I love today's color challenge and thought it might make a little off-beat Christmas card. I did the splatter by getting some ink on a wet paint brush and flicking it over the paper.
Something is a little "off" about this to my eye, and I can't decide what. Maybe the colors are a little too dark? Maybe I need to separate the tree and the sentiment? I usually do 10 or more of each Christmas design, but I need to think about how to improve this before I mass produce it.
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 GMT Views: 2262
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131626
Tue, Sep 23, 2014 @ 7:32 AM
I love purple for Christmas cards (good to see you got past the cleaning to the stamping stage!). I like the colours just as they are - I do wonder if the sentiment and tree should be a bit more separate, but you'd have to go for a landscape format card for that to work. I'm presuming the ? means you are inviting opinions ;-).
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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 @ 9:37 AM
This is a very eye-catching card, and I love the layout and the use of this week's colors. If I were going to change anything, I'd move the tree just a tad up and to the left. But it's very nice just as it is, too!
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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 @ 10:00 AM
I agree with Barbara, if you're going to do anything. But that would be the ONLY thing I'd touch because it really is spectacular! I LOVE CAS and the colors are perfect! I dig non-traditional colors for every holiday (esp. Christmas) but I have to say the Blackberry IS a Christmas color to me! I think this is a perfect one to mass-produce and your eye is spot on, my dear!!
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Tue, Sep 23, 2014 @ 3:04 PM
It's a great, fun CAS card. I'd personally overlap the noel over the tree and still have them touching, and keep the portrait...but I always love Cook22's designs so perhaps Sabrina's advice is better!
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