How Do You Hand Draw Layout Lines For Crafts, Scrapbooking, Presentations?
Whether you want to hand draw layout lines for a crafts or scrapbooking project, low-tech business presentations, or a sports team roster or playoff schedule, this trick will come in very handy. Quickly and easily (without a computer!) you can figure out how to draw a page layout of any number of evenly spaced rows or columns on paper, poster board or fabric with almost no math involved! For the purpose of this illustration, we’ll use a blank sheet of 8-1/2 by 11inch paper for our layout. But, as you’ll see, this technique adapts to any size craft paper for scrapbooking or poster board for business presentations. Also, I’ve used a marker so you can see the lines more easily on these images. You should use pencil until you’re sure you’ve got the layout you want. Click on each of the images to enlarge. Let’s suppose we want a 1/2 inch margin at the top, a 2 inch space under that for a title, and under that a 1 inch space. Then under that is where we want a set of (oh, let’s say) 18 evenl