Cool Dude Father's Day - Inkscape vector

I hardly ever enter a challenge since I mostly do elements but I had to do a Father's Day card anyway and now was the time.


I did this for the Alota Challenge #59, "Check it Out" using pieces I mostly already had.  Stop by and see all the other challenge entries as there are some really sweet ones already.  


I sort my elements by kind, not project, as I use them over and over again.  I have folders for mannequin's, clothes, background papers, etc.


Resource


I created the checkerboard pattern for both the swatch for the jacket and the check border using Inkscape. Pattern paper done with Clone Tiles, and the border using Interpolate Paths.  The background paper is a filter converted to a bitmap.  


Come join the Inkscape Cutting Design forum for a ton of tutorials on using Inkscape and some really nice folks to help you!




Pieces to Cut - svg file includes the bkg images

1. mannequin
2. pants
3. t-shirt (well just the part that shows under the jacket
4.  jacket
5. heart in two pieces for layering

Pieces to Print - all png files to download

• the entire card, as seen, if you are not in the "cutting" mood
• textured background paper with check border
• checkerboard background paper for the jacket.

You will need to figure out how to print/cut the background pieces as the cutting world has gotten so complicated lately with all the new cutters and software coming in that I hesitate to provide instructions on how you do all of this.  I use SCAL2 on the cutter we don't talk about anymore.


Check out You Tube or Google Print/Cut and you are bound to find techniques for SCAL, MTC, eCraft and probably more by now.  I've gotten some good ideas from them.

You are on your own for the text.


Download
Textured background.png
Checkerboard bkg.png
Cool Dude Card.png

Cool Dude.svg

Happy Father's Day to all the cool dudes in your life!