Hi all! i am very excited today to show off my new series of Organization printables ! There are so many more to come .. i just finished posting these two up at AiFStore. At a price of $1 each , i am keeping the price very lo so you all can enjoy full month of organization at AIF. Our DT member Melissa really enjoyed creating a few sample prints for us .
In this post i will show off some of the previews of the printable sheet , included is To-Do List and a grocery list

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yes finally finally finally after so many days of leaving the work between , ella in complete and today i had set myself a task to finish and submit it! and i did it! She is 20% off for the first week of release. I hope you like her.....
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Here is the latest i am working on , i had half of this one done ages ago and it is still unfinished

Our First Kit to be released 15th June!

starting month is 10% off that is $4 for all these digital goodies!

Sign up Now for just $10 for three months*

Yes it is back again! and this time with more designer goodies will be on your way each month. Our designers will be adding Special kits and digis up for grab for our Kit Club Members. Read on for more info!A while back we launched the Monthly Kit Club but due to some commitments the idea was waived but this time we are back to stay! and we are going to bring in more fun to the club.

How Can i become a member?
Just sign up to the store , which is FREE , on the left side find the link subscriptions click on it and you will be prompted to subscribe!
You Join Us as a kit club member to receive digital stamps at an amazing steal Deal! our designers will add their favorites to the kit to spice it all up . Every first week monthly you will receive designer goodies through your Store account. Minimum 4 to 5 digital stamps to begin with .

THE AIF CLUB CHALLENGES
Every month we will post up a new challenge with the release of the new line. You can choose to take part in it if you like. The winner of the Challenge will receive another month free as an award.

Only Digital stamps or Cliparts?
At the moment only digital stamps.

How will i be updated when the kits and images are released?
During the first week of every month designers will be adding images and as they appear you will be able to see them and download them as soon as they are up. You can keep track on the uploads through subscribing to the Kit Club Image RSS feed through Google reader or your favorite RSS reader.
Subscribe to the Feed HERE
OR alternatively
Join the Kit Club Group HERE
Thats where the challenges will be posted too!.

When is the first Kit Available?
To Start off our first kit will be up June 15th and after that every first week monthly.

I am a designer and i don't sell through AiFactory Can i Join in?
Yes why not? the designers are being given an opportunity to use Aifactory store platform to spread word about their site / blog or shop. Let others know about your digital stamps creations by posting to AIF site with a link back to your product purchase page.
You can contact me directly for your contribution to the monthly kits.

Keep yourself updated through the Club group See you there!

*offer valid till end of june

This tutorial will take you through setting up a document , creating bleed area , and working while keeping it in mind , along with some tips and tricks . A very bright sunny simple tutorial.

Source file can also be downloaded which is accessible to our premium members of Aivault (more info at aivault site).

This Final PREVIEW , what we are going to create!

Step 1

Since i am creating a basic 7 inch x 5 inch card i will keep my dimensions of the art board the same.

Create a new document , with crop marks added . I have chosen to have .375 inch crop marks all over , below is a screen shot of my document settings.

Step 2

Create a rectangle , to the full width and height don't forget to add the crop marks all around. in this case i will add .375in x 2 to the file size which is 7x5 inch ie the rectangle size which will be the background of the card will be 7.75in x 5.75 in.

Step 3

My background rectangle now must be perfectly aligned along the crop marks so i am using the Align panel , see below my selection? i am keeping the ALIGN to selection to Align to art-board. After that select align object second option from left and Distribute objects second option from left . Well of course there are many ways to align it perfectly but this is how did this with this design.... :)

Step 4

I start off by creating a random shaped box which will be the text area. I used the pen tool to create it just roughly we can always adjust it once the other elements of design are in place.

Step 5

And now the fun part! adding elements of design , yum yum i chose this cool little vector pack from AiFactory

The sun looks so adorable and full of fun!  I just copy and pasted it into the artwork .And decided to create clouds on my own.

Step 6

Select the shape tool and draw some random circles nothing specific here.

Step 7

Hmmm rotating these might make the shape more interesting what do you think?

Step 8

And then just hit unit in the pathfinder tool window. which you can always access through Windows> Path Finder. I love love love this Tool!

Step 9

Give the shape a bit of color. Nice blue color isn't it?

Step 10

And one of my fav is the mesh tool , just click anywhere where you would like to add color . remember if you would like to keep the shape for a later use create and reserve a copy of it as once it is Meshed up you cant add any strokes!. I wish it doesnt do that!! .People at Adobe listen to me please ! Or am i missing something please share if i am....

Step 11

After you click randomly anywhere shift the color triangles to choose a lighter color.

Step 12

And repeat

Step 13

And repeat Simple right! , lovely shading ..!! Yum!

Step 14

I decided to give the cloud a little bit of transparency , you can choose not to if you like ... i dont mind ;)

Step 15

Copy , paste , resize

What they say two is a company three is a crowd? .. hmm not really looks ok to me ...

Step 16

Now i see the Text Area that i created can be scaled further to give text more space. Use the Direct selection tool to shape it up scale it up and hmmm space it up ..:)

Step 17

I create a copy of this shape and pasted in front

Step 18

The earlier copy is given a bit of Grey shade ... why?.. just to add a bit of interest...

Step 19

Type in the text , Whatever!

Step 20

And a bit of more interest? another cloud added here... you can choose not to if you don't mind and drop any other related graphic from the set.

Step 21

I used the Pen tool to create some more simple and random shapes ... again for the sake of some more design elements. no rules here.

Step 22

And another , using pen tool it is really easy you must just click pen tool at one point then on another then on another and when you come back to the first click you will see a little "o" near your pointer this means that this last click will close the shape . it is important that all shapes are closed once it goes to the printer. so just keep an eye on open paths .

TIP:- in order to join open paths click on the loose ends of the path using CTRL and then hit CTRL + J to join them

Question :- How do you know there are open paths?

Answer :- let me continue with this tutorial go ahead and find your answer HERE!

Step 23

More random shapes! and yes a bit of transparency.

Select the shapes and transform it to be exactly 7.75 width.

Step 24

Draw a rectangle along the lower path.

Step 25

Create a small rectangle in same height as the green bar below , click and create a copy while you drag it towards left while pressing shift .

Hit CTRL + D to repeat your last step and achieve bars in a row.

Step 26

Here is how it should look like.

PREVIEW

Doodle Pantry added some lovely images which i think needed a bit of attention! See below a few example artworks created using the new additions to the store followed by the digital stamps.