Insert an accent shape (which is essentially a basic shape) on the top right side of your canvas, then double-click to enter your text.Highlight the word “White Chocolate Milk Shake” and change the font size to “25”. For our project, type in “White Cholocate Milk Shake” on the top left corner of your canvas.Insert a text box to type in the name of your recipe.Change the line weight to “12” (making sure your entire image still fits inside the canvas) then change the line type to “triple”. Change the fill color to white and the line color to black. For our project, let’s pick a square (basic shape) and stretch it from the left to the right to make a rectangle that almost fills the entire canvas.Select your image to customize the fill color (go to Format > Fill Color), line color (Format > Lines > Line Color), line weight (Format > Lines > Line Weight), and line type (Format > Lines > Light Type) of each shape. Create a border by inserting a shape (go to Insert > Shape) or multiple shapes, as desired.Let’s type in 6 and then 4 for our recipe card. For our project, go to File > Page Set Up select “Custom”, select “inches”, and then type in your desired number based on the size of your project.Decide on the size of your project and re-size your canvas accordingly (at the time of this post, Google Draw has no gridlines).If you have an older version of Google Drive, Google’s documentation suggests clicking the Create button on the top left, then choose Drawing.Google’s documentation suggests going to:, then click New on the top left, hover over More, and choose Google Drawings.In case you haven’t used Google Docs or Google Draw before, here are instructions on how to launch Google Draw: How To Make Your Own Free Printables In Google Docs So, are you ready to make your own free printables in Google Docs? Let’s make a printable 4 x 6 recipe card! To keep things simple, let’s make our project black and white. We also use Canva when putting together images for our weekly-ish inspirational posts. We use Canva when we’re not designing our own images and only need a few basic templates to get the message across, like in the “tutorial image” below. NOTE: If you prefer working with templates and use existing images or patterns, then Google Draw may or may not be the right platform for you. The canvas is absolutely blank (which could be a disadvantage to others) and this gives us the versatility we need to design using their “basic-ish” shapes. Woot!īecause we can make our images in Google Draw, we don’t need to rely on our own photos to make any of our printables. You can scale them in any direction (large or small) and the quality will remain the same. Such isn’t the case with vector graphics. Plus, it’s absolutely free, as of the time of this post, and we can choose to save our work as a PDF, PNG, JPG, and get this… an SVG ( scalable vector graphic)! Your hyperlinks will still work when you save your image as PDF, if you’d like to redirect your readers back to your site or a specific web page!Ī quick note about vector graphics: If you’re not familiar with vector graphics, think about your image quality for a sec… what happens when you make your PNG’s and JPG’s bigger? The bigger the image, the lower the quality. We may appear to be die-hard Google fans or even Chromebook geeks (we do own Apple and PC), but here’s the thing… we think the work-offline feature of Google Docs is awesome, especially when working with graphics (did we mention that it’s fast and not clunky at all?). And, yes… you guessed it! It’s highly used in our Craft Room!!! Yes, it’s probably used more often in the classroom. ![]() Perhaps, Google Draw isn’t the most popular drawing platform at the moment. Why We Love Google Docs To Make Free Printables In this post, we’ll teach you how to make a free printable 4 x 6 recipe card! We’ll keep the design simple, and please don’t be shy to leave us any questions in the comments. Are you a blogger looking to make and offer your own printables on your blog, or are you a crafter and you’d like to design your own printable giftwrapping? Maybe, you’re a little bit of both? While most people use Adobe Illustrator (not free), PicMonkey (paid and unpaid), Canva (paid and unpaid), or even Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to make their printables, we prefer using the Google Docs platform, specifically Google Draw. We’ve doodled to our hearts’ content as a result, we have been able to offer you a variety of printables as well as digital cut files that we use with our Cricut Explore Air.
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