November Challenge

It's time for a new challenge here at the Sarah's Cards blog - and an opportunity for you to win a £20 e-voucher to spend in the shop!

This month we would like you to try something that you are probably usually told to stop doing, but for November, us meanies on the Sarahs Cards team want you all to:

THINK NEGATIVE!!

This really is open to interpretation and we would leave to see what your take on that statement would be! 

To get your creative juices flowing, here's how members of the design team got on with thinking negatively!

Ifa chose to document something which really could have been a negative experience - her son injuring his arm during his first week back to school. However, they were able to turn that negative thinking around and were thankful that it was his left shoulder he fell on.

 

Gems also used the challenge to inspire the theme for her page - her beautiful little girl has been feeling negative about her height, so Gems took the opportunity to remind her that she may be short, but she is most definitely sweet, inside and out.

Helen used mists and masks to create her interpretation of negativity. Using the Studio Calico '&' mask, she firstly misted with cream and then moved the mask slightly and remisted with brown, creating a cream shadow, which she then roughly outlined with a black pen. Helen also punched out some small hearts from one of the patterned paper strips, leaving the hole, or negative shape.

Lou gave her fun Halloween layout a funky twist by turning the negative space inside her Thickers title into a pair of eyes!!

For my page I used a circle cutter to cut various sized circles in to a piece of card stock, and rather than using the circles as masks for misting I used the resulting negative piece of card stock as an overlay. I placed a misted sheet of card stock underneath, creating the effect of coloured soapy bubbles. I also used a punch to remove star shapes from some mini banner shapes cut from misted card.

Jen's beautiful page used Studio Calico masks & Maya mists to create the butterflies fluttering across the page, before embellishing the resulting negative spaces left on the page by threading twine and dotting liquid enamel around the edges.

So if you fancy the chance of making that £20 e-voucher yours - leave us a link here to your take on "Thinking Negatively" by the 30th of November! Winner will be announced on the blog on the 8th of December!

Happy creating :)