Oh dear, a little tale of woe ......

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Now, as you know I am part of Sally's downline team and she set us a small challenge - to use the colours Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue and More Mustard - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I thought to myself not the first set of colours my little crafting hand would reach for. Well, as I explained earlier, at Lou's Hostess Party (see my previous post) Sally kindly gave me a piece of Brilliant Blue cardstock knowing that I had none - now this was precious to me because I'm not immediately drawn to the Bold Brights colour family so it was kept safely in my bag. So far so good but what follows is a sad little tale of woe.
Well, once in my 'happy space', aka my crafting room, I set to work - nothing - not a sausage - as I pushed various bits of paper around the surface of my white base cardstock - I drew a blank. Please tell me more of you get moments like this.
I finally settled on something, because you see, even when working with quite masculine colours I am still drawn to feminine images - I ploughed on - using my only piece of precious Brilliant Blue cardstock I matted my image - I kid you not - this is virtually the size of the piece of card that I was given - you see, challenge now takes on a whole new meaning!!! I continued to shuffle the More Mustard around the image until I was blue in the face.
At this point I was physically standing in my 'happy space' but mentally I certainly wasn't there, out of sheer desperation I cut two tiny blue scraps to attach to the ends of the More Mustard strips - it offers some symmetry but I kid you not I was now seriously sad.
So I started again - the nearest blue I had was Not Quite Navy - so please just imagine it is Brilliant Blue and whilst I'm not much happier with the second version it has more to endear it to me than the first. As you can see version two is at the top and version one is below and very, very small - need I say more.


Ohhh, I nearly forgot to mention - my starter kit arrived and it is gorgeous - I was delighted with what I had chosen - the fab thing is there are elements within the Starter Kit that can be tailored more to your personality - cardstock, inks and images - so Rich Regals were my choice and I couldn't be happier.
I shall be showing you what I have been doing over the next day or so - please pop back if you can - sorry about my tale of woe above I just needed to share!!
Bridgette
Just a little while later .................................
Oh dear - it's now not so much a tale of woe as a case of mistaken identity - I have just checked and the colour combination was Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue and PUMPKIN PIE not More Mustard - an altogether nicer combination - I think I shall have to pass on this one unless I can somehow use elements from what I have already made - if I manage a rescue attempt I'll show you what I come up with - I'm not holding my breath - Bridgette