Something Old Is New Again
It's July, ya'll!! Tomorrow is July 4th, so Happy Independence Day! It's time to get my act together, so I started by playing with color. July is National Share-A-Sunset month, so I wanted to start designing a card around that theme. But where to start? I tried working from scratch... didn't like the result, it just seemed too "flat". It's OK, just not what I was going for, so looked for other ideas. Yeah, the grid paper behind it gets messy. Next up, use existing designer paper. It's already done, right?! Still not what I wanted. (yes, I am just THAT picky sometimes) Let's look at some retired paper. Hmmmm. I had some old Butterfly Bijou dsp, and it seemed to have a lot of the colors I was looking for. But maybe not exactly what I wanted. So time to break out some inks and blending brushes. Now this is the "B-side" of some pretty butterfly paper, and often gets overlooked or used as background color....