I used Adobe illustrator to design this file.
- Add on 4x6 rectangle with rounded corners for the card cut out.
- Add a second rectangle the size of the base. I made mine about 2.5x3.5 inches. Place this inside the first rectangle.
- Create your text that you want the base card to say and place in this rectangle.
- Make a rounded rectangle for the pot. Select the bottom left corner and move it in to make the base smaller. Repeat for the bottom right corner node.
- Create a rectangle half the height of the pot and the width will be the width of your board. Copy and paste this for a second rectangle.
- Copy and past your pot shape. Place one rectangle coming up from the bottom of one pot and the other coming down from the top of the second pot. Combine and remove the part of the line at the top or bottom of the pot where the rectangle intersects.
- Create a flower design. Place this on top of the pot with the cut out on the bottom. Combine so it will all cut out as one shape.
- Create two rectangles with the length as the length of the bottom of your pot and the height as the width of your board.
- Turn one rectangle 90 degrees and line up with the other rectangle to make a cross shape. Combine. Arrange all of the shapes within the first large rectangle.
- Use the scissor tool to snip small sections from the base rectangle and both flower pot pieces. These should be very small sections. This will hold the pieces inside the large rectangle after cutting but still allow for someone to push them out to assemble.
- Save as an SVG.
Load the design into XCS. You can add a name to engrave by the from line before cutting if you know the name. You can also leave that blank if selling at in-person events.