Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Wish I was At the Beach

It's time for another Print Candee blog hop! Here's the order of my lovely Design Teammates for the hop:

Me
For this hop, we used an inspiration photo:



Aren't the bags gorgeous? My card was based off the striped bag on the left--I liked the rainbow stripes and the beach bag look. Here's what I came up with:


I used 5 different dotted papers from Pink Pueblo's Dots Digital Papers and Beach Brushes available at Print Candee.

This is the process I used for the background:
1. Open a new A2 file in Photoshop (although you could do this in Word, too)
2. Open the digital paper and crop a portion of the paper. Here's what the full size paper looked like:


3. Copy the strip onto the A2 file and move as needed.
4. Repeat for each color. Be sure your strips are the same size. Here's what the background looked like:


The card above is one way to use the background, but I made a second card with the same background (enlarged) and a chevron mask:



I love how all the white space, and I thought the Paper Smooches sentiment was perfect!


I'm in Alabama right now for work. Everyone is so polite....someone carried my binders for me and another brought me my lunch...I could get used to this! LOL!


Be sure to check out Marion's blog for her Print Candee project! Have a great day!




19 comments:

  1. love your rainbow inspired cards, especially the chevron pattern! perfect sentiment, too!

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  2. Oh, the sentiment IS perfect! Love it - and I love rainbows. Super clever, Jocelyn! And now I covet that rainbow purse...lol.

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  3. Your bg is awesome! Love the rainbow of colours and the chevron mask is totally too clever!

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  4. The inspiration photo is wonderful!!! Both of your cards are so colorful and fun! Love the background you created Jocelyn! :)

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  5. This card is like crazy polka dots! It's fresh and fun!

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  6. These are fun cards, what a way to use the paper!

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  7. wow Jocelyn what great color...totally love it..

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  8. Awesome cards, Jocelyn! I was checking out those very papers because they're so fun. Have fun in Alabama! It does sound really nice there - maybe I'll come for a visit. :)

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  9. Love the confetti style paper.... So colourful and the chevrons are brilliant too :0)
    Great take on the photo :0)
    Jenny x

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  10. Awesome Jocelyn. I almost used that dotty paper myself ;-) Such happy cards.

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  11. Look at you huh!!! What a brilliant idea!!! I love it.. I love the colors... these cards are gorgeous... you rock my friend... Hugs..xoxo

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  12. Eek! These are awesome! The background on your first card is AMAZING!

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  13. Both of these are absolutely fantastic! Love the colours... the crisp, clean designs are terrific.

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  14. OHHHHH! This is amazing! I LOVE your dot paper! Both cards ROCK:)

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  15. CUTE! Those inspiration bags are so fun. I love what you did with the digital paper. I wish I was so handy! And I love the south too. :) Just not in the summer!

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  16. oh my, love both!!! the stripes are perfect and LOVE the sweet chevron card too. I'll meet you at the beach, k!

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  17. You really are a digital genius, Jocelyn! Both these cards are brilliant and so much fun!

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  18. These cards are so fun...I love how you use digital elements on your cards!

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  19. These cards are so fun...I love how you use digital elements on your cards!

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