Gift tags and calling cards
I've been on a silhouette kick recently and have been making multiple things that incorporate silhouettes. It's pretty easy to find silhouettes that are free to use - search on "silhouette clip art" using Google's image search, and you'll turn up a bunch immediately.
I just recently made a set of gift tags that I used for Christmas (though they work well for any time of year). There was a tree series:
A bird series:
And a, um, "combined" series. Of one.
I liked this last silhouette enough that I made a couple of calling cards from it. These, I like very much, except that they printed slightly crooked so I had to cut them out by hand. Frustrating, but honestly I don't use cards all that often so the six I printed will last a long time. (I love the idea of cards, but find that I frequently forget to give them to people I meet. I have about 100 that I ordered a while ago, but only succeeded in giving away maybe 20 before my phone number changed.)
If you're interested in making these exact labels or cards, drop me a comment with your email (or email me) and I'll send you the .docx file. The labels are particularly easy -- just use a paper slicer to cut inside the dotted lines and across several rows at once. You can print them on card stock and punch a hole on the right side of the tag to string a ribbon through, or you can print onto full-page sticky label paper, which allows you to just stick them on packages later.
If you want to make your own, it's also quite easy. A few tricks I learned along the way:
I just recently made a set of gift tags that I used for Christmas (though they work well for any time of year). There was a tree series:
A bird series:
And a, um, "combined" series. Of one.
I liked this last silhouette enough that I made a couple of calling cards from it. These, I like very much, except that they printed slightly crooked so I had to cut them out by hand. Frustrating, but honestly I don't use cards all that often so the six I printed will last a long time. (I love the idea of cards, but find that I frequently forget to give them to people I meet. I have about 100 that I ordered a while ago, but only succeeded in giving away maybe 20 before my phone number changed.)
If you're interested in making these exact labels or cards, drop me a comment with your email (or email me) and I'll send you the .docx file. The labels are particularly easy -- just use a paper slicer to cut inside the dotted lines and across several rows at once. You can print them on card stock and punch a hole on the right side of the tag to string a ribbon through, or you can print onto full-page sticky label paper, which allows you to just stick them on packages later.
If you want to make your own, it's also quite easy. A few tricks I learned along the way:
- Create a table and put a single label or card inside each cell.
- Get one label right and print it (things look different printed, especially fonts!), then copy and paste into the other cells.
- Right click the pictures and select Text Wrapping->Tight. This lets you control the amount of white space around the pictures, instead of it defaulting to something large that frequently moves your text around in unexpected ways.
- If you want a border on your cards, add thin columns and rows between each card to give every card its own full border.