fun!!!
Hope you are all having a fun and restful holiday.
Tag: thanksgiving
Give Thanks printable
Well, it’s almost Thanksgiving. Holy moly, it is early this year. Thanksgiving is always crazy for us because we travel to Ohio to see my dad’s family. That doesn’t sound too crazy, but when you consider that we go up on Wednesday night and come back Saturday morning and that it is a 9-hour drive… well, you see what I’m talking about. But family is family, so we suck it up and go. And we have a great time 🙂
Today’s post is another graphic design tutorial using screen caps in InDesign. Let’s do this!
I wanted to make a “Give Thanks” printable/computer background for the month of November, so I opened up a new InDesign doc and got to work.
Since Fall has such rich, warm tones, I chose an orange for the background by dragging a box to the edges of the paper and filling it.
I adjusted my orange using the CMYK sliders.
In a second layer, I made this cross-looking design using the font Soft Ornaments Six. This shape is four “letters” rotated and joined together.
I liked this look, so I grouped the four “letters” together, then copied and pasted them into another layer. I rotated them so the cross became a snowflake-y design.
Then I added my words. I put them into one text box at first before I started to manipulate the text.
I found a font I like called Albemarle Swash, so I changed my text to that font and started playing with colors. First purple.
Nope. Then light blue with a brown background…
And then I changed “give” to be smaller and all lowercase, resting it on the upper curl of the “k.”
… and then I got tired of looking at orange. Shocker. I can’t stay away from blue, no matter how hard I try. I also made the document a square instead of a rectangle and changed my text to black.
I like how it turned out, even though the colors have nothing to do with the fall. In the blue, the background looks more like a snowflake, which means I can use this as my background all through the winter.
Feel free to download this printable, and remember to give thanks!
Things I am thankful for:
- My husband
- My family
- My friends
- My pup
- My job and my awesome coworkers
- My new and awesome neighbors
- My house. Gosh, I love my house.
- My blog and all of my followers!
- …. and so many other things.
So many pallets…
… so little time.
Yes, that’s right. I have a total of five pallets to destroy! Woo! I have grand plans for one or two of them… AND since my pallet sign turned out so well, the hubby doesn’t seem to care too much that I brought three of them home this week and grabbed one more from our neighbor. I’m leaving the one in my office alone for a bit longer — I definitely don’t need five pallets at home (not that I need four either).
I have no idea when I’ll actually have time to work on these projects since it is getting to be holiday season, which means I am super busy. This weekend I am doing the Trash to Treasure Fair on Saturday and am (hopefully) making homemade applesauce all day on Sunday. If not, maybe I’ll get around to it sometime this week after work. Unfortunately, with the weather being chilly and it getting dark so early, it’s less exciting to be outside after work using my power tools. We’ll see though!
Next weekend is another craft fair and the hubby’s birthday. Then the weekend after that it is Thanksgiving! Like I said, we are always busy during holiday season. I doubt December will be any slower for us. We are just so darn popular ;p
TGIF! Have a great weekend!
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