What does go into designing a handmade greeting card? Sometimes coming up with a design is easy, it just seems to flow and yet other times, I seem to sit languishing staring into thin air. The brain just does not want to co-operate.
Designing a card can take days. One of the first steps is drawing the design on paper and setting out each of the elements and their placement. Sometimes when you have the design in your head, you think it is going to look great. But, once you start drawing it out, it often shows that the elements are not going to work togeth4r. So, back to the drawing board.
I usually start with a feature element. This is going to be the main element on the card that I want to stand out. This element is going to be the desciptor for the card.