Here is my submission for the JAN08VSNFUN bonus challenge. We were to pick one of our original VSN submissions and change anything we wanted about it. Here is the link to my original card: Advertising my biz-4 by kelaine at Splitcoaststampers.
I pretty much hated everything about it, but what bothered me the most was that my "pretties" totally clashed with the rest of the project even though I pressed them into the cooresponding ink pads. Mom969803 suggested coloring them with Watercolor Wonder Crayons and using an aquapainter to blend. That worked fabulously for the So Saffron flower, but I wanted the Regal Rose flower darker, so I went back to my ink pad, but sponged the ink on rather than pressing the flower into the pad. I am happy with the results.
The other thing that really bothered me was Close to Cocoa panel. I chose the colors to coordinate with a business bag I am creating (see it here: Biz bag by kelaine at Splitcoaststampers, so I *needed* to bring a little more brown into this card, but it wasn't quite working for me. Again, mom969803 came to the rescue and suggested I layer the brown and change the sentiment to a white panel to bring in the white flower. She also said that the bottome stickled flower center looked like a horseshoe, so I HAD to change that too...the positives and negatives of friendly feedback. ;)
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 GMT Views: 868
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Registered: May 2, 2006 Location: Out in the deep marsh in the middle of nowhere - well ok, Canada Posts: 1704
Thu, Jan 24, 2008 @ 3:57 AM
I think the changes you made definitely made the card more coordinated. Flows much better and fits together much better! I tried to have a look at your business bag you linked to but it says I don't have permission to look at it. :(
Your changes turned out great and so did your card.