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Designing a Greeting Card Template

Our first design is a simple holiday greeting card template using a texture plug-in from Totally Rad Actions called Dirty Pictures, our splattered ink Photoshop brushes and our grunge snowflake brushes.

  What you will need to create this exact project:

• Our grunge snow flake and ink splatter Photoshop brushes
• The Dirty Pictures plug-in from Totally Rad Actions
• The font, Decade, from Dafont.com
• Any serif font (i.e. Times New Roman, Garamond, Palatino)
• An image roughly 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches at 300 dpi

Link to download the font, Decade, from www.dafont.com.

Link to more information on the Dirty Pictures plug-in from Totally Rad Actions.

The finished design.

We'll break this design down layer by layer.

Another holiday card, this one a modern-looking 5x7, which makes good use of negative space.

We'll be modifying some text so that we can hang a decoration on the g's descender. We'll also wrap text around a circular path.

Create this stocking decoration from scratch using the mighty Pen Tool.

Project Videos

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Create a Greeting Card Template Part 1 - The Grunge Snowflake Design Creating the background.

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Create a Greeting Card Template Part 2 - The Grunge Snowflake Design Adding in some holiday elements with Photoshop brushes.

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Create a Greeting Card Template Part 3 - The Grunge Snowflake Design Adding in the text greeting.

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Create a Greeting Card Template Part 4 - The Grunge Snowflake Design Finishing up with some grunge effects using a different set of Photoshop brushes.

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Create a Greeting Card Template PSD - Part 5 - Red Decorations Creating the background.

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Create a Greeting Card Template PSD - Part 6 - Red Decorations Modifying and manipulating text.

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Create a Greeting Card Template PSD - Part 7 - Red Decorations Sketching a graphic.

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Create a Greeting Card Template PSD - Part 8 - Red Decorations Tracing the sketch with the pen tool.

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Intro to The Pen Tool

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Pen Tool As a Selection Tool

Project Downloads

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ePP Grunge Snowflake Brushes for Photoshop

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ePP Ink Splatter Brushes for Photoshop

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ePP Christmas Themed Vector Shapes