I hope everyone had a fun, relaxing and safe 4th of July. The card above was my original card for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge. While it is a good masculine birthday card it did not wow me. To check out the card I actually posted for the Pals Challenge you can click here.
Sometimes what we envision in our minds just does not materialize. I did learn several things from creating this card that I corrected for my final PPA card. I realized the Lost Lagoon and Basic Gray were too dark together. In my PPA Challenge card I layered the Pool Party and Lost Lagoon together. The Pool Party lightened the card quite a bit.
If I redid this card…as I typed this I decided to stop and simply redo the card. Here it is:
It is still not one of my favorite cards but it does not look as dark as it did (the gray is photographing darker than it is on the card).The point is that by changing up different aspects (i.e., colors) of a card the look can change dramatically.
Thanks for stopping by and experimenting with me.
Michelle
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