Course | Digitizing II - Creating a Digital Proof

In Digitizing I, you learned to scan and clean physical artwork in Photoshop and Illustrator, turning your work into digital files you could use in, for example, a wedding invitation suite of your own design. 

This course builds on those skills and complements "Designing a Suite - From Start to Finish" by showing you how to create a digital proof of your completed artwork designs for your client. We love the way a digital proof helps to elevate your client experience to the next level. A well-done proof clearly communicates the various features of your project from the main invitation to the custom wax seals, helps your client better imagine the full suite and final product as a whole, and allows you to share a visually pleasing, branded representation of the whole project. 

We'll be using Adobe InDesign extensively in this course and taking advantage of how the Creative Suite products play nicely together. You'll walk away from this course with a crash course in the basics of InDesign and the knowledge and tools to complete a document template for your own digital proofs.

While purchase of this particular program is by no means a requirement for taking the course, many commands and functions may be specific to InDesign. If you are more comfortable with another desktop publishing program, would prefer to create your proof fully within another program such as Photoshop itself, or have not yet decided to take the plunge and purchase the Adobe products yourself, you may still find many of the principles we discuss helpful in your case. 

Design House Prep School | A School for Creatives | Creative Workshop
Victoria Rothwell
Course | Watercolor III - Florals
Design House Prep School | A School for Creatives | Creative Workshop

In our first two watercolor courses, you learned how to experiment with and discover the properties of your paints, basic techniques such as wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry painting, how to combine colors into a color wheel to further explore your chosen paints, and how to use those color combinations to mix your own custom paints and inks.

Watercolor III will build on those foundations and bring you into the realm of creating floral and leaf shapes! The first part of the course will be devoted to studies of the anatomy of a flower and learning different centers and petal shapes as well as basic composition. Firm grounding in the formation and foundations of actual florals is integral to creating your own interpretation that is still recognizable as a flower to your audience. We will be learning how to take actual flower anatomical parts and combine them together creating a stylized version.  The ultimate goal of this course, explored in the latter half of the course, is to help you create non-photorealistic floral and leaf artwork of your own.

Victoria Rothwell
Course | Designing a Suite from Start to Finish

If you've been following along with DHPS over the past two years, we've been slowly building the foundations for completing a successful project with a wedding stationery client. We've learned to develop our creative process, work with our clients through the sketching process to nail down their ideas, guide clients to the right decisions about paper and printing based on their desires and budget, and digitize our hand-done artwork into something we can use in a digital design. 

All of those skills are SUPER important and will make your life 100% easier over the course of your project, but how do you go about designing the suite itself? 

This course will cover the nitty gritty details of how to make your design decisions as you implement all the information you've gathered from your client into their dream invitation suite. How will you lay out your artwork? Where will you put the visual weight? What kind of printing are you doing, and how will that affect your artwork? We'll work through the design of an example suite in the course from digitized artwork to the final print-ready files. 

Design House of Moira | Design House Prep School | A School for Creatives | Creative Workshops
Victoria Rothwell
COMING SOON - SEMESTER IV

Happy 2018 to all of our perpetual students!!

Our fourth (isn't that crazy??) semester is coming up soon, and we're so excited to share what we have planned with you all! 

Semester IV courses will be announced on Monday, January 22 as we prepare for pre-registration to open on January 25, so stay tuned!

xoxo

DHPS Team & Menagerie

Design House of Moira | Design House Prep School | A School for Creatives | Creative Workshops
Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 12

...on the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

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15% OFF

ALL WEDDING STATIONERY ORDERS

Because we wouldn't want our stationery clients to be left out this holiday season, we are offering 15% OFF ALL WEDDING STATIONERY ORDERS if you send in your inquiry TODAY at Design House of Moira.

That means, any inquiry received today, December 24, that continues on to an eventual contract will be eligible for a 15% discount on their full invitation or save the date order. 

Design House of Moira prides itself on creating beautiful, heirloom quality, one of a kind suites of wedding stationery, with every piece tailored to your personality and style. If you or someone you know will be planning an upcoming wedding soon, send us an inquiry at the contact page to see if we would be the right fit for you!

Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 11

...on the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

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FREE ARTWORK

We love gorgeous artwork and pretty things, and we know you do too! Even better, we love it when they're free.

Newsletter subscribers & current students of Design House Prep School will receive some digital pretties such as printables and wallpaper backgrounds for their smartphones a few times throughout our holiday celebration. 

Today, we are celebrating with line botanicals! We absolutely love how gorgeous and versatile this style can be, especially when combined with other styles of art. We have incorporated our line botanical technique into our invitation work alongside watercolor florals, minimal type, calligraphy both modern and traditional, and loved it more every time. We hope you enjoy this line botanical piece and--pssst! If you are interested in making some yourself, we have a Line Botanical course available with DHPS Semester III! So check your inboxes and get downloading!

Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 10

Giveaway of Awesome - Third prize

Every day of the year, but ESPECIALLY on the holidays, we are so thankful for all of our awesome friends and followers.
In order to give back to everyone in the community, we are running a giveaway contest offering a chance to win one of three awesome prizes! 

The giveaway will run until 11:59 PM EST on December 24th, after which we will choose three winners at random to win one prize each! Some entries for the giveaway can be done more than once for additional entries, so make sure to come back and do them again if you want to up your chances!

Here are some details about our third and final prize! 

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BRANDING CONSULTATION

Simply put, branding is the promise of what a client can expect from your experiences and services. It sets you apart from your competition. 

One lucky winner of this giveaway will get a 45 minute one-on-one phone/Skype session with Victoria to go over their branding. You can go over anything branding related, including what you're looking to achieve with your business and whether your branding accurately reflects your goals and aesthetic. 

The winner will be contacted to schedule their session in Jan 2018. Can't wait to work with you!

Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 9

...on the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

15% off

any class course from SEMESTER III of Design House Prep School, including Class Passes!

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We've had three semesters so far, and our ninth day of Christmas will be for courses in Semester II.  If you haven't joined us for DHPS yet, it's an online business school and community focusing on running a profitable creative business.  Courses topics included are Watercolor, Pricing for Creative Businesses, Branding, Establishing Your Creative Process and many more.  We also have several creative courses each semester to expose students to new techniques to either further their work or introduce something new.  We're all about recognizing the unique struggles that creative business owners face and approach them in a direct and honest way.  

Courses are always available to view and do not expire.  All students also have access to our private Facebook group, bonus content and live Q&A sessions with Victoria and Karen.

Simply enter the code "9THDAYOFCHRISTMAS" at checkout for any of the Semester III classes TODAY and receive 15% off your order. Third semester courses are:

- The Art of Saying No
- Paper & Printing Flowchart
- Eliciting Support
- Line Botanicals
- Ribbon Making & Fabric Dyeing
- Digitizing Calligraphy & Artwork

or even better,
- 2017 Fall Semester Class Pass
(for all six classes at a 25% discount!)
- 2017 Fall - Creative Class Pass
(for all three creative classes at an additional 15% discount)
- 2017 Fall - Business Class Pass
(for all three business classes at an additional 15% discount)

Any of the courses above are eligible for this holiday discount, and with the way we structured Design House Prep School, these courses build on many of the foundations established in previous semesters! 

Click through to check out the courses available and make a purchase!
The "9THDAYOFCHRISTMAS" code is valid only until 11:55pm EST on Dec 24, 2017.

Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 8

...on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

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FREE ASSETS

We love gorgeous artwork and pretty things, and we know you do too! Even better, we love it when they're free.

Newsletter subscribers & current students of Design House Prep School will receive some digital pretties such as printables and wallpaper backgrounds for their smartphones a few times throughout our holiday celebration. 

Today, we are celebrating with some stock photos, already styled and edited for your use. Whether you want an image background for an announcement or a stock image for social media, you can have the rights to do anything with these images that you'd like. So check your inboxes and get downloading!

Victoria Rothwell
12 Days of Christmas - Day 7

...on the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

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FREE PRETTIES

We love gorgeous artwork and pretty things, and we know you do too! Even better, we love it when they're free.

Newsletter subscribers & current students of Design House Prep School will receive some digital pretties such as printables and wallpaper backgrounds for their smartphones a few times throughout our holiday celebration. 

Today, we are celebrating with hand-marbled artwork! If you're familiar with Design House Prep School, we taught a course on Japanese suminagashi marbling technique in Semester I. Today's artwork was created using the Italian marbling style, which can produce some very different but still gorgeous results. So check your inboxes and get downloading!

Victoria Rothwell