Bingo!

Lisa, one of my fellow Master Forgers gave me great inspiration this month.
On her kit reveal on July 1st she mentioned that she had created a Pinterest Board which showed all the items that needed to be in her July Kit.
Wow- what an amazing idea!!! Whilst perusing her board and as a very keen Master Forger, I was wondering how difficult it would be to make my own Bingo Cards.

Now, I am lucky enough to have Craft Artist Professional and Photoshop Elements on my computer but knowing that not everybody has these software packages, I thought I would give it a go using something we all probably have Microsoft Word.

Not bad, even if I do say so myself!

I will do my best to show you how I made this card and I hope you will link back and show me yours!!!

 

      Open a blank Word Document 

       > Insert > Shapes > Rectangle. 

  

     Drag your mouse whilst holding

    the left mouse button. 

    Change the height to 8cm and width to 6cm.

    With the rectangle selected you can now 

    change the colour and style.

   You can now create another rectangle 7.8x5.8

   Right click on your new rectangle 

   > Format Autoshape > 

   Select your fill colour and select line colour to

   white. Drag your second rectangle over the first..

    With "Home" tab selected > Select Objects

    Drag mouse around objects.

    With "Format" tab selected > Align

    > Align Centre > Align Middle

    Your rectangles will now be centralised.

 

    Create another rectangle 

    height 1.5 width 5.6 with white fill and white line

    Now drag into place.

    Now we need to insert some wordart.

    > Insert > WordArt 

    Type your text and choose your font.

    Right click your WordArt and make your fill

    and line colour options. 

    

    You now need to

    select "layout" and "in front of text".

    This allows you to move your text into your small

    rectangle where you can resize it to fit.

    You can now add shapes either side of your

    word if required.

    At this point it is a good idea to select everything you have done (do you remember from earlier?)

    > Right Click > Grouping > Group. You can now move the whole thing around your page without leaving

    bits behind. Now right click > Order > Send Behind Text

    

    We now need to insert a table of 5 cells

    across and 6 cells down.

     By right clicking on the four arrows

     we can change the properties of the table.

     Width 5.6 cms

     Row 1.18 cms 

     Cell > Centre

     Insert your numbers into each cell.

     Highlight all your numbers then centre

     and change font if required.

     Change colour to white (your numbers will

     disappear!!!)

     Insert a white filled shape into the centre cell

     We now need to change the colour of the

     table to white by going back to table

     properties > borders and shading.

     At this point it is easier to move the rectangles

     over the table rather than trying to move the 

     table.

     Give it a go, it's really easy after the first one (promise!).

Don't forget to link back so I can see your bingo cards.

This is my finished card...