Enjoying my Journey

This is a Tim Holtz stamp set that I absolutely love.  I love it partially because it is vingtage but also because many of Tim Holtzs' stamp sets have a little bit of a message.  This particular set has a message that I have been needing pretty badly lately.

Enjoy the journey.  I often forget that the reason I started this blog was to share what I love to do most, that is after loving God and my family.  I love making cards, I love experimenting with textures, I love colors and papers....oh on and on!  For crying out I get so excited when I get a new catalog from Stampin Up or Close To My Heart!

But I have a bad habit of looking back pretty critically on cards or projects I have made in the past that did not turn out quite the way I had planned it. I see one of my "failures" and I think to myself "did I really think that is such a great card?"  "Really?!"  Most of the time I am my worst critic almost embarrassed by the ones that didn't turn out so great.

If I am totally honest, on my more self critical days, I let my perceived failings discourage me to the point of not even looking at my card space.  What a shame.  Because there is more to me than one stupid, little, failed card attempt.  There is more to me than 100 failed card attempts, and maybe card # 101 will be the one that makes my stomach flip over because I am in love with a card I just made.  Wow, how fun is that???

I want to enjoy my journey in card making much more than I have been.  I want to look back and be able to smile, or even laugh, not with criticism, but with joy because I had fun making the bad card and in the process learned to relax, have fun with it and make the lemon cards into lemonade cards.  

So here's to lemonade cards......hmm, that could be a great idea for a card :)