Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
I'm new to the slimline card party, and I'll be honest I'm not sure I'm staying. I'll need to make a few more before I make a final decision, but so far they aren't my jam. This past week I cased Pinterest for some inspiration and here's what happened.
Pin-spiration #1:
I was inspired by this card from the Le nouveau scrap de Christine B blog. Yes, the blog is in French, but that's not important. I was drawn to the kraft and white color palette, and the clean lines of this card.
I'm a sucker for kraft and white. It's quite possibly one of my favorite combos. I use a lot of kraft and white paper in my own card style, so that is perhaps why I was drawn to this card when I saw it on Pinterest.
I was also very drawn to the big dots, knowing full well I could recreate this look with some ink and my large dot stencil. I believe in the inspiration card it's pattern paper, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
My next challenge was finding something of the right proportion to replace the sentiment banner. Knowing I didn't have a banner of that size and style, I dug through my dies and settled on a small stitched square that created a similar effect on my finished card.
For the finishing touches, I use some cream-colored crochet thread for twine and added a small heart rather than the enamel dot used in the inspiration photo above.
Inspiration for card two came from the blog Kreativ Format blog. This is a German blog, but again it's about the photo and the inspiration, not the language.
I was very drawn to the color palette of this card because of the bright pop of warm pink in the striped pattern paper.
I selected one floral die rather than creating a bouquet and skipped the twine bow. I skipped the white splatters in the background of the patterned paper because the pattern of the paper I selected already had a small dot-like pattern.
The second change I made was opting to use a small bird in place of small black banner sentiment on the inspiration card. I popped my white sentiment banner up on foam tape.
Both results created nice cards, but what seems to be a larger canvas to create a design on isn't my fave. I really do like the size of an A2 card over the size of the slimline. Maybe that will change as I experiment more. What do you think? Are you a slimline lover?
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