Copic Colour Challenge....

   Today is another lousy rainy day, but rainy days are always better then snowy days and perfect for spending time in my craft room!!   I have been workiing on a card all afternoon for the Copic Colour Challenge and this week is Challenge 53!  These are the Copic Colors you need to use on you submission --

  And if you do NOT have the exact colors, the idea is to pick colors what are close.  I don't have YG03, (it's on my WISH LIST), but I do have Y17 and C7 and I picked two green colors which I blended to create a green color that came out pretty close to YG03.   I found this cute digi image this morning and I thought it would make a cute card and this was my first attempt for the challenge --

 

...But, to me...it seems like it's missing something, and I decided to put this aside and started another card and this is the one that I decided to submit to the challenge!  .

    ....But I had to admit, I'm not overly thrilled with this one either.  Nothing is working out quite right, aAnd if I had more time and energy, I would even make one more...but I'm way to tired and I think the bigger issues is my camera and the "photographer" -- ME!!  I've been having a terrible time with my card pictures lately and no matter how much I try different settings and editing them in Picasa, I'm still not thrilled with how they look.  The colors are NOT right?  I seem to have this issue more, when I have to use a flash...like on dark cloudy days...like today!   I really think I'm going to buy a photography light tent package to use for my card pictures, so they will look a lot more like they do "in person".  I'm waiting for my friend Cindy to let me know how she likes hers.   She found a seller on eBay who offers quite a few different sizes and sets and the prices are really good.   If she finds she really like how it works, then I think I will order one to try!   

   Now...I am feeling wiped out and this is the time of day when I seem to always run out of energy..this is when Fibro takes over and the fatigue sets in!  Grrrrrrrrr!   I'm done with cards for the day...and tonight I am simply going to try and catch up with emails, relax and go to bed early!    I did NOT sleep well last night, so today I'm more tired then normal!   I think a day of sunshine would help everyone feel better and I HOPE we have one soon.   Although I'm happy we don't have snow...we are now under a flood watch from all this rain and that is NOT good either.  I think this has been a LONG winter for a whole LOT of people and We ALL need SPRING!  THINK SPRING!!