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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Start Again


I think I’m beginning to iron out some of the flaws in the posting of this card blog. I’ve been trying to figure out a better way to photograph the cards. I’ve been looking at what other card bloggers do and decided that using a neutral background looks best, so I’m ditching the black.

Also, I found taking pictures of the cards upright is easier plus you avoid casting weird shadows. Another issue I’ve been tackling is trying to make all the pictures the same width so that it looks more pleasing when I post, by avoiding the annoying varying sizes of photo frames.

On the cards making front:  I have been continuing to make cards out of my doodles. Now that I have a few cards under my belt, when I look at some of my early cards they seem very plain. I didn’t use many embellishments or many layers. I’m finding as I get more comfortable with the process I am starting to experiment a little more.

This week I am posting some more of my early card designs. Two Birthday cards, one for a boy and one for a girl, plus a Thank You card coloured two ways. Once again, the images were drawn by me and coloured with Copic Markers. The word stamps are from Stampin’ Up! and the background papers are from a variety of different sources.

I am always open to suggestions, comments or critiques, after all this is a learning process.





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