You would think card making and rocket science have
nothing in common.Rocket science is organised, structured and lead by experts, greeting card making on the other hand is disorganised, totally unstructured and in the most part led by self serving pigs at the trough!
Let me explain the pigs at the trough bit, just who is it that provides all the card making ideas? Could it be craft magazines, the retailers and wholesalers of craft products or is it the so called guru card designers employed by the former to sell the merchandise, bottom line, all the people involved in these industries don’t really want you to make or design greetings cards, they don’t want you to make a useful, elegant, fit for the purpose greetings card, oh no!..... What they REALLY want is for you to PLASTER AS MUCH OF THEIR CRAFT CRAP ALL OVER YOUR CARDS as possible!
Let’s get something straight, craft suppliers and magazines are only in it for themselves, the more of their ‘made by the lowest bidder in China so called craft supplies’ you slap on your cards, the more of your cash they get, which brings us to the inevitable conclusion that craft suppliers et al are not to be trusted, if you really want ideas for card making, these guys should be the last place you look for them.
So how does one go about designing greetings cards? Well first you’d have to understand what Greetings cards are and what card making is all about, I’m not going to tell you that in this article, I’ll save that until next time, however I’ll tell you what card designing is not.
It’s not about putting so many embellishments on the card that you need a shoe box to send it, nor is it, covering the card blank with ripped up pieces of coloured scrapbooking papers. In no way does it involve putting old crisp bags in the oven to shrink them and use for card making, this last idea was actually published on a well known craft supplies web site, talk about the blind leading the blind! Coming up with this sort of idea provides a good insight into the mindset of people running the business, a subject I’ll come back to at a later date.
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