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I love this. I tend to be quite timid pairing colours and different details together - but this rocks.

July 20, 2007

Love that background pp & the pic is very cute. I think there is too much going on with all of the different pp. I got lost in all the patterns and didn't see much else. The colors go together, but they don't let the picture tell it's story & since there isn't any journaling it is very important that the pic stands out. If you keep this pretty close to what it is now, you should definitely put the green matte that Candi suggested & make the title letters MUCH bigger to draw the eye towards the photo. From my personal DT experiences, they are looking for tons of embellies & designers who can think out of the box. The purpose statement on my DT contract is to design a lo with materials that might be difficult to work with so shoppers can see & buy items that they wouldn't normally have purchased or used. Everytime I get my supplies from the lss, they always have written that we need to use a lot of this or that. I didn't get on a DT until I submitted one that wasn't neccesarily "my style," but I had used a lot of "stuff." I hope this helps!!

July 15, 2007

That is an awesome picture. I really like this design. My eyes seem to go to the flowered pp and not the picture. I would change the background to a solid color and cut out some of the flowers and use them on this page.

July 15, 2007

CS~ Great lo, jakki, the only suggestions I have would be to put the top pink pp strip slightly under the photo, so there is less of it, but it's still there, and I'm not sure about the blue flowers where they are, they seem to cut the pic in half, I would try sliding them over the the edge of the pic and the pp. HTH! I love the mix of bright pp's very playful!

July 15, 2007

Love the picture and the colors!! The only suggestions I have, would be to cut the flowers from the background pp that are at the end of the pink striped strips and overlap the end of the strips. I like Candi's idea of adding a thin green cs mat behind the photo, it would help tie in all the greens from the pp.

July 15, 2007

*CS* I love that background pp!I really like it. I am afraid to do more then one or two pp so when I look at this I think Neat!! I actually will have a completely different complaint then everyone else. I didn't see the title of this lo at all. I say a reference to it below and had no clue what they were talking about. I missed it entirely. Hey but maybe that is a good thing! that should not be the focus...ok nevermind :)

July 15, 2007

I think it's pretty. ...It's a little busy for my tastes, but still quite pretty! The pic is unusual and different.

July 15, 2007

CS I really like this Jakki, and it is a totally different look for you. I love every element on the page, but I think possible the pp's are competing for attention...maybe one solid would help my eyes from running over the whole layout and focus on the photo.

July 15, 2007

I really like this, let me tell you why: I think the bg pp is vibrant, and you did a good job not covering it up. The CP pp is a good color choice for the strips, and the white lettering is simple and straightforward. The only thing I would change is how the pink striped pp covers over into the blue flowers from the pp - maybe add a flower on top of the end of the strip to give it a 3D effect?! I would put a very thin green mat under the pic too to draw out the beautiful swirls in the pp in the bg, too. You are on your way....

July 15, 2007

CS - First let me say it is a beautiful lo. Nothing painful to the eyes at all -- When I hear design team I think "new and different " or "learn something". While I love strips of paper, I see it all the time. What can you do to make it stand out and be new and different???

July 15, 2007

*CS* OK Jakki - hard to define what I think doesn't quite do it for me here but I think it's because the all the pps are too similar in strength. There perhaps needs to be one pp or another element that is a stronger focal point, at the moment I'm not sure which bit to rest my eye on. Maybe the photo needs to be matted? The colours work well together though.