Making my lyric book in InDesign

When I was putting my lyric book together in InDesign I started by using the rectangle frame tool to select where I wanted my work to go.

I then pressed "cmd D" and chose the piece of work (my tile pattern) that I wanted for that page in my lyric book (in this case, the front cover). It then came up in the box that I had drawn.

I adjusted the size and the position of the tile pattern.

After I had all my work in place and in the correct pages I downloaded a font off "Dafont" and started added my chosen lyrics.

Finished Lyric Book

Tile Pattern

For my tile pattern the theme was a map, I linked this with traveling. I drew out all the objects I had chosen and scanned them in, ready to put into Illustrator.

Once I had placed the scanned image of my drawings I removed the background and separated the separate objects so they could be placed on my page.

When I started placing the objects on I first arranged some down the left hand side, making sure they were all different sizes and not perfectly in line to make sure that when the tile was repeated there wasn't an obvious seam between the tiles. I then copied this line of objects to the right side in exactly the same place. I repeated this for the bottom and the top. I then filled in the centre of the tile with my left over drawings.

This was the tile once I had decompostulised (sir's word) it.

I then repeated it to get a continuous pattern.