Another Before & After

Last night I went on a bit of a card bender. I made 16 cards – 8 of which, were remediated from a stack of old cards that I just couldn’t bring myself to send . . . or even use as AnyHero cards (oh yeah, they were THAT bad)

The first time I made the card	How I attempted to improve it
nice start, but lacked “pop” in terms of colour and focal point doesn’t look “finished”	should have used the dark metallic brown paper as the bow for the present … and use the lighter chocolate brown as the card border & sentiment frame had to cover the rough spot where I tore off the sentiment piece the cards seems to “want” more embellishment, but I felt stuck deciding where to put it and what kind of embellishment (now I understand why paper crafters are supply hoarders!)

Overall, this is what I learned:

• Frame sentiments – unless they are intended to be the whole focal point, keep them a bit smaller
• Pick your palette from the patterned paper and use it to determine which contrasting colours to use
• . . . I can’t stop shopping on paper crafting websites
• Make sure the focal point stands out the most in terms of colour, contrast, and position in the layout
• Design first, then make – although its tough to design a card from scratch, its even tougher to remediate a terrible card you already made
• . . . I can’t stop shopping on paper crafting websites
• Remediating my own old cards challenges me to plan first, then bring elements together better

oh, and did I mention that I can’t stop shopping on paper crafting websites?

I started making cards for OWH in November 2012 … it hasn’t even been 6 months and I am so addicted that work, pets, housekeeping, and hubby are starting to take a backseat. . . anyone finding themselves in this situation? yeow!