POST PART 1, PART 2 TO FOLLOW!

A very happy hello to all my blogger buddies! Being a crafter is an experience that cannot be described with few words. There's always something happening with this project or that. This card project is absolutely no exception. First of all, working with loose glitter is a job in itself, then there's the element of surprise when trying to photograph a card with several different types of elements or mediums on it. These cards have glitter, chipboard, gemstones, inked flourishes and decorative paper! How on earth do you photograph all of these very different elements on one surface so that their best "face" shows through each and every time??? Hence my dilemma...time for a new camera I think! I use a light box and a very nice digital zoom lens style camera with different lighting (depending on what my color scheme is)! Well, I'm not normally a quitter but, a girl can only photograph a subject so many times before she's sick and tired of looking at it! LOL!

These cards represent the project that is now occupying my craft table. I still have several to go before these glittery, messy, mock-ups called cards are out of my system! Wish me luck and hopefully I'll see you again in a few days with part 2 of this "hair-raising" dilemma known as card making! As usual, Thanks for stopping by and Thanks for all of your support!
PawwPadd Creations

Notice how the flourish looks washed out and the

gem stone looks very dark? Not the true look of this card.

The alphabets and the decorative paper photographed

darker than they should have, and yet the gemstone and the

flourish look fine.

The paper in this case is kind of faded looking and the

alphabets aren't as brilliant as they really are. The flourish

is faded looking and the gemstone is too dark.

This glitter is actually a very bright and brilliant gold, contrary

to the way it looks here. I didn't think the flourish

would look right with the balloons, so I decided to use

some bright gold sticker letters I have and they

came out looking dark!

I'm probably happiest with the way this one photographed,

although the alphabets are a bit darker then they

actually are. I think the paper is a tad darker, but not

too much. The flourish is fine and the pearl is fine.

On this one, you can barely see the rhinestone in the

flourish. The flourish itself is kind of lost and you can barely

tell that the alphabets are covered in black glitter! Not at all the way

this card looks up close

Trial and error...experience is the best teacher!