Alternate Tiled Clones in Color

Paper with Happy Birthday

Making background papers and playing with how to design them I've been doing a lot with tiled clones lately and in the pursuit of knowledge I came up with this design. You can add the Happy Birthday with stamps or with a font and rotate to the angle you want and copy/paste in place.


I showed it off to my Inkscape pals on Inkscape Cutting Design who wanted my "recipe". Although it takes a lot of time and tries to get a video done it is easier than trying to figure out how to write it down and have all the graphics one needs to do it, hence this video.  Most intermediate users of Inkshape will do fine I think, beginners may have a problem even tho I strive to go step by step.


One drawback of the technique is that it has so many variables to do things with and all are dependent on size, kind, shape etc. so the video is a broad brush with specifics to this design.  It hopefully will set you  on your way to creating your own patterns.  Here's the final product from the video.  

Here are the settings for doing this particular design in the Tiled Clones menu.  These are the only settings I changed from the default.

Printing Your Design

You take the svg and convert it to a .jpg or png and resize it to your specifications.  It seems better to make larger patterns and scale them down, the to scale up, but again the pattern will matter.

See my other videos on Tiled Clones in the video tutorial section on the right hand side of the page, or just scroll down as they will show up for a while yet before rolling off.


I sure would like to hear/see how you do with the tutorial.


Resources for more videos and tutorials

• Introduction to Radial Tiled Clones - Inkscape - sirmorphalot on You Tube
• Tiled Clones with Inkscape - cuttingtime on YouTube.  
• Lauriannes' eye draw it  blog where I learned about alternating rows/columns
• Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook- book to purchase - Packt Publications

Happy and Productive Fishing everyone.