Hi Everyone,
Yesterday I posted my Christmas card for this year and I mentioned I had a number of designs which didn’t quite work for me. I thought I would share three of the “rejected” designs. They aren’t fully polished cards as I was just playing around with different elements to see how they would work but they aren’t hideous either. lol They actually have potential so I wanted to remember the designs so they could be further developed at another time.
Here’s card one…
For this card, I had decided I was going to use the cute Starburst Cover die from Mama Elephant. I love the look of the starry background but I was a little heavy handed when spritzing water onto the sky (not a great thing to do when you aren’t using water colour paper). The horizon line is too far up the card and makes it look a little odd. lol I’m thinking it might be better to trim the design into a smaller panel. I want the dog to be framed by the stars so wouldn’t like to drop him too far down. I actually really like the colours of the sock too (and I really only moved away from this colour combination to the red and green for my final Christmas card design at the last minute).
Merry Christmas
Materials used: Stamps – Xmas Treat! 2230F (Penny Black), and Merry Motifs (Paper Smooches); Dies – Starburst Cover – Creative Cuts (Mama Elephant); Project Life White Cards (Becky Higgins); Cardstock – American Crafts, Knights; Copic Markers; Distress Inks; Hybrid Ink – Black Licorice (My Favorite Things); and Wink of Stella.
Here’s card number two…
The more I look at this card, the more I think it could have been my Christmas card and that it would have taken me a fraction of the time to create compared with the design I ended up going with…I better stop looking. lol I was still playing around with the above design and I felt that moving the sentiment to the bottom of the card helped with the spacing issue. It was at this point I decided the card needed a little more dimension so the sock and the puppy dogs head were popped up. I also added a few pale snowflakes from Lawn Fawn’s Snow Day set to the greeting from Paper Smooches. I think this is such a nice touch and I carried this concept right through to my final card design.
Merry Christmas
Materials used: Stamps – Xmas Treat! 2230F (Penny Black), Snow Day (Lawn Fawn) and Merry Motifs (Paper Smooches); Dies – Starburst Cover – Creative Cuts (Mama Elephant); Cardstock – American Crafts, Knights; Copic Markers; Distress Inks; Hybrid Ink – Black Licorice (My Favorite Things); and Wink of Stella.
Onto card three…
For the final card I decided I was overthinking things and decided to go simple! I did pop up the sock and head again to make it look a little less flat. Unfortunately, the card just looked a little too plain and not very Christmassy. It’s nice enough but plain. I think the colour choice of the sock was to blame.
Merry Christmas
Materials used: Stamps – Xmas Treat! 2230F (Penny Black), Snow Day (Lawn Fawn) and Merry Motifs (Paper Smooches); Cardstock – American Crafts, Knights; Copic Markers; Distress Inks; Hybrid Ink – Black Licorice (My Favorite Things); and Wink of Stella.
After playing with the above three designs, I decided to try something completely different and I will share that card tomorrow.
Thank you for stopping by today!
Happy Stamping!
4 comments
Oh my, Kylie…While I enjoyed reading your “assessments” of your cards, I’m totally impressed by all three! I’d be happy to have designed even one of these lovelies, never mind a trio! AND, knowing me, I’d have made a few of each, for no other reason than to keep myself from being bored with mass producing. Bottom line: they’re all delightful! Actually, your critiques are really illuminating: wonderful to know what worked/didn’t work for you. I need to do that more often…
Hugs~c
Oh thank you so much for your words, Carol! lol It certainly is fun trying different ideas and techniques. Love creating so much! big hugs!
Super cute cards!
They are very pretty!!
Thanks so much, Ellen! 🙂
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