Jan 13 2010
Card Making Challenges
To occupy my abundance of free time*, I’ve been doing a lot of blog hopping recently. I’ve found really good tips for organizing and saving money. But I’ve also found card making challenges. Who knew they existed? I’ve been wanting to become a better stamper for awhile and thought this would be a good opportunity to learn some new skills. Here’s my first attempt at a card making challenge.

I will be entering this in the Just Us Girls Challenge #15. The requirement was to use stitching in your card. The flower is a paper piercing template from Bazzill In Stitch’z and hand sewn with DMC floss. Basically it’s a similar process to those sewing cards you may have had as a child. There is also a machine sewn border around the striped paper squares. I tried using a Provo Craft sewing machine that is meant for sewing paper, but it was a massive fail. My regular sewing machine did the job much neater and quicker. The template for this card is from Truly Scrumptious Challenge #23. While I would enter this card in their challenge too, they seem to concentrate more on the stamp that the technique. But I did learn that there are digi stamps. So maybe I’ll be entering their next challenge too.
The most important things I learned from making this card are:
1. Condition your clear stamps with an eraser. This will hold the ink better.
2. YouTube has tutorials for scrapbooking supplies that you never really learned how to use properly.
3. The Fiskars Stamp Press sucks. I ended up going and buying acrylic blocks and with the conditioning your stamps they make a world of difference.
*sarcasm at it’s finest.














