Tutorial on making a thought bubble, new card design & and a puppy

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I recently took pictures of an adorable Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy and some of the photos have been accepted at Shutterstock.

This one of of the sad puppy pose in particular I am making into a greeting card for when you are missing someone.

The front of the card shows her as a sad little puppy with a thought bubble above her head saying “When you’re not here…” and in the inside it says, “I feel a little sad.”

I thought I would also take the time to do a quick tutorial on how to use Adobe Illustrator to make a thought bubble. There are a bazillion ways to do this but this is a nice quick and easy way I thought I would share.

1. Use the ellipse tool to make circles around the edges of the text area.
   
2. Then make a large white circle to cover middle.
   
3. Select all circles and select “trim” in the pathfinder window
   
4. Then select “merge” in the pathfinder window to make one shape.
   
5. Now you can stroke the thought bubble with a color and play with the shape
   

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