Folks have been asking how I get my journaling so neat and tidy on the Evalicious tags on my Project Life pages... so I'm here to tell you: I'm a total nerdy planner. It's actually quite easy, but you might want to put on your pocket protector and find a ruler before we begin. *big grin*
The first thing I do is plan my layout... I get out my pictures, paper, embellies, and my Evalicious goodies and swirl them around until they are about where I think they'll end up when all is said and done. Then the nerdiness starts!
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| This is about as planned as I get - now for the fun stuff! |
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| I type out my journaling without any regard for font, font size, or how much space it's taking up. A lot of times I just start with whatever working document is still open. |
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| Next thing I do is measure the size of the journaling tag or label. No laughing at Radon Ruler. It's a handy 6 inches *and* neon green so I can find it! LOL |
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| You can see I changed my working area to the size of the large tag I want to journal on. I also changed the font size to fill the tag - but only part-way. I wanted to leave some space to do some hand-written journaling and stamp the date. And I can tell by looking at the screen that I should have enough room. |
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| I print my journaling on cheap paper - the cheaper and thinner the better! I also keep a stash of scrap for stuff like this. I have a DIY lightbox (my husband is handsome *and* handy... LOL!), but you can use a window easy peasy. |
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| A little double-sided tape on the four corners of my tag and the lightbox lets me line up my tag right where I want it. |
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| I ran the paper with my tag attached back through the printer - and it's like magic! Essentially, I'm printing the same thing twice. Once on junk paper, and the second time on the good stuff. |
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| You can print on little tags, too. Just type what you want your journaling to say... |
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| Measure how much room you have to work with (I only want to use part of this tag)... |
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| Change your size and adjust your font (and add an extra word if you want!)... |
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| Line it up how you want it on your junk paper and lightbox (or window)... |
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| And print it again! |
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| And here's how it turned out! I had enough room with the top journaling tag as planned for a little handwriting and the date stamp, and the lower tag fit where I needed it to. *fist pump* YEAH! |
Evalicious goodies used:
And don't forget! We've got a challenge going on right now... Post your tutorial-inspired Evalicious creations in our
shopEvalicious.com Flickr pool and link them up in
the comments
here for a chance to win some Evalicious product! Deadline is Saturday, March 30th at midnight. The
winner will be announced on March 31st.
- Theresa
3 comments:
Great tutorial! Your journaling cards always look so perfectly aligned!
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