so they tell me. Clearly there can be mistakes, but most errors send you down another path and nobody will ever know the end product wasn’t your original intention. I liked yesterday’s card and thought I’d do another version, this time in gold ink on blackberry bliss.

I was just about okay with this one when I did it. The next morning though I agreed with two of my critique board that it needed “something else”. I find that if a card is good, I’ll still really like it the next day. That’s the acid test. Well, that and sending a photo to my critique board!

I decided that this card bothered me because the stamp isn’t centred and the gold ink is a little patchy. So I took another piece of blackberry bliss (5″ by 3.75″) and stamped the image in metallic gold ink. It wasn’t perfect so I flipped the card over (that’s why paper has two sides!) and did it again. Much better.

Next I grabbed various other colours of cardstock and played around again looking for the perfect mat. I looked again at yesterday’s card where I have hello honey on blackberry bliss and decided to use hello honey as the mat (5.25″ by 4″). I glued the blackberry bliss and mat together and then adhered that over the top of the original card. I think it’s much improved. So does my critique board. 🙂