Card Making Sketchbook: Mini Slimline Cards

A Simple Way to Improve Your Cards

This sketchbook is for mini slimline cards

You've seen this kind of disappointing card online (or on your desk). The background is a smooth blend of color, the die-cut flowers are realistically shaded, and the sentiment is crisp and perfectly embossed. But the card looks amateurish - the flowers are awkwardly arranged and the sentiment is out of proportion with them and with the card. The layout of the card doesn't work.More Description

A Simple Way to Improve Your Cards

This sketchbook is for mini slimline cards

You've seen this kind of disappointing card online (or on your desk). The background is a smooth blend of color, the die-cut flowers are realistically shaded, and the sentiment is crisp and perfectly embossed. But the card looks amateurish - the flowers are awkwardly arranged and the sentiment is out of proportion with them and with the card. The layout of the card doesn't work.

Card design is a skill, like ink blending or shading, that improves with practice. You can find collections of card sketches online, of course, but if you want to develop your own skills you need to make your own. You can start by sketching your own existing cards. Sketch a card that caught your eye online. Pull out a stamp set and sketch 6-8 designs inspired by it. The more sketches you make, the more ideas you'll have. And then when you have time to make a card, you'll have a book full of layout ideas in just your style waiting for you.

This sketchbook contains:

• Hints for creating sketches
• Hints for using sketches
• 50 pages with 4 scaled-down mini slimline card templates per page
• 50 pages with a single mini slimline card template for more detailed sketches

Don't work in mini slimline size? Click on the series link at the top of the page to find books for A2 (4.25 x 5.5"), A7 (5x7"), slimline, square and mixed sizes.

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