Last week I mentioned that my group of fellow demonstrators was getting together on Saturday for a Shoebox Swap. At a swap we each design a card and bring all the pieces and parts for the other demos to make our project. We had a theme this time of “Challenge Yourself”. Our hostess, Janet, threw out some basic challenges we could try or we could come up with our own type of challenge. I chose to challenge myself.
My card my look fairly easy but I really did challenge myself in a number of different ways:
Use a stamp set I’ve never used. I’m afraid I had a lot of choices for this part of my challenge. I have a number of stamp sets on my shelf that I haven’t had a chance to play with yet. I decided to go with the Vibrant Vases stamp set. I wanted to keep the card fairly easy if possible.
Use a color I’ve rarely/never used. I have to admit that Soft Sea Foam is not one of my favorite colors and I have not used it often or much at all. My challenge then was to use it on my card. It was easy to use the color on the background of the vase but I knew I needed it to be a major part of the card so I used it as the background for the focal point. Since I had to use a color a didn’t really care for I figured I could use my favorite embossing folder (Subtle) with it. Ha! 🙂
Try a layout I’m not real comfortable with. As you can see, the focal point of my card is off to the left. This was definitely out of my comfort zone. I like things even and centered. I liked this layout on the card that I showed you on Thursday and thought I should give it a try myself!
It was actually pretty fun challenging myself. I need to do that a little more often. Do you ever challenge yourself? You should give it a try sometime! Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!