{"id":9247,"date":"2024-03-16T04:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","slug":"canva-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9247","title":{"rendered":"CANVA FUN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tonight I got caught up in a little community project for which I volunteered recently. Every other month the town of Westport, Indiana publishes and mails the “Town Crier” – a 32 page publication with a community calendar, recipes, a directory, and ads for local businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n

I signed up to help out with proofreading and graphic design.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

The staff is all volunteer and apparently none of the current group is very artsy. (Or they’re all very busy and don’t have time to make things look pretty.)<\/p>\n\n\n

So in the past, some of the Crier’s ads were created by scanning business cards. Many of these have become nearly unreadable in print because they are copies of copies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

One ad was even a picture <\/i>of a business card resting on somebody’s kitchen counter:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Not a particularly good look.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

But the fix was pretty easy. I found the company on Facebook and grabbed a screen shot of the same business card from their photos. It will be much cleaner and much easier to read in the upcoming April\/May edition.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fortunately, I love messing around with Canva. It’s a creative outlet for me. And I know it’s fulfilling some need for artistry in my life because I completely lose track of time once I get started reworking ads for the Crier.<\/p>\n\n\n

Here are a few I have either recreated from faded business cards or made from scratch:<\/p>\n\n\n

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