I'm such a ditz!

OK, so my last fortnight has largely consisted of transferring a MCS CD into a CAP digikit. In between a lot of importing and cutting, I found time to create a new card on CAP. Just as well, really - my brother had to RSVP for a colleague's wedding reception. I would of course post the finished result except I didn't take a photo before it was sent. I do have the CAP export though!

So, first effort

I thought ... very classy, unique, pretty good. Apparently not. Good Lord I hate designing for family!











Amendment 1 ... monochrome and classy font!

It was this point my sensible side kicked in - you don't put RSVP on the response - RSVP is a request for a response! D'oh!











So, different centre decoration

Looks too much like a funeral card *rolleyes*

Perfect! (Finally)

How did I do it?

The final design is a 5x7 tent fold card, with no background picture added. Instead, I added an embellishment from "April Morning" that started life like this:

All I then did was change it in the effects tab. For the effect on the card I used the "Metallic -> Exotic Metal 1" effect. I put the flourish in the top right, copied and pasted, then rotated 180 degrees and put in the bottom left.

The matt for the centre embellishment is just one of the quick shapes built in to the program. 

The centre embellishment itself is slightly more complex. It started as this flourish from the free "Sparkle Sky" Digikit

Apologies to those of a sensitive disposition for the green background, it just shows up the detail of the embellishment really well!

Instead of using this as it is, I used the eraser tool to take out some of the extra sparkle - the yellow sparkles outside of the main flourish. I put on the same effect as the earlier flourish, then copied, pasted and flipped it horizontally - then aligned it where I wanted and grouped the two together. I copy and pasted the group, then flipped vertically 

and grouped again. Always group items you have specially aligned - there is nothing more frustrating than moving one bit at a time and never getting it lined up quite right again!

And there you have it, one finished card!