Make Way for Ducklings!

ETA:  This card also seems appropriate to share today, April 16, the day after the bombings at the marathon.  I love Boston, and always will.  I even left for 5 years, and purposely came back.  This is one of the cards I have made that I am the proudest of, because aside from all the fun techniques I used to make it, it also has a local sensibility to it.

Edited again to add that I'm also entering this card into the Simon Says Stamp Travel/Cityscape challenge.

Just popping in one last time today to share this card I made today for a baby shower I'm going to tomorrow.  It's for a fellow Bostonian, so I wanted to do something kind of local, and I thought of the beloved children's book "Make Way for Ducklings."  (On the card, there are only 2 ducklings, because she is having twins.)

This card also gave me the opportunity to use that lovely building stamp I got from StudioMo on Etsy.  (I love buying stamps on Etsy, they're so much more unique!)

I love the way this came out, though it did take me all day to finish!

Thanks for stopping by!

Clean and Simple Card Making, Day 3

I was excited to see today's lesson, because it was all about using different stamping techniques.  I'm a beginning stamper, so it was great to learn about some new techniques.

When I went to use my own ideas and supplies for a card, it was a little challenging, as I didn't have the "recommended" supplies for the class.  But I was able to make it work, and this is what I came up with, using a gradient technique:

This was made using hand made stamps I bought from StudioMo on Etsy.  I'd been itching to use them, and so glad I finally found an excuse!  Also, I didn't have embossing powder or materials, so I stamped the "Miss You" lightly with white pigment ink, and then just traced over it with my white Signo pen.

I'm off to try some more of the techniques we learned today!