cards

Pardon the incredibly crappy images. But I did get 2 cards done! yay! Actually they don't look too much better in person, so I don't know what I'm cheering about. Probably just for getting them out of the way.

I tried to be creative with these two... but it's sooo much more difficult when somebody else picked a topic and I have such a small canvas to work with.

The top part is card 1, what I am proud of. The journaling on the right side saids "I am proud to know what I wanted & went for it. No Regrets!". And on the bottom left it saids, "If there's a will, there's a way..." Yes my lettering sucks big time. I'm thinking next time I'm going to print it and paste it. I like to glue things together rather then writing. The title is actually "know what i want", with the first letters of each word composed of metallic brads. It's looks really good... I sware. But again, my scanner is crappy. Oh well. Oh and I tore up a piece of hand made paper with butterfly prints and pasted the strips down as the bottom. Use the thin ribbon from the Heidi Swapp set to carve out the space. Used to blue staples to hold it down cause the glue stick wasn't as strong as I wanted. Anyway. Most everything that can go wrong with this one sort of did. My pen bled all over the paper. Note to self... don't write directly onto the hand made papers... I guess that was ok, since I threw small strips of vellum on it and wrote over the title... hence the pretty cool shadow effect on the title. Need to plan a little better next time... haha... I have a pretty good printer... use it dammit! Last but not least, I threw some cherries on the bottom right just to anchor the picture.... plus I don't know what else to use it for. =P

The second card was simple. I could think of a few things that were powerful to me, but nothing I can form a short sentence with. All I did was threw a piece of pattern paper on, a little mirror, wrote with the brush end of one of my pens (again... bad idea), then threw some stones on the corners. That is all. Took me 5 min to make it. It's not the greatest, but it's simple, and I actually do believe to see your own flaws is powerful.