Friday, March 16, 2012 Simple Circles: Free Paper Friday
Today's free paper is called "Simple Circles." It is so easy to make this pattern -- it's just a line of circles with a line of circles halfway under it and moved over half a circle. Repeat. Simple things often have it. I love this pattern. I think it is so useful and eye catching.
The size of the circles in the display image is larger than the size of the circles on the paper. I made it that way so my example will look like itself at smaller sizes. This brings up an interesting point; should you want the pattern in Simple Circles (or any of my papers) larger than I designed, you can easily accomplish it.
Cute&Useful papers are PDFs, so they can be scaled as large as you like without quality loss (pixelation). It's easily done with programs that ship on a PC (Paint) or Mac (Preview). I have a Mac with Preview in front of me, and I think it's less obvious how to do it in Preview, so...I am going to tell you how to enlarge PDF paper in Preview on a Mac.
- Open Preview from the Applications menu
- Go to File/Open and navigate to where you saved the paper. Open it.
- In the upper left corner of the screen, click the magnifying glass with a "plus" sign until the pattern looks as big as you want it.
- Go to File/Take a Screen Shot/From Selection. Click and drag to select the whole piece of paper.
- Save or print your screen shot. In the options allowed for saving, choose PDF.
You can size papers smaller the same way, but when you make it smaller the pattern will no longer take up a whole sheet of paper. That's fine, depending on how you plan to use it. To size down, use the magnifying glass with a "minus" rather than the "plus" but otherwise follow the instructions above. Hope this was a useful little tutorial, as it is something I hadn't thought of before. Have a great weekend!
Reader Comments (8)
Love this! So simple, yet pretty! Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, Connie. Thanks for the comment, I'm glad you like it!
Thanks again for the lovelies :) ... I looked but could not find a usage statement for your papers?
Hi Karla,
I guess I should put something up there...
It's personal use, if you have a commercial use in mind, please get in touch with me and lay out the particulars ... it might be OK for free or we can work something out.
Say you want to use a cute&useful paper in a project of your own, and you want to post your project on your blog...first of all, Hooray! Next, please credit cute&useful and provide a link to cute&useful for the paper (please don't offer the paper for download on your own site).
I welcome reposting of cute&useful content with credit and a link; if it's a tutorial, rather than putting the whole thing on your site, please link to the instructions and instructive pictures.
I hope that's clear, but if you have any other questions, it's fun receiving comments and email. :)
Very best to you!
thanks! it's so pretty :D
FYI, in Indonesia it's a batik pattern called 'Kawung' :)
I love that, Kawung. Thanks for letting me know!
Usually I can't remember how I get from one blog to another (I'd like to think it's menopause, but I'm pretty sure it's just my brain)-- but I know I'm here today because of Mini-Eco's newsletter/e-mail. I came to admire, but have to say bless your heart for sharing your beautiful papers. Candy and candy-colors are some of my most favorite things on earth. Thank you for your generosity!
~Mary
You're welcome, Mary! I'm so glad you like the papers. I love candy and candy colors too. When I was making the candy papers I bought a big bag of each kind -- research. :)
All the best to you!