Understanding Patterns when card making

Understanding Patterns:

Card Positioning Systems - challenge 83

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The website listed below gave me one of those: Aha moments. Things just clicked as I made a long overdo observation about card making: not only when I use the punch shapes to make animals, flowers, dresses, boats or whatever - but all the time I need to be aware and see the basic shapes i.e. designs in a project. Apparently when making cards this is known as the overall 'Card Positioning System'.

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From this raw vision I can then begin the process of putting the basic shapes into a cohesive picture. After that I need to decide which card making accessories to use like: color, texture and the type of materials to be used based on a theme. Obviously, a Christmas card will involve different colors and shapes than a New Year, Spring, Summer or Autumn theme. Our minds naturally gravitate to certain colors and figures depeding on the topic or season.

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This then determines the color, texture or design choices when choosing cardstock and paper. Which in turn leads to choices of supplies like ink, pastels, watercolor, crayons, colored pencils, ribbon, rub-offs, stickers or other embellishments. The tools for cutting, punching, adhesive and such then determines whether I will be dry or wet embossing, using glitter, brads, chip board and of course which stamps and message.

Let me just say a word of thanks to both Joann Berg my StampinUP! demonstrator and to Michelle Wild who was one of my instructors in the ABI program I attended at Coastline Community College. It took both of you and a number of years in between for this all to come together. What can I say but Thank You and why did I not see the underlying basics sooner.

Anyone interested in having a challenge from time. Use your favorites. I have grown partial to the quality of the StampinUp! products and the fact that via Joann I get to interact with other card makers aka stampers in a small group setting and see how no two hand crafted cards are alike even if I make it myself each is a unique result. Or, as my artistic daughter Sara claims: It is our so called mistakes that make it special and often beautiful.

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I was thinking this same design could be an inspiration for other creative works: woodworking, metal images, quilting, sewing projects, etching, sketching, scrapbook pages, painting, home decoration, cake decorating, sculpture or pottery. When you check these projects out it will trigger your creative side and inspire you to try it. This can be done by young and old, artistic or not. It is all in seeing and using the underling basic design in creative ways.

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Anita Dehghani

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Card Positioning Systems blog weekly challenge.

http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/

New sketches are posted on Sunday mornings along with 3-4 design ideas. More design ideas are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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As scroll further down and check other areas add this blog spot you will see directions and accompanying pictures to explain how to get a desired technique look. Or check on the index menu on the right side of this blog to link for any other technique you would like to review.

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Click on the link above to see more of what folks have designed.   The week's challenge was to create a card following this overall design.

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The card designs were sponsored by Clear Artistic Stamps, art work illustrated by Belinda Landtroop.

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Couple of cards that were on the blog are included here.

For more examples go tho:  Card Positioning Systems blog weekly challenge 83.

http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/

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