Card Club

I am going to try and post some of the projects that have kept me busy over the last few weeks (culprits of why I haven't been posting).

One culprit was my "card club" card. Normally this is fun because I really do enjoy making cards to give but for some reason the theme I got this time was a difficult one.

Neutral baby!

At first I thought "oh this shouldn't be too hard". But for some reason I like to make things more difficult then they really need to be. I could have gone with the typical yellow/green colors that are often common when you don't know what gender you're having(I know this personally because Chase was a surprise and he had lots of yellow and green to wear). I figured there would be other cards that color and I of course like to be different. So I decided I was going to try to balance blue and red together and make the perfect baby neutral card. Unfortunately this took me a few attempts.

Card attempt one (top card): too girlie

Card attempt 2 (bottom card): too boyish but getting closer.

I loved how both cards turned out but they just weren't saying neutral to me so I said forget the blue/red thing. By this time I was tired of making cards anyway because seriously all these decisions were really taking it out of me so I decided instead to use every color I could.

So attempt number 3: luckily this attempt worked for me and my critics (Jon and the kids).

So I duplicated and here they all are finished and ready to go.

Of course I had to give a little love to the inside and the envelope too...just cause I can't stop myself when enough is enough.

So did I made the right choice???? Cause there were many cute cards exchanged and yes there was even a super cute yellow/green one.

Next card group theme: Mother's Day...maybe I better start now...I might end up making six cards next time just to get the one I love (don't underestimate me, sadly, it's really quite possible :)