Week Three: Part Two

For the second part of this week, we had to use Canva to make a CD cover, ID card, book cover, Calendar, and one of our choice. Since I used Canva for the first half of this week's assignments, the second half was pretty easy. I already knew how to work and use Canva because of it. Out of these five projects, I liked doing the calendar the most. I made it from scratch and made it countryside themed. The only thing I didn't like about it was how time-consuming it was. I made all twelve months, I wasn't sure if I needed to, but I did anyway. For the project that had to be our choice, I chose to do a postcard invitation. I pretended like it was for my 21st birthday even though I am only 18. I wouldn't make an invitation to anything before then unless I get married (but that's a-whole-nother story). I had fun using Canva but I feel as if I should have used Publisher a little bit more for the first part of this week.

To tune into my personal life, my sister is in full swing in junior high basketball, I am still working hard in school and my jobs, and I hate snow. Snow is just a lose-lose for me. If the roads get slick I can't make it home or leave my driveway if I do make it home. Then, in order to get to my boyfriend's family's house, I have to make it up a steep gravel road. Last year, I went off into the ditch. I wish I had a truck instead of a little car or both. It's nice to have a car with great gas mileage though because of all the driving I do between college, work, and socializing.

Stay warm and safe as this Winter weather pushes Fall away. Also, don't forget about Daylight Savings this weekend!

This is the calendar that I made from scratch this week.

Week Three: Part One

This week in MicroApps II, we were to experiment with Publisher and/or Canva. Since I have used Publisher in the past, I decided to use Canva for all of my projects this week. I found that Canva had a lot to chose from as far as templates wise. However, I did not enjoy looking at all of them and did not really like any of them, so I made my own templates for the majority of the projects. I enjoyed Canva's templates more than Publisher's. I realized after I finished all of my projects that I should have just used Publisher since I made my templates from scratch. I like using Publisher more as I found I have more freedom with Publisher. One of the things I liked most about Canva, was the elements tab. With the elements tab, I could add cute stickers and other nice pictures that did not clash with my backgrounds. I will add snapshots of a few or maybe all of the projects we had to do this week.

The first project on the list was a business card. I enjoy making business cards as I used to have a business with my family called Warm Wraps and Toasty Toppers. We would knit scarves and hats and that was our entrepreneurship project for 4-H. For my business card, I chose to do one for my current profession under the Investor's Community Bank. 

The second project was a greeting card. As I read "make a greeting card", I was excited; however, I read that it had to be a greeting card thanking someone for an interview. I was not sure how to go about this so I chose to just make a thank you card. I pretended like I was making another, cuter, shorter version of the thank you card I sent to my boss for the interview at the bank.

The third project, an award certificate, was kind of fun to make. I liked to play with the transparency of certain objects. I didn't know anything about Skills USA so I had to do a little bit of researching for it. I don't really like my certificate at all, but I also made it completely from scratch. I just didn't find the templates on Canva fitting for this project.

This is the award certificate I made mostly from scratch.

For the fourth project, a coupon, I was stumped for a little bit. I didn't really want to have a boring design and I haven't seen a coupon that looked very eye-popping. After a while, I came up with something that I sort of liked and called it good. Instead of one coupon, I put four because I used one of Canva's templates and changed the pictures and color scheme. I thought it turned out very nice.