Sketch out an Inspiring Quote

No need to keep those Inspirational quotes hidden away on a Pinterest Board anymore. With some lovely background paper and your Silhouette machine and sketch pens you can create copies to inspire you when you’re offline too!

This is my daughter’s favourite quote and I love it too.

“Life is mostly froth and Bubble, Two things stand like Stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

It’s a small extract from the poem: Ye Wearie Wayfarer by Australian Poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870).

Depending on the colours and paper used, the finished look can vary a lot.  The one above, I used the gold sketch pens with a water colour style scrapbook paper, where as below, with a plain paper and black pen the look is quite minimalist. I changed the border to simple Corner Decorations too.

There’s no right or wrong way to create a design for sketching. First choose your quote, then experiment with font combinations, spacing and decorative elements in the Silhouette Software. I just kept changing things around until I was happy with the results. It’s fun, but…a word of warning….it’s easy to drop a few many hours doing this 🙂

The Silhouette Challenge theme this month is “Word art”. (more on the challenge below) so I opted to use fonts for the decorative elements instead of using images. This is what I used:

The Options

Don’t have the right fonts?  No worries! I’ve used some purchased fonts but I’ve included the Silhouette Design File for this quote. If you’re making another quote there are many lovely free fonts available that you can choose from.  You could also incorporate borders and frames that you already have in your library.

Don’t have Sketch pens? Convert my Free Silhouette file to a Print and cut instead. Add registration marks, colour the lines and fill with colour as desired, and before printing, select it all, then pop into the line style settings & change the line thickness to 1.0 point and if you’ve used any additional shapes in your design check the box “Print lines of Selected Shapes”. I printed it below in brown tones on a sepia style paper.

Hope this gives you a little inspiration to make your own sketch-able or printable quotes.

The Files

Here’s the Sketched Quote Silhouette Studio File Version 3 (samples made with this version)

Here’s the Sketched Quote Silhouette Studio File Version 2

 The Silhouette Challenge

This post is part of the Silhouette Challenge – the theme this month is “Word Art” with the optional theme of  “Sketch Pens”. If you’d like to check out more Silhouette projects with these themes, enjoy the blog hop by clicking on the graphic or links below….

1. My Paper Craze // 2. The Stamp Doc // 3. Peanut Life Adventures // 4. Creative Ramblings // 5. Pitter and Glink // 6. The Thinking Closet // 7. Single Yet Married Mom // 8. unOriginalMom // 9. Sisters, What! // 10. Where The Smiles Have Been // 11. From Whine to Whine // 12. Adventures in All Things Food // 13. Practically Functional // 14. Patina Paradise // 15. Please Excuse My Craftermath… // 16. Weekend Craft // 17. Two Purple Couches // 18. Ribbons & Glue // 19. TitiCrafty // 20. Simply Kelly Designs // 21. Confessions of an Overworked Mom // 22. Get Silvered

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