Card Design – Repetition
Written by Waffle Flower product designer JJ Bolton Here at Waffle Flower, we’re cardmakers just like you and we face the same design dilemmas. This month, we’re discussing some card design tips and tricks that help us when we’re stuck. The card design topic today is the concept of visual repetition. Repeated forms and shapes have always been common in design because the human eye is naturally drawn to pattern. Depending on how you use it, repeated elements can become a focal point or a supporting element. This first card from Arjita demonstrates one of the most popular...
Card Design – Positive & Negative Space
Written by Waffle Flower product designer JJ Bolton We’re continuing Card Design month with more tips and tricks to add to your design toolbox! Today we’re discussing using positive and negative space. Positive space can most easily be described as the subject or main element, and negative space is the space around the positive space. The concept of positive and negative space is probably easiest to see with dies. In this card, Jeanne uses the Oversized Miss word die and coordinating outline die (also known as a shadow die) in a classic example of positive space. The word and outline...
Card Designer Blog Hop & Giveaways
Hello everyone! Welcome to the release day of Waffle Flower's February release! All products are now available here! As many of you already know, Waffle Flower was founded by a cardmaker and all of our product designers started off as cardmakers. That’s why we’re always looking at design from a cardmaker’s perspective. When we develop products and releases, we always look to the card basics of Focal Point, Background, and Sentiment. Every card has these 3 elements and each element has its unique role to play. For more details, check out our intro posts below: Day 1 - Focal Point Day 2 - Sentiments Day...
Intro to Card Designer Release - Day 3 - Backgrounds
Thanks for stopping by for Day 3 of the Waffle Flower February Release Introductions! Today, we’re introducing more from the February release, and we’re continuing our discussion of card design with backgrounds! One easy way to bring interest to your card backgrounds is with a panel die. In this card, Arjita uses the new Geometric Panel Die to create a fun and modern base for her card. By using a white panel over the white card front, she gets lots of texture without taking away from those beautiful focal flowers. Geometric Panel Die Instead of going full panel, how about...
Intro to Card Designer Release - Day 2 - Sentiments
Welcome to Day 2 of the Waffle Flower February Release Introductions! With this month’s release, we’re exploring card design with the 3 basic elements of cardmaking: the focal point, the sentiment, and the background. We touched on a little on all of these elements yesterday, but today is all about the sentiments! There’s nothing as satisfying as finding the perfect sentiment to match your card. But what makes a sentiment perfect? It always starts with the right message (of course), but here’s some other tips for getting the sentiment just right. One factor to consider with choosing sentiments is scale....
Intro to Card Designer Release - Day 1 - Focal Point
Hello and welcome to Day 1 of the introduction to our February Release! As many of you already know, Waffle Flower was founded by a cardmaker and many of our designers started off as cardmakers. That’s why we’re always looking at design from a cardmaker’s perspective. So this month, we decided to put together a small collection that is all about card design basics! Over the next few days, we’ll introduce our February release, and all month, we’ll be discussing our best cardmaking design tips and tricks. And with that, let’s take a look at the new release! This month, we’re...