Sunday, November 27, 2011

A Couple of Firsts

Today I am trying something new -- I'm entering a card in a blog challenge. Eek!

I saw the current challenge over at Young Crafters Unite, which is to incorporate die cuts into your card design, and I immediately had a card idea pop into my head, so I started creating!


This is what I created:


I'm kind of nervous about entering my card -- I'm still rather new at this whole cardmaking thing and I still have tons of tricks and techniques to learn. Gotta start somewhere though eh?

My other first ... I won my first ever blog giveaway!! Kari over at KWCardDesigns picked me at random and I won a most generous prize ... a $30 gift card to Simon Says Stamp. I've been browsing and drooling over that store for a while, and this was just the push I needed to go shopping. Of course I spent more than the $30, but the gift card certainly helped. Thanks Kari!!

My new stash:


I decided I should try something new, so I picked up some Perfect Pearls, some Versamark Watermark ink, and 2 beautiful new Hero Arts stamp sets - Asian Frames & Anytime Messages.

Now I just have to find time to play with it all!!

6 comments:

  1. Good luck for the card competition and congrats on winning a giveaway.

    Hugs, Kaye xoxox

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  2. The card looks lovely, good luck!

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  3. A lovely card. Definitely enter it!!

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  4. The card is beautiful. Good luck with the competition. :)

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  5. This is so pretty! Love the placement of the butterfly =) Thank you so much for joining our Young Crafters Unite challenge!

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