Sunday, February 25, 2007

Creative frustrations...uggg...grrr.....

Not sure if you like this card or not. I spent way...way too much time on it. First I started with the Bella stamped on white cs, then I thought ohhhh a nice ink frame might make it pop. I decided to use my watercolor crayon (cameo coral) to do it...yucko, didn't like it so I started to add more and smoosh it around a bit with my aqua painter...hmmm okay now it's okay. I still wasn't happy with so much white showing...so off to do the same with the edges...grrrr...still not getting a look I liked. At this point I was almost ready to rip it up and start over but frustration of getting this look kept me going. So out came the close to cocoa watercolor pencil...to fill in the rest of the white spaces around the framing! Ugggggg...I still didn't like it! Okay enough with that part I decided to work on the background...hoping to tie it all together. I had a cuttlebugged piece of so safron cs and took creamy carmel to the embossed images...still didn't like it. I was begining to think I needed to walk away from my stamp desk...grrr. I decided to use the new SU punch (LOVE that punch!!!) and was not totally impressed but satisfied enough to continue. I used close to cocoa to edge by bella image and for the base of my card (did a little distressing on both). Used watercolor crayons to color my bella image. Added a thank you on the word window punch and put little flower brads (to go with flowahbella) to make it flow. So in the end I am okay with this creation...not so much the frustration, ugggg's and grrrrr's it caused me but what do ya do. So what do you think? Was it worth all the frustration, uggg's & grrrr's? I think it's growing on me:)

1 comment:

Lisa C. said...

I think she is cute..lol. that is a lot of work to put into for one card!