Winner #1, courtesy of random.org, is…
#13 butterfly843
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# 3 sweetsour
Congratulations to both of you!! I will be sending you your gift cards shortly!
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This month's Graphic Design Challenge is finally here Cherries! Since I am posting it so late I am going to be running this through March AND April.
This month is going to be about quotation marks. You've all seen pull quotes in magazine and newspaper articles. A pull quote is when a small quote is "pulled" from the body of an article or story, and set in larger text along the side or some place around or near the article itself. Many times when you see a pull quote the graphic designer exaggerates the quotation marks to draw you to the quote. It also breaks up the monotony of a lot of text on the page so the quotation marks and the pulled quote become a design element for the page itself. It can be a lot of fun to use those quotation marks in an artistic manner.
So this month's challenge is for you to use a quote somewhere on your layout, card, or project, and get creative with your quotation marks. You can use the quote as your title, or you can just "pull" the quote out of your journaling and put it larger anywhere on your page. You also may just use a quote somewhere on your page. It doesn't have to be from your journaling if you just want to use a quote. Make your quotation marks a different size from the text of your quote, and get creative with them.
Here are some examples of quotation marks being used in a creative way. You can use them for inspiration.
Keep in mind that you DO NOT have to use quotation marks that go with the font or alpha you are using. That is the fun of it, to get creative and find quotation marks that give your quote an artistic look.
Again remember that your quote DOES NOT have to be your title.
Open to paper, digi, hybrid, cards, crafts, or whatever this inspires you to create.
Multiple submissions are allowed.
May be combined with one other challenge if that challenge allows it.
This is running through all of March AND April. Please post it to this thread and add it to the gallery spot for the March/April Graphic Design Challenge by April 30th at 11:59 pm for a chance to be the random winner of a $5 ACOT gift card from me!
Most of all, have fun!
Here is my page. It is of Maddie last summer when she discovered that she could stand in the shallow end of the pool with her head above the water. My journaling reads: Maddie was so surprised when she went in the pool last summer and found that she could actually stand in the shallow end with her head above the water. She was so excited she yelled out “I can stand!” and we all were so surprised too! She had grown so much over that last year but this was something that none of us expected. Maddie thought it was great and had such a fun time being able to walk around in the water, and as she got more comfortable she started splashing around and pretending to swim.
I pulled out the quote of her saying "I can stand!" and used it for my title. I used large, chunky quotation marks and made them a different color from the alpha in my title. They are also not the same quotation marks that go with the alpha. I choose a font that had nice chunky quotes and used them.
Have fun! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!
Participants:
1) Tammey
2) Deanna13
3) sweetsour
4) Yankeegirl
5) ScrappininAK
6) Steakgoddess
7) mgehrke
8) scrappininAK
9) scrappininAK
10) scrappinmom99
11) scrapsteph
12) sweetsour
13) butterfly843
14) Sarah_M.
15) oceanbreezes423
16) Craftyshannon
17) christinec68
18) jrrah4903
19) blbabe1234
20) ScrappyDistractions
21) blfonty
22) sandi0805
23) Christy_S
24) ajmaluck
