Rub-on Alphabets Tips – { A Toddler’s Pinterest Board}

Posted: May 9th, 2012 ˑ Filled under: 12x12, layout, scrapbook ˑ 9 Comments

Pinterest is so popular, especially in the scrapbooking or design communities. I’ve been wondering, what would my toddler son pin if he could? This would be a fun way to record what he likes as a scrapbook page!

It sounds like a simple concept, but I can’t imagine pulling it off in such a short period of time without Adobe InDesign. Alignment is where InDesign shines. I can easily divide a page into equal-width columns, and the photo frames snap into the guides so that they’re of equal width. It’s also easier to drop photos and adjust photo sizes in InDesign than Photoshop. If you have InDesign and not sure what it does, I encourage you to look up some tutorials. It’s really easy to learn, and Lynda.com has great intro classes for free, and that’s all I needed to know for scrapbooking.

I downloaded printed Pinterest logo on a transparency. It’s pretty cool, because you can still see the background paper, as if the logo was a rub-on. The subtitle alphabets, except for the “MAXWELL” part, were all rubbed on. Rubbing on a long phrase is tricky, since its impossible to know where to start to center the phrase. My solution was to use a scrap transparency, put it over the rub-on alphas, and trace the letters to see how long the whole thing was going to be.