Sunday, March 18, 2012

On My Mind

Knock knock. Hello?! Anybody out there?

It's been 6 months since I've posted a card. So much for getting serious about this blog! In truth I have made precious few cards. Even at Christmas, I just made a couple for people that I felt I HAD to send cards to, but I was just generally not in the mood. I'm not sure if I'm in the mood yet.

We will be moving again in about 3 months and, in anticipation of that I am starting to purge and box up what I will not need for daily life. Several times I have walked into my craft room thinking I would box everything there up, but each time I have stopped, hoping I might actually go in there and DO something. Well, today I finally did something. I made one card. Just one. But it's a start.

I think that I expected a bout of creative genius after my Mom died, because that happened once before during a hard life event - I went crazy with (what I thought were) great cards. That hasn't happened with the loss of my Mom however. So I guess it's time to make cards even if I don't feel particularly creative.

As usual, for inspiration (because I always need inspiration) I turned to The Play Date Cafe. Their colors for this week almost chased me back out of my craft room! Look at this:



I am sorry, but that is just awful to me. But I started looking at some of their cards and realized the loud picture board did not have to mean loud cards, just color inspiration. And so I was able to set to work. Unfortunately I don't have any bright green. I used the closest thing I could find. My colors were: Pear Pizazz, Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Dusty Durango.


This is the best I could do today for a photograph. It's taken with my phone! I have been having mucho trouble with my printer/scanner and my camera - well - I have no idea how a person loses a camera LENS, but I did.



So, if anyone is out there, thanks for looking!

~La

4 comments:

  1. I'm here!! :o) I'm sorry you've had a difficult time but so glad that you looked to us for inspiration. You interpreted the colours so well, your card is lovely. I hope this is the start of you getting back into your creating again. Thanks so much for joining us over at The Play Date Cafe this week!

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  2. What an absolutely gorgeous take on our color story! We're just thrilled that you didn't let that graphic scare you away :) and hope you'll join us again! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!

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  3. It is so lovely to see you creating cards once again after such a difficult time....and you did these colors proud! You're right...bright doesn't have to be interpreted that way and I'm glad you saw them through YOUR eyes...beautiful!

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  4. I love the soft and intimate feel of your card. Blessings!

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