I haven't made a card in months, as I had been concentrating on making journals for a craft fair. After it was over, I could not orient myself to card making, so I didn't even do Christmas cards. It finally occurred to me that I needed a challenge, and so I headed over to Paper Trey Ink to see if that would help me. For this month, they gave an
A la Carte option, a choice of all the make-it Monday challenges they had offered this year! Wow, a bit overwhelming! But, as soon as I came to Stephanie Gold's
challenge to use different types of paper, I got the inspiration I needed. I have some amazing papers from probably ten years ago that I have never used ... because I knew they could never be replaced! Anyone else relate to doing that? I used a grass paper and a parchment paper from this assortment. As I use a lot of wallpaper to cover journals with, I incorporated that as well.
I usually photograph in daylight on my craft counter, but it's night and the challenge ends in an hour, so I decided to try setting it up a little more "artistically", lol, and place it on the pile of papers I chose from! I wasn't enthusiastic about doing this, but I think if I had taken the time to play with it a bit, I might have decided to continue this way ... :-)
