My first Lockhart stamp, Festive Birthday Card

This is the quickcard I made today. I went to a new stamp store today thought I would save some shipping, since I was unable to get the discount on my attempted order through Ellen Houstons store on Friday. I am still hoping to hear from her.
I was disappointed in the sort of local store I went too. I felt the stamp was too expensive, and when I checked when I got home it was 1.20$ more than on line. I wanted the stamp, I had been wanting to go to this shop since early last week, but my friend couldnt go. I then was going to order it with the discount on Friday along with a preorder, but I had problems ordering. So I email Ellen. I paid the higher price at the store, but I will order Lockhart stamps from Ellens store from now on. Okay I aired my frustration. I'm over it!

I bought the large Cupcake stamp. I really wanted a cup cake and had seen this one used on several cards and wanted to try coloring it. I am still using my Colorific pencils made by the same company that makes Prismas,and some labeled made in China.

You can see an earlier post

about my colored pencil comparison

labeled colored pencils.

EDIT: This will be in tomorrows post!

The new thing I did do recently was buy some Prisma colorless blender Pencils, they come two to a package. BOY do they work great! I have been wanting to use them and this stamp was the perfect opportunity. I think if you color with colored pencils any brand they are a must have. I felt they blended better than the odorless blender which is more expensive. The base of the card is Sage Shadow, because it matched some of the stripes in the Ki Memories striped paper. I used some Flower packaged papers I had for the yellow, pink and turqouise paper, I felt it looked very festive for this little birthday card.
I colored this card simply, the cup cake wrapper with a bright yellow and harvest yellow pencil alternating onthe strips of the packaging. I blended withthe colorless blender and then I shaded with some brownand used the blender again. I colored a light blue background and the frosting was pink and the cherry Red of course. I used 2 small and one large light green colored button Brads by making Memories that I picked up in an assorted color package at Target. I shadowed the ground slightly with the brown also. I am starting to enjoy coloring these stamped images. I was surprised how well I did with my first shot at this Lockhart cup cake. The tags are punched with the Su Tag punches except the yellow which was just hand trimmed to size. The background was embossed with my Bloom Dots EB folder in my Cuttlebug. I faux stiched with my white siglo gel pen from SU, and a ruler.

I hope you enjoy this card. Until Later...Happy Stamping!