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Today I was a bit stuck on what to do for my 2nd Make-and-Take for my Open House tomorrow. There are some great blogs out there that feature weekly sketch/color/inspiration challenges. I’ve been adding them to blogroll on the left, so if you are stuck, check them out! Today I was inspired by Taylored Expressions’ Cupcake Challenge #36. Here is the result of my playing around with her sketch:
I’m donating a card making gift basket to my neighborhood block party’s Chinese Raffle, and in it is a coupon book. Rather than just providing a sheet of coupons, I made a mini album to hold them.
Last week at work I finally got an iMac. I do a fair amount of basic graphic design for my company and stepping up to the Adobe Creative Suite will help tremendously. Today I’m working on a poster for an event we are having in a couple weeks. It is a cowboy theme, so I channelled SU! alter-ego and immediately thought Earth Elements! Thankfully I’d bookmarked StampMonkeys: RGB Values for SU! Colors! recently. I’m going to use Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, and Old Olive on the poster.
Using the RGB (or CYMK) values is a great way to extend your creative side beyond typical card making. Use it on computer generated documents…no worrying about your color pallet! This is also a great way to personalize your cards and scrapbook pages with custom sentiments/journaling.
