Creating a project (of any sort) is a process. Let’s face it, you don’t always get it right the first time. I know this for a fact. It happened to me while I was designing cards for my Sunflower Card Class (To Go!). Check out the card below…
This card is very nice and I’m sure someone would be pleased to receive it (if I ever remembered to send out a card…). The flower coordinates with the designer paper as does the ribbon and the card stock. It just wasn’t quite what I had envisioned in my mind.
The next step was to figure out what I could change on the card. Hmmm….. I liked the idea of using the designer paper as the base of both the flower and the leaves so that wasn’t it. Looking at the flower itself though, I figured out that I didn’t like the center of it. I felt that the center was too small. Ok…that was the first thing I could change in the next step of my creative process.
What else could I change though? Cinnamon Cider is a pretty brown and Stampin’ Up! definitely needed a lighter brown in their color spectrum but I just wasn’t feeling it on this card. That was the second thing I could change. The Cinnamon Cider had to go and I needed to come up with something to replace it with. Just Jade was definitely the answer.
I think those few small changes took my card from nice to really nice. Adding texture and another layer to center of the card really helped and changing the Cinnamon Cider cardstock and ribbon to Just Jade took the card to the next level.
Don’t be afraid to make that first attempt in the creative process. If it’s not quite what you were envisioning try, try again. Have a great day. Take care and Happy Stamping!
P.S. Today is the last day to purchase my Sunflower Card Class (To Go!). Don’t miss out on making some fun cards. No stamping involved!