Posted on January 20, 2009 by cardmaker
Here are a few tips shared with the greeting card class as we made clip-art cards:
Pull the overall design of the card together by matting the card message with the same color mat as the clip-art . (The image on this sample card comes from the Curtis Botanical Collection hosted at the National Agricultural Library.)
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Posted on January 18, 2009 by cardmaker
Our second class went well but got off to a late start. The weather and some facility problems caused the delay. Fortunately, clip-art cards are almost intuitive to make and explanations are simple. The biggest problem is in selecting a mat to best frame the clip-art and set the desired mood for the card. See [...]
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Posted on January 15, 2009 by cardmaker
Combining Colors
Some beginning card makers have a hard time combining colors in a pleasing way. One way of addressing this problem is to minimize the color choices. In week one we did this by using a single color or a single sheet of decorative paper on . This week we’ll add another color choice by [...]
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