Today's card is for a challenge at Kristina Werner's blog. Our inspiration is some bedding in shades of brown, blue and ivory. I decided to use a new stamp I got from Stampendous.
I started by stamping the flowers in dark brown on ivory cardstock. The first time I sponged some blue ink around the flowers, but it just didn't work. So I decided to leave it plain. Then I cut a piece of sky blue cardstock a little taller than my flower piece and created a scalloped border with my corner rounder punch. I adhered my image to that and added lighter brown on the left. Pewter hardware with brown ribbons were added next. At that point I looked at it and decided it needed something a little bit more, so I ran a piece of my dark brown through my Big Shot with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and added that to the bottom.
It was a conscious decision not to add a sentiment. I wanted to leave it open for whatever I need to use it for. It also felt finished to me.
While in deep thought lately, I came to realize that I need to do what feels right to me, what pleases *me* with my art. When I don't, a couple things happen. I get complete stamper's block, where I sit at my work table and can't make a thing. If I can make something, it's not fun. It's stressful. I don't *do* this to feel stressed out. I do it for the joy and excitement of creating.
I want you to like what I make. I have *issues* about being valued and accepted. KWIM? In fact, I want you to love my blog with a passion and make it your home page. I want companies beating down my door to make me a design team member and pay me for mentioning their name. I want to be famous. (I daydream huge, don't I?) But most of all, I want to look at my creations and be happy inside with what I've done.
If you stayed with me this long, thank you. More pictures, less words next time.