How to Step Up a Simple Design
We’ve all been there. We start with a simple card design. But then we feel it’s missing something… It’s just too simple… It’s boring. Okay, that last one is me. Let’s examine a recent creative journey.
I needed an absolutely simple, easy card for someone who had never hand stamped a card before. This is what I started with.
This card has 4 layers of cardstock: Whisper White, Granny Apple Green, Basic Black, and another Whisper White. It uses 2 stamp sets: Birthday Backgrounds and Perennial Birthday. It even has 4 Rhinestone Basic Jewels! It’s absolutely simple!
Then, I took the same basic design, with the same basic colors, and stepped it up to create this card.
How I Stepped Up the Card Design
There was a bit of re-arranging here. I made the card base black and replaced the random stamping on the card front with the beautiful swirl along the bottom.
However, that’s where the simple changes end.
I took the sentiment – which is now Thanks – and stamped it, die-cut it, sponged around its edges, and mounted it on another die-cut shape.
Instead of randomly stamping dots on the top layer, I stamped flowers, hand colored them, and die-cut them.
I attached all die-cut shapes with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
It looks a little “fancier”, doesn’t it?
It didn’t really take much more time. A little more, but a lot.
It’s stepped up!
The Challenge to You
Take a simple card and step it up a little. If you don’t have a design in mind, start with my first card in this blog post.
If you want to start with something else, look at these blog posts from the past. Click here and here.
Then let me know how you did. I love to hear from my readers!
Step it up today!
