For my most recent t-shirt design, I wanted to surround a quote with wavy sun rays, sort of a “Sun Ray Frame.” I remembered a simple technique for creating a sun in Adobe Illustrator that turned out to be perfect for my design. Here’s what the Sun Ray Frame looks like. It has a space…
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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 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…
