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I have been in such a retro mood. I love vintage-style typography–you could say, it really floats my boat. Usually the style is clean with some character. I think it just adds a whole fabulous element to a page…or a Project Life…or a December Daily…. :)

That’s why I was so excited to make this fun little number:

And not only would they be great for your memory keeping, but you can use them as gift tags or on a photo card or whatever!

So this is how they come. In the kit you get two different sizes to the PNG image. One is the STANDARD–use ‘as is’–size, and the other one is a BLEED size–meaning, you’ll get an excess of the card so that when you add a decorative edge then you’ll have some wiggle room.

So, let’s take a closer look at what this image is telling us.

If you decide you want to use a tag shape, choose the PNG image file that has BLEED in it. The BLEED files give a little excess to the design around the outer edge so that you have a little wiggle room to play with. The BLEED PNG files should be about 3.2″ wide and the tag shape should remain that 2.95″ wide so it will fit into the pocket of your Project Life. Center the two images and create that Print+Cut.

If you decide you want the STANDARD, straight-cut image to use, and you’re using it in your Project Life, you’ll want to make the card slightly smaller than 3×4–so setting a width of 2.95″ would probably end up being just right.

So the basics of this all is:
1. Open the needed PNG
2. Open the tag cut file and copy your tag style
3. Paste and center it over your PNG image
4. Set up your file for the Print+Cut

And voila! You are done!

Of course, if you are using this for anything else, your sizes can vary. Oh yeah, and to carry on the theme of what you’re working with there, there are three of the designs on the cards that have been included as cuttable shapes. I’m personally pretty fond of those. :)

Soooo…there ya have it! Go have some fun with it!

You know, I love having options for journaling. I like being able to use something beyond just the ordinary ‘type it up and print it out’ method. Combine that with my love for office supplies? Um yeah, this is what you get:

This kit is perfect for working with Project Life because the journaling cards come in 4×6 and 3×4 sizes. But of course you can use these for your pages, cards, projects…whatever floats your boat!

But wait . . . there’s more! (you know how I love to say that)

Not only can you use these as a PNG file in your photo editing software, but it also includes the cut files so that you can bring them into your cutting software and manipulate your colors there, change the corners to a rounded corner, or even add a fun edge border like from the kit On The Edge . . . like this.

You can put multiples on a page and run them off as print+cuts as well.

And wait….there’s even more! Because they are a cut file and created with lines and dots and all that good stuff, you can change the colors how you want them. Perhaps a girls’ game night would warrant a more girly colored score sheet journaling card, like this?

Now, if you have the Designer Edition of Studio, when you bring the SVG file into Studio, the image will be in color like you see above. If you have the Standard Edition, the DXF will all come in a that raw outline look–just lines, no color. What I would recommend doing is grab any text and turn it into a Compound Path (select the word/phrase, right click, choose Make Compound Path). That way it will change the text as it needs to be so that when you fill it with a color, it will do the right thing.

I might even recommend that you color them like you see and then save it as a STUDIO file and keep that one on file before adding it to your Library.

You may have noticed that there are some designs that I’ve made for kits like This+That in there. That’s because I loved the design so much that I thought it would be awesome to have it perfectly formatted in the 4×6 and 3×4 to make them easy to use. I also made the lines for these cards so that they are about the same as a piece of notebook paper so that you’ll have room to write.

Okay then . . . that’s all she wrote . . . so to speak. :)
With this kit, now you can now journal inFORMS.

I have a little something for you! :)

Price: $1

[ Comes in SVG/STUDIO/DXF/AIv8/PNG ]

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

I can’t believe that the 4th of July is just around the corner!!!

Thought I should pop in real quick with some brand new subway art . . .
ya know, in case you were decorating and all. :)

[ Comes in SVG/STUDIO/AIv8/DXF/PNG ]

Price: $1

Comes in red, black and a black text with no background.

And in case you Canadians were a-wonderin’ . . . my intent is to make one for y’all too, 
but with company here, my time is a bit limited. I hope to get it up though in the next
few short days. :)

And I will try to get to my emails soon too.
I appreciate y’all’s patience as I enjoy my family here for a few days. :)

Been busy getting the Subway Art up to date on the upcoming holidays.

Check these out for Graduation and Mother’s Day!
Both are just $1.

[ Comes in PNG as well as SVG/STUDIO/DXF/AIv8 ]

[ Comes in PNG as well as SVG/STUDIO/DXF/AIv8 ]

But wait . . . there’s more!

You can now buy these eight holiday subway art images–including the new Family one–in a specialty pack for just $5.50.

Price: $5.50

This would make an amaaazing Mother’s Day gift! I plan on getting laser jet transparencies–so they are totally clear–and then cut out the titles in vinyl, put them on the transparency, and put the first one into a glass frame (the rest into a folder). This way you can have the illusion of putting ‘vinyl on glass’, but yet you can easily swap out the holiday each month without going to all the work of putting vinyl on and taking it off the glass. What a pain that would be. :) I think I’ll tie up a cute ribbon with it too–probably on the side.

Or, just have a simple black frame that you can swap out the color photo printed versions (they are 8×10).

OH! And I found these really cool clips to hold/hang frames at Crate+Barrel today. Looove these!
They just had individual clips to buy.

so.fun.

Man, this really is just around the corner!
March is next week for cryin’ out loud!

So to get you in that festive mood, here’s a little home decor item for ya.

[ Comes in three PNG colors as well as SVG/STUDIO/AIv8/DXF ]

Price: $1

A couple little fun tidbits about this.
I wanted to include more than the usual ‘St.Patrick’s Day’ stuff,
so I found an Irish Blessing that says:

‘May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.’

I thought that was so cool.

And then I had bought a necklace in Ireland that says this in Irish (Gaelic) on one side:

Gra  • Sonas •  Slainte

And on the flipside and translated into English it says:

Love • Health • Happiness

That made me happy. :)