Create your type and fill with the desired scribble color.

Next select Effect>Stylize>Scribble

You can play with the various settings until you have the effect you are going for. There is a ton of flexibility in this filter.

Once the scribble effect is applied, place another layer of the text with a solid stroke.

You'll find a lot of fun uses for this treatment. I've created this one to have a drafted look for "fine homes"

The advantage of this is that your printer would need an extra plate to actually mess up and print your dieline. Notice the separation preview below.

Additionally, you can double click the layer in which the Dieline is on and unclick the print button.  The layer will look italicize in the layer window and will not print.

Since I repeat these steps often I create a default document.ai and begin all print jobs from it. Proper file structure helps eliminate costly errors.

First, select the actions panel. (Window>Actions) Click on the Create new action button. We'll name this action "Save PDF Smallest File Size". Hit Record.

Now the Action is recording any changes that occur to the file. You could add a copyright symbol, text, resize, or pretty much anything else repetitive you would like to do to future files. We are going to simply select save as and set out PDF settings to smallest size. Make sure you save the file within the folder you want all future files to be within. I created a desktop folder called "PDF". Once you do this you can close the file.  The Action will pick up on the closing of the file and do this to future files. After closing the file hit the stop button. This helps when you want to open 10 files and click the play button on each one and have them close as they are re-saved to PDFs.

Now you can open multiple projects and simply hit the play button to make them save as a pdf on your desktop in a folder called PDF without seeing any prompts. Creating actions of redundant tasks will save you an incredibly amount of time!

Next, Separate the circle shape and overlay this on the background shape. Make the top shape be a linear gradient from 20% cyan to 100% cyan. Make the background shape 100% Cyan to 100% cyan, 50% magenta.

Finally, insert and image in white over the background you created. You should have an incredibly fast web 2.0 icon.

Set all of the preferences to Random and find the right amount of space and overlap you would like to achieve.

Draw a path and assign the brush you just created. Adjust as necessary to achieve desired effect.

Select the color scheme you are looking for and click the arrow labeled Add to Swatch Libary.

Once the new Kuler color group imports into Illustrator double click on the the Color Group folder.  This should open up the Edit Colors window. Select the Pantone group you are looking for by pressing the second box the the right, next to the bottom color picker. After you select the proper color book select tint on the mode button to the left. Next you will need to hit the New Color Group button. When you look at your pallate the new group should be your Kuler colors in pantone.

load the pantone swatch library by clicking the farthest box to the right. I choose the pantone solid coated.

Select the mode of color adjustment and select tint. Now your color combination will be in pantone!

Simply click the Create New Color Group button in the Swatch panel. After creating the new color group select your entire design and double click on the new color group. Walla! Your design has changed instantly.

Working with color groups and color harmonies (Adobe TV)