![]() ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Here’s a great tip: Even if you’re designs have the year as Custom Text, if you used a year that has gone by, take the time to update those cards. Any card that is out of date will be ignored by a large percentage of customers. I tend to ... Read Full Article and Get Links
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![]() © Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Today I offer a few links to some fun goodies that will inspire you to think about Dad while making your designs for Father's Day ... Read Full Article & Get Links ![]() Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Overlays can be wonderful tools for making backgrounds, patterns and photo cards. There are two types of overlays. Those which are imagery and textures which you overlay onto a new image or color, then adjest the opacity to create a texture and/or pattern which you can use in many designs. Today I offer you tutorials if overlays are new to you and links to many ... Read Full Article & Get Links ![]() Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog This week, we'll start with trends! One of the beautiful things about holiday card making is that though color trends come and go each year, there are buyers for just about every color combination; regardless of current trends. We’ll start this first week with some fun and different color combinations I made up for you to use in your holiday designs. I’ve also listed some great links to the coming season’s trends such as ... Read Full Article & Get Links ![]() ©Doreen Erhardt Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog Once thing that really never changes is how much people love the autumn colors that nature provides; here is a wonderfully inspirational link to some delightful Autumn Color Palette Inspiration and patterns for your autumn designs ... Read Full Article & Get Links ![]() Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I created a couple summer color palettes for you and have also provided links for you to learn how to create your own color palettes from photographs. This is a wonderful way to get inspiration for a new design ... Read Full Article & Get Palettes ![]() Posted August 8th, 2011 346 Color Swatches I ran across this from our friends at deviantART and had to share. There are some lovely colors in this pack and combinations just waiting to created in your designs! By: kacehanaki.deviantart ![]() Dash of Inspiration Post for GCU Community Blog I studied photography not art in college, so when I began playing with digital art I was stuck with a CMYK Darkroom Color Wheel in my brain. Fortunately I had the honor of studying art and color theory with an artist who became not only my mentor but my best friend over the years. With our new Critique Clinic and Rainbow Connection that Corrie is providing us, I thought this week I’d add some links to inspire all of us to learn more about color theory and the artist’s color wheel. For those of you who would like to learn more about using color in your designs and how you visualize color and even for those who would just like a refresher course, I found two very interesting videos worth your time ... Read Full Article and Get Links |
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