Design Spotlight: Cherie

Today’s Design Spotlight shines on  Cherie of Cherie’s Art Card Store – very nice graphic style!

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When I look at this card it always makes me smile and I’m so glad it’s a favorite in my card shop. I believe that other people smile when they see it too! Here are a couple of cute characters, who are peacefully slumbering, a scarecrow and a crow. Now we know that scarecrows are supposed to scare these black birds away, but not so here! These two are friends and are grateful for each other, and the moon happily approves!

The design on this card was originally an ACEO (Editor’s Note: Art Cards Editions and Originals) that I had scanned and then added the framed effects around it using Photoshop. A very simple added effect, certainly not one of my most elaborate digital designs, but this card really represents how I feel every day…  a sense of peace, happiness and gratefulness.

I’ve started creating ACEOs again, those wonderful, small format works of art that are only 2.5″ x 3.5″ in size. Original, hand painted or hand drawn art is truly my favorite type of art for greeting cards. I’ve spent a lot of time learning to be a digital artist, and I’m sure I won’t give that up, but I’m enjoying going back to my roots now, sketching and painting by hand.