Spring has me drawing flowers in all my applications including Illustrator. Of course, there are tons of ways to make flowers in Illustrator, but I think the most fun way is to use the Rotate tool. With the Rotate tool, I can draw a single petal and use the Rotate, Copy, Duplicate technique to do…
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How to Make Banners in Procreate
Banners can be a great way to add words to a piece of artwork. I wanted to find a quick way to draw them. This tutorial will show you how to draw three types of banners in Procreate: a simple banner, a curved banner, and a wavy banner. To learn how to draw some banners,…
Create a Die Cut Valentine in Illustrator to Cut using Cricut or a Laser Cutter
I love using Cricut or a laser cutter to make die cut greeting cards. In this tutorial, I’ll describe how to design a simple, modern die cut Valentine card in Illustrator that you can cut with a Cricut machine or a laser cutter. I’ll also show you some options for transforming it into something special…
5 Easy Ways to Draw a Heart in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator has some simple built-in shapes, such as the rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and star, but what I’d really like to see added is a heart. Every time I need a heart in Illustrator, I have to draw one, and while there are tons of ways to create a heart, I usually rely on one…
How to Make a Heart Stamp Brush in Procreate
In Procreate, you can use stamp brushes to add shapes or images to your design. Rather than dragging the brush to create lines, you tap it to “stamp” the shape. It’s easy to create your own custom stamp brushes either by importing an image or drawing one in Procreate then converting it to a brush….
How to Design in Cricut Design Space using the Shapes Tools
Cricut Design Space provides built-in basic shapes such as the circle, square, and heart that you can use in designing your projects. Most of the time, I create my own project files outside of Cricut Design Space and import them into it. However, it’s fun and challenging to design right in Design Space using its…
Make Hand Lettered Inspirational Stickers Using Procreate and Cricut
It’s officially 2019! This year I wanted to make some inspirational quote stickers. These stickers were easy to make with Procreate and a Cricut machine. Procreate is a great app for lettering. Cricut’s Print Then Cut feature allows you to 1) set up your stickers for label or sticker paper, 2) print them using your…
How to Make a Custom Lettering Brush in Procreate
Digital lettering is fun to do, and it can also be used to create unique projects. One of my favorite iPad apps to letter in is Procreate. A major benefit of using Procreate for lettering is that it’s easy to create your own custom lettering brushes by following just a few simple steps. There are…
Make Custom Snowflakes Using Procreate
Snowflake designs come in handy this time of year. Whether they’re on cards, gift tags, prints, stickers, etc, snowflakes are a really useful design to use for the holidays. Today I wanted to try to make some snowflakes using the symmetry tool in Procreate. Even if you’re a beginner, you can easily create snowflakes this…
How to Make a Die Cut Holiday Greeting Card Using Illustrator and Cricut
In this tutorial, we’ll step through the process of creating a greeting card with cut out shapes. We’ll use Adobe Illustrator to create the card design and save it as an SVG file that can be imported into Cricut Design Space for cutting on a Cricut machine. The SVG file format is a great one…
