Hi everyone! Thank you all so very, very much for taking the time to give me your opinions on my experiment with props! There seemed to be a fifty-fifty split. However, my dear friend, Vicki Dutcher from 'All I Do Is Stamp' came up with a brilliant suggestion, she simply said, "I do like the staged photo, but I also like the closer look photo. You can use
the staging, and also take a 2nd shot closer for the detail" . . . now why didn't I think of that? 👅 Thank you Vicki! So, here we go, hopefully something to please everyone! I am so very grateful to you all and to those who said, "it's only my opinion" . . . thank you, that is exactly what I wanted!
My card today is made from a panel I stamped last night at the Wednesday group of lovely crafting ladies. I did end up with three panels - the rest are yet to come - I cut the panel with a stitched, scalloped rectangle and just foam mounted it on to a card base and added a sentiment and a few embellishments. That's it . . . simple! The stuff that looks white on the rose, is actually 'Wink Of Stella', it was the way the light hit it that made it appear white!
Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment. You are all appreciated more than you know! If you have a question, please be sure I have a way to contact you so I can answer, as a lot of you are 'no-reply' bloggers, so I am unable to reply via e-mail.
Hello to you, all my lovely, fellow bloggers, friends and followers! Well, Christmas and New Year is well and truly over now, the decorations are put away for another year and I am having a bit of a break from Christmas card making - although I do want to start making some in readiness for this year, I'm determined not to get caught out again this year - I have been busy during my blog break and I have been working on something that should save me some money (nothing too ground breaking) but I haven't finished yet, but when I do I will show you all!
These past few days I have also been experimenting with something else too. I had made up a couple of cards with 'snippets' laying around in my craft room and was photographing them for Pixie's Snippets Playground I had promised Di that I would try not to forget this shamefully forgotten challenge (by me) this year when I use 'snippets'.
Now, back to the experiment. Whist I was putting away the Christmas decorations, I wondered if I should try our small battery operated string of fairy lights as props, so that my pictures had a little extra interest, but I'm not very sure about it . . . maybe you all could help. The first photo will be with the lights (I think they are a little too big as props for card photography, so I might try some smaller ones) The other two photos are as I normally do my photographs. I will explain the 'snippets' at the end of this post, so those of you who want to get on can get on, as I realise I am 'waffling' here!
The snippets used for the first card - which, I admit, may be stretching it a bit as a 'snippet', but it was a panel I had stamped quite a while ago and wasn't sure how I wanted to finish it off, so I won't enter that one!
The snippets used, on the second card are the poppies that I had coloured quite a long time ago and were shoved in a drawer, the patterned paper and the two pieces of cardstock used for the sentiment.
Let me know what you think about the lights as props - smaller ones of course - would you prefer, with or without? As always, thank you for your visit today and have a fabulous day! Hazel xx
