Needless to say, I'm extremely nervous and probably being a little overly judgemental of my work. I decided to use the Loads of Love set, adding in some stamps from the Loads of Love Accessories set.
This is the first version of my card.
As I said, I was not happy with this so I worked on it a bit more, and this was the card I came up with.
As you'll notice, the only change between the two is that I used the same color ink as the paper and did a watermark kind of background using the tree stamp.
This made me a little happier, but I was still not 100% happy with the card.
I thought about it a lot yesterday and today, trying to figure out exactly what it was about the cards that I wasn't happy with. Part of the issue was that it seemed a bit plain to me. Another part of me thought that all the extra detail I was adding was too much and maybe that was what I was having a problem with.
The card for the swap has to be made completely from Stampin Up products, and so this limits me a bit because I just became a demonstrator and a lot of my supplies are not Stampin Up. Thats when I realized that this was exactly what my problem was. If I could use anything I owned, I'd have used patterned paper, etc.
And so I redesigned my card and this was the next result.
I've found, I'm a LOT happier with this card.
You'll notice that I did the watermark background on both the rose red and the sage shadow cardstock and that the truck is stamped on the rose red paper, but I only cut off the wheels to have the others stand out.
Yes, I'm happy with this one and will be using the card for my swap. :)
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