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There are so many talented people here. Some we are not so familiar with and lots that we are all aware of - the "celebrities of stamping", the "brand namers" if you will.
Julie Ebersol, Beate Johns, Silke Ledlow, Jenn Balcer, to name but a few (and of course, all the Dirty Girls.)
Ladies, you know what I wanna see? I wanna see your cards that didn't quite work. The ones you wanted to chuck out. Your mistakes. (Please tell me it happens!)
Care to make at least one "no-namer" feel better?
We've had a "share your favourite card thread", how about a "share your favourite mistake thread".
I usually experience design failures every time I sit down to create something. I'm getting better tho, at recognizing when a design ain't gonna fly BEFORE I finish it. I have a nice circular file full of those . . . ;)
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This is a neat idea... thanks for asking for this from the Splitcoast celebs, Jennifer. I'm a beginner and I have an album of my "Wish Cards"... cards I wish I had done differently LOL! Live and learn... and now we can learn from the stars. Thanks
PS: I have to say, Julie, I love the Wizard of Oz card and so will my 7-year-old daughter!!
Feel free to case this layout, but don't forget the ribbon suspenders and giant breast on one side. Those are key design elements.
Too funny. I would have never have thought that unless you brought it up, but of course now it is very obvious and funny.
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i've been card making for about 10 years and really in the swing of it now...a colleague at work has just invested in cuttlebug and when it was my birthday she nervously gave me her creation ( which was fab...she's got a good eye) anywho....i said you really should keep your first cards to look back on cos u won't believe how much they'll change...bless her i think she saw this as meaning her card was so amateur........not at all....lol
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i've been card making for about 10 years and really in the swing of it now...a colleague at work has just invested in cuttlebug and when it was my birthday she nervously gave me her creation ( which was fab...she's got a good eye) anywho....i said you really should keep your first cards to look back on cos u won't believe how much they'll change...bless her i think she saw this as meaning her card was so amateur........not at all....lol
ITA with you - I won't delete all my first cards in my gallery - and the first several pages are all the ones I made years ago that I THOUGHT were fabulous but looking back at them now I can really see how far I've come
THis thread is too funny. What's funnier is the fact that I cased the last card that Jenn uploaded back in the day. So it may not have been one of her favorites but it was one of mine!
and some more recent ones....this was a bit harder as these days - if it's not working, I just trash it and start again. Or I keep reworking the layers til I like it.
I found another beauty. Both the design and photography are exquisite.
Feel free to case this layout, but don't forget the ribbon suspenders and giant breast on one side. Those are key design elements.
:shock: ROFLMBO!
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and some more recent ones....this was a bit harder as these days - if it's not working, I just trash it and start again.
I noticed that about myself, too, Emily! Especially over the last year or so, I realized I can usually tell before I'm half way done if a design's not gonna fly so I spare myself the agony and chuck it! LOL!
And, OMG, I was saying the same things about my rejects--you crack me!
__________________ Julie Ebersole (JulieHRR once upon a time . . . )julieebersole.com"So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Willy Wonka
I noticed that about myself, too, Emily! Especially over the last year or so, I realized I can usually tell before I'm half way done if a design's not gonna fly so I spare myself the agony and chuck it! LOL!
And, OMG, I was saying the same things about my rejects--you crack me!
Plus - now I do the image first then work a background for it - so I can just keep messing with that and then put the image on when I am ready.
Or if I watercolor a one layer card - it's easy to say - YUCK! and dump it and start over!
I have to admit, when I upload a card that I don't really like or look back and say 'what was I thinking' I deleted it! But, after deleting tons from my beginning days, I stopped -so there are a few left.
Nowadays, like Emily, I just scrap it and start over. :rolleyes:
I have a picture of the first card I ever made - I was SOOOOOOO proud I actually took a picture! Boy was it a stinker - can't remember who I gave it to. I posted it here: http://blog.papermonkey.org/index/20...-great-ph
I gave my parents a card I considered a mistake and for one of my birthdays they had it framed..it is the one on the far left with the face and butterflies. They loved it. Cyndi
This thread is hysterical!! I totally have to share my *not so favorite* cards!!!
I really hate this one...
Oh boy...this one too!!
Um...yeah...how about this one...
Check out my stunning attempt at adding liquid pearls on this one!! Yuck!!
OMG...this one I really don't like...
OK...I am getting a complex now ;)
What I would love to see.
