My new baby and revisiting old cards

Hello, dear friends! It's time to update my blog. I was away from it for too long! The most exciting thing that has happened is the birth of our daughter Sophia. She is exactly four months today. She is a joy to us. Sophia is blessed to be born in a loving Christian home. She has three older brothers who adore her. I am thankful she is a quiet and content baby. I am busy because not because of the new baby, but because I have the first grader and it takes almost all of my time to help him work on his writing skills (they're teaching him cursive), reading, some English etc.

I plan to take some time to look back on this year and post some pictures. Despite all the responsibilities I still made some time to stamp. I decided to revisit some cards I made before.

I liked the idea of placing the seal in the middle of the stamp image. Choosing patterned papers took some time, but I love the unique result. I have learnt that sometimes the patterned papers that look dull, yield great backgrounds for the stamp images which are great by themselves.

I have also learnt that I need to test many different papers to see if I like the result. I enjoy using eggshell watercolor paper, distress inks and water mist to achieve this watercolor effect with my favorite Hero Arts stamp Hydrangea.

I've made a whole bunch of cards to give as gift sets to my friends. I have skipped gold embossing and just applied different shades of distress inks.

Thank you for visiting!