Growing pains

So I'm happy with the images, the paper/card, the 'design', the embossing idea and the end result...and the pictures look absolutely crap! Grr!
I did what I have read recommended: put taking the pictures off for three days until I had the time to do it in the morning light; changed the white balance on my sister's beautiful new camera; USED my sister's beautiful new camera - a panasonic lumix (sumthinsumthin), 8 optical zoom, 12 megapixel wonder machine...colour Blue! How could it fail?!
And yet, they all look awful. My only idea is to try taking them beside the big sliding door windows, as opposed to under the velux window upstairs, which I was convinced was a touch of genius by the way!
FINAL straw to be clutched at: it was pouring rain that day...although having said that when is it NOT going to be overcast during an Irish December?!

Coming Along...

Phee-ew, the lovely card-paper and I are still on good terms, yay! And the printer did start playing ball again, and I have finally got a few cards put together...and Embossed.

EMBOSSED you cry?!! Yes, my sister had given me a little embossing set a while back, which I completely ignored until I started despairing of making the cards, well, nice. And I find I am ombsessed: obsessed with embossing :) What a thrill as you run the heat over the rough dull powder and it begins to 'blister' and blossom into lovely glittering detail, swoon :p

It will have to be trusted that it is more fun than it appears in these miserable pictures - cameras despise me!