OWH Design Bootcamp - How Does It Feel?

This one is for the OWH Design Bootcamp.  The subject was about using texture both visual and tactile.  My texture is the black scroll design along the bottom.  It is a velvet sticker.  The sentiment is from Create with TLC.

OWH July Design Bootcamp

The Design Bootcamp for July was entitled Get Your Priorities Straight and has to do with choosing colors for our cards.  We were to choose from a posted 3 color combo using the proper percentage of each color and I chose blue (60%), tan (10%) and red (30%).  The card base is a bit more oatmeal than tan but I think it works.

OWH Sketch #177

Marlene was right!  This is a great sketch!  It really made me have to think about the patterned papers I chose.  I was trying to keep in mind the lesson from June's Design Bootcamp class, the use of repetition. 

OWH Design Bootcamp - Let Me Repeat

I am loving this bootcamp!  This month the lesson is on repeating some element of the design or paper to make it look appealing.  In this case it would be the large circle/star to repeat the paper used.

And thank you to Paula who chose to use one of my cards from last year as a sample!  :)

OWH Midweek Throwdown - So Sentimental

This challenge is to make the sentiment the focal point of the card.  I also tried to incorporate the lesson from May's Design Bootcamp in using 2 shapes of frames, the brads and the velvet ribbon. 

Design Bootcamp and OSW Tutorial Challenge

Seongsook did the featured tutorial at OWH this week and it was on the One Sheet Wonder idea.  These dozen cards were all made from one 12x12 sheet.  They are all the same as she mentioned at the end of the tutorial.  I just thought this paper worked best cut this way due to the random pattern.

Also, I re-read the Bootcamp tutorial for this month and decided to try to work these 2 tutorials together.  This month's class was discussing variation.  I was hoping that the silk ribbon, the white frame and the raised button together fit the homework instructions.  I think I want to try a few other of the examples of variation as well.

The sentiment is a free digi from TLC Creations.

Design Bootcamp - Now That's Odd

It's time for another terrific installment of Design Bootcamp taught by Paula over at the Stars and Stamps blog.  The subject is using odd numbers in design.  It is something I think I sort of "know" but don't always apply.  Sometimes my cards just come out more artsy collage-ish.

I had actually been cleaning up the scraps when I made these two.  I'm glad they follow the design criteria for this month.  :) 

OWH Bootcamp - Any Way You Slice It

Paula's wonderful Design Bootcamp class this month is on Composition and the Rule of Thirds.  She gives amazing explanations of these design techniques and I am learning quite a bit.  Here are a few of my attempts to find the "thirds."

And this one is a little CAS that lets the paper do most of the work.

 

Thanks, Paula for the great class!

 

OWH Design Bootcamp - Get To The Point 2

I am reviewing the information for this Bootcamp class and looking at the samples vs the type of cards I tend to make, it seems that my focal points so far are the sentiment.  Hm?  I notice as well that I like tactile embellishments more than colored images..... hm?  Off to try another one!

OWH Design Bootcamp - Get To The Point

OWH Design Bootcamp for this month focuses on making the strong focal point.  I have to admit that sometimes my cards look a bit like a collage so this is a good exercise for me.  For this card I used OWH Sketch #156 and this lovely large sentiment from Stampabilities.

Design Bootcamp Day #1 - Monochromatic

I'm trying a second card in our color wheel class, monochromatic (and masculine!)  I didn't quite get the first one right so here is another one.  This was actually much easier since I just went with the colors of the patterned paper.  It is Graphic 45 two sided paper of which I used both sides and the top half is a parchment looking paper.  I want to try a 3rd card....... let's see if I can get to that one..... I got an idea.

OWH Design Bootcamp Day #1 and Sketch #16

This is the first day of this amazing Bootcamp being taught by Paula and the subject is Basic Color Theory.  There is a ton of information to be found here.  This is my attempt to follow the Analogous colors which are any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel.  I wasn't sure if I had to USE 3 colors or just use colors that would be considered side by side.... hm???  This is also using sketch #16 from the OWH Sketch library.