Wedding Card Attempt

I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in how this card turned out. Live and learn. I used A muse stamp and MFT card stock for the actual image. Love the card stock. The papers were pretty too. I wanted to use grey as I thought the papers I picked would be a little more sophisticated. In retrospect, I think this would have looked better if the image were on a smaller piece of cardstock, especially, using white. The Amuse images are always small and I think that's why their cardstock is so much smaller. Proportionately their images are better on smaller paper. I really had fun using the cuttlebug embossing envelope for the grey paper and I think the ribbon and pearl brads are perfect for a wedding card. I am afraid to mess around with the card at this point though, because the wedding shower is at 2 today and I just don't have time to start over. It was still fun to shop for the stamp. That was another thing, I didn't really have time to order a stamp I really liked and the bride is older and this is a first marriage for her and she is not a "foofy" kind of person. I would have liked to have found a bella stamp or something just a little bit "more". Twelve more days til I graduate and just a few days after that I finish with finals and then I think I am going to do quite a bit more experimentation and class taking for my rubberstamping hobby=)

Here is the birthday card I needed to make. I was short on time, but think I made a cute little card for my 11 year old niece. She loves dogs and I don't have any cute dog stamps (yet!) and since she went to Build-A-Bear for her bday party, I'm kind of keeping in theme. I used my A muse bear and sentiment stamps and prisma colors for the color. I just love the little fiskars scallop edger. I think it dresses things up just a bit and needed/wanted one for my Bella stamps. I love cutting with it. Well, hope you enjoy. Off to bed and then studying for tomorrow and a little spring clothes shopping for the kiddies.

Coloring with Copics....

I've just been cruising around SCS.com and reading, among other things, about coloring with Copics. I was watching some tutorials and find them very interesting, but also very overwhelming! Some of these tutorials are done by some very talented people. I start to feel "way in over my head", so I left. I did find out how the pens are coded and wish I had the money and the talent to warrant getting the air brush system. That looks really cool. I need to get a blender pen. Now I understand how that works and it is very cool and would be very helpful. The whole shading concept is going to take some time, which I don't really have right now. So, I need to be patient and do what I can. There is some real talented stamping and artwork out on the blogs!

Now, I must go make another birthday card!