Drawing Shapes ...
Use everyday objects to help you.
Do you need help with drawing shapes? Don't trust drawing freehand? (Me neither!)
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Drawing a straight line is not a problem with my trusty metal ruler, it's going round corners that is!
There is quite a lot of stuff around the house to help you.
For instance draw round an empty box to get the square or oblong you want. And for diffeent sized circles use things like a plate or saucer.
This card was easily acheived by placing a side plate, partly off the card at the spine end, and just drawing round it. Then with my craft knife I simply followed the line and cut it out.
Egg cups, tea cups, CD's all give you the same result, and some pastry cutters are already in a shape and just need to be traced round.
Use a pencil and draw lightly, this will leave you room for any mistakes you make and can be easily rubbed out after. So don't forget a good eraser too.
Try using stencils or templates. They come in all shapes and sizes.
The alphabet will help you produce the names for your projects, and numbers will do the same. All you need to do then is colour or embellish in any way you want to.
If you don't want to spoil the template pages in magazines, then use tracing paper. Draw over the shape you want to copy and then on the reverse of the tracing paper go over the lines again.
Now when you place your tracing paper down on the card and go over the lines again, the image is transfered across.
And if you do this on spare piece of card and keep it safe you will always have your own template to use again.
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